Birthday:
04-01-1915
Deathday:
01-29-2004 (88 years)
Birthplace:
Klosterneuburg, Austria
Biography
O.W. Fischer was an austrian actor.
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Burg Theatre
Act like Schauspieler des Burgtheaters
event1936 star_border 8
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In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an aspiring actor, a break.
Anthony the Last
Act like Graf Willy von Erlenburg
event1939 star_border 6
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Comedy with Hans Moser as grumpy valet who takes corrective action with mumbling peevishness in the fortunes of his family household count.
Heidelberger Romanze
Act like Hans-Joachim Prinz von Reiningen
event1951 star_border 4.8
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The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Act like Saint-Claire
event1965 star_border 5.8
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In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebellion. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
Arms and the Man
Act like Hauptmann Bluntschli
event1958 star_border 6.3
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1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
Operation Caviar
Act like Thomas Lieven
event1961 star_border 5.1
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Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
Grand Hotel
Act like Eric Gaigern
event1959 star_border 4.5
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Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a businessman, and a stenographer. Events intertwine the lives of these strangers, bringing them together for some dramatic moments.
Ludwig II
Act like Ludwig II
event1955 star_border 7.2
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Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Peter Voss, Hero of the Day
Act like Peter Voss
event1959 star_border 10
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Peter Voss must recover eight Ming Dynasty horse statuettes from a gang of thieves, while dodging the detective on the case and trying to disrupt the fake marriage the gang set up to scam the young heiress, Mary de la Roche.
Whirlpool
Act like Rolf
event1959 star_border 6.2
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The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
Until we meet again
Act like Paul Mayrhöfer
event1952 star_border 4
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This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer.
This Time it Must Be Caviar
Act like Thomas Lieven
event1961 star_border 6
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Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, France or even communist Russia! To save his skin, he'll do - almost - anything, to anyone...
Story of San Michele
Act like Axel Munthe
event1962 star_border 4
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A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with special stops in Paris and Rome. Personal physician to Queen Victoria, also physician to the Swedish royal family (he spent his last years living in the Royal Palace in Sweden), "Axel Munthe" knew everyone from the poorest clients to the most well-endowed. His love of animals, his support of bird sanctuaries, his involvement with architecture as he constructs his impressive villa throughout five summers, and his interests in archaeology and hypnotism are all explored.
The Secret of the Black Widow
Act like Reporter Wellby
event1963 star_border 5.6
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Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate.
Rebel Flight to Cuba
Act like Peter van Houten
event1959 star_border 10
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A group of criminals hijacks a plane, intending to fly it to Cuba.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Act like Jan Maria Keller
event1954 star_border 6.4
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Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened.
Ein Herz spielt falsch
Act like Peter van Booven
event1953 star_border 4.5
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A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live.
Ich suche Dich
Act like Paul Venner
event1956
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Dr. Paul Venner, a headstrong young doctor, is working on the development of a serum to renew destroyed brain cells. He is watched with skepticism by his colleagues, whom he repeatedly snubs with his cynical manner. Physician Françoise Maurer also feels his coldness. But very soon he senses that she gains her great strength from her faith, and a deep affection develops between them.
As Long as You're Near Me
Act like Frank Tornau
event1953 star_border 5.1
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An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis.
And That on Monday Morning
Act like Alois Kessel
event1959
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Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and joining in on a radio concert with his own instruments. His erratic behavior does not go unnoticed and soon a winsome psychiatrist whom he knows and secretly admires, is right there trying to help him. The newly liberated bank manager logically grasps this opportunity to press forward his innermost feelings.
Desires
Act like Hans Falkner
event1952 star_border 3
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Desires (German: Das Letzte Rezept) is a 1952 German drama film directed by Rolf Hansen. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Love Birds
Act like Il conte
event1969 star_border 4
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Two couples live their erotic fantasies out until one of the women is murdered.
El Hakim
Act like Ibrahim
event1957 star_border 4.5
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A young Egyptian doctor leaves his uneducated, dance girl lady friend behind while he focuses on fighting poverty and superstition. Years later, rich and famous, on a trip to Paris he discovers her again, in a night club.
Mein Vater, der Schauspieler
Act like Wolfgang Ohlsen
event1956
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Because Diva Christine believes that her husband is cheating on her, she hurtles away and dies. Only the little son prevents the widower from committing suicide.
The Farmer Forsworn
Act like Franz Ferner
event1941 star_border 5
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After his stepbrother Jacob dies in an accident, farmer Matthias Ferner learns from Paula, Jacob's spouse of many years, that she and her two children will inherit the whole farm. She takes over command immediately, failing to realize that Matthias must feel like her servant. So he searches and destroys his brother's will and even swears perjury in court - but there's a witness he didn't count in.
Hanussen
Act like Eric Jan Hanussen
event1955
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In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.
Vienna 1910
Act like Karl Lechner
event1943 star_border 4.2
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Vienna 1910 is a 1943 German biographical film directed by Emerich Walter Emo and starring Rudolf Forster, Heinrich George and Lil Dagover. It is based on the life of Mayor of Vienna Karl Lueger. Its antisemitic content led to it being banned by the Allied Occupation forces following the Second World War.
Triumph der Liebe
Act like Agathos
event1949
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Adaptation of LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes
Il bacio del sole
Act like Pater Borrelli alias Don Vesuvio
event1958 star_border 6
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The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them.
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
Act like Self
event2000
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Klaus Kinski is one of the few German actors who has achieved international fame. He made headlines. And disappeared behind them. Kinski lived his parts 24/7. This film tells the story of a man who no longer could understand the difference or distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Napoleon
Act like Karl von Metternich
event1955 star_border 6.3
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The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Tagebuch einer Verliebten
Act like Paul Holzmann
event1953
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In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanations, but when she finds more proof later, she leaves and seeks comfort in the arms of her former friend Nicola in Italy. The story is told from the perspective of her diary.
A Tale of Five Cities
event1951 star_border 4.9
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An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
Dreaming Days
Act like Florian Faber
event1951
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The Berger couple want to enjoy their vacation in the mountains, a break that they both deserve. Because Maya suffers from strong emotional swings and feels constrained by the concerns of her husband, who is successful in the hospitality industry. Things don't improve during the holidays, and tensions between the two even escalate when Maya gets involved with a mountain guide. But even this brief affair ends in tragedy: the lover is struck by lightning on a tour and falls to his death.
Wetten, dass..?
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 5.3
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A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Bambi Awards
Act like Self (9 ep.)
event1948 star_border 9
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The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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