
Birthday:
04-11-1878
Deathday:
03-31-1951 (72 years)
Birthplace:
Tschifu (now Yantai), China
Biography
Georg Heinrich Schnell (11 April 1878 – 31 March 1951) was a German actor who remains perhaps best-known for his role as shipowner Harding in Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922). Georg appeared in over one hundred films. He was born in Yantai, China. He died in West Berlin, West Germany.
Georg is sometimes credited as G.H. Schnell, Georg Heinrich Schnell, Georg Schnell, and George Snell.
Georg is sometimes credited as G.H. Schnell, Georg Heinrich Schnell, Georg Schnell, and George Snell.
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Nosferatu
Act like Harding
event1922 star_border 7.7
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The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
Das Schloß in Flandern
Act like Regiments-Adjutant
event1936
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Officers stationed in a castle in Flandes during WWI are comforted by Gloria Delamare's recorded voice. One of them even writes her a letter that will never be sent. When the war is over Miss Delamare takes a tour in Belgium and spends a night in that castle. Most unexpectedly her former admirer appears and they dine and dance together. In the morning he has disappeared and she finds the letter. She tries to find him, only to discover he is presumably dead and involved in a family secret.
Nosferatu: The First Vampire
Act like Harding - ein Reeder
event1998 star_border 5
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The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine.
ScreenPlaza presents: Nosferatu
Act like Harding
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ScreenPlaza shares a new look in terror - The century old, terrifying horror film is redefined by an all-new soundtrack. Mixing modern and classical composition, this is a radical contemporary take on an old epic that should not go unnoticed.
Dracula Unearthed
Act like Harding (archive footage)
event2022 star_border 7
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Commemorates 100 years since the release of the German classic, Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, and explores the general fascination of Count Dracula, a figure who resonates with audiences across the literary, art, mythological and historical worlds.
The Punch Bowl
Act like Mitglied der Bowlenrunde
event1944 star_border 7.2
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Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft
event1935 star_border 7
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A farm boy betrothed to a socialite falls in love with his maid - an impoverished girl from the marsh.
The Arc
event1919
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Engineer Walter Fahr has constructed a massive passenger submarine, the 'Gloria'. The vessel undertakes a test journey with various esteemed invitees aboard, together with several animals, and the blind passenger Professor Keigo Sotuma. […] When those aboard the 'Gloria' return to the surface, they find a ship whose entire crew is dead. It is the astronomer Sotuma who figures out what has happened: during their undersea journey, the Earth was scorched by the tail of a comet, and all life extinguished. The 'Gloria' sails back to shore, carrying the final humans into a dead world…
The Flame of Love
Act like Grand Duke
event1930 star_border 5.5
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A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.
The Rothschilds
event1940 star_border 5.8
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Biopic about the Rothschilds, a Jewish family whose members rose to the top of the European banking community during the Napoleonic era.
The Twelfth Hour
Act like Hartung
event1930
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A version of Nosferatu to which sound was added. Some scenes were left out and new ones were added including a different ending. Additionally all the characters names were changed.
The Old Fritz II
Act like Großkanzler Fürst
event1928 star_border 5.3
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Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
Der verführte Heilige
event1919
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a slient movie by Robert Wiene
Panic in the House of Ardon
event1920
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A silent movie by Rober Wiene.
In the Employ of the Secret Service
Act like Nikolajewski
event1931
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During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
Act like Colonel Black, englischer Generalstabsoffizier
event1934 star_border 5
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German colonial soldiers fight against the British during World War I.
My Wife, the Adventuress
event1931
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A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
Shadows of the Arena
Act like 1. Kriminalkommissar
event1931
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Artonis is an acrobat employed in the circus owned by Elvira Starke. Apparently he confines his acrobatics to the bedroom, because he's carrying on two separate affairs on the trot: one with his boss Elvira, and one with the circus's beautiful equestrienne Kitty Rallay. Someone shoots Artonis dead.
Kampf
Act like Kurt Harder
event1932
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The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.
Hurrah! I'm Alive!
Act like Joe Jefferson
event1928
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Pieter Kruis runs a grocer's shop in a small Dutch town, with which he and his wife Johanne can hardly feed themselves. Nonetheless, he is satisfied with his life, although he suspects that he will probably never win the jackpot. Suddenly Pieter receives a telegram from America: his old school friend Joe, who has made a fortune in the “new world”, asks whether Pieter would like to visit him. As “compensation” for expenses incurred, Pieter will also receive $ 50,000! Of course, Pieter doesn't hesitate for long - the suitcase is quickly packed and a ship ticket reserved. But the little “world traveler” has no idea what kind of adventures await him! Fearing that his insidious brother might speculate on his life insurance and stage a small “accident” on board the ship, Pieter disembarked in Rotterdam, where his entire travel budget was by a few crooks. Then he learns that his ship has actually sunk and suspects that his brother is already worried about the sum insured...
Her Majesty Love
event1933
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Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
Nora
Act like Bankpräsident
event1944 star_border 6
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The film is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. The film uses Ibsen's alternate ending where the unhappy couple are reconciled at the end
Am seidenen Faden
Act like Dr. Klipper
event1938
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A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a lawyer and a banker, threaten the profitability of the concern and the workers' jobs.
In letzter Minute
Act like Kriminalbeamter
event1939
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A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tried to smuggle the money across the border during the train’s last journey. Sorely tempted to keep the money, Amalie turns it over to the authorities. The smugglers, who finally find the rail car after a long search, will be turned over to the cops, too.
Der Ammenkönig
Act like Herr von Geldern
event1935 star_border 5
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Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, live there unmarried. The town smithy and bully provides his vitality to ensure the countess has an heir for the throne.
Die Insel
Act like Hollen
event1934 star_border 5
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A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.
Moral
Act like Großherzog
event1936
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The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart thinks very differently and acts accordingly.
Stradivari
event1935 star_border 5
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In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded.
Der Polizeibericht meldet
Act like Staatsanwalt
event1934 star_border 5
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Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator Haupt inspects items in the apartment of the dead man, he comes to the conclusiong that Gisela herself is the murderess and accusations start flying between the married couple. The murdered man's brother, the lawyer Burckhardt, steps up to act as defense counsel for the woman, with whom he has learned to love in the meantime.
Seven Slaps
Act like Dr. Lorenz
event1937 star_border 6.3
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William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Ein Volksfeind
Act like Ministerialdirektor Prof. Köster
event1937 star_border 5
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Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has developed into a respectable resort. Dr. Stockmann is called in to become the town’s chief physician. He considers the sanitary conditions to be intolerable and insists on a clean-up. His ambitious brother and all those who, till now, have profited well from the corner cutting, are, of course, against that for financial reasons. The doctor is condemned from all sides and the conflict escalates.
Der Mustergatte
event1937 star_border 6.3
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Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night.
Madame Bovary
Act like Marquis de Andervillier
event1937 star_border 5
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A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.
Stärker als die Liebe
event1938
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1938 German film.
Alarm in Peking
Act like Gesandter
event1937
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Set against the backdrop of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion...
Hot Blood
event1936 star_border 6
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Baroness Marika von Korossy dresses up as a man, in order to compete in a horse race. Her victorious horse, Satan, will only allow her to ride him and throws everyone else off of him. That includes the dandy lieutenant Tibor von Denes, who immediately recognizes that Marika isn't a man. It isn't long before he makes friends with her and even gets her to dance with him. It's then that Marika takes off her hat and shows she's a woman, which causes jealous Ilonka von Peredy to go into a rage. When Marika is forced to sell her estate to raise money, Ilonka is able to get Marika's beloved Satan.
Die Schuld
Act like Jürgen Halström
event1919
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An art student in love with her instructor poses for his sculpture. She leaves him and the world of art when she finds out he is married. The statue, created with purpose of symbolizing guilt, comes back to haunt her.
Fräulein Julie
event1922
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A loose adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. The daughter of a count witnesses her mother's increasing mental instability after being spurned by a lover.
Her Sport
Act like Rudolf Walters
event1919
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Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.
Dolls of Death
Act like Lorenzo
event1920
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Crime film based on Nikolaus Lenau's poem "Die Marionetten."
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