Ernst Dumcke
Actor · 1887 – 1940 · Mannheim, Germany
Ernst Dumcke was a German actor. He was married to actress Traute Carlsen for a few years. Character actor, the son of the C.E.O. of a major Frankfurt insurance company. On stage from 1902 and ensemble member of the Deutschen Theater from 1919. Gave up acting for a decade to work in his father's insurance business, before resuming his career in 1929. On screen, invariably cast as authority figures, with a special penchant towards high-ranking officers and noblemen.
Movies24
- Movie9.0ComedyRomance
The head of a squad of maids captures the heart of a wealthy young bachelor.
- Movie8.0Comedy
A comedy loosely based on the life story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of Meissen porcelain: In Berlin, the pharmacist Fritz Böttger gains a reputation for being able to make gold and is imprisoned on the orders of the Prussian king. Following in the footsteps of a young lady, he flees to Saxony, but is also imprisoned in Dresden and forced to make gold. Although he does not succeed in this, by chance he discovers how to make porcelain instead. Augustus the Strong appoints him baron and director of the royal porcelain manufactory.
Movie5.8AdventureComedyWerner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he learns from his friend Michael Nissen that his father has died recently. That means that the Dux-Werke are without a leader at the moment, for Werner's cousin Steffie, who is his co-heiress, is still too young to run the firm. In this situation, Werner convinces his friend Michael, who is an engineer by profession, to take over the firm as long as he is in jail and to pose as him. Michael agrees and is able to bring the firm up again. He even arranges a reliability test for motorcycles via Istanbul, Rome and Barcelona, which creates a big Turkish order for the company. When the real Werner escapes from jail and arrives in Germany, it looks as if the whole story is up to bust. But Werner needs money, so he convinces Michael to go on as before and hand over all profits of the firm to him.
Movie7.5DramaCrimeThe beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under mysterious circumstances, is giving a reception. When one of her admirers is found stabbed to death in a room upstairs, the police detains everyone in the house and begins an interrogation (oh goody: does dinner come with this mystery theatre, too?). Evelyne admits, that the murdered man tried to blackmail about some information he had about the death of the two husbands.
Parkstrasse 13
1939 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaA popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.
Movie7.0ComedyAs a gang of classy jewel thieves hop from one European country to another, an engineer rescues a woman from their clutches.
Die schönen Tage von Aranjuez
1933 · 1 votes
Movie7.0Comedy
Movie7.0Drama1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.
Movie6.4ComedyThe two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real breakthrough is slow in coming. Jeanette especially desperately needs a big success, since her friend, the journalist Stephan, is about to lose his job. When the two have their chance to take a ride in a posh car during a shooting, Jeanette slams on the throttle and the two friends take off. Their aimless journey takes them to a fashionable winter sports’ hotel, where Jeanette reserves a name under “The Countess of Monte Christo”. Everything’s going dandy; no one suspects a thing. That is, until two impostors, Rumowski and “The Baron” take residence in the same hotel.
- Movie8.0Comedy
Schön ist es, verliebt zu sein
1934 · 1 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaOlga, a woman of the demimonde, is shot in her apartment. The bullet was deflected by something, otherwise it would have killed Olga. Witnesses heard a noise at 2 p.m. that sounded like a gunshot. Detective Heidenreich investigates and discovers that the perpetrator must have been one of the tenants in the building. He realizes that many people are suspects.
War es der im 3. Stock?
1939 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyPetersburger Nächte
1935 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA Prokurist in a bank is suspected of murdering her boss and refuses to take the stand in her defense, because she believes she has to cover for the boss' nephew.
- Movie9.0Comedy
Familienparade
1936 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaNazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russian general, two cousins who find themselves facing each other in bitter enmity after the end of World War I.
Movie7.8DramaHistoryAt the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak.
Movie8.0ComedyDr. Lorenz is presenting her married daughter to everyone as being unmarried, because she believes a flirtation between the girl and her son-in-law’s boss just might play to the married couple’s advantage. Everyone seems to dance to the doctor’s tune, even a rather moronic professor. However, at the end of all these entanglements, everything seems to work out after all.
Wenn du eine Schwiegermutter hast
1937 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Skandal um die Fledermaus
1936 · 1 votes
Movie5.8CrimePaulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
Strafsache van Geldern
1932 · 5 votes
Movie10.0ComedyRomanceAn Austrian officer falls in love with a Polish girl at a Saint Petersburg New Year's Party in 191, but war soon breaks out.
Movie10.0AdventureDramaGerman adventurers discover the cultural and natural riches of Yugoslavia regions, their own carelessness almost pays for their fascination with their lives, but the intellect still wins in mastering nature, which offers the winners resources for a better quality of life. All this is framed by a love story. It is a meeting of two cultures and two views of the world.
Das Lied der Schwarzen Berge
1933 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyMillionaire Ambrosius Brown has been robbed in Chicago for the fifth time and is reported missing again shortly after being rescued. In reality, however, he is traveling to Europe with his friend Buddy Drops and his servant Washington. After twenty years in America, he now intends to spend his retirement on his estate in Mecklenburg.
Verwandte sind auch Menschen
1940 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaA woman steals money from her banker husband but her lover, a baron, is jailed.He escapes and under a new identity is a circus daredevil but she threatens him and his new sweetheart.
Movie10.0DramaSpione am Werk
1933 · 1 votes