Gustav Botz
Actor · 1883 – 1932 · Bremen, Germany
Gustav Botz (4 August 1883 – 29 September 1932) was a German actor. Botz was born on 4 August 1883 in Bremen, German Empire. He began his career in film business The Foreign Prince (1918), The Devil (1918), His Majesty the Hypochondriac (1918), Ikarus, the Flying Man (1918), The Rose of Stamboul (1919), The Secret of the American Docks (1919), The Head of Janus (1920), Monika Vogelsang (1920), Battle of the Sexes (1920), Mary Magdalene (1920), Catherine the Great (1920), The Courier from Lisbon (1921), Peter Voss, Their of Millions (1921), The Eternal Struggle (1921), Lola Montez, the King's Dancer (1922), Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Nosferatu (1922). His last film role was in 1924's My Leopold and Botz retired from the film business.
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Movie7.7HorrorFantasyThe mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
Movie7.7CrimeThrillerDr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Movie5.0WarDramaTwo French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.
Movie9.0HorrorDramaTwo opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus. A lost film.
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Carl und Carla
1915 · 1 votes
Movie7.2MysteryJames Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory, and working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window on the fourth floor and dies; This was no accident, but a murder. A detective sends his assistant, Barnes, to investigate and soon the number of suspects from within the company multiplies.
Movie7.0Der Barbier von Filmersdorf
1915 · 1 votes
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Aliens discover Germany.
MovieCrime
Movie8.0Die Verführten
1919 · 1 votes
MovieHorrorA 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.
Movie10.0Der Kampf der Geschlechter
1920 · 1 votes
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Die Rose von Stambul
1919 · 1 votes
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The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
Catherine the Great
1920 · 1 votes