Portrait of Reinhold Schünzel

Reinhold Schünzel

Acting

Biography

Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.

Born: November 7, 1888

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Filmography

1975
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

as Self (archive footage)

1948
The Vicious Circle

as Baron Arady

1948
Berlin Express

as Walther

1947
Golden Earrings

as Otto Krosigk

1946
Notorious

as Dr. Anderson

1946
Dragonwyck

as Count De Grenier (uncredited)

1945
The Man in Half Moon Street

as Dr. Kurt van Bruecken

1944
The Hitler Gang

as Gen. Ludendorff

1943
Hostages

as Kurt Daluege

1943
First Comes Courage

as Col. Kurt von Elser

1943
Hangmen Also Die!

as Gestapo Insp. Ritter

1931
Her Grace Commands

as Staatsminister Graf Herlitz

1931
The 3 Penny Opera

as Tiger-Brown

1927
Heaven on Earth

as Traugott Bellmann

1927
Hallo Caesar!

as Caesar

1927
The Imaginary Baron

as Der Juxbaron

1925
Der Hahn im Korb

as Peter Abendrot

1925
1925
1923
All for Money

as Schieber

1921
Lady Hamilton

as Ferdinand IV, König von Neapel

1920
The Count of Cagliostro

as Alessandro Cagliostro

1920
Moriturus

as Freiherr von Mohrungen

1920
Drei Nächte

as Anton Wicleff

1920
Figures of the Night

as The secretary

1919
1919
Eerie Tales

as Der Teufel / Various Other Roles

1919
Madame DuBarry

as Duke of Choiseul

1919
Blonde Poison

as Adolf Reiss

1919
The Last Payment

as Jules Lambert

1919
1919
Around the World in 80 Days

as Archibald Corsican

1918
Diary of a Lost Woman

as Graf Kasimir Osdorff

1918
Countess Kitchenmaid

as schüchterner Verehrer

1916
Der Fall Hoop...!

as Superintendent Anheim

1916
Der Fall Grehn

as Kriminalrat Rat Anheim