Hermann Picha
Appearance
Hermann Picha | |
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Born | Hermann August Karl Picher 20 March 1865 |
Died | 7 June 1936 | (aged 71)
Occupation(s) | Film actor Stage actor |
Years active | 1914–1935 |
Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting roles during his career. He played the title role in the 1920 film Wibbel the Tailor directed by Manfred Noa.[1] He appeared in Fritz Lang's Destiny.[2]
Selected filmography
- The Armoured Vault (1914)
- Hilde Warren und der Tod (1917)
- The Princess of Neutralia (1917)
- The Beggar Countess (1918)
- Five Minutes Too Late (1918)
- The Rat (1918)
- Your Big Secret (1918)
- The Commandment of Love (1919)
- Veritas Vincit (1919)
- The Derby (1919)
- State Attorney Jordan (1919)
- The Golden Lie (1919)
- The Woman at the Crossroads (1919)
- Irrlicht (1919)
- The Platonic Marriage (1919)
- The Bodega of Los Cuerros (1919)
- In the Whirl of Life (1920)
- Mascotte (1920)
- From the Files of a Respectable Woman (1920)
- Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)
- President Barrada (1920)
- Kri-Kri, the Duchess of Tarabac (1920)
- Wibbel the Tailor (1920)
- A Day on Mars (1921)
- Seafaring Is Necessary (1921)
- The Island of the Lost (1921)
- Memoirs of a Film Actress (1921)
- The Golden Plague (1921)
- The Inheritance of Tordis (1921)
- The Riddle of the Sphinx (1921)
- Hashish, the Paradise of Hell (1921)
- Destiny (1921)
- Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1921)
- The Stranger from Alster Street (1921)
- The Love Corridor (1921)
- The Hotel of the Dead (1921)
- The Big Thief (1922)
- The Queen of Whitechapel (1922)
- The Cigarette Countess (1922)
- The Shadows of That Night (1922)
- Bigamy (1922)
- To the Ladies' Paradise (1922)
- Miss Rockefeller Is Filming (1922)
- The Love Nest (1922)
- The Lady and Her Hairdresser (1922)
- The Curse of Silence (1922)
- The Lost House (1922)
- Lumpaci the Vagabond (1922)
- Lola Montez, the King's Dancer (1922)
- Sunken Worlds (1922)
- The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen (1923)
- Black Earth (1923)
- The Ravine of Death (1923)
- Time Is Money (1923)
- The Beautiful Girl (1923)
- Adam and Eve (1923)
- The Man Without Nerves (1924)
- The Little Duke (1924)
- Darling of the King (1924)
- The Heart of Lilian Thorland (1924)
- Playing with Destiny (1924)
- Gobseck (1924)
- Debit and Credit (1924)
- Arabella (1924)
- Father Voss (1925)
- The Man Who Sold Himself (1925)
- Three Waiting Maids (1925)
- The Elegant Bunch (1925)
- The Company Worth Millions (1925)
- Old Mamsell's Secret (1925)
- Ballettratten (1925)
- The City of Temptation (1925)
- The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
- In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine (1925)
- Nick, King of the Chauffeurs (1925)
- The Old Ballroom (1925)
- Comedians (1925)
- Flight Around the World (1925)
- Passion (1925)
- The Venus of Montmartre (1925)
- If You Have an Aunt (1925)
- The Morals of the Alley (1925)
- The King and the Girl (1925)
- Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1925)
- Bismarck (1925)
- People to Each Other (1926)
- The Ones Down There (1926)
- Gretchen Schubert (1926)
- The Boxer's Bride (1926)
- I Liked Kissing Women (1926)
- The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden (1926)
- Department Store Princess (1926)
- Only a Dancing Girl (1926)
- Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs (1926)
- Love's Joys and Woes (1926)
- When I Came Back (1926)
- Women of Passion (1926)
- The Circus of Life (1926)
- The Pride of the Company (1926)
- Fadette (1926)
- Maytime (1926)
- Marriage Announcement (1926)
- Annemarie and Her Cavalryman (1926)
- The Prince and the Dancer (1926)
- The White Horse Inn (1926)
- Manon Lescaut (1926)
- Tartuffe (1926)
- Darling, Count the Cash (1926)
- The Captain from Koepenick (1926)
- The Schimeck Family (1926)
- The Fallen (1926)
- Why Get a Divorce? (1926)
- Circus Romanelli (1926)
- The Tales of Hermann (1926)
- The Three Mannequins (1926)
- The Young Man from the Ragtrade (1926)
- Dancing Vienna (1927)
- Poor Little Colombine (1927)
- Marie's Soldier (1927)
- The Woman Who Couldn't Say No (1927)
- A Crazy Night (1927)
- Excluded from the Public (1927)
- A Girl of the People (1927)
- On the Banks of the River Weser (1927)
- The Imaginary Baron (1927)
- Behind the Altar (1927)
- German Women - German Faithfulness (1927)
- The Awakening of Woman (1927)
- Weekend Magic (1927)
- The Girl from Abroad (1927)
- Rinaldo Rinaldini (1927)
- Svengali (1927)
- The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
- The Pink Slippers (1927)
- Circle of Lovers (1927)
- The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
- Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
- The Weavers (1927)
- The Convicted (1927)
- The Green Alley (1928)
- Prince or Clown (1928)
- The Insurmountable (1928)
- Suzy Saxophone (1928)
- Lemke's Widow (1928)
- Cry for Help (1928)
- Autumn on the Rhine (1928)
- Secrets of the Orient (1928)
- The Lady in Black (1928)
- Children's Tragedy (1928)
- Robert and Bertram (1928)
- It's You I Have Loved (1929)
- Tempo! Tempo! (1929)
- The Black Domino (1929)
- The Circus Princess (1929)
- Youth of the Big City (1929)
- Sinful and Sweet (1929)
- Queen of Fashion (1929)
- Foolish Happiness (1929)
- Gentlemen Among Themselves (1929)
- Danube Waltz (1930)
- The Fate of Renate Langen (1931)
- Such a Greyhound (1931)
- The Beggar Student (1931)
- Man Without a Name (1932)
- A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
- The Escape to Nice (1932)
- Paprika (1932)
- Mother and Child (1934)
- The World Without a Mask (1934)
- Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! (1935)
References
Bibliography
- Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
- Usai, Paolo Cherchi. Before Caligari: German cinema, 1895-1920. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.