Axel von Ambesser
Appearance
Axel von Ambesser | |
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Born | |
Died | 6 September 1988 Munich, Germany | (aged 78)
Other names | Axel Eugen Alexander von Österreich |
Occupation | Film actor nad film director |
Years active | 1935–1988 |
Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich (22 June 1910 – 6 September 1988), better known as Axel von Ambesser, was a German actor and film director.[1]
Ambesser's father was Alexander Constantin von Oesterreich. Ambesser was born in Hamburg and attended Wilhelm-Gymnasium. He appeared as a stage actor in the Hamburg Kammerspiele, and went on to play in the Stadttheater Augsburg, the Münchner Kammerspiele, from 1937 the Deutsche Theater Berlin, from 1942 the Staatstheater Berlin, and the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.[2]
Selected filmography
Actor
- The Heart of a Queen (1940)
- Women Are No Angels (1943)
- The Adventures of Fridolin (1948)
- Dancing Stars (1952)
- Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
Director
- Der Pauker (1958)
- Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1962)
- Breakfast in Bed (1963)
- Marry Me, Cherie (1964)
- I Learned It from Father (1964)
- Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
References
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/67086
- ^ Walk, Ines. "Axel von Ambesser". Biographie. Film Zeit. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
External links
Categories:
- 1910 births
- 1988 deaths
- German male film actors
- German-language film directors
- German male stage actors
- People from Hamburg
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Recipients of the Bavarian Order of Merit
- Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
- 20th-century German male actors
- German actor stubs
- Stage actor stubs
- German theatre stubs