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Danielle Godet
Beautiful and distinguished Danielle Godet (1927-2009) had everything for a great career in the cinema, but she lacked the right film parts to live up to her many capacities. In secondary roles the...
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Valdemar Psilander
Valdemar Psilander (1884-1917) was the most popular star of the Danish cinema of the 1910s. Psilander took the German, Russian and Hungarian audiences by storm. At Nordisk he would play in six years 83...
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Chaplin (1992)
Last Sunday, 24 August 2014, Richard Attenborough (1923-2014) passed away at the age of 90. In honour of this great English actor, film director and producer, this film special is on his film Chaplin...
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Thomas Fritsch
German actor Thomas Fritsch (1944) was a teen idol of the early 1960s. The son of ‘Sunny boy’ Willy Fritsch made several light entertainment films and recorded popular Schlagers. He also appeared on...
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Arlette Marchal
Elegant French actress Arlette Marchal (1902-1984) started her career in 1920 as a mannequin, and from the 1950s on she dedicated herself to her fashion enterprise. In between Marchal starred in 41...
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Charles Boyer
Suave and sophisticated French actor Charles Boyer (1899-1978) began his career in French silent films. In 1936 he became an international star with his role in Mayerling opposite Danielle Darrieux....
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Peter Weck
Austrian actor, theatre impresario and director Peter Weck (1930) appeared in more than 100 films. With his natural acting style in costume dramas and Heimatfilms, he became the Wiener Goldjungen (the...
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Robert Helpmann
Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (1909-1986) was an Australian dancer, actor, theatre director and choreographer. Helpmann appeared in many films, including the two Powell and Pressburger ballet films The Red...
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Dancers in silent cinema
An interesting aspect of the European silent cinema is the contribution by dancers. Their delicate gestures and expressive movements were often a visual delight among the theatrical bombast of the...
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Incompreso (1966)
Today's film special is about the Italian drama Incompreso/Misunderstood (Luigi Comencini, 1966), a film from my youth. I saw it a the local youth film club: on six Wednesday afternoons, we, school...
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Donatas Banionis (1924-2014)
At Thursday 4 September 2014, Iconic Soviet-era actor Donatas Banionis (1924-2014) has died in Vilnius at the age of 90. The Lithuanian actor is best known in the West as Kris Kelvin, the lead role of...
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Elma Karlowa
Yugoslav actress Elma Karlowa (1932-1994) was a star of the German popular cinema of the 1950s and early 1960s. After a personal crisis she returned to the screen in more serious films by directors...
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Bella Darvi
Beautiful Bella Darvi (1926–1971) was a French and American actress of Polish-Jewish origins. She is better known for her jet-set affairs than for her films. During the early 1950s he was the mistress...
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Micheline Presle
Chic and elegant Micheline Presle (1922) gained world-wide attention for Le diable au corps/Devil in the Flesh (Claude Autant-Lara, 1947). She played a Red Cross nurse who has an adulterous love affair...
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I.M. Joachim Fuchsberger (1927-2014)
Today, German actor and television host Joachim Fuchsberger passed away. He died of organ failure at his German home in Grünwald near Munich. Fuchsberger has starred in around 90 films, and was the...
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Oscar Beregi, Sr.
Hungarian stage and film actor Oscar Beregi, Sr. (1876-1965) appeared in 27 European and American films between 1916 and 1953. He is best remembered as Dr. Baum in Fritz Lang’s Das Testament des Dr....
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New acquisitions Geoffrey Donaldson Institute
Last year, the Geoffrey Donaldson Instituut (GDI) in Noord-Scharwoude, the Netherlands, opened its doors. The GDI promotes research of film production, film screening and film culture in the...
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Himmelskibet (1918)
This week's film special is about a silent Danish Science Fiction film about a trip to Mars! On the German postcards by Photochemie in this post, the film is called Das Himmelschiff, but the original...
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Joan Collins
Glamorous English actress Joan Collins (1933) is one of the great survivors of the cinema. She began in the early 1950s as a voluptuous starlet of British film. 20th Century Fox brought her to...
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Albert Lieven
German character actor Albert Lieven (1906–1971) fled from Nazi Germany to Great Britain. During WW II, he appeared in several British films, often cast as the humourless military. Till the 1970s, he...
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