Paul Wegener

ActorDirectorWriter Dec 11 (died age 73) Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland] 1913–2025 (112 year career)

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Biography

Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.

Known For

Film

The Golem: How He Came Into the World

The Golem

Film

The Student of Prague

Balduin - A Student / Self

Film

The Golem

Golem

Film

Madame DuBarry

6.4 1919

Film

The Magician

Oliver Haddo

Film

Sumurun

Der alte Scheich

Film

A Daughter Of Destiny

Professor ten Brinken

Film

The Loves of Pharaoh

Samlak

Filmography

Acting (65)

Movies (65)

FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts

2025

as The Golem (archive footage)

The Golem

1960

as The Golem

Eyes of Love

as Prof. Mochmann

Der große Mandarin

as Mandarin

The Molander Case

as Holk, Generalstaatsanwalt

Kolberg

1945

as Loucadou

6.0

Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen

1944

as Van der Kalk

Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint

as Bauer Termöhlen

Diesel

as Direktor Buz

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

1943

as The Mad Inventor

8.0

The Great King

1942

as Gen. Czernitscheff

6.9

Hochzeit auf Bärenhof

1942

as Leonhard von Krakow

7.0

Das Mädchen von Fanö

1941

as Ulerk Ohm

My Life for Ireland

1941

as Sir George Beverley

Zwielicht

as Förster Kuhnert

The Immortal Heart

as Dr. Schedel

Das Recht auf Liebe

as Herr von Salurn, Schloßgutsbesitzer in Tirol

In geheimer Mission

1938

as Morrow

Stärker als die Liebe

1938

Only a Comedian

1935

as Staatsminister von Creven

6.5

Der Mann mit der Pranke

1935

as Wiegant, Präsident der Industrie-Bank

5.0

A Man Wants to Get to Germany

as Ship Stoker

Hans Westmar

as Kuprikoff

Inge and the Millions

1933

as Bankier Seemann

The Mystery of Johann Orth

1932

as Fürst Rostowsky Botschafter a.Wien

The Living Dead

1932

as Mörder

5.8

Marshal Forward

1932

as Marschall Blücher

Fundvogel

1930

as Professor Reutlinger

The Strange Case of Captain Ramper

1928

4.0

A Daughter Of Destiny

1928

as Professor ten Brinken

6.2

Die Welt ohne Waffen

1927

as Dr. Dankmar Tollen

The Weavers

1927

as Fabrikant Dreißiger

7.0

Svengali

1927

as Svengali

Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen

1927

as Vautrin

Arme kleine Sif

The Magician

as Oliver Haddo

Dagfin

Der Mann aus dem Jenseits

1926

Living Buddhas

1925

as Großlama

The Film in the Film

1924

as Self

7.5

S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen

1923

as Jack

Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen

1923

as Niels Nissen

Vanina

1922

as Gouverneur von Turin

5.2

Lucrezia Borgia

1922

as Micheletto

4.4

Herzog Ferrantes Ende

1922

as Herzog Ferrante

Monna Vanna

1922

as Guido Gursino

Das Liebesnest

The Loves of Pharaoh

as Samlak

The Lost Shadow

Roswolsky's Mistress

as Eugen Roswolsky

Sumurun

1920

as Der alte Scheich

6.0

The Golem: How He Came Into the World

1920

as The Golem

7.0

Steuermann Holk

1920

as Steuermann Holk

Figures of the Night

1920

as Thomas Bezug

Der Galeerensträfling

1920

Madame DuBarry

1919

6.4

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1918

as Fahrender Spielmann (Traveling Minstrel)

6.0

The Golem and the Dancing Girl

1917

5.5

Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey

1917

as Hans Trutz

Sleeping Beauty

Rübezahl's Wedding

as Ruebezahl

The Yoghi

as Yogi / Rasmus

The Golem

1915

as Golem

6.7

Evinrude

1914

The Student of Prague

1913

as Balduin - A Student / Self

6.0

Crew (31)

Movies (31)

The Golem

1960

Director

Krach und Glück um Künnemann

1937

Director

Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit

1937

Director

Moskau - Shanghai

1936

Director

Die Stunde der Versuchung

1936

Director

August der Starke

1936

Director

Die Freundin eines großen Mannes

1934

Director

A Man Wants to Get to Germany

1934

Director

4.8

The Strange Case of Captain Ramper

1928

Writer

4.0

Living Buddhas

1925

Director

Living Buddhas

1925

Writer

Herzog Ferrantes Ende

1922

Director

Herzog Ferrantes Ende

1922

Writer

The Lost Shadow

1921

Writer

The Golem: How He Came Into the World

1920

Director

7.0

The Golem: How He Came Into the World

1920

Screenplay

7.0

Der Galeerensträfling

1920

Writer

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1918

Director

6.0

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1918

Writer

6.0

The Golem and the Dancing Girl

1917

Director

5.5

The Golem and the Dancing Girl

1917

Writer

5.5

Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey

1917

Director

Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey

1917

Writer

Rübezahl's Wedding

Director

Rübezahl's Wedding

Screenplay

The Yoghi

Director

The Yoghi

1916

Writer

The Golem

Director

The Golem

Screenplay

Peter Schlemihl

Director

The Student of Prague

1913

Screenplay

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