Willy Fritsch war der bekannteste deutsche Schauspieler neben Hans Albers und Heinz Rühmann in den vierziger Jahren, er drehte mehrere Filme mit Lillian Harvey bis diese nach Frankreich emigrierte
Er ist der Vater des Schauspielers Thomas Fritsch
Willy Fritsch Biography / Wiki
| Name | Willy Fritsch |
| Also Know | Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, Willi Fritsch, Вилли Фрич |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland] |
| Date of Birth | 1901-01-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1973-07-13 |
Willy Fritsch Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ein toller Einfall | Paul Lüders | 1932-05-12 | A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle’s castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can’t complain… |
| Woman in the Moon | Wolf Helius | 1929-10-14 | A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful… |
| When the White Lilacs Bloom Again | Willy Forster | 1953-11-24 | Married couple Willy and Therese go separate ways. Willy leaves town and returns years later as a famous singer. But Therese is about to marry her bes… |
| Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds | Jupiter / Amphitryon | 1935-07-18 | Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to… |
| I Learned It from Father | Clemens Andermann | 1964-08-28 | … |
| Viennese Spirit | Count Georg Wolkersheim | 1942-04-03 | A musical comedy directed by Willi Forst…. |
| Wo die alten Wälder rauschen | Harald Rehm | 1956-09-14 | … |
| Burglars | Durand | 1930-12-15 | The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her…. |
| Lucky Kids | Gil Taylor, Reporter | 1936-09-19 | After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-… |
| Junge Adler | Ausbildungsleiter Roth | 1944-05-24 | Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, h… |
| Die Geliebte | Therese | 1939-07-27 | A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the social rules of the time would force the officer to… |
| Menschen ohne Vaterland | Oberleutnant Maltzach | 1937-02-16 | … |
| Was macht Papa denn in Italien? | Studienrat Hanselmann | 1961-09-07 | … |
| Der Frechdachs | Junger Mann | 1932-04-28 | … |
| Boccaccio | Petruccio, Stadtschreiber | 1936-07-30 | The residents of the town of Ferrara are swept up in a tide of emotion and physical passion by the writings of a Renaissance author. Before long, the… |
| Liebesgeschichten | Werner Lüdtke | 1943-03-03 | … |
| Die keusche Geliebte | Pierre Dugard, Plantagenbesitzer | 1940-12-27 | … |
| Die tolle Susanne | 1945-01-01 | … | |
| Maxie | Direktor Walter Rhomberg | 1954-10-13 | … |
| Das leichte Mädchen | Dietz Frobelius | 1941-05-27 | Dietz’ relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in rathe… |
| Anschlag auf Baku | Hans Romberg, Sicherheitsdienst-Offizier | 1942-08-25 | … |
| Dreimal Hochzeit | Fürst Alexander Woronin | 1941-06-24 | … |
| Gewitterflug zu Claudia | Droste – Flugkapitän | 1937-11-25 | … |
| Am seidenen Faden | Richard Hellwerth | 1938-09-22 | … |
| Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht | Stanley Stalton | 1938-04-01 | … |
| Leichte Muse | Pe Pe Müller | 1941-10-10 | A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life…. |
| Der kleine Grenzverkehr | Georg Rentmeister | 1943-04-22 | … |
| The Waltz Dream | Nicholas Graf Preyn | 1926-03-14 | Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who,… |
| Mit Eva fing die Sünde an | Gregor | 1958-08-14 | … |
| A Prince’s Young Love | Fürst Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau | 1933-12-22 | Period romance set in Bismarck’s Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a lowly pharmacist…. |
| Liebe ist ja nur ein Märchen | Dr. Lindenberg | 1955-12-16 | … |
| Die verschleierte Maja | 1951-08-30 | … | |
| Die unvollkommene Liebe | Thomas Holk | 1940-10-17 | … |
| König für eine Nacht | König Ludwig I von Bayern | 1950-12-22 | … |
| A Sister of Six | Count Horkay | 1926-12-28 | A silent romantic comedy… |
| Hallo – Sie haben Ihre Frau vergessen | Dr. Hans Ollendorf | 1949-01-07 | … |
| Zwischen den Eltern | Dr. Hans Ravenborg, Arzt | 1938-03-02 | … |
| Der Himmel kann warten | Alexander Allerson | 1962-02-17 | … |
| Hallig Hooge | Tetze Tetens | 1923-01-17 | … |
| Zwölf Herzen für Charly | Dr. Wolfgang Amadeus Wagenbichler / Charly | 1949-05-06 | … |
| His Late Excellency | Fürst Ernst Albrecht | 1927-09-16 | In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baro… |
| His Wife, the Unknown | 1923-10-19 | A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in or… | |
| Docks of Hamburg | Klaus Brandt | 1928-10-10 | When Hamburg ship’s mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attr… |
| I by Day, You by Night | Hans | 1932-11-29 | A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They’ve never meet , but they can’t stand each other… |
| A Blonde’s Dream | Willy I | 1932-09-23 | Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American m… |
| Waltz War | Pauker Gustl | 1933-10-03 | … |
| Mikosch rückt ein | Oberst von Körömsbös | 1952-10-08 | … |
| Women Are Better Diplomats | Rittmeister von Karstein | 1941-10-31 | A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic succe… |
| Hokuspokus | Peter Bille | 1930-07-10 | Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of… |
| The Congress Dances | Zar Alexander von Russland / Uralsky | 1931-09-29 | Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversion… |
| A Prussian Love Story | Prinz Wilhelm von Preußen | 1938-01-01 | The film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill…. |
| Seven Slaps | William Tenson MacPhab | 1937-08-02 | William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to l… |
| Hungarian Rhapsody | Lt. Franz Graf v. Turoczy | 1928-01-02 | Directed by Hanns Schwarz…. |
| Prinzessin Turandot | Kalaf | 1934-11-30 | … |
| In the Employ of the Secret Service | Thomas Higgins | 1931-08-13 | During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines…. |
| Black Roses | Erkki Collin | 1935-12-23 | Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Ru… |
| Woman at the Wheel | Paul Banky | 1939-06-19 | … |
| Schatten der Nacht | Ernst Magnus | 1950-01-10 | … |
| Geliebte Welt | Generaldirektor Dr. Blohm | 1942-10-30 | … |
| Cairo Season | Tobby Blackwell | 1933-07-19 | Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them m… |
| Rauf und runter | 1964-02-29 | … | |
| Express Train of Love | Charley | 1925-05-06 | Silent romantic comedy set on a train…. |
| Liebeswalzer | Bobby Fould | 1930-02-07 | … |
| Die Insel | Raak, Handelsattaché | 1934-08-29 | A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life…. |
| Andere Zeiten – andere Sitten | Himself – Co-Host | 1967-11-16 | … |
| Schön muß man sein | Jupp Holunder | 1951-02-01 | … |
| Melodie des Herzens | János Garas | 1929-12-15 | A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who’s saving money to b… |
| Die Gattin | Walter Baumann | 1943-08-31 | Puck Niklas (Jenny Jugo) loves her husband Peter even though her brother thinks he’s a no-good. She’s very charming and a bit crazy and does everythin… |
| The Last Waltz | Graf Dimitri Sarrasow | 1927-08-18 | … |
| Die Boxerbraut | Fritz Spitz | 1926-09-01 | … |
| Mother and Child | Werner | 1924-11-13 | … |
| The Innocent Susanne | René Boislurette | 1926-11-11 | Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to e… |
| Her Dancing Partner | 1925-11-06 | … | |
| Der Heiratsschwindler | 1922-05-09 | … | |
| The Girl with a Patron | 1925-12-21 | The Girl with a Patron (German: Das Mädchen mit der Protektion) is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Ossi Oswalda, W… | |
| Derby | Gutsbesitzer Herr Dahlen | 1949-08-27 | … |
| Guillotine | 1925-05-01 | … | |
| The Three from the Filling Station | Willy | 1930-09-15 | Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cas… |
| Der schräge Otto | Alexander Korty | 1957-01-09 | … |
| Ferien vom Ich | Dr. Hartung | 1952-11-10 | … |
| Damenwahl | Herbert Blank | 1953-08-20 | … |
| Hubertusjagd | Otto von Lindenberg | 1959-12-22 | The young Monika Dahlhoff returns from the USA after two years. As soon as she arrives, she learns that her father wants to sell his traditional stud … |
| Schwarzwaldmelodie | Herbert Olberg | 1956-08-09 | … |
| Mädchen mit Beziehungen | Dr. Kobel | 1950-09-15 | An unemployed engineer who does not want his fiancee to protect him has accidentally insulted his future boss, unknown and for no reason. From this me… |
| Kätchen für alles | Georg Vorster | 1949-10-17 | … |
| Das Leben geht weiter | Axel Aressen | 1945-01-01 | … |
| Adventure in Rio | Silvester | 1955-04-08 | A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions…. |
| Her Grace Commands | Leutnant Karl von Conradi | 1931-03-03 | An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love … |
| Hungarian Rhapsody | Großherzog | 1954-04-14 | … |
| Finale | Dr. Thomas Benninghoff | 1948-01-11 | Venice Film Festival 1948… |
| Der Farmer aus Texas | Akke | 1925-10-21 | … |
| Die wunderschöne Galathee | Marcel Thomas | 1950-04-13 | … |
| Ihr dunkler Punkt | 1929-01-19 | … | |
| At the well in front of the gate | Roberts Vater | 1952-12-18 | … |
| Solange noch die Rosen blüh’n | Richard Kühn | 1956-12-21 | Another German Heimatfilm…. |
| Der fröhliche Wanderer | Kurt Henner | 1955-01-01 | … |
| The Heath Is Green | Amtsrichter | 1951-11-14 | After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lün… |
| Zwei Herzen im Mai | Gesenius | 1958-01-19 | … |
| Von Liebe reden wir später | Professor Christian Hollmann | 1953-03-05 | … |
| Streit um den Knaben Jo | Hans Eckardt | 1939-09-22 | … |
| Schuldig | 1928-03-19 | “Guilty” – Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Maria fell in the hands of Peter Cornelius, the owner… | |
| The Three from the Filling Station | 1956-05-09 | Three young men working at a filling station fall in love with the same woman…. | |
| The Bellboy and the Playgirls | 1962-02-12 | The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. The ‘suspicious’ activities of women in the hotel give him a chance … | |
| Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz | Graf Marenzi d. Jüngere | 1934-05-17 | … |
| Three from the Gasoline Station | Konsul Willy Kossmann | 1955-12-21 | Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends … and hopelessly broke. But they don’t let that stop them and in short order, they end up renting a … |
| Die Fledermaus | Gefängnisdirektor Frank | 1946-08-16 | Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946…. |
| Isola Bella | Konsul Stülcken | 1961-11-03 | Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father’s villa in the role o… |
| Spies | No. 326″ | 1928-03-22 | The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the gover… |
| Weg in die Vergangenheit | Werner Schrey | 1954-12-20 | … |
| Drei Tage Mittelarrest | Major von Faber | 1955-09-08 | … |
| Miss Venus | 1921-09-16 | Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesting conquest for those wants to get on the social l… | |
| Das Donkosakenlied | Chefarzt Dr. Burger | 1956-11-14 | After the death of his mother, little Peter lives with his great sister Helga at his adoptive father Professor Hartmann. Peter is seriously ill, can n… |
| Film Without Title | als er selbst | 1948-01-23 | A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer…. |
| Sweetheart of the Gods | Gunzel | 1960-04-11 | Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berl… |
| Die Beine von Dolores | Herr Lehmann | 1957-01-01 | … |
| Schwarzwälder Kirsch | Arthur Altenberg | 1958-08-01 | … |
| Wenn die Heide blüht | Dr. Erdmann | 1960-10-20 | … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Einer spinnt immer | Writer | 1971-07-30 | A comedy directed by Franz Antel…. |
| Austern mit Senf | Writer | 1979-08-10 | Luc and Gaston are French bus drivers who would do almost anything for pretty girls. Thus they “borrow” one of their firms busses in order to bring so… |
| Elisabeth – Kaiserin von Österreich | Writer | 1972-12-20 | … |
| Die Kleine mit dem süßen Po | Writer | 1975-01-16 | German sex comedy… |
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