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Reinhold Schünzel

Acting · Born November 7, 1888 · Hamburg, Germany

Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.

Movies with Reinhold Schünzel

• Notorious (1946) — Dr. Anderson
• Dragonwyck (1946) — Count De Grenier (uncredited)
• Hangmen Also Die! (1943) — Gestapo Insp. Ritter
• Berlin Express (1948) — Johann Walther
• The Man in Half Moon Street (1945) — Dr. Kurt van Bruecken
• Hello Caesar! (1927) — Caesar
• Countess Kitchenmaid (1918) — schüchterner Verehrer
• Eerie Tales (1919) — Der Teufel / Various Other Roles
• The 3 Penny Opera (1931) — Tiger-Brown
• 1914: The Last Days Before the War (1931) — Nikolaus II.
• Flight Around the World (1925) — Louis Renard
• Lady Hamilton (1921) — Ferdinand IV, König von Neapel

TV shows with Reinhold Schünzel

• Film Emigration from Nazi Germany (1975) — Self (archive footage)