Heinz Rühmann

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1902-03-07 (92 years old)

Deathday

1994-10-03

Place of Birth

Essen, Germany

Heinz Rühmann

Biography

Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor. Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heinz Rühmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1958

It Happened in Broad Daylight

as Oberleutnant Matthäi

1944

The Punch Bowl

as Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer/Hans Pfeiffer

1956

1993

1965

Ship of Fools

as Lowenthal

1962

Max der Taschendieb

as Max Schilling

1956

Charley's Aunt

as Dr. Otto Dernburg

1958

Der Eiserne Gustav

as Gustav Hartmann

1955

1937

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

as Dr. John H. Watson / Macky McPherson

1941

Quax, der Bruchpilot

as Otto Groschenbügel

1962

Er kanns nicht lassen

as Father Brown

2017

Hitler's Hollywood

as Various Roles (archive footage)

1940

Clothes Make the Man

as Schneidergeselle Wenzel

1953

Mailman Mueller

as Titus Müller

1961

The Liar

as Sebastian Schumann

1960

The Black Sheep

as Pater Brown

1935

Eva, the Factory Girl

as Willibald Riegele

1939

The Leghorn Hat

as Theo Farina

1936

Wer zuletzt küßt...

as Franz Angerer

1937

1931

We Need No Money

as Heinz Schmidt

1934

Frasquita

as Hippolit

1938

13 Chairs

as Friseur Felix Rabe

1935

Heaven on Earth

as Peter Hilpert

1967

1975

1965

Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius

as Dr. Hiob Prätorius

1966

Your Money or Your Life

as Henry Schmidt

1971

Der Kapitän

as Kapitän Wilhelm Ebbs

1965

Das Liebeskarussell

as Professor Hellberg

1977

Scrounged Meals

as Alfred Eisenhardt

1957

1931

Bombs Over Monte Carlo

as Erster Offizier Peter

1968

1966

Once a Greek

as Archilochos

1963

Meine Tochter und ich

as Dr. Robert Stegemann

1956

Das Sonntagskind

as Anton Wibbel

1976

Not an Evening like any Other

as Roeder, Antiquitätenhändler

1960

The Judge and the Sinner

as Dr. Ferdinand Bluhme

1933

Laughing Heirs

as Peter Frank

1934

Heinz in the Moon

as Aristides Nessel

1966

Hocuspocus

as Peer Bille

1959

Grand Hotel

as Carl Kringelein

1952

Schäm' dich, Brigitte!

as Dr. Felix Schneider

1932

The Pride of Company Three

as Gustav Diestelbeck

1947

Quax in Afrika

as Otto 'Quax' Groschenbügel

1934

So ein Flegel

as Dr. Hans Pfeiffer/ Erich Pfeiffer

1934

A Waltz for You

as Benjamin Cortes

1964

Vorsicht Mister Dodd

as Dr. Lancelot Dodd / Dr. Ivor Marmion

1937

Der Mustergatte

as Billy Bartlett

1933

Three Bluejackets and a Blonde

as Kadett Heini Jäger

1936

Lumpacivagabundus

as Schneidergeselle Zwirn

1960

Mein Schulfreund

as Ludwig Fuchs

1966

Enter Inspector Maigret

as Kommissar Maigret

1940

Request Concert

as Himself

1941

1963

The House in Montevideo

as Prof. Dr. Traugott Hermann Nägler

1936

Allotria

as David

1938

Die Umwege des schönen Karl

as Karl Kramer - Kellner

1934

Pipin, der Kurze

as August Pipin

1938

Five Millions Seek an Heir

as Peter Pett / Patrick Pett

1933

1933

The Only Girl

as Didier

1931

My Wife, the Adventuress

as Peter Bergmann

1930

Burglars

as Sérigny

1941

Der Gasmann

as Hermann Knittel

1948

Der Herr vom andern Stern

as Der Herr vom andern Stern

1970

Mein Freund Harvey

as Elwood Dowd

1939

Hurra, ich bin Papa

as Peter Ohlsen, Student

1973

Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!

as Konsul Jonathan Reynold

1939

1958

Der Pauker

as Dr. Hermann Seidel

1979

Another Opera

as Golfer

1932

Strich durch die Rechnung

as Willy Streblow - Rennfahrer

1935

Wer wagt – gewinnt

as Paul Normann

1935

Der Außenseiter

as Peter Bang

1936

If We All Were Angels

as Christian Kempenich

1977

1931

1933

There Is Only One Love

as Ballettmeister Eddy Blattner

1981

Ein Zug nach Manhattan

as Kantor Leon Sternberger

1971

1952

That Can Happen to Anyone

as Hugo Brinkmeyer

1979

Balthasar im Stau

as Taxifahrer

1978

Max und Moritz

as Narrator

1969

1978

Diener und andere Herren

as Kirchendiener / Butler / Edward / Ehemann

1973

1970

Endspurt

as Sam Kinsale mit 80 Jahren

1949

Ich mach Dich glücklich

as Peter Krüger

2017

Who was Hitler

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1944

The Punch Bowl

as Producer

1953

Mailman Mueller

as Director

1948

The Berliner

as Producer

1944

1940

Lauter Liebe

as Director

1943

Sophienlund

as Director

1938

Many Lies

as Director

1937

1939

The Leghorn Hat

as Executive Producer

1949

Martina

as Producer

1940

1951

City of Violence

as Producer

1948

1948

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