Nils Asther

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-01-16 (84 years old)

Deathday

1981-10-13

Place of Birth

Copenhagen, Denmark

Nils Asther

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 done in the silent era. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Nils Anton Alfhild Asther, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1918

A Trip to Mars

as Martian citizen

1929

Wild Orchids

as Prince de Gace

1924

Carl XII:s kurir

as Stanislaus, Potockis nevö

1928

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

as Count Luigi Ravelli

1927

Topsy and Eva

as George Shelby

1944

Bluebeard

as Inspector Lefevre

1945

Jealousy

as Peter Urban

1934

The Crime Doctor

as Gary Patten

1943

Submarine Alert

as Dr. Arthur Huneker

1934

Love Time

as Franz Schubert

1960

When Darkness Falls

as Vicar Tord Ekstedt

1941

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

as Constanzo Labardi

1948

1941

The Night of January 16th

as Bjorn Faulkner

1929

The Single Standard

as Packy Cannon

1942

Night Monster

as Agor Singh

1933

If I Were Free

as Tono Casanove

1943

Mystery Broadcast

as Ricky Moreno

1932

Letty Lynton

as Emile Renaul

1933

By Candlelight

as Prince Alfred Von Rommer

1932

But the Flesh Is Weak

as Prince Paul

2022

1944

Alaska

as Thomas Leroux

1928

The Cossacks

as Prince Olenin Stieshneff

1930

1933

The Right To Romance

as Dr. Helmuth Heppling

1945

The Man in Half Moon Street

as Dr. Julian Karell

1935

Abdul the Damned

as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police

1936

Guilty Melody

as Galloni

1936

1920

The Gyurkovics Boys

as Bandi Gyurkovics

1932

1942

Sweater Girl

as Prof. Henri Menard

1933

Storm at Daybreak

as Capt. Geza Petery

1944

The Hour Before the Dawn

as Kurt van der Breughel

1935

Do You Remember?

as (archive footage)

1928

The Blue Danube

as Erich von Statzen

1928

Dream of Love

as Prince Mauritz

1937

Make-Up

as Bux

1941

Forced Landing

as Col. Jan Golas

1963

Gudrun

as Mr. Roscoe

1945

1926

The Golden Butterfly

as Andy McFarland

1941

Flying Blind

as Eric Karolek

1927

Sorrell and Son

as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell

1928

Loves of an Actress

as Raoul Duval

1942

1945

1934

Madame Spy

as Capt. Franck

1916

The Wings

as Aspiring actor

1962

Lady in White

as Simon Ek

1941

The Man Who Lost Himself

as Peter Ransome

1926

Wrath of the Seas

as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried

1927

Hotelratten

as Fürst Ladrone

1961

Svenska Floyd

as Vincent Mitella

1926

Die drei Kuckucksuhren

as Reginald Ellis

1927

Gauner im Frack

as George Valeska

1922

Love's Crucible

as Apprentice

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