Willy Fritsch
Popularity:0.186
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1901-01-27
Place of Birth:Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]
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Also Known As:Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, Willi Fritsch, Вилли Фрич, Wilhelm Egon Fritz "Willy" Fritsch

The Three from the Filling Station (1930)
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...

Woman in the Moon (1929)
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...

A Mad Idea (1932)
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...

Docks of Hamburg (1928)
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,...

When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953)
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...

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds (1935)
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...

At the Order of the Czar (1954)
Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, much older than herself. A few years later, she...

The Congress Dances (1931)
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant...

Solange noch die Rosen blüh'n (1956)
Another German Heimatfilm.

Lucky Kids (1936)
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the...

I by Day, You by Night (1932)
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...

Crazy Otto (1957)
A wannabe revue dancer meets a man she thinks is the revue's impresario, and mistaken identities lead to laughs.

A Blonde Dream (1932)
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...

Vienna Blood (1942)
Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his country, Reuss-Schleiz-Greiz. Tensions arise...

Three from the Gasoline Station (1955)
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...

Waltz War (1933)
The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss. It comes to a break. Strauss is engaged in London...

Das Donkosakenlied (1956)
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...

Isola Bella (1961)
Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father's villa in the...

Junge Adler (1944)
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,...

Burglars (1930)
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.

Die Geliebte (1939)
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...

Film Without Title (1948)
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

Die Fledermaus (1946)
Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946.

Women Are Better Diplomats (1941)
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic...

The Heath Is Green (1951)
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...

Hokuspokus (1930)
Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation...

Hubertusjagd (1959)
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...

A Prussian Love Story (1938)
The film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill.

The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962)
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...

Seven Slaps (1937)
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...

The Cheeky Devil (1932)
Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise...

Hungarian Rhapsody (1928)
On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristocratic family, his father drank away the family...

In the Employ of the Secret Service (1931)
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.

Boccaccio (1936)
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,...

Attack on Baku (1942)
Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching a series of terrorist attacks on them. Hans...

Black Roses (1935)
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...

Woman at the Wheel (1939)
Maria Kelemen is a secretary in the office of a bank in Budapest. Her boss, director Borden, courts her, albeit she is engaged to Paul (about which...

Sweetheart of the Gods (1960)
Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in...

Das leichte Mädchen (1941)
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...

Zwei Herzen im Mai (1958)
The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets the circumstances of the Nazi dictatorship....

Am seidenen Faden (1938)
A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for clothing. Crooked international profiteers ,a...

Leichte Muse (1941)
A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.

Schatten der Nacht (1950)
Elga's life with Magnus, her husband, would be a happy one if Struwe, her former lover, had not resurfaced and started to blackmail her.For a while,...

Mädchen mit Beziehungen (1950)
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...

The Waltz Dream (1926)
Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince...

A Prince's Young Love (1933)
Period romance set in Bismarck's Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a lowly pharmacist.

Von Liebe reden wir später (1953)
The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but...

Spies (1928)
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...

Cairo Season (1933)
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...

Adventure in Rio (1955)
A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.

Express Train of Love (1925)
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.

Die Insel (1934)
A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.

Hungarian Rhapsody (1954)
1847. Franz Liszt meets the beautiful princess Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. The two fall in love, but the princess is forced to marry an...

König für eine Nacht (1950)
Count Lerchenbach, the King's Adjutant, changes places with his master, King Ludwig I, in a romantic assignation with the beautiful Countess Rosenau.

Melody of the Heart (1929)
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...

A Sister of Six (1926)
A silent romantic comedy

Her Grace Commands (1931)
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...

Die Gattin (1943)
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...

The Chaste Susanne (1926)
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...

Schuldig (1928)
"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...

His Late Excellency (1927)
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...

Her Dark Spot (1929)
When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief....

Miss Venus (1921)
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...

The Three from the Filling Station (1956)
Three young men working at a filling station fall in love with the same woman.

His Wife, the Unknown (1923)
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...

The Girl with a Patron (1925)
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...

Derby (1949)
A young horse lover falls in love with the handsome vet who looks after a special racehorse. But before the two can be happy together, there are a...

Bambi Awards (1948)
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in...