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Ernst Reicher
Berlin, Germany
His father was the actor Emanuel Reicher, born in Galicia, then part of the Kingdom of Austria. Emanuel married firstly the opera singer Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann: their son was t…
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His father was the actor Emanuel Reicher, born in Galicia, then part of the Kingdom of Austria. Emanuel married firstly the opera singer Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann: their son was the actor Frank Reicher. After Hedwig's death, he married the actress Lina Harf and the couple had three children: Hedwiga Reicher, Ernst, and Elly, who all worked as actors. At Continental-Kunstfilm's studios Ernst Reicher acted, wrote scripts and directed films from 1912 to 1918. In December 1912 he starred in Vorglühen des Balkanbrandes, directed by Joe May. He wrote, directed and starred in two films: Das Werk in February 1913, and Die Statue in 1914, which was banned by the Berlin police censor until 1919. Starting in winter 1913/14, he wrote and starred in the first three of the 'Stuart Webbs' detective films, a popular detective series directed by Joe May for Continental. For more than a decade after 1914, Reicher continued to write and star as Stuart Webbs, and was closely identified with the part. It was not until 1918 that Reicher turned to other topics. On the first of April 1919, he moved the headquarters of his film company to Munich. At the beginning of the twenties he suffered a serious car accident, in which he suffered a vertebral and fractured skull. Only from 1926 he appeared again on the screen, but he could no longer build on previous successes. After the seizure of power in 1933 by the National Socialists, Reicher emigrated to Prague, where he fell into obscurity. His last, tiny role in the 1936 French-language remake of The Golem was cut out of the final version. Later that year, he committed suicide by hanging in a Prague hotel room.
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1936
The Golem
Movie
- 1935
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1932
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Movie Home Secretary
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1931
One Night at the Grand Hotel
Movie Hoteldirektor
- 1931
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1931
The Squeeker
Movie Inspektor Elford
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1931
Road to Rio
Movie German crime commissioner
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1928
Haus Nummer 17
Movie Harold Brant
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1926
The Armored Vault
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1925
The Perfume of Mrs. Worrington
Movie Producer
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1925
Das Geheimnis von Schloß Elmshöh
Movie Stuart Webbs
- 1925
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1924
Das schöne Abenteuer
Movie
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1921
Das Rattenloch
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1921
Camera obscura
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1920
Panic in the House of Ardon
Movie Producer
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1920
Der Sprung ins Dunkle
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1919
Die Brüder von Sankt Parasitus
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1919
Die Pagode
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1919
Das Buch Esther
Movie King Ahasuerus
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1919
Der verführte Heilige
Movie Producer
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1919
Das Gestohlene Modell
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1919
Drei Tage Freiheit
Movie Art Direction
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1919
Die Geheimnisvollen Briefe
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1918
Der Stier von Saldanha
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1918
Der Eisenbahnmarder
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1918
Die Geisterjagd
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1918
Die Fürstin von Beranien
Movie Director
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1917
Die Diamantenstiftung
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1916
Die Peitsche
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1916
Der Hilferuf
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1916
Der Brieföffner
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1916
Der Amateur
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1915
Der Spuk im Hause des Professors
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1915
Stuart Webbs: Die Toten erwachen
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1915
Der gestreifte Domino
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1915
Das Mitternachtsschiff
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1915
Eines Mannes Schatten
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1914
Das Panzergewölbe
Movie Stuart Webbs
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1914
Stuart Webbs: The Man in the Cellar
Movie Stuart Webbs
