Gustav von Seyffertitz

Gustav von Seyffertitz
Born	Gustav Carl Viktor Bodo Maria von Seyffertitz (1862-08-04)4 August 1862 Haimhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died	25 December 1943(1943-12-25) (aged 81) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1917–1939

Gustav von Seyffertitz (4 August 1862 – 25 December 1943) was a German film actor and director.

Biography

Gustav von Seyffertitz appeared in 118 films between 1917 and 1939. He had also been a successful Broadway stage actor and director. He appeared as an actor in such lavish productions as The Brass Bottle in 1910. This play was turned into several films and was the idea for the television show I Dream of Jeannie in the 1960s.^[1]

He was born in Haimhausen, Bavaria and died in Los Angeles, California, aged 81.

Selected filmography

• The Little Princess (1917)
• The Devil-Stone (1917)
• Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
• The Whispering Chorus (1918)
• Old Wives for New (1918)
• Stella Maris (1918; uncredited)
• Till I Come Back to You (1918)
• To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918)
• The Secret Garden (1919)
• Even as Eve (1920) - Amasu Munn
• Sherlock Holmes (1922; as Professor Moriarty)
• The Bandolero (1924)
• The Dice Woman (1926)
• Sparrows (1926)
• The Bells (1926)
• Don Juan (1926) (as Neri: the alchemist)
• Diplomacy (1926)
• Barbed Wire (1927)
• The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
• The Magic Flame (1927)
• Rose of the Golden West (1927)
• The Gaucho (1927)
• The Mysterious Lady (1928)
• Yellow Lily (1928)
• The Docks of New York (1928)
• The Woman Disputed (1928)
• Chasing Through Europe (1929)
• The Canary Murder Case (1929)
• Dangerous Paradise (1930)
• The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
• Dishonored (1931)
• The Front Page (1931)
• Shanghai Express (1932)
• The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
• Queen Christina (1933)
• Mystery Liner (1934)
• The Moonstone (1934)
• She (1935)
• Remember Last Night? (1935)
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
• Cipher Bureau (1938)
• Son of Frankenstein (1939)
• Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gustav von Seyffertitz.

• Gustav von Seyffertitz at the Internet Movie Database
• Gustav von Seyffertitz at Find a Grave