Hermann Picha

Hermann Picha (March 20, 1865 – June 7, 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting roles during his career. He played the title role in the 1920 film Wibbel the Tailor directed by Manfred Noa.^[1] He appeared in Fritz Lang's Destiny.^[2]

Selected filmography

• The Princess of Neutralia (1917)
• Wibbel the Tailor (1920)
• A Day on Mars (1921)
• Destiny (1921)
• The Stranger from Alster Street (1921)
• The Hotel of the Dead (1921)
• Lola Montez, the King's Dancer (1922)
• The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen (1923)
• The Man Without Nerves (1924)
• Father Voss (1925)
• Passion (1925)
• Bismarck (1925)
• People to Each Other (1926)
• The White Horse Inn (1926)
• Manon Lescaut (1926)
• Tartuffe (1926)
• The Fallen (1926)
• Why Get a Divorce? (1926)
• The Young Man from the Ragtrade (1926)
• Dancing Vienna (1927)
• Svengali (1927)
• The Master of Nuremberg (1927)
• The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
• Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
• The Weavers (1927)
• The Convicted (1927)
• The Green Alley (1928)
• Secrets of the Orient (1928)
• The Lady in Black (1928)
• Robert and Bertram (1928)
• It's You I Have Loved (1929)
• Danube Waltz (1930)
• The Beggar Student (1931)
• Man Without a Name (1932)
• A Tremendously Rich Man (1932)
• The Escape to Nice (1932)
• Paprika (1932)

References

Bibliography

• Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.
• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
• Usai, Paolo Cherchi. Before Caligari: German cinema, 1895-1920. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

External links

• Hermann Picha at the Internet Movie Database