Harry Liedtke

Harry Liedtke
Born (1882-10-12)12 October 1882
Königsberg, East Prussia Imperial Germany
Died 28 April 1945(1945-04-28) (aged 62)
Bad Saarow-Pieskow, Germany
Occupation Actor
Years active 1912-1944

Harry Liedtke (12 October 1882 – 28 April 1945) was a German film actor.

Early life

Liedtke was born in Königsberg, East Prussia to a merchant as the seventh out of 12 children. After the death of his father in 1896, he grew up in an orphanage and began a qualification in retail business. By the chance acquaintance of Hans Oberländer, a stage director at Berlin, he started to take stage classes and was first engaged at the municipal Theater of Freiberg, Saxony. In 1908 Liedtke worked at the New German Theatre in New York City and in 1909 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Career

In 1912 Liedtke appeared for the first time in the silent movie Zu spät and from now on usually as a young "Charming Boy" and gentleman. With Ernst Lubitsch he made movies like Das fidele Gefängnis (1917), Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918), Carmen (1918), Die Austernprinzessin (1919), Madame Dubarry (1919), Sumurun (1920) and Das Weib des Pharao (1921). He also appeared in several crime stories as Stuart Webbs or Joe Deebs written by Joe May. Liedtke was a popular actor in the 1920s and partner of Marlene Dietrich in I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (1929). Liedtke met with less success in sound films, probably due to his advancing age.

From 1920 till 1928, Liedtke was married to the actress Käthe Dorsch.

Death

On 28 April 1945 Liedtke was killed by Red Army Soldiers in his house at Bad Saarow-Pieskow east of Berlin together with his third wife Christa Tordy. One of the Russians smashed a bottle over his head when he tried to save a young woman who had taken shelter in his apartment from being raped.

Filmography

  • Zu spät (1912)
  • Der wankende Glaube (1913)
  • Eva (1913)
  • Schuldig (1914)
  • Die Tat von damals (1915)
  • Der Krieg brachte Frieden (1915)
  • Das rätselhafte Inserat (1916)
  • Leutnant auf Befehl (1916)
  • Wie ich Detektiv wurde (1916)
  • Der Amateur (1916)
  • Arme Eva Maria (1916)
  • Das Bild der Ahnfrau (1916)
  • Die bleiche Renate (1916)
  • Das Fidele Gefängnis (1917)
  • Das Geheimnis der leeren Wasserflasche (1917)
  • Die Hochzeit im Excentricclub (1917)
  • Lulu (1917)
  • Sleeping Beauty (1917)
  • Die Kameliendame (Prima Vera) (1917)
  • Der Flieger von Goerz (1918)
  • Das Opfer (1918)
  • Der Rodelkavalier (1918)
  • Die blaue Mauritius (1918)
  • The Mystery of Bangalore (1918)
  • Carmen (1918)
  • Das Mädel vom Ballet (1918)
  • Der gelbe Schein (1918)
  • The Eyes of the Mummy Ma (1918)
  • Komtesse Dolly (1919)
  • Madame DuBarry (1919)
  • Vendetta (1919)
  • Die Tochter des Mehemed (1919)
  • Kreuzigt sie! (1919)
  • The Oyster Princess (1919)
  • Moral und Sinnlichkeit (1919)
  • Irrungen (1919)
  • Rebellenliebe (1919)
  • Retter der Menschheit (1919)
  • Der Tempelräuber (1919)
  • Sumurun (1920)
  • Der Gefangene (1920)
  • Das einsame Wrack (1920)
  • Indische Rache (1920)
  • Die Tänzerin Barberina (1920)
  • What a Girl (1920)
  • Der Mann ohne Namen (1920, 6 parts)

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