Rudolf Forster(1884-1968)

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Rudolf Forster and Albert Préjean in The Threepenny Opera (1931)

Rudolf Forster was born on 30 October 1884 in Gröbming, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Das Glas Wasser (1960), The 3 Penny Opera (1931) and Wälsungenblut (1965). He was previously married to Wilhelmine Karoline Klara Schachschneider and Eleonora von Mendelssohn. He died on 25 October 1968 in Bad Aussee, Styria, Austria.

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- 2 wins & 2 nominations

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Rudolf Forster, Valeska Gert, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher, Albert Préjean, Reinhold Schünzel, and Sylvia Torf in The Threepenny Opera (1931)

Rudolf Forster in The 3 Penny Opera (1931)

Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, and Reinhold Schünzel in The 3 Penny Opera (1931)

Rudolf Forster and Christl Mardayn in ...nur ein Komödiant (1935)

Rudolf Forster and Brigitte Helm in Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo (1932)

Known for

Das Glas Wasser

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Marquis de Torcy

1960

The 3 Penny Opera

7.3

Mackie Messer

1931

Wälsungenblut

6.5

Graf
count Arnstatt

1965

Der gebieterische Ruf

5.5

Hofrat Dr. Wichmann

1944

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Von Haut zu Haut
- Trodler
- 1970
Rotmord
- Adliger Herr
- TV Movie
- 1969
Vanillikipferln
- Herr Hofrat
- TV Movie
- 1969
Der Eismann kommt
- Cecil Lewis
- TV Movie
- 1968
Der Turm der verbotenen Liebe
- Honoré de Latoure
- 1968
Die Geschichte von Vasco
- Der Mirador
- TV Movie
- 1968
Die Gesichte der Simone Machard
- Père Gustave
- TV Movie
- 1968
Siedlung Arkadien
- Herr Wrangel
- TV Movie
- 1967
Der Kirschgarten
- Firs
- TV Movie
- 1966
Grieche sucht Griechin
- 1966
Das Abgründige in Herrn Gerstenberg
- Chalon
- TV Movie
- 1966
Killer Spy
- Rameau (as Rudolph Forster)
- 1965
Die Reise
- Admiral Punt
- TV Movie
- 1965
Wälsungenblut
- Graf
- count Arnstatt
- 1965
Haus Herzenstod
- Kapirän Shotover
- TV Movie
- 1964

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- Rudolph Forster
- October 30, 1884
- Gröbming, Austria-Hungary
- October 25, 1968
- Bad Aussee, Styria, Austria
He acted in Robert E. Sherwood's translation of Jacques Deval's play, "Tovarich," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Marta Abba, Polly De Loos, Bram Nossen, Ernest Lawford, Aristides De Leon, Margaret Dale, Jay Fassett, Barbara Gott, James E. Truex, Amanda Duff, Oscar Sterling, Leni Stengel, Andora Andrews, and Cecil Humphreys in the cast. Raymond Sovey was set designer. Gilbert Miller was producer and director.
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Austrian star of the Georg Wilhelm Pabst's film The 3 Penny Opera (1931) [The Threepenny Opera] who fled Nazi Germany and lived with his wife Eleonora von Mendelssohn in Manhattan for a time. He became homesick and returned to Germany in 1940 to resume his career, starring in many Third Reich movies. She remained in Manhattan until her death in 1951.

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