Biography

Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.

Known For

Auf Probe gestellt

Reichsgraf Adolar von Warowingen

Eine Liebesgeschichte

Schlumberger

The Man in Half Moon Street

Dr. Kurt van Bruecken

First Comes Courage

Col. Kurt von Elser

Diary of a Lost Woman

Graf Kasimir Osdorff

The Ballet Girl

Eduard Stutzig, Lebemann

The Vicious Circle

Baron Arady

Die Erzkokette