Georg H. Schnell
Georg Heinrich Quick; also GH Fast ( * April 11, 1878 in Tschifu, today Yantai, China, † March 31, 1951 in Berlin) was a German actor who was mainly seen in batch roles.
Life
The son of a supplier of Chinese army came as a child to Germany. After leaving school he worked in the colonial service and was a lumberjack in Florida. In 1900 he took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. After acting lessons Quick received in 1903 at the Municipal Theatre of Elbing his first engagement. Further stations of his career in the theater were among other Strasbourg and Munich. 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War.
In 1919 he became an actor in Berlin and appeared primarily in modern society plays and operettas. Under director Max Reinhardt, he acted in Maugham's Rain (1925) and Tolstoy's The Living Corpse (1928 ). He played in many great classics of the 1920s to the 1940s with, including Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror as shipowners as well as internationally in Alfred Hitchcock's film debut, The Pleasure Garden. He had one of his last film appearances alongside Heinz Riihmann as one of the members of the famous Round Bowl in the comedy The Feuerzangenbowle.