Rudolf Lettinger
Rudolf Lettinger ( born October 26, 1865 in Hamburg, † March 21, 1937 in Berlin- Schöneberg ) was a German theater and film actor.
Life
At his father's request he went through after school in a commercial undertaking an apprenticeship before he decided on a career as an actor. On 2 March 1883, he debuted in Schiller's Robbers in Schleswig-Holstein Eckernförde. Then he worked for a year to the theater to Detmold, then to Heidelberg and for three years in professional young hero and lover to Stettin.
Other stage stations were Magdeburg (1890 ), Nuremberg (1891 /92) and Zurich (1893 ) before he managed the change to a multi-year engagement at the court theater Oldenburg into character roles. From 1897 to 1901 he was seen in Breslau and came to Berlin in 1901 to the Schiller Theater. He worked several times under the direction of Max Reinhardt. Were particularly renowned for his depictions of Gessler in William Tell and the embodiment of Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1912 he joined the silent film, where he appeared as a comic busy age in various batches. In the talkie he hardly played a role, as the last known film participation is seen the film Emil and the Detectives from the year 1931.