Alfred Halm

Alfred Halm, pseudonym H. Fredall ( born December 9, 1861 in Vienna, † February 5, 1951 in Berlin) was an Austrian actor, theater director, theater director, screenwriter and film director.

Life

He began his career as an actor on stage, among other things in Hanau, Gießen, Barmen and Elberfeld and at the Flora Theatre in Zurich. In the early 1890s he came to Berlin, and was employed in the art young hero and lover.

On Lobe Theatre in Wroclaw, he not only collected his first directing experience, but also rose to become co-director of the summer theater. In 1906 he took over the management of the theater at Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. He led this theater to bankruptcy in 1912. During his productions often was a friend of actor Josef Kainz him at the center.

In 1913 he joined the film, where to different substances, he directed and usually also contributed the screenplay. Among other things, he recorded in 1919 for the film adaptation of Gerhart Hauptmann's Rose Bernd with Henny Porten and Emil Jannings responsible. After 1926 Halm was limited to writing screenplays, he later wrote plays and worked as a translator. Because of racism he received after the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, no more orders.

He was the father of actor Harry Halm ( 1902-1980 ).

Filmography ( as a director and screenwriter )

Pictures of Alfred Halm

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