Alwin Neuß
Alwin Neuss, Neuss also Alwin ( born June 17, 1879 in Cologne, † October 30, 1935 in Berlin; native Alwin Karl Heinrich Neuss ) was a German actor and film director.
Life
The son of a civil servant made his stage debut in 1895 in Cologne at the Summer Stage Flora, to which engagement in Bremen, Magdeburg, Innsbruck, Breslau and Dresden followed. From 1903 he was part of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, with whom he undertook concert tours in several European countries.
In a film about Sherlock Holmes, he received in 1908 his first film role in the Danish production company Nordisk. For the German cinema he played from 1910 several times even the English master detective, was particularly successful 1914 adaptation of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde film adaptation of Max Mack, entitled A strange case Neuss convinced in a double role.
In 1915 Neuss led mostly also directed to first at the film A Cry in the Night. In addition to Holmes, he embodied the American detective Tom Shark or he played in other roles in contemporary feature films. In 1917 he was awarded the Friedrich -August Cross for Two blue boys. In the twenties, he could not go on his great successes. In November 1920 he founded the production company in Munich Alneuco, but there are no films shown this company. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists, he entered on April 4, 1933, the NSBO cell German-born film director, but could take as a director no longer walk.
Alwin Neuss was married to Anna Klara Warczok.