Bernd Aldor

Bernd Aldor ( born March 23, 1881 in Constantine Opel, Ottoman Empire, † October 20, 1950 in Vienna, Austria ) was a German actor.

Life

Shortly before the turn of the century in Vienna, he took acting classes in the master class of Karl Arnau; to his other teachers belonged to Konrad Loewe. He began his theatrical career as an extra at the Court Theatre, later the Burgtheater.

In 1900 he received his first permanent engagement in Znojmo. Other theater stations from 1903 were Chernivtsi, Trier, Bremen, Königsberg, Leipzig, Dresden and Hamburg. In 1906 he came to Berlin at the Schiller Theatre.

In 1913 he was discovered by Charles Decroix at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig at a performance of Tolstoy's The Living Corpse for the film. Aldor became known 1917/18 in the first two parts of the Aufkärungsdreiteilers there be light! as Dr. Mauthner, head of an institution for contracted syphilis children.

From 1917 to 1919 he was protagonist of several film series among directors Richard Oswald and Lupu Pick, and also in Oswald's literary productions The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Living Corpse. Until the mid- 1920s, Aldor has appeared in leading roles, including as Madame Recamier Talma in 1920.

1932 undertook the Romanian actor Constantin Tanase Aldor for a Berlin unreacted film directing. Then he fell slowly into disuse, although he had small film appearances until well into the sound era old age. No longer active in film, he was " probably non-Aryan " ruled in July 1938 due to its origin from the Reich Film Chamber.

Since early March 1950, the Jewish refugee Aldor and his wife Hilde were detectable in Vienna. A little later died, the former actor.

Filmography

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