Bruno Decarli
Bruno Decarli ( born March 15, 1877 in Dresden, † March 31, 1950 in Tiverton, Devon, United Kingdom; Birth name: Bruno Alfred Eduard Franz Schmidt ) was a German stage actor with a short, but intensive work during the silent film.
Life
The son of Hofopernsängers and theater actor Eduard Decarli (actually Eduard Schmidt) who made his stage debut in 1895 in Meiningen. A year later he went to Zurich, then he came over Gera, Dresden ( where in 1903 he was living with his father in Radebeul ) and Berlin in 1908 at the Leipzig Stadttheater, where he was to hold until the beginning of the First World War, the loyalty.
1915 brought him Max Reinhardt at the German theater back to Berlin. The following year, Decarli began his film work. He played mostly leading roles in dramas, crime films and melodramas, several times he had the former top stars Henny Porten and Mia May as partners. At times, towards the end of the First World War, Decarli had his own film series. Short term 1919 /20, he was also active as a director and producer.
At the beginning of 1923 Decarli returned to the stage and played almost exclusively (until the closure of all German venues in the summer of 1944 ) to the Saxon State theaters in Dresden. Before the camera Decarli, who remained unemployed after 1945 occurred, little more. The last schlohweißhaarige actor who had in the Heart of the Queen to receive his last film role with Zarah Leander, died in 1950 in the English Tiverton, Devon.