Carl Goetz
Carl Goetz ( born April 10, 1862 in Vienna, † August 17, 1932 ) was an Austrian actor.
Life and work
A trained violinist opted for a career on the stage and made his debut in 1892 at the Municipal Theatre of St. Pölten. After the negative reviews he went in 1893 to the U.S. and worked in New York as a cartoonist for newspapers and as a book illustrator. The same time he appeared as a performer on the German Germania opportunity Theatre.
By 1900, he appeared in Colmar and in Landshut on stage. Then he stepped in Munich in cabarets and his first success as an actor in plays by August Strindberg, John Galsworthy and George Kaiser. The small and persons afflicted with a speech impediment Goetz acted afterwards in Vienna, Berlin and the Munich Chamber games.
1913 began his film career with the lead role of a wrongly accused of the murder tramp in Paul of Woringens the highway. Soon Goetz was set to unsightly old men and outsiders. He was the Village's fool in Stimoff Bogdan (1916 ), the loathsome husband in the love of a blind man (1917 ) and the title character in a tragedy ugly ( 1921). In The Mandarin (1919) and The Yellow Peril (1922 ) he played each one Asian. He was the court jester in Munich's large-scale production, the favorite of the Queen (1922 ). In other films, he turned landowner, professors and lords of the castle dar. In The Mill of Sanssouci (1926 ), he was seen as the philosopher Voltaire. One of his best roles in GW Pabst film gave him the Schigolch, the foster father of Lulu ( Louise Brooks), in Pandora's Box (1928 ).