Lupu Pick
Lupu Pick (born 2 January 1886 in Jassy, Romania, † March 7, 1931 in Berlin) was an actor and film director.
Life
Picks father was Austrian, his mother Romanian origin. He began in 1909 as a stage actor at the Schiller Theater in Altona. From 1910 he also played in the summer theater in Flensburg, where he also directed the first time and at the 1911 Edith Posca occurred, whom he married a year later. In 1913 pick with a performance of The Shipwrecked (Eugène Brieux ) to the German Theatre in Berlin, where he experienced his breakthrough in the role of the physician. He remained in Berlin and worked for 6 years at the Little Theater Unter den Linden as an actor, director and stage in the Board. His biggest success was the role of Uncle Eli in Jettchen Gebert.
In 1910, he played for the first time in the film. He looked at Gerhard Lamprecht, Richard Oswald, Henrik Galeen, Fritz Lang and also in his own films. In 1917 he founded the film company Rex - Film AG. Pick was engaged socially, he argued in 1919 against the death penalty in his film Misericordia - not Kill!
Together with the screenwriter Carl Mayer, he turned to the chamber feature film and created with shards (1921) and Sylvester (1924 ) are important members of this genus. His last silent film is the 1929 psychological period film Napoleon on St. Helena. Pick only turned a sound film, popular song ( 1931).
As an actor, Lupu Pick occurred again in 1926 impressively as a cab driver in the company of his Rex - made film The Last Four Wheeler of Berlin in appearance, and in 1928 as a Japanese diplomat Matsumoto in Fritz Lang's spies.
Pick involved in several organizations of the filmmakers. He officiated the board of the Association of Film industrialists eV, the SPIO and the Association of Film Directors of Germany eV After intensively operated by it founding of the union -based umbrella organization of filmmakers Germany eV ( Dacho ) he became its first Chairman.
Picks wife, actress Edith Posca, located just four months after his death took life.