Max Laurence
Rudolf Friedrich Max Laurence ( born August 7, 1852 in Berlin, † May 26, 1926 ) was a German actor.
Life
He attended art academies of Berlin and Dusseldorf, where he trained as a painter. Laurence was then but in 1871 actor, who received his first engagement in Magdeburg. He then played in Gdansk, Nuremberg, Amsterdam and Wroclaw.
In 1882 he took part in a tour of America and remained until 1892 in the USA. He spent five years as an actor and director at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, most recently, he worked in San Francisco.
Back in Germany, he went to the New Theatre in Berlin and played from 1895 to 1899 at the Schiller Theatre, also at Central Theatre and at Trianontheater. Since the beginning of the First World War, he was also active as a cabaret artist.
At the age of almost 60 years, Laurence was still a busy film actor. He mimed preferably nobles and other dignitaries, as the Prince Hohenfels in the adventure film The Eyes of the Mummy Ma. After a stroke with left-sided paralysis as a result Laurence had to quit his acting activity.