Paul Biensfeldt
Paul Biensfeldt ( born March 4, 1869 in Berlin, † April 2, 1933 in Berlin- Hallensee ) was a German film and theater actor.
Life
Paul Biensfeldt belonged for 40 years to the Berlin theater scene. He experienced his breakthrough in 1893 Max Half drama youth in residence theater. He then played under Otto Brahm, and later under Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. Biensfeldt was for 25 years a popular ensemble player and one of its busiest comedian in Reinhardt. Carl Sternheim wrote to him in 1913 the role of the Krey in his comedy citizens Schippl on the body.
Biensfeldt has 1913-1933 appeared in over one hundred silent and sound film productions and this was occupied by the most renowned directors such as Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, FW Murnau, Paul Leni, Robert Wiene and Joe May, again and again. He went on mostly in supporting roles as a valet, dance teacher, police officer or nobleman. Slightly larger roles he had in the early stages of the film in the 1910s, for example, in the early Lubitsch film The ideal wife (1913) and several times on the side of Henny Porten. Among his most famous silent film roles include the father of Lil Dagovers, the magician who turns to end up in a cactus, in the Chinese episode of Fritz Lang's The tired death, as well as the Chamberlain Lebel, who will teach Pola Negri polite manners, in Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry.