Ralph Arthur Roberts
Ralph Arthur Roberts ( born October 2, 1884 as Robert Arthur Schönherr in Meerane, † March 12, 1940 in Berlin) was a director, creative director, screenwriter, but especially as an actor in many German films. He was also playwright and in 1928 director of the Berlin theater in Behrenstraße.
Life
The baker's son Carl Robert Schönherr and his wife Berta Elizabeth nee King grew up in Dresden, attended the New Town High School and took acting lessons with Adolf wind. In 1903, he debuted at the Residenz Theater Wiesbaden. He played temporarily at the Trianon Theatre in Berlin and at the Schauspielhaus in Breslau. From 1907 he is detectable in Hamburg, where he was a member of the Thalia Theater in 1909.
After war service as an officer, he continued to play at the Thalia Theatre, where he also directed. In 1921 he became director of the comedy store in Berlin, and in 1928 he opened his own theater in Behrenstraße. There he brought repeated self-composed pieces for the premiere.
In addition, the husband took over with the monocle numerous supporting roles in films. He usually played men of rank as directors and entrepreneurs. There are known mainly his comic traits that he could play for example as a prosecutor in the muzzle and when King Charles X in dance on the volcano to a high degree of self- irony. He also created lyrics that have been used in the 1954 Hans Albers and Heinz Riihmann film shot on the Reeperbahn at half past midnight come. In particular, he composed and wrote the lyrics for the song Waltz On the Reeperbahn at half past midnight. He died of an oyster poisoning and was buried in the West Stahnsdorf.