Robert Garrison (actor)
Robert Garrison ( born July 18, 1872 in Strasburg in West Prussia, province of Prussia, † January 6, 1930 in Berlin) was a German character actor with intense work during the silent film.
Life
The brother of singer - actor Max Garrison (1867-1927) had received his education at the school stage of Franz German Inger and assumed his first engagement at the Berlin National Theatre. In 1896, Garrison was engaged at the Municipal Theatre of Halle, 1897/98 he played on the stage of Bromberg / Westpr. and 1899/1900 he was active for one season in Bratislava. 1901 Garrison was finally brought to the Operetta Theatre of Vienna Orpheum. Other theater stations before his arrival in Berlin were among other Cologne and Mannheim, where he was able to prevail as a character at the local Star " Court Theatre ". Garrison proved already in his first stage stations as a versatile artist. In the German capital, he celebrated one of his main achievements as King Lear at the Deutsches Theater. His brother Max was at this time (also called Lortzingstraße Theatre ) Director of the Berlin Belle- Alliance Theatre.
At an early stage the actor the importance of the new medium of film. His first appearances ( 1910-1912 ) he completed in short dramas and melodramas of the film pioneer Oskar Messter where Garrison has been named as one of the few performers that time by name. With the outbreak of World War I, the artist drew for nearly a decade from the cinema back; after his return before the camera at the beginning of the 1920s he played only batch roles.
Besides, he was still connected to the stage, most recently as a member of the Komische Oper Berlin, where Garrison was able to record a success, among other things in the Fluctuating Hulla Bulla di.
Garrison died of meat poisoning.