Franz Stein

Franz Stein (1880–1958) was a German cinematographer and film actor. During the silent era he shot a number of films, many of them for National Film. After 1925 his film appearances were exclusively as an actor.

Selected filmography Cinematographer

Lotte Lore (1921) Your Brother's Wife (1921) Your Bad Reputation (1922) La Boheme (1923) The Red Rider (1923) Maud Rockefeller's Bet (1924) The Doomed (1924) Set Me Free (1924) Za La Mort (1924) The Proud Silence (1925) Hedda Gabler (1925) Lena Warnstetten (1925) Battle of the Butterflies (1924)

Actor

The Catwalk (1927) - Landrat von Krotkeim The Old Fritz (1928) - Lordmarschall Keith Luther (1928) Fair Game (1928) - Regisseur Finke Robert and Bertram (1928) - 2. Vagabund Die von der Scholle sind (1928) The Lord of the Tax Office (1929) - Udo von Langwitzs Vater Andreas Hofer (1929) - Pater Haspinger The Way Through the Night (1929) Marriage in Name Only (1930) Wibbel the Tailor (1931) - Nachtwächter M (1931) - Minister The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931) - Gesangslehrer The Eleven Schill Officers (1932) Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) - Kreisel in der Irrenanstalt The Black Hussar (1932) - Der Spion The First Right of the Child (1932) The Lake Calls (1933) - Der alte Jansen The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) Music in the Blood (1934) Love and the First Railway (1934) The Two Seals (1934) - Dr.Spärlich The Gypsy Baron (1935) The Bird Seller (1935) A Pair of Lovers (1935) The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935) - Vater Christmann Frisians in Peril (1935) - Christian Kröger Pillars of Society (1935) - Ein Bürger Augustus the Strong (1936) - Superintendent Soldaten - Kameraden (1936) Das schöne Fräulein Schragg (1937) - Schreiber Madame Bovary (1937) - Herzog de Laverrière To New Shores (1937) - Puritaner La Habanera (1937) - Falk Der nackte Spatz (1938) - Engel - Schneidermeister Spaßvögel (1939) - Kimpel Salonwagen E 417 (1939) Detours to Happiness (1939) - Dr. Lehmann Die Geliebte (1939) The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939) - Dr. Ossorgin (uncredited) Robert Koch (1939) - Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu Kornblumenblau (1939) Ein ganzer Kerl (1939) - Versicherungsbeamter My Aunt, Your Aunt (1939) Rheinische Brautfahrt (1939) - Hausknecht August The Girl at the Reception (1940) - Hauptschriftleiter Grimm Clothes Make the Man (1940) Frieder und Catherlieschen (1940) The Swedish Nightingale (1941) - Hofuhrmacher Rembrandt (1942) - Stadtschreiber Der große Schatten (1942) - Zeitungsredakteur Münchhausen (1943) - Leibjäger Rösemeyer (uncredited) Paracelsus (1943) - Doctor Die Zaubergeige (1944) Shiva und die Galgenblume (1945) The Adventures of Fridolin (1948) - Der Standesbeamte Knall and Fall as Detectives (1953) - Professor Brott The Star of Rio (1955) - (final film role)