Paul Dahlke

Paul Victor Ernst Dahlke (12 April 1904 – 23 November 1984) was a German stage and film actor.

Career Dahlke was born in Gross Streitz (today Strzezenice, Poland) near Köslin in Farther Pomerania. He visited school in Köslin, Stargard and passed his Abitur in Dortmund in 1922. Dahlke started to study at the Bergakademie in Clausthal (now Clausthal University of Technology) and the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) but also attended some lectures in German philology and dramatics.

In 1927, Dahlke was a scholar of Max Reinhardt's drama school and appeared at different stages in Berlin and Munich in 1929. He became a member of the Deutsches Theater ensemble in 1934 until its closedown in 1944. In 1937 he was awarded the highest recognition for an actor in Nazi Germany, the title Staatsschauspieler . Throughout the 1930s he worked with popular actors like Emil Jannings, Zarah Leander, Lil Dagover or Lída Baarová. Some of these projects, like The Traitor are considered obvious propaganda films.

After World War II Dahlke worked at the Staatsschauspiel Munich and embodied characters like Carl Zuckmayer's Des Teufels General or Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. He became popular by several TV productions in the 1970s, e.g. his appearance in The Old Fox, Derrick or Der Kommissar.

Dahlke was the German dubbing voice of Charles Laughton and Vincent Price.

Dahlke died in Salzburg and is buried at Grundlsee, Austria. He was married to the actress Elfe Gerhart.

Filmography

1934: Love, Death and the Devil – The Governor 1935: Joan of Arc 1935: Lady Windermere's Fan – Bankier Brown 1936: The Traitor – Agent Geyer 1937: Fridericus – Field Marshal General von Dessau 1937: My Son the Minister – Vaccarés 1937: Patriots – Charles 1937: Daphne and the Diplomat – Dr. Kolbe 1937: The Broken Jug – Ruprecht Tümpel, sein Sohn 1938: Urlaub auf Ehrenwort – Direktor des Herrschaftshauses 1938: Schwarzfahrt ins Glück – Im- und Exporteur Carlo Sylvester 1938: Capriccio – Cesaire 1938: Covered Tracks – Henry Poquet – Boulevardschriftsteller 1938: Pour le Mérite – Herr Schnaase 1938: Women for Golden Hill – Barryman 1939: War es der im 3. Stock? – Heidenreich, Kriminalkommissar 1939: The Wedding Trip – Jean Jacques Bouffart, Private Detective 1939: Morgen werde ich verhaftet – Kriminalkommissar Brinkmann 1939: The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky – Iwan Casarowitsch Glykow, Music publisher 1939: The Merciful Lie – Jean Goban 1939: Who's Kissing Madeleine? – Kommissar Watson 1939: Robert Koch – Lehrer 1939: Die unheimlichen Wünsche – Canais, Feodoras Lakai und Geliebter 1939: Kennwort Machin – Jürgen Borb, Kassierer der Dadag, alias A. Machin 1939: Liberated Hands – Thomsen 1940: The Girl from Barnhelm – Just 1940: Enemies -Fährmann 1940: Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius – Class Sergeant Riess 1940: – Edgar Simon 1941: Riding for Germany – Dolinski 1941: Venus on Trial – Gottlieb Böller, Bürgermeister 1941: Comrades – Rappel, Bursche 1941: The Waitress Anna – Malwoda 1941: Heimaterde 1942: Andreas Schlüter – Erzgießer Jacobi 1942: Beloved World – Professor Strickbach 1942: Doctor Crippen – Defense lawyer 1942: Fünftausend Mark Belohnung – Kriminalkommissar Helling 1943: I Entrust My Wife to You – Boxer Alois 1943: Romance in a Minor Key – Madeleine's husband 1943: Gefährlicher Frühling – Albert Ludwig Babian, Schuldirektor 1944: Seine beste Rolle – Diener Sebastian 1944: I Need You – Direktor Heinrich Scholz 1944: Der Täter ist unter uns – Kriminalrat a.D. Adrian 1944: That Was My Life – Dr. Berner 1944: Orient Express – Police Commisar Iwanowitsch 1945: A Man Like Maximilian – Theaterdirektor Rother 1945: – Leutnant von Gorschewski 1947: And If We Should Meet Again – Studienrat Bockendahl 1948: Menschen in Gottes Hand – Vater Renken 1948: The Lost Face – Axel Witt 1948: The Original Sin 1948: The Time with You – Die Zeit mit dir 1948: Insolent and in Love – Hennemann, Diener und Chauffeur 1949: Long Is the Road – 2nd Doctor 1949: – Philipp Geiger 1949: Trouble Backstairs – August Krüger 1949: Encounter with Werther – Napoleon 1949: Der Posaunist – Robert 1949: The Trip to Marrakesh – Henry Orliac 1949: The Prisoner – Emil Karge, 2. Posaunist 1949: Das Gesetz der Liebe – Leutnant von Gorschewski 1950: Kein Engel ist so rein – Fritz 1950: The Shadow of Herr Monitor – Thomas Gossip 1950: The Rabanser Case – Dr. Georg Rabanser 1950: The Disturbed Wedding Night – Hammok, Diener 1950: The Falling Star – Viktor Hollreiser 1951: One Night's Intoxication – Generaldirektor Siebel 1951: Falschmünzer am Werk – Inspektor Paillard 1952: Weekend in Paradise – Regierungsrat Dittjen 1952: The Day Before the Wedding – Bürgermeister 1952: Shooting Stars – Gerhard Sommer 1953: Don't Forget Love – Dr. Franz Kienzel 1953: Arlette Conquers Paris – Justizminister 1953: Once I Will Return – John Rick 1954: The Great Lola – Emil Dornwald 1954: Clivia – Potterton 1954: Love is Forever – Mr. Vogelreuther 1954: The Flying Classroom – Justus 1954: Three from Variety 1955: Three Men in the Snow – Geheimrat Eduard Schlüter 1955: Her First Date – Martin, Literaturprofessor 1955: Request Concert – Direktor Knoll 1955: My Children and I – Otto Baumann 1955: – Karl Hoffmann 1956: Fruit Without Love – Prof. Schillinger 1956: Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz – Fritz Hambach – Fabrikant 1956: The First Day of Spring – Robert Hiller 1956: Kitty and the Great Big World – Henry Dupont 1957: Stresemann – Reich-President Friedrich Ebert 1957: Made in Germany – Werkmeister Löber 1957: Confessions of Felix Krull – Professor Kuckuck 1957: Liebe, wie die Frau sie wünscht – Professor Liborius 1957: Different from You and Me – Bankdirektor Werner Teichmann 1957: – Stadtrat Hugo Bunzel 1958: All the Sins of the Earth – Dr. Volkert 1959: Dubrowsky – Dubrowski 1959: The Scarlet Baroness – Oberst Urbaneck 1959: Moonwolf – Ara's father 1959: The Head – Police Commissioner Sturm 1959: Liebe, Luft und lauter Lügen – Vater Rössle 1959: Love Now, Pay Later – Herr Reimer, Mieter 1959: Abschied von den Wolken – Dr. Quartz 1959: Triplets on Board – Emilio 1960: Ein Student ging vorbei – Apotheker Brandt 1961: Jedermann – Mammon 1961: Sansibar (TV Movie) – Herr Knudsen 1962: Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt – Vorsitzender 1962: – Dr. Berger 1963: The Black Cobra – Dr.Langhammer, Kommissar 1963: With Best Regards – Generaldirektor Brock 1963: The House in Montevideo – Pastor Riesling 1964: Encounter in Salzburg – Insurance Director 1964: The Secret of the Chinese Carnation – Reginald Sheridan 1965: Red Dragon – Harris 1965: Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious – Herr Neusel 1967: The Heathens of Kummerow – Pastor Breithaupt 1969: – Amtsgerichtsrat Kiesewetter 1970: – Friedrich Wilhelm Berthold 1973: – Dr. Paul Heizer 1974: (TV film) – Gabriel Betteredge 1975: (TV Mini-Series) – Graf Bosch 1978: MS Franziska (TV Series) – Jakob Wilde 1978: (Diamantenpfade) – Prof. Otto von Heyden 1983: Derrick (TV Series, Season 10, Episode 2: "Die Tote in der Isar") – Josef Matusek

Awards 1937: Staatsschauspieler 1966: Culture Award of the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft 1974: Filmband in Gold 1979: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany