Rochus Gliese
German film director and actor
About Rochus Gliese
Lived 1891 – 1978 (aged 87). Rochus Gliese was a German film director, screenwriter, production designer, film actor, film producer and costume designer.
Rochus Gliese (6 January 1891 — 22 December 1978) was a German actor, director, production designer, and Academy Award-nominated art director of early films from the 1910s and 1920s. He was born in Berlin.
He is most remembered in the United States for his work as an art director on the film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Most of his other films did not receive wide release in the United States. His final film as a director was 1930's Chasing Fortune, though he did some behind-the-scenes roles through the 1930s and in the 1950s. His final work was 1955's , where he worked as a set decorator.
He died in 1978 in Berlin.
Main filmography Director Rübezahl's Wedding (co-director: Paul Wegener, 1916) The Yogi (co-director: Paul Wegener, 1916) The Galley Slave (co-director: Paul Wegener, 1919) The Lost Shadow (1921) Duke Ferrante's End (director: Paul Wegener, 1922), uncredited The Burning Secret (1923) Comedy of the Heart (1924) The Found Bride (1925) The Pink Diamond (1926) People on Sunday (co-directors: Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1930) Chasing Fortune (1930)
Art director The Golem (1915) The Yogi (1916) Rübezahl's Wedding (1916) The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917) Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty (1917) The Foreign Prince (1918) Der Antiquar von Straßburg (1918) The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918) Intoxication (1919) Malaria (1919) The Oyster Princess (1919) Helmsman Holk (1920) Catherine the Great (1920) The Burning Soil (1922) Alexandra (1922) Der Kampf ums Ich (1922) The Love Nest (1922) The Burning Secret (1923) The Expulsion (1923) Finances of the Grand Duke (1924) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) The Main Event (1927) A City Upside Down (1933) Amphitryon (1935), costume designer Dance on the Volcano (1938) Ein Walzer mit dir (1943) Hanna Amon (1951) Ein Polterabend (1955) (1956)
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German film director and actor (1891-1978)
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Rochus Gliese was born on 6 January 1891 in Berlin.
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Rochus Gliese died on 22 December 1978 in Berlin.
What was Rochus Gliese's occupation?
Rochus Gliese was a film director, screenwriter, production designer, film actor, film producer and costume designer.
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Rochus Gliese was German.
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