Siegfried Breuer

Siegfried Breuer (24 June 1906 – 1 February 1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Born in Vienna, Siegried was the son of Hans Breuer (1868 or 1870–1929), who was an actor, operatic tenor, and opera director from Cologne. Performing was in the blood and he studied at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, some time in the early 1920s and made his stage debut at the Volkstheater, Vienna in 1924.

After some 15 years of stage acting he made his screen debut in a film called Eins zu Eins in 1939 where he went on to star in over 50 films between 1939 and 1954. In 1950 he directed, wrote and starred in the film Der Schuß durchs Fenster in which he worked with Curd Jürgens.

His son Siegfried Breuer Jr. and grandchildren Jacques Breuer and Pascal Breuer are also in the entertainment industry.

A heavy smoker, Breuer was married six times and died in 1954 in Weende, Göttingen at the age of 47.

Filmography

1931: Wochenend im Paradies 1939: Immortal Waltz 1939: Linen from Ireland - Dr. Kuhn 1939: Anton the Last - Lawyer 1939: A Mother's Love - Kammersänger 1939: Eins zu Eins 1940: Nanette - 1. Schauspieler 1940: Der Postmeister - Rittmeister Minskij 1940: Vienna Tales - Egon von Brelowsky 1940: Operetta - Fürst Hohenburg The Way to Freedom (1941) - Graf Stefan Oginski 1941: Venus on Trial - Benjamin Hecht, Kunsthändler 1941: People in the Storm - Hauptmann Rakic 1942: Anuschka - Prof. Felix von Hartberg 1942: Sommerliebe - Baron von Worowsky 1943: Romance in a Minor Key - Viktor 1943: Gabriele Dambrone - Paul Madina 1943: Gefährlicher Frühling - Professor Alfred Lorenz 1944: Orient Express - Baron Erich Hübner 1944: Melusine - Stefan Brock 1945: Am Abend nach der Oper - Rudolph Manders 1945: Die tolle Susanne 1946: Die Fledermaus - Prinz Orlowsky 1947: The Immortal Face - Fürst Catti 1948: Alles Lüge - Berthold Plamershof 1948: The Other Life - Bukowsky 1948: Zyankali - Dr. Frank Morava 1948: Anni - Alexander Radkofsky 1948: Maresi - Tabakovitsch 1949: Fregola - Pablo Mendez 1949: - Dr. Thomas Bratt, Lawyer 1949: - Harry Belmont 1949: The Third Man - Popescu 1950: Regimental Music 1949: Vagabonds - Andy Karr 1950: Bonus on Death - Peter Lissen, Versicherungsagent 1950: Der Schuß durchs Fenster (director) 1950: Gabriela - Thomas Lorenzen 1950: Seitensprünge im Schnee (director) 1951: Eine Frau mit Herz - Manfred Schilling 1951: Love and Blood - Il magistrato 1951: Shadows Over Naples - Der Präfekt 1951: - Schulze 1951: - Oberst 1952: In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus (screenwriter) 1952: The Prince of Pappenheim - Juan Pablo de Gonzales 1952: You Only Live Once - Rollincourt 1952: When the Heath Dreams at Night - Konsul Berghaus 1952: We're Dancing on the Rainbow - Sophokles 1953: The Last Waltz - General Krasinski 1953: The Bird Seller - Marquis de Tréville 1953: Red Roses, Red Lips, Red Wine - Polizeipräfekt 1953: Under the Stars of Capri - Reeder Bramfeld (final film role)