Ernst Reicher

Known for ActingBorn 1885-09-19Died 1936-05-01Berlin, Germany

His father was the actor Emanuel Reicher, born in Galicia, then part of the Kingdom of Austria. Emanuel married firstly the opera singer Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann: their son was the actor Frank Reicher. After Hedwig's death, he married the actress Lina Harf and the couple had three children: Hedwiga Reicher, Ernst, and Elly, who all worked as actors. At Continental-Kunstfilm's studios Ernst Reicher acted, wrote scripts and directed films from 1912 to 1918. In December 1912 he starred in Vorglühen des Balkanbrandes, directed by Joe May. He wrote, directed and starred in two films: Das Werk in February 1913, and Die Statue in 1914, which was banned by the Berlin police censor until 1919. Starting in winter 1913/14, he wrote and starred in the first three of the 'Stuart Webbs' detective films, a popular detective series directed by Joe May for Continental. For more than a decade after 1914, Reicher continued to write and star as Stuart Webbs, and was closely identified with the part. It was not until 1918 that Reicher turned to other topics. On the first of April 1919, he moved the headquarters of his film company to Munich. At the beginning of the twenties he suffered a serious car accident, in which he suffered a vertebral and fractured skull. Only from 1926 he appeared again on the screen, but he could no longer build on previous successes. After the seizure of power in 1933 by the National Socialists, Reicher emigrated to Prague, where he fell into obscurity. His last, tiny role in the 1936 French-language remake of The Golem was cut out of the final version. Later that year, he committed suicide by hanging in a Prague hotel room.Read more

Movies & web series

Csardas: Her Wildest Night

Haus Nummer 17

The Perfume of Mrs. Worrington

Das schöne Abenteuer

Der Amateur

Erloschenes Licht

Die Geisterjagd

Die Fürstin von Beranien

Der Hilferuf

Der gestreifte Domino

Ein Ausgestoßener: 1. Teil

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

The Armored Vault

Das Buch Esther

Der Brieföffner

Das Mitternachtsschiff

Die Statue

Heimat und Fremde

Vorgluten des Balkanbrandes

One Night at the Grand Hotel

Camera obscura

Der Sprung ins Dunkle

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

Road to Rio

The Squeeker

The Golem

The Life and Works of Richard Wagner

Das Geheimnis einer Stunde

Das Geheimnis von Schloß Elmshöh

Das Rattenloch

Panic in the House of Ardon

Die Pagode

Die Brüder von Sankt Parasitus

Die Geheimnisvollen Briefe

Das Gestohlene Modell

Der verführte Heilige

Drei Tage Freiheit

Der Eisenbahnmarder

Der Stier von Saldanha

Die Diamantenstiftung

Die Peitsche

Stuart Webbs: Die Toten erwachen

Eines Mannes Schatten

Der Spuk im Hause des Professors

Stuart Webbs: The Man in the Cellar

Stuart Webbs: Die geheimnisvolle Villa

Das Panzergewölbe

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