Philipp Manning
Know for: Acting
Born: 1869-11-23
Place of birth: Lewisham, London, England, UK
Also know as:
Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923)
In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul...
Familie Schimek (1935)
For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous...
Fra Diavolo (1931)
A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand.
Kautschuk (1938)
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest...
Geschminkte Jugend (1929)
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who...
F.P.1 (1933)
Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his friend Droste: F.P.1, a huge floating platform in...
Im Kampf mit der Unterwelt (1930)
A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he...
Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939)
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....
Miss Liselott (1934)
Aimless Bohemians are encouraged to find their salvation in Arbeit (Work) in this propagandistic Nazi era German production.
Eva and the Grasshopper (1927)
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy...
Napoleon at St. Helena (1929)
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner...
Congress Dances (1931)
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of...
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932)
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the...
Die Buddenbrooks (1923)
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also...
A Student's Song of Heidelberg (1930)
A long time ago, John Miller emigrated from Germany to America. Now he wants his daughter Elinor to get to know his old homeland and sends her off...
Superfluous People (1926)
Directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj.
The White Demon (1932)
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears...
Carl Peters (1941)
National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He...
Seine stärkste Waffe (1928)
"His Best Force" - Harry Petersen has just made a big invention: the lamp without electrical supply. In American businessman Al Kinley, Harry hopes...
Father and Son (1930)
About the wealthy Mr Markurell and his son, Johan, who is closing in on his graduation, and their life in the city of Wadköping. German language...
Police Spy 77 (1930)
An elderly survivor of World War 1 is fed up with the situation in Germany so he tries to take it down. But he can't do it alone.
An Invisible Man Goes Through the City (1933)
A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An...
Homecoming (1928)
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany...
Woman in the Jungle (1931)
Marooned on a rubber plantation in the East Indies, Leslie turns to Geoffrey for the love and diversion that she does not find with her husband.
The Tower of Silence (1925)
Eva lives in the sinister Tower with her father, a mad inventor, and her grandfather. The aviator Wilfred Durian and his lovely wife live nearby in...
Japan, China und die Mandschurei (1932)
Documentary about the Manchurian crisis of 1931 between Japan and the Republic of China