- Fred Immler
Ferdinand "Fred" Immler (
December 10 ,1880 -February 20 ,1965 ) was a German stage and film actor.Born in
Coburg , as a young adult he worked from 1900 to 1902 atDeutsche Bank inBerlin and from 1902 to 1904 atDresdner Bank . 1905 he returned to Coburg as an actor-in-training and from 1906 to 1908 he performed at the local court theatre.From 1908 to 1909 Immler worked at the Residence Theater
Hanover , 1909 at the Summer Theatre inPoznan and from 1909 to 1910 at the court theatre inGera . 1910, he played at the Liebich Theatre and at the Victoria Theatre inWroclaw .In 1912, Immler made the transition to the medium of motion pictures and appeared opposite the Danish actress
Asta Nielsen in several roles between 1912 and 1915, all directed by Nielsen's husbandUrban Gad . At the outbreak ofWWI , Immler enlisted in the German military. He returned to film in 1919 and starred in theErnst Lubitsch -directed,Hanns Kräly -penned costume-drama "Madame Du Barry " opposite Polish actressPola Negri andEmil Jannings .One of his best recalled films of the early 1920s was in the 1921 Ernst Lubitsch-directed drama "Vendetta", once more opposite Pola Negri. [ [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/115467/Vendetta/overview "New York Times Movies"] ] In 1929 he appeared with
Marlene Dietrich andFritz Kortner in theMaurice Tourneur -directed film adaption of theFranzos Keremen novel "Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen" (English title: "The Ship of Lost Men").Fred Immler retired from acting in 1935 and worked primarily as a dispatcher for a production company until the end of
WWII . His last film appearance was in the 1935Curt Blachnitzky -directed drama "Der Blaue Diamant" (English: "The Blue Diamond"). After the war he retired to his hometown of Coburg.References
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Further reading
*Less, Kay. "Das große Personenlexikon des Films". Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf; Auflage: Nachdruck. April 2003 ISBN 3-8960-23403
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