- Theodor Loos
Theodor August Konrad Loos (
May 18 ,1883 inZwingenberg –June 27 ,1954 inStuttgart ) was a German actor.The son of a watchmaker and instruments manufacturer left secondary school prematurely and worked for three years at an export firm for music instruments in Leipzig, and after that for his uncle, an art dealer in Berlin. He decided though to become an actor.
His theater engagements led him to
Leipzig ,Danzig and Frankfurt am Main, then to Berlin where he acted from 1912 to 1945 at different theaters. From 1913 he performed in more than 170 feature films, initially silent films. In the 1930s he could be seen performing in classic theater, on over 400 occasions inPeer Gynt alone. After the end of the war, Loos returned to the theater. After August 1949 he was a member of theStaatstheater Stuttgart . His two sons died in the second world war.Selected filmography
* "
Die Nibelungen " (1924)
* "Metropolis" (1927)
* "The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci " (1930)
* "M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" (1931)
* "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse" (1933)
* "Jud Süß " (1940)
* "Titanic" (1943)External links
*IMDb Name|id=0519765|name=Theodor Loos
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=284 Photographs and literature]
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