Sybille Schmitz

Acting

Sybille Schmitz

Born 1909-12-02 · Düren, Germany

Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz (2 December 1909 – 13 April 1955) was a German actress. Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt (1928), which attracted her first attention from critics. Her other early movies include Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), and eventually F.P.1 (1932), where she played her first leading role. Schmitz established herself as a prominent actress in German cinema with the films which followed; including Der Herr der Welt (1934), Abschiedswalzer (1934), Ein idealer Gatte (1935), and Fährmann Maria (1936). She also had roles in Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1937), Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938), Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit (1939), Trenck, der Pandur (1940) and Titanic (1943)

Acting credits

Ferryman Maria poster
6.8

A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.

Ferryman Maria

1936

Titanic poster
6.1

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.

Titanic

1943

Diary of a Lost Girl poster
7.3

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

Diary of a Lost Girl

1929

Vampyr poster
7.3

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

Vampyr

1932

Accident poster
6.5

A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.

Accident

1928

The Unknown poster
7.5

The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.

The Unknown

1936

Top Sergeant Schwenke poster
6.3

A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.

Top Sergeant Schwenke

1935

Trenck, der Pandur poster
6.2

Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.

Trenck, der Pandur

1940

The Stars Shine poster
6.6

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

The Stars Shine

1938

Punks Arrives from America poster
9.0

A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself to his fellow citizens,which he does by foiling the robbery of his uncle and then marrying his sweetheart.

Punks Arrives from America

1935

No artwork available
9.0

The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and ward off a villainous foreign competitor for his lady love.

If It Were Not for Music

1935

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow poster
6.7

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

1947

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die fremde Frau

1939

Die Umwege des schönen Karl poster
7.0

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.

Die Umwege des schönen Karl

1938

Hotel Sacher poster
7.0

Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.

Hotel Sacher

1939

No artwork available
5.7

For a long time, Paul Warkentin had heard nothing from his father. The rift had occurred when Paul, despite passing his exams at agricultural school, decided not to take over his father's farm in West Prussia, but instead to go to Berlin to work for a publishing house. Now Paul has received news of his father's death, and he must return to his hometown to take possession of the farm as his heir.

Life Calls

1944

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer poster
6.5

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 technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.

F.P.1 Doesn't Answer

1932

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Leuchter des Kaisers

1936

Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit

1939

No artwork available
10.0

Three men are planning a balloon ascent into the stratosphere. During the balloon flight, complications arise, the balloon is driven out to sea and the men face death.

Die Lüge

1950

The Last Night poster
7.0

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.

The Last Night

1949

Die Kronzeugin poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Kronzeugin

1937

Clarissa poster
6.0

Clarissa is promoted to department head of Feerenbach's bank. He and bank clerk Lutz both love her. When she falls for Lutz she soon is led to believe that he only uses her to cover up his own illegal speculations with the bank's funds.

Clarissa

1941

I Was Jack Mortimer poster
6.0

The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.

I Was Jack Mortimer

1935