
Acting
Hermann Speelmans
Born — Died
1902-08-14 — 1960-09-02
Place of birth
Uerdingen, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
56 titles
Known for
6.5Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.
Münchhausen
1943
6.9A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
In Those Days
1947
6.0Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.
Hitler Youth Quex
1933
7.2A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931
7.6An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
No More Love
1931
6.5F.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
Film credits
1950s · 6 titles
8.7The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.
Bandits of the Highway
1955
8.0In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.
Hanussen
1955
A man, in need of money and too lazy to work for a living, marries a plain but rich girl in the knowledge that she is ill and has not long to live.
Ein Herz spielt falsch
1953
10.0A completely new life begins for railroad employee Werner Nordhaus when he meets the fascinating variety theater director Karena Rodde. She discovers that Werner is a great dancing talent and is determined to win him over for her theater. Karena wants Werner to give up his life as a train driver and start training as an artist for her in Hamburg - a decision that would turn his life upside down...
Lockende Sterne
1952
7.0Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim.
Ballerina
1956
8.0Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose?
Gift im Zoo
1952
1940s · 11 titles
6.5Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.
Münchhausen
1943
6.9A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
In Those Days
1947
7.0The printing worker Lena suffers a lot from the teasing of her colleagues, because no one really knows who the child she expects is from. The alleged father, sailor Ole Thomsen, is on his way. When he comes back, doubts also prevail over him, and he sits down. When Lena wants to take her own life, the doubters come to their senses and found a fund for the boy to be expected.
Unser kleiner Junge
1941
The complicated love story between a dancer and a sophisticated man, which is severely disrupted by a calculating little girl. An unbelievable social melodrama; shallowly and superficially staged.
In the Temple of Venus
1948
8.0Captain Harms still suffers from the bomb attack on his ship. He can not put up with sitting on land, but is afraid of take to the sea. Slowly he is becoming more and more frustrated and gradually falls into alcohol addiction.
Life Lies Ahead of Us
1948
No synopsis available yet.
Wir sehn uns wieder
1945
8.0Old captain Barkhahn keeps on going bankrupt with all his business endeavors. He’s made for the sea and not for the land. His newest idea is a family-run bed and breakfast with “Familienanschluß," and so Captain Bräuer moves in and quickly shows interest in Barkhahn's daughter Käthe, whom he met and bugged earlier already. Meanwhile, the bailiff is on Barkhahn's back, and the next catastrophe is on the rise.
Familienanschluß
1941
Anna Christiansen has not heard from her husband Klaus, a sailor, for twelve years. To provide a secure life for her three sons, Anna has taken over a sailors' home. Since then, she has led a modest but contented life. One day, Klaus suddenly appears at her door.
Meine vier Jungens
1944
7.0The relationship between Franziska and her partner Michael, a globetrotting photojournalist, remains strained due to their constant separation, until tragedy strikes, forcing Michael to come home and to make a decision about their future.
Goodbye, Franziska
1941
8.0The young doctor Dr. Virginia Larsen fights in vain against malaria on an island in the Antilles. She finally receives support from Dr. Dos Passos. The doctor persuades the rebellious natives to get vaccinated. They even help to dispel the suspicion of murder weighing on Dos Passos.
Vom Schicksal verweht
1942
5.8No synopsis available yet.
Drei tolle Mädels
1943
1930s · 38 titles
6.0Nazi propaganda film based on the life and death of Hitler Youth Herbert "Quex" Norkus – in the film, renamed Heini Völker – who was killed while distributing flyers in a Communist neighborhood.
Hitler Youth Quex
1933
7.2A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931
7.6An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.
No More Love
1931
6.5F.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
6.0Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
The Captain from Köpenick
1931
7.0Otto is pressured by his former girlfriend Mila to marry her. His friend and colleague Franz gets him a new job at Bernhard Münchow's remote auto repair shop, where Otto is safe from Mila for the time being. But then he falls in love with Käthe, the daughter of the owner of the shipyard “Zum grauen Hecht,” and finds a bitter enemy in Ladewig, who is also in love with Käthe and who puts Mila back on Otto's trail. Mila, however, falls in love with garage owner Münchow, who is only interested in her supposed fortune...
The Grey Pikes Wharf
1935
7.0An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is killed in a robbery. As the plans have presumably fallen into the hands of spies, secret service captain Bergall is given the task of recovering the papers. Bergall initially adopts a false name and appears as Mr. Gran, whom nobody knows. Under this name, he rents a room in the Hotel Danieli in Venice and makes the acquaintance of the shipowner's daughter Viola Dolleen. With her help, he is able to eliminate Captain Gordon, who is also interested in the plans. When Gran learns that the plans are now in the possession of the art dealer Tschernikoff, who wants to sell them to Gordon, he immediately travels to Rome, visits the art dealer Titian and pretends to be Gordon. In the art dealer's remote villa, events come thick and fast...
A Certain Mr. Gran
1933
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Under False Flag
1932
8.0The Minerva Mines Company is interested in transporting two particularly valuable diamonds from Cape Town to Amsterdam. To confuse potential thieves, two detectives are sent on two different ships with steel suitcases and they have no clue whether they’re carrying pebbles or diamonds. Nevertheless, a collection of questionable characters come on board both ships. The hunt for the diamonds begins; the suitcases are stolen; everyone is suspect.
Schüsse in Kabine 7
1938
9.0Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor.
Autobus S
1937
9.0Renate Brinkmann is a German lady on a railway journey in Africa. She is wooed by two very different men. One is a hard drinking, cocky French aviator, the other a sensitive German gentleman.
Kongo-Express
1939
No synopsis available yet.
Strich durch die Rechnung
1932
An author, a businessman, a shipowner and a publisher form a business venture, which will supposedly exploit a huge find of lobsters on the island of Santa Cruz. After a report in the newspaper, the business' stocks do well. But the partners quarrel with one another and it doesn't help that there aren't any lobsters on Santa Cruz after all. Nevertheless, a team heads off to the island in a decrepit boat to open up a cannery in vain.
The Last Four on Santa Cruz
1936
The daughter of a wealthy art dealer is blackmailed, and then his former wife is found dead in a Paris hotel.One of the four suspects turns out to be actually a police detective.
A Strange Guest
1936
7.0A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member.
A Shot at Dawn
1932
5.8On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
A Man Wants to Get to Germany
1934
5.8During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price.
Alarm at Station III
1939
No synopsis available yet.
Don't Fall in Love at Lake Constance
1935
7.0A stressed American millionaire is advised by his doctor to take some downtime and rest in the German countryside. The tycoon is so impressed that he buys an estate and turns it into a resort where other businessmen can take holidays from their stressful lives. In the process he falls in love with the estate's former owner.
Vacationing from Oneself
1934
7.0Pierre Pasqual has just about everything his heart desires: in his career as a commercial pilot, he is well known and successful; he has wealth and a beautiful wife. The only thing is, that because of his career, Pierre is frequently away and the thought constantly tortures him, that his wife is up to something when he’s not home. “Who’s kissing Madeleine?” is the question Pierre must have answered.
Who's Kissing Madeleine?
1939
7.0Detective Hans Braumüller is trying to untange the conspiracy behind a bank robbery.
A Door Opens
1933
No synopsis available yet.
The Battle of Bademuende
1931
7.0This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.
Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier
1932
No synopsis available yet.
Mann für Mann
1939
9.0When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.
Inquest
1931
No synopsis available yet.
Die Nacht im Forsthaus
1933
9.0Film by Seitz.
Du kannst nicht treu sein
1936
10.0Period romance set in Bismarck's Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a lowly pharmacist.
A Prince's Young Love
1933
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Children in court
1931
No synopsis available yet.
Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer
1934
No synopsis available yet.
Die vier Musketiere
1934
10.0A man supposed to be dead returns from the US to save his family land, resist a rival's attempt to frame him for a shooting, deal with an odious banker, and make sure the heroine finds the right husband.
Back in the Country
1936
5.8This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and Marat. It depicts the dramatic downfall and execution of Georges Danton in 1794 at the hands of Maximilien Robespierre. The film also presents an interesting, if not historically inaccurate, portrayal of Louis XVI.
Danton
1931
No synopsis available yet.
Der Herr Finanzdirektor
1931
7.0Film by Boese.
Ein ganzer Kerl
1935
No synopsis available yet.
Musketier Meier III
1938
6.4Jimmy Ward infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady
1937
At a hotel in a resort town in the Bavarian Alps, a retired district attorney from Chicago is shot dead. Crime reporter Peter Holm is on the spot and joins in the murder investigation.
Crime Reporter Holm
1932

