Hermann Speelmans

Acting

Hermann Speelmans

Born — Died

1902-08-14 — 1960-09-02

Place of birth

Uerdingen, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

56 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 6 titles

1940s · 11 titles

Münchhausen poster
6.5

Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.

Münchhausen

1943

In Those Days poster
6.9

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.

In Those Days

1947

Unser kleiner Junge poster
7.0

The 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

No artwork available
7.5

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

Life Lies Ahead of Us poster
8.0

Captain 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 artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wir sehn uns wieder

1945

Familienanschluß poster
8.0

Old 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

No artwork available
9.0

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

Goodbye, Franziska poster
7.0

The 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

Vom Schicksal verweht poster
8.0

The 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

Drei tolle Mädels poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Drei tolle Mädels

1943

1930s · 38 titles

Hitler Youth Quex poster
6.0

Nazi 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

The Man in Search of His Murderer poster
7.2

A 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

No More Love poster
7.6

An 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

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

The Captain from Köpenick poster
6.0

Based 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

The Grey Pikes Wharf poster
7.0

Otto 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

A Certain Mr. Gran poster
7.0

An 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

Under False Flag poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Under False Flag

1932

Schüsse in Kabine 7 poster
8.0

The 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

Autobus S poster
9.0

Bus 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

Kongo-Express poster
9.0

Renate 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 artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Strich durch die Rechnung

1932

No artwork available
8.0

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

No artwork available
6.7

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

A Shot at Dawn poster
7.0

A Berlin policeman tracks down a group of diamond thieves in the outskirts by posing as a gang member.

A Shot at Dawn

1932

A Man Wants to Get to Germany poster
5.8

On 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

Alarm at Station III poster
5.8

During 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 artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Don't Fall in Love at Lake Constance

1935

Vacationing from Oneself poster
7.0

A 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

Who's Kissing Madeleine? poster
7.0

Pierre 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

A Door Opens poster
7.0

Detective Hans Braumüller is trying to untange the conspiracy behind a bank robbery.

A Door Opens

1933

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Battle of Bademuende

1931

Zu Befehl, Herr Unteroffizier poster
7.0

This 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 artwork available
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Mann für Mann

1939

Inquest poster
9.0

When 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 artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Nacht im Forsthaus

1933

Du kannst nicht treu sein poster
9.0

Film by Seitz.

Du kannst nicht treu sein

1936

A Prince's Young Love poster
10.0

Period 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

Children in court poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Children in court

1931

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Herr Kobin geht auf Abenteuer

1934

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die vier Musketiere

1934

Back in the Country poster
10.0

A 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

Danton poster
5.8

This 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 artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Herr Finanzdirektor

1931

Ein ganzer Kerl poster
7.0

Film by Boese.

Ein ganzer Kerl

1935

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Musketier Meier III

1938

Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady poster
6.4

Jimmy 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

No artwork available
9.0

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