Acting
Hermann Seldeneck
Born 1864-09-13 · Munich, Bavaria, Germany
The actor Hermann Seldeneck was a very busy movie actor of the 10s whose film career limited nearly exclusively to this decade. He began his acting career at the theater in Regensburg in 1882, it followed other engagements in different cities in Germany and Switzerland. Finally he also appeared on stage in the Russia metropolises St. Petersburg and Moscow for a while. When he returned to Germany he managed his path till to the German theater center in Berlin. In Berlin he soon got in touch with the new arising film business and he appeared already in "Schuld und Sühne" in front of the camera for the first time. From 1915 his activities in film continued to expand and his mostly formidable roles entertained large audiences. In 1920 he acted in his last films, he then acted again in the theater before he died in 1922 at the age of only 57. One of Hermann Seldeneck's ancestors was the famous natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt.
Acting credits
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Theodor Körner
1914
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Beggar Countess
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Mirko Pasqua
1916
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Das Ende vom Liede
1915
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Das Tor der Freiheit
1919
No synopsis available yet.
Liebe und Leben. 2. Die Tochter des Senators
1918
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Das Geheimnis von Chateau Richmond
1913
5.0Two agents from different sides are working in a circus, one - the Schwarze Natter (Black Adder)- as a dancer, the other as a horseback artist. The Schwarze Natter is informed that the other is receiving information by one of the visitors this night, who is also in love her. She is trying to get him and the information herself, making it look like the other side has her finger in this incident. But an officer of the local police had an eye on them, because some things happening before made him suspicious and starts playing his little game.
Die schwarze Natter
1913
No synopsis available yet.
Das Gift der Medici
1918
Hanna is a lush and her artist friend abandons her only to reacquaint himself with when she is down and out. His motive is to paint her as a washed up women. When she realizes his intentions she ruins his painting and him.
Die Sünden der Väter
1913
NRThe romantic dalliances of stage actor Edmund Kean with both a married woman and a young wannabe actress cause difficulties.
Leichtsinn und Genie
1919
7.0The friend of an American millionaire is supposed to bring his daughter back on his behalf. The friend and the daughter get closer.
America to Europe in an Airship
1913
No synopsis available yet.
Die sterbenden Perlen
1918
10.0Two young men serving at the front. One comes from a good family, the other's family is poor. But the sister of the middle-class son falls in love with his poor comrade when he returns home for Christmas.
Weihnachtsglocken 1914
1914
NRThis film is believed to be lost.
Not of the Woman Born
1918
No synopsis available yet.
Eva
1913
8.5Guy Walser killed the unscrupulous seducer of his sister Marguerite and had to spend several years as a Bagnos convict for this bloody deed . His past is like a brand on his social existence that he can never shake off. He married Lucienne and they had a lovely daughter, Lilly. Despite all the wealth that Guy has worked for, he remains an outcast who, as the title suggests, seeks nothing more than eternal peace for himself.
Ein Ausgestoßener, 2. Teil: Der ewige Friede
1915
Robert Lambard, son of a respected Parisian banker, seduces Marguerite Walser, the sister of Guy Walser, a diligent general manager employed by his father. At these times, especially in the upper social class, such an act is of course not without social consequences, and so Guy, after learning about this relationship, demands Lambard junior to marry his sister in order to restore her "soiled" honor . But he just laughs about it and brusquely rejects this request. Since Monsieur Walser puts the family honor and that of his sister above everything else, a heated argument ensues, in which Guy summarily kills the "despoiler of Marguerite's honor". Now Guy's life is destroyed too, because he is put on trial for this bloody act. There will be a convictionmanslaughter for ten years behind bars. This punishment is connected with a deportation. For seven years, Walser spent the life of a Bagno convict in nowhere, he was an outcast.
Ein Ausgestoßener: 1. Teil
1913