
Acting
Anton De Verdier
Born 1878-08-12 · Stockholm, Sweden
Anton Frithiof de Verdier was a Swedish stage and screen actor.
Acting credits
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Mørkets Gerninger
1913
5.5A peace-loving prince and his followers dream of eternal peace – pax aeterna. So far, they have been successful only within the realm. When the neighbouring state declares war, the prince’s heart stops beating. Is the vision of global peace just a naive dream, or will his followers be able to see it through? (stumfilm.dk)
Peace on Earth
1917
Mysterious, hookah-smoking Doctor Nicholson will stop at nothing to get his hands on the valuable “blue diamond.” A rich man’s daughter, a poor French count, a marriage of convenience, bomb threats and explosions, kidnapping and cocaine are just a few of the ingredients in Nicholson’s dogged struggle to obtain the precious diamond. (stumfilm.dk)
Dr. Nicholson and the Blue Diamond
1913
9.0Colonel Bjelke is disturbed by the fact that his beautiful wife Yelva spends a lot of time with Lt. Sparre. Yelva is planning a visit to the fortune teller to find about her future.
Under galgen
1915
9.0The Lord returns home to his estate after a stay abroad. The strongman and exuberant person he was has been peeled out of him. He has good manners but is devoid of manliness and human courage.
Stamherren
1925
6.0The story of a man who makes a great sacrifice for his country and for his son. Based on the play of the same title by Tor Hedberg.
Johan Ulfstjerna
1923
7.0No synopsis available yet.
It Happened in Copenhagen
1933
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Skovsøens Datter
1912
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Midnatssjælen
1917
6.8Countess Ysabel is a young and rich woman with many suitors. An elegant and adventurous baron has managed to win her heart, but she anyway continues to play with other men’s feelings. Nemesis hits her when a young man with a broken heart kills himself, and the baron at the same time reveals a horrible secret. Ysabe'ls world seems to fall apart.
Towards the Light
1919
6.6Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.
The Saga of Gösta Berling
1924
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Fy og Bi på eventyr
1955
NRKarsakow is a circus dancer who's just lost his job. How will his little brother Vladir and himself survive? In the paper Karsakow reads about the inventor Berg, who has constructed a light beam that shines through everything. The Z beam. Professor Berg seeks persons to participate in scientific research with the development of the Z beam. When Karsakow's agent can't find him any new work, he decides to contact Berg.
De mystiske Z-Straaler
1916
9.0Remake of Nordisk Film’s great 1917 blockbuster about the young officer’s daughter who loses her heart to an Indian nobleman and flees with him to the Orient. In India, she becomes one among many wives in a harem. Desperate she lays plans to escape, but the bonds of love pull the other way. Stumfim.dk
Oriental Love
1926
A deeply indebted count blackmails his old school friend to rescind his engagement to the millionaire's daughter Lizzie so that he himself can get access to the family's fortune through a relationship with her. He initially manages to get the girl, but will he get his hands on the money that he so desperately needs? (stumfilm.dk)
In the Thrall of Opium
1918
NRCountess Schach is ill and her estate is impoverished. Fortunately, the daughter Cecilia is responsible for the household and the upbringing of the younger siblings. One day, the composer cousin Ernst comes to visit, and when he sees the financial predicament the family is in, he promises Cecilia to complete his opera and earn enough money to save the estate. When the Countess’ old friend, Princess von Staffenfeldt, offers Cecilia employment as a lady-in-waiting and governess, she accepts and soon after meets the Princess’ son, who after some time asks for her hand in marriage. Cecilia is now faced with a difficult choice: Should she marry the Prince who can save the family, and thereby break off the engagement with her true love, cousin Ernst? A dark tragedy seals her fate. (Stumfilm.dk)
Sister Cecilia
1917
6.0As their shared wealth disappears, Elisabet’s love for her husband Richard also evaporates. She leaves him and finds a new husband with his finances in order. When the new husband subsequently leaves her and her daughter falls ill, Elisabet understands she is at fault and asks for Richard’s forgiveness. However, he’s been hiding in Italy and doesn’t respond to her inquiries. But then everything changes when a young woman from the past suddenly comes knocking on his door.(stumfilm.dk)
The Sleeping House
1926
10.0In a boarding house in the city live our friends Pat and Patachon, who have settled down in relative comfort for a modest sum of money. In the room next door lives an old inventor, a good friend of Pat and Patachon's. He’s been working on a television set for some time now, and it seems that his efforts will bear fruit. Patachon has caught the inventing bug and wants to come up with smokeless and noiseless gunpowder. All the while, Pat becomes increasingly worried about his friend. Two shady gentlemen are now attempting to steal the valuable drawings for the television invention, and Pat and Patachon become suspects in the case. Fortunately, the real thieves are caught, and Patachon gets the opportunity to demonstrate his ingenious invention.
Pat and Patachon Invent the Gunpowder
1931
No synopsis available yet.
Gar el Hama V
1918
When a dying patient gives him a statue of an Indian god, the doctor John Schmidt thinks nothing of it. He barely gets home before mysterious things start happening. A knight’s armour comes to life, a servant gets ambushed, and Schmidt’s wife disappears without a trace! The secret Indian society is behind it and will do everything to get hold of the statue. (Stumfilm.dk)
The Indian Idol
1915
6.8The two leading actors form a team traveling round performing as a professional dancing couple who has difficulty making ends meet. Ebbe Rode is the dreamer and Bodil Kjer the down to earth realist. Bodil Kjer expands her image to encompass the disillusioned woman reflecting the hard life she has gone through. Ebbe Rodes disappointed optimism turn into violence with dramatic consequences.
John and Irene
1949
NRThe film is about two brothers, one good and the other evil. The evil one marries the young girl Marion. She is accused of theft but is later cleared. When her husband, the evil brother, dies, Marion is instead reunited with the good one.
De mystiske fodspor
1918
7.0Pat and Patachon live in the attic of an old house along with a number of other curious kinds of people. One of the residents is a fortune teller, who tells Patachon that he will inherit a fortune and marry one of the two sweet choir girls who live next door, and whom he happens to be in love with. The two friends don’t think much more of it and instead head off to work, as models for a tailor. They stroll through the streets in sharp suits, in the hopes that the two choir girls will see them and think that they’re wealthy men, who simply live in the run-down house to study the bohemian lifestyle.
The Mannequins
1929
7.1A free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama. The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy, and thus, the girl lives her life as 'Prince' Hamlet. Her father poisoned by a venomous snake placed by the treacherous Claudius, Hamlet fakes madness to investigate without suspicion.
Hamlet
1921