Acting

Erwin van Roy

Born 1894-09-23 · Berlin, Germany

Acting credits

The Great Desire poster
7.7

A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.

The Great Desire

1930

So ein Flegel poster
7.0

The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfeiffer, he is planning a play about school. In order to gather material, he takes the place of his brother, who is a primary school pupil. The seasoned doctor finds pleasure in the craziest of pranks, while his brother tries to fill the role of theater man in the big city. And then love intervenes for both of them.

So ein Flegel

1934

Das große Abenteuer poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das große Abenteuer

1938

No artwork available
9.0

A celebration of strong Prussian leadership during the reign of Frederick the Great.

Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe

1932

Die Motorbraut poster
8.0

Eva, an inventor, nearly runs over Frank, a fugitive, with her car. She decides to give him work instead of turning him in, and together they complete a motorboat engine for an upcoming race.

Die Motorbraut

1925

Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days

1930

Thirteen Men and a Cannon poster
5.8

World War I, Eastern Front. A special battery consisting of thirteen soldiers and one cannon successfully holds back the enemy. But then the position of the gun is betrayed to the Russians and the cannon is destroyed. Each of the thirteen men is now suspected of being the traitor.

Thirteen Men and a Cannon

1938

Keinen Tag ohne dich poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keinen Tag ohne dich

1933

Fahrendes Volk poster
5.0

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, now grown up, Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father. Marcel loves Yvonne, the daughter of director Barlay. He is against the connection, sends his daughter to Italy and convinces Marcel that Yvonne does not return his feelings.

Fahrendes Volk

1938

Fahrendes Volk poster
5.0

Fernand has escaped from prison and finds shelter in the traveling circus Barlay, where his former wife Flora works as a predator trainer. Their son, now grown up, Marcel is an art rider and does not know that Fernand is his father. Marcel loves Yvonne, the daughter of director Barlay. He is against the connection, sends his daughter to Italy and convinces Marcel that Yvonne does not return his feelings.

Fahrendes Volk

1938

The Merry Wives poster
5.5

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knight a lesson. But Mistress Ford's husband is a very jealous man and is pumping Falstaff for information of the affair. Meanwhile the Pages' daughter Anne is besieged by suitors.

The Merry Wives

1936

Salon Dora Green poster
8.0

A cabaret dancer loves a German engineer and helps save his vital drawings of ship designs from falling into the hands of foreign plotters.

Salon Dora Green

1933

Road to Rio poster
6.0

A young woman causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of Brasilian traffickers.

Road to Rio

1931

The Blue from the Sky poster
7.5

Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.

The Blue from the Sky

1932

My Life Is at Stake poster
7.0

The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie star Christa (Kitty Jantzen), allegedly had an affair with singer Juan Navarro (Harry Hardt), who was found dead in front of Dr. Lessners house. Christa is arrested ...

My Life Is at Stake

1936

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dein Leben gehört mir

1939

Invitation to the Dance poster
10.0

Biopic of composer conductor Carl Maria von Weber, who championed the little regarded German opera instead of the then popular Italian opera, in the 19th Century.

Invitation to the Dance

1934

Andere Welt poster
9.0

Escaping her school teacher life, a lady marries a British military doctor who takes her to Malaysia. But realizing there that the marriage isn't working, she turns to an Oriental prince instead.

Andere Welt

1937

Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna poster
8.0

A musical about love that spans the period before and after the Great War in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna

1931