Paul Kemp

Acting

Paul Kemp

Born — Died

1896-05-20 — 1953-08-13

Place of birth

Bad Godesberg, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

M poster
8.1

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

M

1931

The Theft of the Mona Lisa poster
6.2

A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl whom he believes bears a resemblance to the painting, and who wants him to become famous, he comes up with the idea of stealing the painting. Based on the real-life theft of 1911.

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

1931

The Dream of Butterfly poster
5.7

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.

The Dream of Butterfly

1939

No artwork available
10.0

A waitress takes all the gossip of a small town on the Rhine in stride, in spite of a distinguished composer being a loving husband and father for her illegitimate child.

Kornblumenblau

1939

The 3 Penny Opera poster
7.1

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.

The 3 Penny Opera

1931

No artwork available
7.0

To stave off creditors of a young composer, his friend plants a news story that he is engaged to an American heiress.

The Song of Happiness

1933

Film credits

1950s · 10 titles

Salto Mortale poster
8.0

After some initial difficulties, the daughter of a circus director who died in an accident follows in her father’s footsteps and takes over the business.

Salto Mortale

1954

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Nacht ohne Sünde

1950

The Thief of Bagdad poster
6.7

Fatme has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact. But when she's caught rifling through Caliph Omar's possessions, she finds herself in serious trouble. News of a theft makes the rounds and now the caliph's men are after her. Fortunately, she's able to find refuge with a sheikh, who isn't quite so thorough in checking his possessions. And it's thanks to him, that Fatme is able to get away with her newly acquired goods.

The Thief of Bagdad

1952

In Munich Stands a Hofbäuhaus poster
7.2

Berlin tongue encounters Munich lifestyle. A comedy around Oktoberfest. Movies, FRG, 1951 Fita Benkhoff, Paul Kemp, Liesl Karlstadt, etc. A Berlin producer of nerve healing, vitamin-enriched and expanding its life-prolonging lemonade stand in front of all the Schottenhammel at the Oktoberfest on - under the slogan helps Berlin Munich: an intolerable provocation. And then come the Saxons ... Turbulent comedy about beer, Oktoberfest and a lot of originals from Germany!

In Munich Stands a Hofbäuhaus

1951

Die Dritte von rechts poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Dritte von rechts

1950

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Königin der Arena

1952

Drei, von denen man spricht poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Drei, von denen man spricht

1953

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann, der sich selber sucht

1950

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kein Engel ist so rein

1950

No artwork available
7.0

An unemployed engineer who does not want his fiancee to protect him has accidentally insulted his future boss, unknown and for no reason. From this meager idea, a stupidly rolled-out confusion with pop song in a Mexico bar develops.

Mädchen mit Beziehungen

1950

1940s · 11 titles

Ein Windstoß poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Windstoß

1942

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lambert fühlt sich bedroht

1949

The Big Number poster
8.0

Against her father’s wishes, the ringmaster Wallner, Helga forms a connection with the wild animal trainer Peter. After he is almost killed during an appearance, he promises his mistress, that he’ll never work with wild animals again. From that point on, he works with Helga on safe horse numbers. When Helga finds out from Peter’s friend Otto, that Peter would rather work with wild animals again, she doesn’t want to stand in the way of her beloved’s dreams. Helga disappears and leaves Otto enough money to buy Peter a new group of lions. For a long time, Peter and Helga do not see one another, though neither can forget the other. When Helga hears from Otto one day, that Peter is practicing a very dangerous number involving wild animals, during which Otto is to play the “lead”, Helga makes a fatal decision, so she might see Peter again.

The Big Number

1943

Mistress Moon poster
7.5

Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's vice police, who was invited to the dress rehearsal, the costumes for the ladies onstage are a bit too revealing. He demands the show be cancelled as offensive. The president of the Thusneldenbund has taken it upon himself to alert everyone about the growth of immorality in the capital. The theatre director Knopp has come up with an idea to convince these "fine" gentlemen to let the operetta go onstage again: He intends to win over the friendship of the moral police and then nothing will stand in the way of "Frau Luna" once more being performed.

Mistress Moon

1941

Was wird hier gespielt? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Was wird hier gespielt?

1940

No artwork available
8.0

In the antique shop J.M. Mauritius, there’s astonishment when a young, beautiful woman, Gabriele Euler, inquires about an old fortress crest, which can be seen in the background on an old tapestry --- it’s, in fact, the same crest engraved on an old, silver jar belonging to Gabriele: a family heirloom. She discovers, that the crest is the landmark for Burg Uhlenfels. Determined to find out more about her allegedly noble roots, Gabriele takes off to explore Castle Uhlenfels … unaware it’s haunted.

Ghost in the Castle

1947

Das Lied der Nachtigall poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Das Lied der Nachtigall

1944

Das singende Haus poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das singende Haus

1948

No artwork available
6.0

Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in rather daring roles. Dietz finds a way to escape from a gathering over coffee, during which he's supposed to be introduced to "decent ladies". After all, his great love is waiting for him somewhere else.

Das leichte Mädchen

1940

No artwork available
10.0

Adaptation of LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes

Lysistrata

1949

Glück unterwegs poster
7.5

1944 film.

Glück unterwegs

1944

1930s · 39 titles

M poster
8.1

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

M

1931

The Theft of the Mona Lisa poster
6.2

A painter working at the Louvre is struck by the Mona Lisa. When he meets a girl whom he believes bears a resemblance to the painting, and who wants him to become famous, he comes up with the idea of stealing the painting. Based on the real-life theft of 1911.

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

1931

The Dream of Butterfly poster
5.7

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.

The Dream of Butterfly

1939

No artwork available
10.0

A waitress takes all the gossip of a small town on the Rhine in stride, in spite of a distinguished composer being a loving husband and father for her illegitimate child.

Kornblumenblau

1939

The 3 Penny Opera poster
7.1

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.

The 3 Penny Opera

1931

No artwork available
7.0

To stave off creditors of a young composer, his friend plants a news story that he is engaged to an American heiress.

The Song of Happiness

1933

The Csardas Princess poster
9.0

Sylva Varescu is an operetta singer performing Kálmán's Die Czardasfürstin through Europe with great success. Before going to Vienna she meets handsome Prinz Weylerstein and they fall in love. Offered a contract for America, she doubts until she finds out that he is already engaged to a countess.

The Csardas Princess

1934

Capriccio poster
5.5

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...

Capriccio

1938

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mit dir durch dick und dünn

1934

Charley's Aunt poster
7.5

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and Kitty, niece and ward of crusty Stephen Spettigue. Complications begin when Fancourt, in drag, becomes the love object of old Spettigue and Sir Francis Chesney.

Charley's Aunt

1934

The Castle in the South poster
6.0

A film actress falls for an extra on her set, he turns out to be a prince.

The Castle in the South

1933

My Cousin From Warsaw poster
6.0

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.

My Cousin From Warsaw

1931

I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil poster
8.0

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his prayer. (Lost film.)

I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil

1931

A Man with Heart poster
10.0

A story about a series of confusions, in which Paul Ritter, a bank employee, is unaware that the girl he's fallen in love with is the daughter of his boss. No one bothers to tell him and he gets jealous of the boss, who seems to have a very good relationship with the girl.

A Man with Heart

1932

Marionette poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Marionette

1939

The Fugitive from Chicago poster
5.8

Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he learns from his friend Michael Nissen that his father has died recently. That means that the Dux-Werke are without a leader at the moment, for Werner's cousin Steffie, who is his co-heiress, is still too young to run the firm. In this situation, Werner convinces his friend Michael, who is an engineer by profession, to take over the firm as long as he is in jail and to pose as him. Michael agrees and is able to bring the firm up again. He even arranges a reliability test for motorcycles via Istanbul, Rome and Barcelona, which creates a big Turkish order for the company. When the real Werner escapes from jail and arrives in Germany, it looks as if the whole story is up to bust. But Werner needs money, so he convinces Michael to go on as before and hand over all profits of the firm to him.

The Fugitive from Chicago

1934

The Shot in the Talker Studio poster
6.2

During the shooting of a jealousy scene on a soundstage, one actress is murdered. Due to the fact that the male star of the movie had a relation with the victim and the female star is now his fiance, he is suspected by the police.

The Shot in the Talker Studio

1930

Another Experience poster
7.0

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.

Another Experience

1939

My Heart Belongs to Thee poster
7.0

A famous American tenor, relaxing on a farm near Naples and singing for pleasure in the fields, is mistaken by a lady journalist as an unknown talent she has discovered.He plays along with her and even falls in love.

My Heart Belongs to Thee

1938

My Heart Calls You poster
10.0

An opera company tries to get an engagement.

My Heart Calls You

1934

No artwork available
8.0

A comedy loosely based on the life story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, the inventor of Meissen porcelain: In Berlin, the pharmacist Fritz Böttger gains a reputation for being able to make gold and is imprisoned on the orders of the Prussian king. Following in the footsteps of a young lady, he flees to Saxony, but is also imprisoned in Dresden and forced to make gold. Although he does not succeed in this, by chance he discovers how to make porcelain instead. Augustus the Strong appoints him baron and director of the royal porcelain manufactory.

The King's Prisoner

1935

No artwork available
NR

When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his retribution.

Mia moglie si diverte

1938

My Heart Is Calling You poster
7.0

Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicole is adopted by the whole troupe. Then at Monte Carlo the opera director has no intention to sign them. But he has an eye for beautiful women, so Nicole will try to persuade him to reconsider the offer.

My Heart Is Calling You

1934

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Es leuchten die Sterne

1935

Boccaccio poster
6.0

The film is set during the Italian Renaissance in the 14th century. Petruccio lives in Ferrara with his wife, Fiametta. Initially, he works as a scribe at the city court. Under the pseudonym Giovanni Boccaccio, he writes amorous tales that divide opinion within the city. While the women read the texts with delight, the men are outraged by their moral licentiousness.

Boccaccio

1936

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds poster
7.6

Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

1935

Infidelities poster
10.0

When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and Annemarie break up to elope with their respective lovers, only to be thrown together again when they show up at the justice of the peace.

Infidelities

1931

Tenant Schulze against everyone poster
10.0

Several inhabitants of a big apartment building get involved in a series of lawsuits.

Tenant Schulze against everyone

1932

The Soaring Maiden poster
10.0

In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiancé.

The Soaring Maiden

1931

Her Highness the Saleswoman poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Her Highness the Saleswoman

1933

A Song for You poster
8.0

During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.

A Song for You

1933

Ihr Leibhusar poster
5.7

An easy-going hussar officer successfully vies for the love of a millionaire's daughter.

Ihr Leibhusar

1938

Gitta Discovers Her Heart poster
8.0

In a small Hungarian village, a priest discovers a girl named Gitta who can sing beautifully. He takes Gitta with him and turns her into a celebrated revue star. After a quarrel with the priest, she runs away and meets a young composer named Peter, who does not know that she is a successful singer.

Gitta Discovers Her Heart

1932

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf poster
6.0

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

1931

The Stars Shine poster
6.6

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

The Stars Shine

1938

Our Little Wife poster
10.0

When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his comeuppance.

Our Little Wife

1938

An Auto and No Money poster
9.0

Slapstick-style comedy in which a celebrity, to escape a marriage, trades places with his personal chauffeur.

An Auto and No Money

1932

Der schüchterne Casanova poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der schüchterne Casanova

1936

Dolly is making a career poster
10.0

Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.

Dolly is making a career

1930