Theo Lingen

Acting

Theo Lingen

Born — Died

1903-06-09 — 1978-11-10

Place of birth

Hannover, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

105 titles

Theo Lingen (* 10. Juni 1903 in Hannover; † 10. November 1978 in Wien; eigentlich Franz Theodor Schmitz) war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Regisseur und Buchautor. Er war seit 1928 mit der Sängerin Marianne Zoff verheiratet, der ersten Frau Bertolt Brechts.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 7 titles

Tonio Kröger poster
6.2

This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude Brialy) is an aspiring writer and the son of a rigid aristocratic father and a music-loving mother. Wandering throughout Germany and Italy to "find himself," Tonio frequently remembers his childhood experiences in a series of flashbacks. The highlight of the film is the expert lensing by cinematographer Wolf Wirth. Erika Mann, the daughter of the late poet and author, collaborated with Ennio Flaiano on the screenplay.

Tonio Kröger

1964

Pepe, der Paukerschreck poster
6.2

Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe Nietnagel. During the celebration for the 100th anniversary, a simulated fire forces the school to shut down for a week. The director's attempt to get a tough teacher assigned by the department of education results in the exact opposite because of Nietnagel's intervention.

Pepe, der Paukerschreck

1969

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern poster
6.1

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting system. They succeed in sending their teacher to a sanatorium and get a replacement that turns out to not be so bad after all.

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

1968

Zum Teufel mit der Penne poster
5.5

Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his classmates scheme to get around doing any actual school work by cheating or sending their teachers to the sanatorium. A Swiss documentary film maker disguises himself as his brother in law, who got a position as an exchange teacher, to aid his project of making a movie about the current youth.

Zum Teufel mit der Penne

1968

Hurra, die Schule brennt poster
5.4

A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the Mommsen Gymnasium, bringing along his nephew Jan. Bach's lackadaisical methods raise the suspicions of the other teachers.

Hurra, die Schule brennt

1969

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kolportage

1964

The Model Boy poster
4.7

Since Benno Geyer fails to pass his Abitur due to his panicky exam anxiety, Dr. Fritz Geyer enrolls in high school under his brother's name. As a model student, he has no trouble getting good grades, but he quickly becomes unpopular among the students. From then on, he tries to impress with the craziest pranks.

The Model Boy

1963

1950s · 14 titles

Heidi poster
7.2

Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heidi manages to pierce his gruff exterior, and the two become close. She also befriends a young shepherd named Peter. After three years, Heidi's aunt arrives and demands Heidi's return to Frankfurt.

Heidi

1952

Eine Reise ins Glück poster
6.5

Together with her uncle and waiter Otto, young Renate runs a guesthouse high above the Rhine, which hardly any guests ever visit. When she suddenly inherits a vineyard in Tuscany one day, the three of them set off full of hope on the arduous journey south. However, the inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated estate, whose valuable wines stored in a secret cellar are known only to the devious wine merchant Brandolini. Fortunately, he has a nice brother who falls in love with Renate and helps her out.

Eine Reise ins Glück

1958

Glück muß man haben poster
8.0

Famous composer Millöcker saves lovesick clerk Ferdinand from killing himself and helps him impress and get close to Henriette, the rich heiress the boy adores. But one day Ferdinand overhears Millöcker confessing his own love to the girl.

Glück muß man haben

1950

Almenrausch und Edelweiß poster
5.5

Friedl Meier, owner of a country hotel, inherits a large sum of money in dollars – but the problem is that the inheritance certificate is issued in the name Meyer with a “y,” the surname of Friedl's former fiancé Ferdinand, who later made a career for himself in the USA. As luck would have it, Ferdinand is spending his vacation at a nearby hotel – together with his butler Leo, who causes some confusion in the affair.

Almenrausch und Edelweiß

1957

Through Thick and Thin poster
9.0

Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its own, fixing the family troubles and some romances with a series of guardian angel and/or matchmaking shenanigans.

Through Thick and Thin

1951

Meine Tante, deine Tante poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Meine Tante, deine Tante

1956

Der Löwe von Babylon poster
6.5

In the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben and his faithful friend. One night, while camping, they surprise three smugglers and, after a hard-fought struggle, manage to reduce them and take possession of the rings that are their trademark. Then they go to Baghdad and there, a character who wears a ring of smugglers, which has seen Kara's, confuses him with one of the band.

Der Löwe von Babylon

1959

Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n

1955

You Only Live Once poster
8.0

Remake of the 1931 film The Man in Search of His Murderer.

You Only Live Once

1952

A Song Goes Round the World poster
8.0

A biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known song and a 1933 film of the same title in which he starred.

A Song Goes Round the World

1958

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Familie Schimek

1957

Heute nacht passiert’s poster
10.0

A professor inherits a fashion salon from a former lover. Since he doesn't want his wife to find out about his previous love life, he asks his son-in-law to take over the running of the place. Needless to say, that leads to a lot of misunderstandings.

Heute nacht passiert’s

1953

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Räubergeschichte

1954

Der Theodor im Fußballtor poster
9.0

Theo Lubitz, owner of a travel agency, is in love with his pretty secretary Carola. In his spare time, he plays center forward for a soccer club.

Der Theodor im Fußballtor

1950

1940s · 10 titles

Vienna Blood poster
7.4

Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his country, Reuss-Schleiz-Greiz. Tensions arise between the count, his wife Melanie, and their two chamberlains, and when the four attend a court ball, Melanie leaves Georg, assumes the identity of a famous actress, and attracts the affections of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria.

Vienna Blood

1942

Rote Mühle poster
10.0

A respectable woman in her 50s inherits a local night club from her husband in a divorce settlement, provided that she shows up there every night at 10:00pm for a month. In spite of eny and provocation, she manages to meet the terms.

Rote Mühle

1940

Um eine Nasenlänge poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Um eine Nasenlänge

1949

No artwork available
5.7

Just as the equally renowned lawyer Dr. Bratt is about to close his practice to go on a well-deserved summer vacation, a man suddenly appears before him and claims that he cannot wait under any circumstances. Benno Paradis wants a divorce, and he wants it as soon as possible.

Philine

1949

Tolle Nacht poster
5.8

The niece of a wealthy manufacturing aunt has secretly married. Her husband has lost his way during the night in his pajamas at a spa and ended up on the balcony of an attractive singer.

Tolle Nacht

1943

No artwork available
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

Dreimal Hochzeit poster
5.8

Prince Alexander loves the commoner Vera and defies his uncle the Tzar as well as his peers by arranging his wedding. But Vera leaves him because she does not want to be the cause of him spending the rest of his life as a social outcast.

Dreimal Hochzeit

1941

Liebeskomödie poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Liebeskomödie

1943

No artwork available
9.0

Alexander and Poldi, the “Sunday Children”, work as a headwaiter and servant in the Palasthotel in a southern German spa resort. Like many people, they dream of one day being rich. But when their lottery ticket actually wins, their friendship is destroyed, when it turns out, that Poldi stopped buying tickets to save money. Both then fall in love with beautiful Steffi, whose aunt won’t hear of anything other than a marriage to a rich man. Steffi gives her heart to poor Alex, while Poldi actually receives a fortune. When a crook ends up taking his money away, Alex helps Poldi to convict the fraudster and get his money back.

Sonntagskinder

1941

Was wird hier gespielt? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Was wird hier gespielt?

1940

1930s · 25 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 Peak Scaler poster
8.0

The two unemployed engineers Franzl and Bertl want to be the first to climb the Matterhorn from the dangerous north face. They travel by bicycle with Mizzl and Traudl but without telling them about their intentions. The women accompany them on the assumption that it is a touristical trip. All four camp in a tent at the foot of the Matterhorn and Franzl and Bertl secretly begin the dangerous ascent. The girls will have to follow the ascent together with the residents of the village and the guests of the mountain hotel using binoculars. The role of Franzl is played by Franz Schmid, the actual conqueror of the north face of the Matterhorn together with his brother Toni in 1931.

The Peak Scaler

1933

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse poster
7.6

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

1933

The Prodigal Son poster
7.0

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.

The Prodigal Son

1934

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Höllentempo

1933

The Grand Duke's Finances poster
6.7

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State’s debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke’s affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins…

The Grand Duke's Finances

1934

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City poster
9.0

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy.

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City

1933

The Valley of Love poster
7.5

Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the Ammendorf to strengthen his potency. The town and its springs are especially well known for the many couples with lots of children, who, for tax reasons, live there unmarried. The town smithy and bully provides his vitality to ensure the countess has an heir for the throne.

The Valley of Love

1935

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

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

Till Eulenspiegel, der unsterbliche Spötter poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Till Eulenspiegel, der unsterbliche Spötter

1936

My Wife, the Adventuress poster
7.5

A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.

My Wife, the Adventuress

1931

The Czar's Courier poster
7.5

A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.

The Czar's Courier

1936

The Man Who is Talked About poster
6.6

The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitutionally incapable of saying the word "no" (or "nein," this being a German picture). Though he'd rather breeze through life without responsibilities or obligations, Toni agrees to study zoology in college because his uncle (Hans Moser) wants him to. Alas, despite the Herculean efforts by Toni's servant Hassler (Theo Lingen) to prepare his master for his final exams, Toni forgets to show up for the finals and is expelled post-haste. In desperation, his uncle arranges for Toni to get married, and once again our hero just can't say no. Trouble is, he falls in love with trapeze artist Bianca (Gusti Huber), whose father won't let her marry anyone except another entertainer. Undaunted, Toni studies a book on show business and tries out for the vaudeville stage, and the picture isn't even halfway over yet!

The Man Who is Talked About

1937

The Double poster
7.3

Jenny confronts her cousin Harry: Did he embezzle her fortune? No. But he escapes with married lover Germaine only to return quickly because her husband pursues them. Jenny is convinced Harry is his own double and arrests him at gunpoint.

The Double

1934

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

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

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

No synopsis available yet.

Schön ist es, verliebt zu sein

1934

The Tiger of Eschnapur poster
6.7

After a passionate affair in Paris, adventurer Sascha Demidoff can no longer forget Sitha, the beautiful Maharani of Eshanpur. He travels through the wilderness of India to the maharaja's palace, where Sitha still returns his passion. But when his connection to her becomes apparent, he finds himself exposed to the revenge of the deceived maharaja. It is only with Sitha's help that he narrowly escapes from a ravenous tiger in the predator courtyard and flees with her from the palace to Berlin. Meanwhile, the architect Fürbringer is waiting for a message from Eschnapur, where he has been promised the construction of several large buildings. However, Fürbringer's friend and first draughtsman Sperling returns from India without having achieved anything. When Fürbringer's fiancée, Irene Traven, discovers that the maharajah is in Berlin incognito, she gains access to him and manages to get the prince to award her fiancé the building contract...

The Tiger of Eschnapur

1938

Premiere poster
5.8

As Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of romantic misadventures. But she manages to show up on stage at the appointed time, scoring a huge success.

Premiere

1937

Modern dowry poster
9.0

Dan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard the ship to Scotland, he gives her a pearl necklace as dowry, but it's false. The newlyweds face their differences when the necklace gets lost.

Modern dowry

1932

The Optimist poster
8.0

A moron buys a worthless piece of land, which a swindler passed off as an oil field.

The Optimist

1938

A Waltz for You poster
7.0

Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.

A Waltz for You

1934

Stupid Mama poster
8.0

A youngster takes over a high class hotel that the mother has been running into the ground and turns it into a successful enterprise.

Stupid Mama

1934

Series credits

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Musik ist Trumpf

1975

Am laufenden Band poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Am laufenden Band

1974

Die Rudi Carrell Show poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Die Rudi Carrell Show

1965

Music & Guests poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Music & Guests

1976

Klimbim poster
6.1

A German sketch comedy show that prioritises provocative absurdity above all else.

Klimbim

1973

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Donaugeschichten

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Blick zurück im Film

1963

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre

1971

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pariser Geschichten

1976

Beschlossen und verkündet poster
NR

Beschlossen und verkündet is a German crime television series. 13 episodes were aired in 1975.

Beschlossen und verkündet

1975

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Von uns für Sie

1966

Zwei himmlische Töchter poster
6.2

Zwei himmlische Töchter is a German television series.

Zwei himmlische Töchter

1978

Brecht poster
5.3

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.

Brecht

2019

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Powenzbande

1974

Hoftheater poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoftheater

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schlagerfestival

1974

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Profil

1962

Der Monddiamant poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Monddiamant

1974

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Schnick-Schnack

1975

Das alte Hotel poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das alte Hotel

1963

Die Witzakademie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Witzakademie

1967

Behind the camera

Wiener Melodien poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wiener Melodien

1948

No artwork available
5.7

Just as the equally renowned lawyer Dr. Bratt is about to close his practice to go on a well-deserved summer vacation, a man suddenly appears before him and claims that he cannot wait under any circumstances. Benno Paradis wants a divorce, and he wants it as soon as possible.

Philine

1949

Till Eulenspiegel, der unsterbliche Spötter poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Till Eulenspiegel, der unsterbliche Spötter

1936

Glück muß man haben poster
8.0

Famous composer Millöcker saves lovesick clerk Ferdinand from killing himself and helps him impress and get close to Henriette, the rich heiress the boy adores. But one day Ferdinand overhears Millöcker confessing his own love to the girl.

Glück muß man haben

1950

Tolle Nacht poster
5.8

The niece of a wealthy manufacturing aunt has secretly married. Her husband has lost his way during the night in his pajamas at a spa and ended up on the balcony of an attractive singer.

Tolle Nacht

1943

No artwork available
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

Through Thick and Thin poster
9.0

Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its own, fixing the family troubles and some romances with a series of guardian angel and/or matchmaking shenanigans.

Through Thick and Thin

1951

Liebeskomödie poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Liebeskomödie

1943

Was wird hier gespielt? poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Was wird hier gespielt?

1940

Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone poster
6.2

Since the capable landlady Maria bears a striking resemblance to the ruler of a miniature state, she is tasked with playing the role of princess during her absence. The deceitful and corrupt ministers attempt to seize the opportunity and gain one-sided advantages for themselves. When the son of the real princess falls in love with Maria's daughter and wants to marry her, a national crisis almost erupts.

Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone

1955

Liebesheirat poster
9.0

Trust and honesty are the cornerstones of every marriage, Georg and Isabell tell themselves. Easy for them to say. Newly married, newly in love, it's easy to say all sorts of things. But only time will tell if their grand intentions can truly be kept. During their honeymoon, the newlyweds face their first test. Georg's friend Leo unexpectedly shows up with his girlfriend Pucki. However, the pleasant visit holds an unpleasant surprise. It turns out that Georg once had a brief affair with Pucki.

Liebesheirat

1949

Liebesheirat poster
9.0

Trust and honesty are the cornerstones of every marriage, Georg and Isabell tell themselves. Easy for them to say. Newly married, newly in love, it's easy to say all sorts of things. But only time will tell if their grand intentions can truly be kept. During their honeymoon, the newlyweds face their first test. Georg's friend Leo unexpectedly shows up with his girlfriend Pucki. However, the pleasant visit holds an unpleasant surprise. It turns out that Georg once had a brief affair with Pucki.

Liebesheirat

1949

Wie werde ich Filmstar poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wie werde ich Filmstar

1955

It All Started So Gaily poster
5.7

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make things more difficult, the horny minister can't remember which room he left it in. After several incidents in different hotel rooms, neither secretary has found a thing. There's not a trace of the portfolio; but Clemens is more interested in Annette, the young lady in one of the hotel beds, than in the portfolio. He forgets his mission and can think only of her. Boni, in the meantime, has found his way into a room, where Olivia is staying and sees a red, leather folder there. But the woman throws him out in short order.

It All Started So Gaily

1944

It All Started So Gaily poster
5.7

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: it concerns a red portfolio with secret papers, which the minister stuck under a bed mattress and forgot about when he met someone on a rendezvous. And to make things more difficult, the horny minister can't remember which room he left it in. After several incidents in different hotel rooms, neither secretary has found a thing. There's not a trace of the portfolio; but Clemens is more interested in Annette, the young lady in one of the hotel beds, than in the portfolio. He forgets his mission and can think only of her. Boni, in the meantime, has found his way into a room, where Olivia is staying and sees a red, leather folder there. But the woman throws him out in short order.

It All Started So Gaily

1944

Das Lied der Nachtigall poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Das Lied der Nachtigall

1944

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sie können's mir glauben

1960

L'attore scomparso poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'attore scomparso

1941

Marguerite : 3 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Marguerite : 3

1939

Was geschah in dieser Nacht? poster
6.0

Since Marion feels ill-treated by her boyfriend her friend Julia confronts him in his home only to learn that she is scolding the wrong guy: there are two cousins named Johannes sharing the apartment. And this Johannes is charming indeed.

Was geschah in dieser Nacht?

1941

Happiness Is the Main Thing poster
7.0

Axel Roth is happy in his marriage and with his job. But his mother-in-law wants more for her daughter and manages to sow discord. When the two of them use cunning to secure an invitation to a high-society gathering at the general director's house, Axel's wife loses an expensive borrowed brooch there. From now on, he has to work day and night to pay off the jewelry...

Happiness Is the Main Thing

1941

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hin und her

1951

Herz – modern möbliert poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Herz – modern möbliert

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schule der Gattinnen

1962