Franz Schafheitlin

Acting

Franz Schafheitlin

Born — Died

1895-08-09 — 1980-02-06

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

79 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

1960s · 6 titles

1950s · 19 titles

Grabenplatz 17 poster
9.0

Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.

Grabenplatz 17

1958

Confession Under Four Eyes poster
8.0

While perusing a police photo, Hilde - an investigative reporter - recognizes a bracelet that she once owned while living in her native Romania. She seeks out the current owner of the bracelet, hoping that he can provide information concerning her long-lost father. Thus begins a curious chain of events...

Confession Under Four Eyes

1954

Hafenmelodie poster
6.5

A gang of thieves plan a hit on a warehouse filled with precious stuff.

Hafenmelodie

1950

Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder poster
6.4

Friedrich Schiller, a respected baker in Einbeck, enjoys a seemingly idyllic life with his wife and nine children. As he approaches his silver wedding anniversary, he nearly succumbs to a fleeting liaison with a spirited woman named Lollo. Though the episode ends harmlessly, it awakens a crisis of conscience in Friedrich, threatening the harmony of his devoted family.

Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder

1958

Dr. Holl poster
9.0

A doctor marries his seemingly incurable patient to fulfill her last wish. A serum he develops saves her, and the union born of compassion develops into a loving marriage.

Dr. Holl

1951

Professor Nachtfalter poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Professor Nachtfalter

1951

Hanna Amon poster
6.1

Hanna Amon and her brother Thomas live on an estate they've inherited from their parents. Local veterinarian Brunner loves Hanna from afar, and Thomas is in love with the daughter of the local mayor. Love, however, doesn't always mean happiness, as both Hanna and Thomas are soon to find out.

Hanna Amon

1951

Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model poster
6.2

The romantic conflicts of a runaway young woman who works as a model and is courted by two journalists...

Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model

1955

The Wooden Horse poster
6.8

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

The Wooden Horse

1950

The Heath Is Green poster
5.2

After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secret: he is a poacher.

The Heath Is Green

1951

Gabriela poster
9.0

Gabriela once a famous singer who enjoyed great success. She married, had a daughter Andrea, but pursued her career. Now that Andrea has matured into a young woman, Gabriela is overwhelmed by maternal remorse.

Gabriela

1950

Eine Nacht im Séparée poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eine Nacht im Séparée

1950

Von Liebe reden wir später poster
10.0

The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but there is a catch: Hollmann is still married to his somewhat annoying wife Margot. Angela, however, has to get married as soon as possible because as a foreigner she will lose her work permit if she does not become a German citizen soon. The couple then come up with the idea of ​​​​marrying Angela to the German bachelor Jonny Pitter, a writer - a sham marriage with no dishonorable consequences, of course. What neither Angela nor Prof. Hollmann suspect is that Jonny has been in love with Angela for some time

Von Liebe reden wir später

1953

Es wird alles wieder gut poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Es wird alles wieder gut

1957

Die schöne Lügnerin poster
6.4

In 1815 Vienna, a corsetmaker falls in love with a valet.

Die schöne Lügnerin

1959

Duel with Death poster
6.6

Old Dag and his two sons Tore and Dag Junior live on Björndal in the Nordic forests. The clan is constantly at odds with the noble landowner Lord von Gall, who lives on his sprawling estate with his daughter Elisabeth. During a dance, Tore snatches the distinguished young lady and sweeps her across the dance floor. Enraged by this audacity, she sets her admirer, Lieutenant Margas, on the temperamental young farmer. Tore loses his life in the fight, and catastrophe ensues.

Duel with Death

1959

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Schwarze Seide

1958

Schmutziger Engel poster
9.0

A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.

Schmutziger Engel

1958

Musik, Musik und nur Musik poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Musik, Musik und nur Musik

1955

1940s · 14 titles

Titanic poster
6.1

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.

Titanic

1943

In Those Days poster
6.9

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.

In Those Days

1947

Münchhausen poster
6.5

Legendary, immortal nobleman Baron Munchausen regales a lovestruck woman with tales of his amazing adventures.

Münchhausen

1943

Kolberg poster
6.1

During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.

Kolberg

1945

Der Erbförster poster
5.5

For many years, Ulrich, the hereditary forester, and Steinbach, the landowner, were the best of friends. But one day, this friendship is put to a severe test: Driven by financial need, Steinbach wants to have the forest cleared, which Ulrich condemns as brutal exploitation of nature – and therefore refuses to grant permission for the project. To clear the way for his plan, Steinbach ensures that Ulrich is dismissed as forester. When, a few days later, the dam built by Steinbach is blown up and the floodwaters inundate Steinbach's sawmill, suspicion immediately falls on Ulrich. The hereditary forester is ostracized, threatened, and even fears for his life.

Der Erbförster

1945

Bismarck poster
5.9

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite Germany.

Bismarck

1940

Ein Windstoß poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Windstoß

1942

The Grand Prix poster
7.0

The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or someone can (or even must) get murdered. Not a good movie, not a bad either. The ending is abrupt and artificial, which seems to be a common plague of Third Reich's crime movies. Gustav Fröhlich could never get rid of his silent era mannerisms and overacting. But on the other side, this film is not boring and has to offer some decent plot turns and acting.

The Grand Prix

1944

No artwork available
7.0

After a successful concert, the singer Maria dreams about a man with a boquet of lilies, who follows her and kisses her. A short time later, she actually meets such a man: his name is Peter and he’s on his way to his bride, Helene. In the afternoon, Maria receives a valuable diamond pin from a messenger, which was actually intended for Helene. This confusion will now trigger a wild chase through concert halls and overnight trains. During all of this, Maria’s fiancée will show up, who, in light of all this nonsense, decides he’d be better off with someone less fickle and breaks off the engagement. Maria and Peter, who barely know one another, will be drawn closer together by fate and will eventually marry … and will stay so until Maria no doubt dreams of a lawyer with a divorce decree knocking on her door.

I Have Dreamed of You

1944

Rembrandt poster
5.5

Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of the guild feel duped, because they don't consider themselves flatteringly depicted in the painting. They therefore decline to pay for the work. During this dispute, the painter finds out his wife is close to death. He finds himself terribly lonely after her passing and suffers from depression until he decides once more to marry.

Rembrandt

1942

The Great Sacrifice poster
6.5

Äls, a young woman from Sweden living in Hamburg in the summer months, attracts a newly married explorer, Albrecht Froben, who has just returned to his native city. But although Äls seems to be 'life itself', she suffers from a tropical disease which is slowly killing her. Froben is torn between Äls and his wife Octavia, who he seen as a kind of 'heavenly' counterpart to the earthy and beguiling Äls.

The Great Sacrifice

1944

Kora Terry poster
5.5

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tobs, a friend of their parents. While blonde Mara Terry arrives punctually for the first rehearsal, her dark-haired sister Kora is late like a diva and acts aloof and snippy. At their first performance together the next day, Kora is overtired from partying the night before. During a dangerous act in which she has to balance her upside-down sister on her head, she becomes careless...

Kora Terry

1940

With the Eyes of a Woman poster
8.0

A typical woman's fate at the turn of the century, from the first love mistake to the arranged marriage and further disappointments.

With the Eyes of a Woman

1942

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Other

1949

1930s · 15 titles

Frasquita poster
6.3

Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotná plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest "Frasquita". Based on a Franz Lehár operetta, the story is the usual frothy nonsense. Dolly (Charlott Daudert) is engaged to marry Harald (Hans Heinz-Bollmann), but she's really in love with Hippolit (Heinz Rühmann). Harald is likewise enamored of another, namely Frasquita (Jarmila Novotná).

Frasquita

1934

Maria Ilona poster
5.7

In 1848, the freedom-loving Hungarian people, led by Ludwig Kossuth, rose up against the hated rule of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty. In its expansionist policy, the Austrian monarchy had long relied on Hungarian feudal lords who betrayed the interests of their people. The anger of the rebels was directed against the Austrian oppressors and their Hungarian supporters. Against the backdrop of these historical events, the personal fate of the Hungarian patriot Maria Ilona is shown.

Maria Ilona

1939

Homeland poster
7.5

In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.

Homeland

1938

The Ringer poster
5.1

A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.

The Ringer

1932

Steputat & Co. poster
5.8

A rich East Prussian shopkeeper,jealous that one of his male employees is in love with a female employee he himself covets, frames the couple for stealing lottery tickets.

Steputat & Co.

1938

Money on the Street poster
5.3

In this romance, a banker's daughter suddenly breaks off her engagement on her wedding day. She then meets a man who believes in easy money. He sees her as his meal ticket and the two take off together.

Money on the Street

1930

Anna Favetti poster
10.0

The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions.

Anna Favetti

1938

No artwork available
7.0

Four school chums who meet yearly are missing their friend, who was working in a Stockholm bank and supposedly killed himself. But was it murder, instead?

The Fourth Did Not Show Up

1939

The Immortal Heart poster
7.0

Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shape, he believes he's discovered that his assistant Konrad is trying to alienate his wife from him. There is a struggle, during which Henlein's new kind of bullet strikes him in the chest. The doctor, unaware that there are two bullets lodged in his body, because there was only one shot, only removes one.

The Immortal Heart

1939

The Cossack and the Nightingale poster
8.0

The story revolves around Vera, a renowned singer constantly evading her possessive Russian husband, Count Ogolenski, who uses cunning tactics to eliminate her potential suitors and refuses to grant her freedom. Seeking refuge and romance, she becomes involved with the wealthy Dschahid Bey, leading to a tense confrontation amid elements of espionage, with settings including Egypt and the Nile. The narrative blends absurd intrigue, thriller aspects, and romantic tension, reflecting Perutz's style of fantastical and mysterious tales.

The Cossack and the Nightingale

1936

A Devil of a Fellow poster
8.0

An Austrian officer traveling to London to meet his newly married sister at a fancy costume party cannot find her but finds another woman instead.

A Devil of a Fellow

1935

Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht? poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht?

1938

The Desert Song poster
5.6

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...

The Desert Song

1939

Heaven on Earth poster
6.8

A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, nevertheless, an opera. Together with his friend who must play a husband to his strict rich aunt, he makes to himself a fun from the mistakes which cause her feints.

Heaven on Earth

1935

High School poster
6.5

The love of a young Austrian aristocrat to a circus rider is put on a heavy load test when becomes obvious that the former officer has killed the brother of the young woman, a traitor of the country, in the duel.

High School

1934

1920s · 2 titles

Series credits

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Zum blauen Bock

1957

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Film Award

1951

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.

The Commissioner

1969

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Graf Luckner poster
10.0

Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman.

Graf Luckner

1971

Space Patrol poster
8.0

Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966 six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany. Being a huge success with several reruns audience ratings went up to 56%. Over the years, the series acquired a distinct cult status in Germany.

Space Patrol

1966

Der Kurier der Kaiserin poster
9.0

Der Kurier der Kaiserin is a German Television series.

Der Kurier der Kaiserin

1970

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mordkommission

1973

Eichholz & Söhne poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Eichholz & Söhne

1977

Café Wernicke poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Café Wernicke

1980

Der Nachtkurier meldet… poster
10.0

Der Nachtkurier meldet… is a German bi-weekly television series that aired 42 episodes on SDR from October 31, 1964 to July 23, 1966.

Der Nachtkurier meldet…

1964

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

Der kleine Doktor is a German television series.

Der kleine Doktor

1974

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mein Bruder - Der Herr Doktor Berger

1972

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meine Tochter – unser Fräulein Doktor

1970

Manolescu - Die fast wahre Biographie eines Gauners poster
NR

Europe around 1900: Georges Manolescu is an elegant, handsome, and self-assured con artist. He takes particular pride in being called the “King of Thieves.” Using a wide variety of tricks—sometimes as a marriage swindler, sometimes as an impostor or hotel thief—this charmer manages to swindle 35 million marks. Only the finest society and the most glamorous locations are good enough for Manolescu: Baden-Baden, Nice, Monte Carlo, and, of course, Paris. He shows up there in various disguises and relieves the rich and beautiful of their fortunes. Nothing and no one is safe from the nimble-fingered master thief.

Manolescu - Die fast wahre Biographie eines Gauners

1972

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Von Liebe keine Rede

1971