
Acting
Walter Ladengast
Born — Died
1899-07-04 — 1980-07-03
Place of birth
Vienna, Austria
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Walter Ladengast (July 4, 1899 – July 3, 1980) was an Austrian actor born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He worked extensively in film and theatre and appeared in more than 70 productions during a career spanning several decades. He is particularly remembered for his collaborations with director Werner Herzog, including The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), in which he played Dr. Abraham Van Helsing.
Known for
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
8.0Der 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
7.3A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
10.0A special insight into medicine presented on film: sterile operations, hospitals used to be built by the wind, anaesthesia, surgical gloves, similar to the films Sauerbruch or Kneip.
The Century of Surgeons
1972
6.8The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical.
The Haunted Castle
1960
6.8WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Decision Before Dawn
1951
Film credits
1970s · 12 titles
7.3A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979
7.3The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974
5.7Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.
A Big Grey-Blue Bird
1971
4.9German movie set in the future where there is a village existing only to maintain a game preserve for the ruling class and whose inhabitants are kept happy by popping pills. Written and directed by Uwe Brandner, the movie operates on many levels of love-hate relationships, but it is primarily a political parable about fascism and freedom. A young teacher comes to a remote village , which rich gentlemen have chosen as their hunting ground. The residents are happy and nice to each other. Any dissatisfaction that arises is wiped away with freely available drugs or with the clubs of the village police. A gamekeeper who makes sure that the high lords' hunting parties are not endangered becomes the new teacher in the village's first friend. They fall in love, and the gamekeepers gift of love is a gun, which will eventually break their relationship as a confrontation ensues as the teacher starts poaching with his new gun.
I Love You, I Kill You
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel
1971
8.0Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, a teacher tries to teach his students tolerance for others.
How I Became a Negro
1971
3.7A fictional, non-chronological account of the life of the scientist, adventurer and industrialist Lukas Berlinger. The key dates and central events include Berlinger's birth in 1914, his friendship with Johannes Roeder, who was the same age, his marriage to Marlit in the early 1930s and Roeder's joining the NSDAP in 1936. As a chemist and "scientist important to the war effort", Berlinger was not required to go to the front during the Second World War, but it was slowly discovered that he was helping persecuted people to escape to Switzerland. Pressure from the Gestapo cost Marlit her life, and Berlinger fled to South America. It was not until 1968 that he returned to the western part of Germany. He meets Roeder again, who is now a senator and has become rich as a "building tycoon", and meets Maria, a teacher almost 30 years his junior, who looks strikingly similar to Marlit.
Berlinger
1975
No synopsis available yet.
Land
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Onkel Wanja - Bilder aus dem Landleben
1971
No synopsis available yet.
Die Beichte
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Die Anstalt
1978
No synopsis available yet.
Geheimnis um Burg Brethen
1976
1960s · 13 titles
6.8The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical.
The Haunted Castle
1960
6.1A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
Dead Eyes of London
1961
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Doktor Murkes gesammelte Nachrufe
1965
No synopsis available yet.
Die Zimmerwirtin
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Waldhausstraße 20
1960
6.9Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
Sacred Waters
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Legende einer Liebe
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Lady Lobsters Bräutigam
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Die Nacht in Zaandam
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Cancan und Bakarole
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Die lachende Dritte
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Die Enthüllung
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Die Wölfe
1963
1950s · 12 titles
6.8WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
Decision Before Dawn
1951
6.7Two nine-year-old girls—rude Luise Palfy and respectful shy Lotte Körner—meet on a summer camp. Apart from their different hair-do, they look alike. They have never seen each other before, but soon find out that they are identical twins. It turns out that their parents divorced, each keeping one of the girls. They decide to trade places at the end of the summer. Lottie curls her hair, Lisa braids hers, and both go off to where they have never been before. The adventure begins.
Two Times Lotte
1950
No synopsis available yet.
Jacqueline
1959
No synopsis available yet.
Ein gewisser Judas
1958
5.2The Catholic priest Hell takes the orphan Annerl into his house as a maid. This soon gives rise to wild rumors in the town. To put an end to the gossip, the young woman decides to get married. Her old childhood friend is the chosen one.
Das Mädchen vom Pfarrhof
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Ein Weihnachtslied in Prosa
1955
8.0A smugglers gang is active on the Austrian-Swiss border. Until now, no one has come to their attention. But one day a little girl gets seriously ill and needs medical attention; the young operator will forget that he has to be careful and calls for help through the secret channel.
Call Over the Air
1951
No synopsis available yet.
Die Dreigroschenoper
1957
No synopsis available yet.
Der grüne Kakadu
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Weißes Gold
1950
9.0In a locked room with forever burning light, a man and two women meet after their death: Garcin has tormented his wife to death and failed cowardly in a crucial situation. The lesbian Ines has alienated a young woman from her husband, the woman has poisoned herself and Ines with gas. Estelle has murdered her child and drove the lover to death. These three sleepless stew in a hell that consists not of fire, but of cosy sofa places where they have to sit forever and torment themselves forever. And they can't even kill themselves - they're already dead.
No Exit
1959
No synopsis available yet.
Der Verdammte
1957
1940s · 9 titles
6.5The young, attractive Inge Wagner becomes acquainted with Herbert Koch during the Berlin Olympics, his flight officer insignia having first caught her eye. Sparks fly immediately between the two and they soon decide to marry. But Herbert is called off on a secret mission in Spain.
Request Concert
1940
5.5Already 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
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Ritorno
1940
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
7.2Franz Xaver Silvester Pomeisl travels thru the decades looking for the good old times.
The World Turns Backward
1947
7.0The ambitious female chief executive of a gramophone record company slowly finds herself falling in love with the company's head of production.
Everything for Gloria
1941
5.8No synopsis available yet.
The Fire Devil
1940
7.0Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.
Illusion
1941
No synopsis available yet.
Der Ochsenkrieg
1943
1930s · 9 titles
10.0In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil.
Love, Death and the Devil
1934
8.0Because his future wife abandoned him shortly before the wedding, an old baron has decided that he doesn't want any women near him anymore. The daughter of the flaky woman decides to take it upon herself to get the baron and her mother back together again and dresses up as a gypsy boy to use music from "his" violin to soften the baron's heart ...
My Aunt, Your Aunt
1939
7.0Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Die Umwege des schönen Karl
1938
7.0Mayor Eberhorn is known as a womanizer to everyone in the village. Katchen, his wife, is constantly trying to convert him to a proper way of life … but in vain. When one morning, Casanova finds a stroller with a clever slogan referencing his affairs at his front door, Eberborn seeks revenge. Top suspects for the prank? The “Spassvogel”: seven friends led by the former sailor Hannes Strobel.
Spaßvögel
1939
10.0A young country woman in Paris is temporarily drawn to her married, middle aged art teacher before she realizes she belongs instead with people her own age.
Her First Experience
1939
8.0In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking.
Under Blazing Heavens
1936
7.0The student Hans Kessler is suspected of having murdered the banker Hergotin, who has been found dead in his hotel in Zurich. When a search is launched for an unknown woman, who was seen in the hotel at the time of the murder, Hans suddenly confesses to the deed. The prosecution is headed by Schweda and Hans is sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Only afterwards does Regine, Hans' sister, find out about the events. She is convinced that her brother is innocent and is covering for the actual murderer.
Anschlag auf Schweda
1935
7.0In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompous dance instructor.When their work isn't appreciated, a teacher consoles them, saying Bruckner, Schubert and Wagner were also criticized.
Music in the Blood
1934
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Die törichte Jungfrau
1935
Series credits
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
8.0Der 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
8.0Der 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
10.0A special insight into medicine presented on film: sterile operations, hospitals used to be built by the wind, anaesthesia, surgical gloves, similar to the films Sauerbruch or Kneip.
The Century of Surgeons
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Die Leute vom Domplatz
1980
Adrian der Tulpendieb was a 1966 German television series; the first that aired in full color. Six episodes were produced, which were based on the novel by Otto Rombach and directed by Dietrich Haugk.
Adrian der Tulpendieb
1966
