Emil Rameau
Vintage German postcard, 1910s. Photochemie, K.2484. Photo by Irene Guttmann, Berlin.
Emil Rameau (1878 - 1957) was a German actor with a rich career in German silent film.
Rameau was born 13 August 1878 in Berlin as Emil Pulvermacher. At the age of 20, he made his stage debut at the Stadttheater in Bromberg, followed by engagements in Zurich and Berlin. In Berlin, he appeared regularly under Max Reinhardt and became a well-known theatre great in Germany's capital. Emil Rameau came to film in the mid-1910s, where he quickly became an extremely busy actor. To his early movies belong Arthur Imhoff (1915), Das Leben in Traum (1916), Das wandernde Licht (1916), Stein unter Steinen (1916), Der chinesische Götze (1916), Das alte Bild (1918), Der Teufel (1918), Der lebende Leichnam (1918), Zwischen Tod und Leben (1919), De Profundis (1919), Lilli (1919) and Jettatore (1919). In the late 1910s he was also busy as co-scriptwriter, e.g. for Der Ring der drei Wünsche (1918) by Arthur Wellin and Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918) by Ernst Lubitsch.
Emil Rameau also remained an often used actor in front of the camera in the 1920s. To his well-known silent movies of those years belong several films with Ellen Richter: e.g. Der rote Henker (1920), Die Fürstin Woronzoff (1920) and Lola Montez, die Tänzerin des Königs (1922), as well as the films Madame Récamier (1920) with Fern Andra, Monna Vanna (1922) with Lee Parry, Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen (1923) with Marija Leiko, Wilhelm Tell (1923) with Conrad Veidt, Kampf um die Scholle (1925) with Ferdinand von Alten, Die Mühle von Sanssouci (1926) with Otto Gebühr, Die Wiskottens (1926) with Karl Platen, and Möblierte Zimmer (1929) with Margot Landa. His last movies in Germany came at the beginning of the 1930s into being with Nur am Rhein... (1930) with Daisy D'Ora, Die Abenteurerin von Tunis (1931) with Ellen Richter and Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe (1933) with Iván Petrovich.
With the rise of the National Socialists, he had to leave Germany. What followed was an odyssey through half of Europe before he emigrated to the USA. There he was able to continue his film career with small roles in the 1940s. Among others he took part in the productions Mission to Moscow (9143), Gaslight (1944) - playing Maestro Guardi, Ingrid Bergman singing teacher, The Conspirators (1944), Two Sisters from Boston (1946), The Return of Monte Cristo (1946), Arch of Triumph (1948), The Great Sinner (1949) and The Red Danube (1949). Finally he returned to Germany where he worked at the theatre again in the last years of his life, among others as deputy director of the Schiller Theatre. All in al, Rameau acted in 111 films.
Sources: IMDb, Wikipedia, www.cyranos.ch/smrame-d.htm
Emil Rameau
Vintage German postcard, 1910s. Photochemie, K.2484. Photo by Irene Guttmann, Berlin.
Emil Rameau (1878 - 1957) was a German actor with a rich career in German silent film.
Rameau was born 13 August 1878 in Berlin as Emil Pulvermacher. At the age of 20, he made his stage debut at the Stadttheater in Bromberg, followed by engagements in Zurich and Berlin. In Berlin, he appeared regularly under Max Reinhardt and became a well-known theatre great in Germany's capital. Emil Rameau came to film in the mid-1910s, where he quickly became an extremely busy actor. To his early movies belong Arthur Imhoff (1915), Das Leben in Traum (1916), Das wandernde Licht (1916), Stein unter Steinen (1916), Der chinesische Götze (1916), Das alte Bild (1918), Der Teufel (1918), Der lebende Leichnam (1918), Zwischen Tod und Leben (1919), De Profundis (1919), Lilli (1919) and Jettatore (1919). In the late 1910s he was also busy as co-scriptwriter, e.g. for Der Ring der drei Wünsche (1918) by Arthur Wellin and Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918) by Ernst Lubitsch.
Emil Rameau also remained an often used actor in front of the camera in the 1920s. To his well-known silent movies of those years belong several films with Ellen Richter: e.g. Der rote Henker (1920), Die Fürstin Woronzoff (1920) and Lola Montez, die Tänzerin des Königs (1922), as well as the films Madame Récamier (1920) with Fern Andra, Monna Vanna (1922) with Lee Parry, Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen (1923) with Marija Leiko, Wilhelm Tell (1923) with Conrad Veidt, Kampf um die Scholle (1925) with Ferdinand von Alten, Die Mühle von Sanssouci (1926) with Otto Gebühr, Die Wiskottens (1926) with Karl Platen, and Möblierte Zimmer (1929) with Margot Landa. His last movies in Germany came at the beginning of the 1930s into being with Nur am Rhein... (1930) with Daisy D'Ora, Die Abenteurerin von Tunis (1931) with Ellen Richter and Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe (1933) with Iván Petrovich.
With the rise of the National Socialists, he had to leave Germany. What followed was an odyssey through half of Europe before he emigrated to the USA. There he was able to continue his film career with small roles in the 1940s. Among others he took part in the productions Mission to Moscow (9143), Gaslight (1944) - playing Maestro Guardi, Ingrid Bergman singing teacher, The Conspirators (1944), Two Sisters from Boston (1946), The Return of Monte Cristo (1946), Arch of Triumph (1948), The Great Sinner (1949) and The Red Danube (1949). Finally he returned to Germany where he worked at the theatre again in the last years of his life, among others as deputy director of the Schiller Theatre. All in al, Rameau acted in 111 films.
Sources: IMDb, Wikipedia, www.cyranos.ch/smrame-d.htm