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Ferdinand Bonn

Picture Ferdinand Bonn
Foto: Alexander Binder (1888-1929)

1861 - 1933

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The actor Ferdinand Bonn was a distinguished theater director who wrote among others the stage plays "Sherlock Holmes" (06) and "Der Hund von Baskerville".

First he studied jurisprudence but he abandoned and he turned to the acting. After successful acting lessons he made his stage debut in 1885 with the role of "Derwisch" in the play "Nathan der Weise".

In the next decades he had successful appearances at different theaters, and in 1905 he founded his own theater in Berlin called "Ferdinand Bonns Berliner Theater", which was specialised in dramatic plays beside the plays concerning Sherlock Holmes, mentioned at the beginning.

He made his film debut in 1913 with "Ludwig II von Bayern" (13) with which he launched a second productive career.
In the next years he took part in well-known silent movies like "Svengali" (14), "Der Katzensteg" (15), "Robert und Bertram" (15) - where he acted at the then unknown Ernst Lubitsch's side and competed for the gags, "Hoffmanns Erzählungen" (16), "Graf Michael" (18) and "Manon Lescaut" (19).
Beside it he impersonated the famous detective Sherlock Holmes in five movies.

As a respected actor of the Burgtheater he got further engagements for silent movies. Until shortly his dead he took part in movies like "Die Schuldigen" (22), "Der Fluch" (25), "Im weissen Rössl" (26), "Dr. Bessels Verwandlung" (27), "Verirrte Jugend" (29), "Dreyfus" (30) and "Friederike" (32).

In 1959 was the Bonnweg inaugurated in Vienna in memory of the great actor.
 

Other movies with Ferdinand Bonn:
Nur ein Lächeln (13) Späte Reue (13) Die reiche Erbin (14) Die Hornviper (14) Die Geschichte der stillen Mühle (14) Lache Bajazzo (14) Hampels Abenteuer (15) Der Spion (16) Professor Erichsons Rivale (16) Der Erbe von 'Het Steen' (16) Dolly's Bekehrung (16) Sturmflut/Ihr Sohn (17) Don Juans letztes Abenteuer (18) Der Verräter (18) Das Schicksal der Renate Jongk (18) Die Giftplombe (18) Farmer Borchardt (18) Um die Liebe des Dompteurs (18) Was er im Spiegel sah (18) Die goldene Mumie (18) Die Prostitution (19) Das Werkzeug des Cosimo (19) Der neue Herr Generaldirektor (19) Die Mexikanerin (19) Kaiser Wilhelms Glück und Ende (19) Leichtsinn und Lebewelt (19) Ludwig II, König von Bayern (19) Echte Perlen (19) Hölle der Jungfrauen (19) Menschen in Ketten (19) Die rätselhafte Sphinx (19) Die Madonna mit den Lilien (19) Der Gürtel der Basthi (19) Salome (20) Martin Schalanters letzter Gang (20) Das vierte Gebot (20) Die Geheimnisse von London (20) Das Judenmädel (21) Die Sklavenkönigin (24) Lumpen und Seide (25) Der Bankkrach unter den Linden (25) Als ich wiederkam (26) Die Frau in Gold (26) Der goldene Schmetterling (26) Eine tolle Nacht (26) Der falsche Prinz (27) Da hält die Welt den Atem an (27) Gustav Mond...Du gehtst so stille (27) Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit (27) Der Zigeunerbaron (27) Heut' spielt der Strauss/Der Walzerkönig (28) Rasputins Liebesabenteuer (28) Die Frau im Talar (29) Donauwalzer (30) Nur Du (30) Die grosse Sehnsucht (30) Solang' noch ein Walzer von Strauss erklingt (31) Im Geheimdienst (31)


 
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