Willy Fritsch

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Works

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Film & TV

Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]

Willy Fritsch war der bekannteste deutsche Schauspieler neben Hans Albers und Heinz Rühmann in den vierziger Jahren, er drehte mehrere Filme mit Lillian Harvey bis diese nach Frankreich emigrierte Er ist der Vater des Schauspielers Thomas Fritsch

Known for

• Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich — Self1970
• Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten — Self - Co-Host1967
• I Learned It from Father — Clemens Andermann1964
• Rauf und runter1964
• The Bellboy and the Playgirls1962
• Der Himmel kann warten — Alexander Allerson1962
• Isola Bella — Konsul Stülcken1961
• Was macht Papa denn in Italien? — Studienrat Hanselmann1961
• Wenn die Heide blüht — Dr. Erdmann1960
• Sweetheart of the Gods — Gunzel1960

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1901-01-27

Active to

1973-07-13

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,205

Total plays

19,185

Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s. He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the son of a factory owner in Kattowitz (present-day Katowice) in the Prussian province of Silesia. After the bankruptcy of his father in 1912, the family moved to Berlin, where Fritsch sr. worked as an employee of the Siemens-Schuckert company. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Willy+F

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Willy

Family name

Frič

Gender

male

Citizenship

Germany

Place of birth

Katowice

Place of death

Hamburg

Spouse

Dinah Grace

Child

Thomas Fritsch

Occupation

film actor

Political party

Nazi Party

Languages spoken

German

Instrument

voice

Image

Willy Fritsch.jpg

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