Ekkehard Arendt

Ekkehard Arendt
Born	10 June 1892 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	10 May 1954 Vienna, Austria
Occupation	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1927-1951 (film)

Ekkehard Arendt (1892–1954) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Arendt served in the Austrian Army during the First World War, before moving to Germany to work in the theatre and film industry. He played the role of Handel Vane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1931 film Mary^[1] and the dishonest bank director in The Virtuous Sinner (1931).^[2] Arendt later returned to live in Austria.

Selected filmography

• The Vice of Humanity (1927)
• The Catwalk (1927)
• The False Prince (1927)
• The Old Fritz (1928)
• Eva in Silk (1928)
• Phantoms of Happiness (1929)
• The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929)
• The Love of the Brothers Rott (1929)
• Elisabeth of Austria (1931)
• Der Herzog von Reichstadt (1931)
• Louise, Queen of Prussia (1931)
• The Virtuous Sinner (1931)
• Mary (1931)
• Luise, Königin von Preußen (1931)
• Punks kommt aus Amerika (1935)
• His Daughter is Called Peter (1936)
• To New Shores (1937)
• Red Orchids (1938)
• Vienna 1910 (1943)

References

1. Sloan p.99
2. Prawer p.137

Bibliography

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
• Sloan, Jane E. Alfred Hitchcock: A Filmography and Bibliography. University of California Press, 1995.

External links

• Ekkehard Arendt at the Internet Movie Database