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Harry Piel est un Acteur, Réalisateur, Scénariste et Producteur Allemand né le 12 juillet 1892

Harry Piel

Harry Piel
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Nom de naissance Heinrich Piel
Nationalité Allemagne
Naissance 12 juillet 1892
Mort 27 mars 1963 (à 70 ans) à Munich (Allemagne)

Harry Piel (né le 12 juillet 1892 à Benrath et mort le 27 mars 1963 à Munich) fut un acteur, scénariste, réalisateur et producteur prolifique : il fut impliqué dans plus de 150 films.

Biographie

After attending elementary school in Benrath and High School, Piel became a cadet in 1909 on a sailing ship, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth. In 1911, however, he finished his cadethood and moved to Berlin in 1912 where he created the "Art Film Publishing House Company" and made, as a director, screenwriter and producer, his first feature Black Blood (1912) with Curt Goetz in the lead role. Further films followed, based on adventure and action.

Soon Piel received the nickname "the dynamite director" because of his penchant for including explosion sequences in his films. These were authentic: Piel had befriended a demolition engineer who was often commissioned to dynamite bridges and other condemned structures slated for demolition. The engineer notified Piel of these assignments in advance: Piel filmed the explosions, then inserted the footage into his films.

In 1915, Piel became too bored with just standing behind the camera and he started to act. The first film with him as a leading actor, The Large Bet (Die Grosse Wette), was a Science Fiction adventure, where he had to deal with robots. Into Under Hot Zone (Unter heißer Zone, 1916) included for the first time scenes with wild animals, which were used by him afterwards in other films, and partly trained by him.

This was followed by a number of films between 1918–1919, in which he played the detective "Joe Deebs" eight times and with the film To the Large Unknown Quantity (1919) began to be credited by the name "Harry Peel" internationally.

In 1927 he cast himself in a double role with Marlene Dietrich together in the film His Greatest Bluff. Also in 1927 Piel married the actress Dary Holm (1897–1960), who appeared in several of his films

In 1930 he directed the comedy Him or Me (1930), but still had many successful adventure films to follow, such as Shade of the Underworld (1931), Johnny Steals Europe (1932), The Ship Without a Port, The Call of the Jungle (1935) and His Best Friend (1937).

In 1933 Harry Piel became a patron member of the SS and also joined the NSDAP.

Then however difficulties began with the Nazis, and his film "Panic" (1940–43) was banned for showing too-realistic air attacks. Seventy-two negatives of his films, nearly all his silent movies, were destroyed in an air attack. After the collapse of the Third Reich, Harry Piel, who had been a sustaining member of the SS, and had at first concealed this, was sentenced to six months detention and five years professional disqualification. After his denazification, he founded "Ariel Film" in 1950 in Hamburg with which he had only moderate success.

Piel's film Panic depicted a German hero who traps wild animals in Africa for German zoos. At the film's climax, an air-raid on a German city frees the zoo animals from their cages; when they run loose in the streets, the people are terrified and only the heroic trapper can recapture the beasts. During World War II, this film was suppressed by Reich censors who did not want the German people to believe that Germany was in danger from aerial bombardments.

After one of his last films, Gesprengte Gitter (Elephant Fury, 1953), Piel withdrew from movie-making business and died ten years later in 1963.

Le plus souvent avec

Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig
(6 films)
Dary Holm
Dary Holm
(7 films)
Henrik Galeen
Henrik Galeen
(3 films)
Bruno Ziener
Bruno Ziener
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Harry Piel (18 films)

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Panik
Panik (1953)
, 1h40
Réalisé par Harry Piel
Genres Drame, Action
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, Politique
Acteurs Hans Zesch-Ballot, Harry Piel, Dorothea Wieck, Herbert A.E. Böhme, Beppo Brem, Ruth Eweler
Rôle Peter Volker
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During the Second World War, an air raid on a zoo leads to the animals escaping across the city.
Artisten
Artisten (1935)

Réalisé par Harry Piel
Genres Drame
Thèmes Cirque
Acteurs Hilde Hildebrand, Susi Lanner, Gustav Püttjer, Harry Piel, Bruno Ziener, Harry Hardt
Rôle Harry Peters
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The famous artist Harry Peters works on his new vaudeville act at the "Tivoli" music hall. He is assisted by Hella Stoll, who is his foster daughter since her parents, friends of Harry, died years ago. At the premiere of his new act, Harry surprisingly meets his old friend Franz Hofer from Vienna, an agent who also knew Hella as a child. He recognizes immediately that the little girl from the past has turned into a pretty young lady who is deeply in love with her foster father. Harry himself seems to be quite unaware of that. Instead, he finds himself stalked by beautiful Vera Leander, who follows him everywhere. After much hesitation, Harry is so trapped by her that he not only disregards his job, but also neglects Hella. But after a nearly fatal accident during a dangerous showact, he comes to his senses again and wants to return to Hella. When he recognizes that she has disappeared from the music hall, he suspects she has run away with a magician called Morelli. Furiously, he starts looking for them. He finally finds Morelli backstage, just dyeing his hair. To Harry's surprise, the magician turns out to be a certain Baraloff, the business manager of circus Stoll, the travelling circus that belonged to Hella's parents. He had at that time run away after stealing all the money, and the following alarmus and excursions had finally led to the fatal accident of Hella's parents. Now he can be arrested at last. Harry hands him over to the police and goes on looking for his foster daughter. Finally, he finds her at Hofer's flat, where they talk things out and in the end become a couple.
Lui et moi
Lui et moi (1930)
, 1h17
Réalisé par Harry Piel
Origine Allemagne
Genres Aventure
Acteurs Harry Piel, Eduard von Winterstein, Maria Forescu, Hugo Döblin, Paul Rehkopf, Gustav Püttjer
Rôle Carlo Moreno / l'imposteur / Egon / Prinz von Valona

Mann gegen Mann
Réalisé par Harry Piel
Genres Action, Policier
Acteurs Harry Piel, Hertha von Walther, Dary Holm, Georg John
Rôle Harry Paulsen, ein Vielgesuchter