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16 Facts About Albrecht Schoenhals

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Albrecht Moritz James Karl Schoenhals was a German film actor.

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Albrecht Schoenhals received his first stage engagement in 1920 at the City Theater Freiburg, where he played Orest in Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris.

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Albrecht Schoenhals worked in Halberstadt, in Freiburg, in Baden-Baden, Frankfurt, Dortmund, and at the Hamburger Kammerspiele, where he was an ensemble member.

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Albrecht Schoenhals married the actress Anneliese Born in 1930 and their son Kai was born in 1933.

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In 1934, while working in Hamburg, a casting director from the UFA discovered Albrecht Schoenhals and selected him as a double for Arthur Robison's romance Prince Woronzeff.

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Albrecht Schoenhals subsequently had a successful film career, starring in German romantic melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s, where he was adept at playing the role of aristocrats, senior officers, and professional men of considerable stature, such as surgeons, concert violinists, and so forth.

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Albrecht Schoenhals was known for his considerable charm and elegant appearance.

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However, under the seemingly impeccable veneer his charisma-like charm, Albrecht Schoenhals exhibited the capacity to play the villain, such as in the Willi Forst crime film Mazurka.

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Albrecht Schoenhals starred alongside the Divas of UFA, Pola Negri, Camilla Horn and Sybille Schmitz, as well as the "Darlings" of the Nazi leadership, Lil Dagover, Olga Chekhova and Lida Baarova.

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Albrecht Schoenhals plays a landowner who is bothered by the boy, and he is taught a sense of camaraderie.

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Albrecht Schoenhals continued to star alongside leading actresses and play men of high rank.

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Albrecht Schoenhals began to be cast more as a supporting actor and eventually faded into the background.

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From 1956 to 1968, Albrecht Schoenhals was involved in many television productions.

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Albrecht Schoenhals was occasionally a stage director and focused on translation of original French plays into German.

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Albrecht Schoenhals returned to film in 1969 for a supporting role in Luchino Visconti's film The Damned.

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Albrecht Schoenhals died at age 90 and was buried at a cemetery in Baden-Baden.