Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck, known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film Nosferatu.
19 Facts About Max Schreck
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Max Schreck was born in Berlin-Friedenau, on 6 September 1879.
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Max Schreck's mother provided the boy with money, which he secretly used for acting lessons, although only after the death of his father did he attend drama school.
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Max Schreck had engagements in Mulhouse, Meseritz, Speyer, Rudolstadt, Erfurt and Weissenfels, and his first extended stay at the Gera Theater.
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Max Schreck received his training at the Berliner Staatstheater, completing it in 1902.
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Max Schreck made his stage debut in Meseritz and Speyer, and then toured Germany for two years, appearing at theatres in Zittau, Erfurt, Bremen, Lucerne, Gera, and Frankfurt am Main.
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For three years between 1919 and 1922, Max Schreck appeared at the Munich Kammerspiele, including a role in the expressionist production of Bertolt Brecht's debut, in which he played the "freakshow landlord" Glubb.
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Max Schreck declared itself bankrupt after the film was released to avoid paying copyright infringement costs to the author's widow, Florence Stoker.
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Max Schreck portrayed Count Orlok, a character analogous to Count Dracula.
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Max Schreck appeared as a blind man in the film The Street.
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In 1926, Max Schreck returned to the Kammerspiele in Munich and continued to act in films, his career surviving the advent of sound until 1936, when he died from heart failure.
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Max Schreck was married to actress Fanny Normann, who appeared in a few films, often credited as Fanny Max Schreck.
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One of Max Schreck's contemporaries recalled that he was a loner with an unusual sense of humor and skill in playing grotesque characters.
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Max Schreck reported that he lived in "a remote and incorporeal world" and that he often spent time walking through forests.
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On 19 February 1936, Max Schreck had just played The Grand Inquisitor in the play, standing in for Will Dohm.
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Max Schreck was buried on 14 March 1936 at Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf in Brandenburg.
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Scriptwriter Daniel Waters created the character Max Shreck for the Tim Burton film Batman Returns and compared him to the character Max Schreck played in Nosferatu.
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Max Schreck appeared in a SpongeBob SquarePants episode: Graveyard Shift.
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Max Schreck has since appeared in latter episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants and recently in an episode of The Patrick Star Show.