Directed credits
12
Active
Regular directing credits.
Director
Paul Wegener
Acting
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Directed movies: 12Directed series: 0All crew credits: 20
TMDB ID: 29123
IMDb ID: nm0917467
Known for: Acting
Born: December 11, 1874
Died: September 13, 1948
Age: 73
Place of birth: Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1913 - 2025
Years active: 113
Average TMDB rating: 6.34
Wikidata: Q66410
Also known as
Paul Hermann Wegener
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Director (12)Writer (5)Screenplay (3)
Biography
Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.
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Directed Movies
Movies directed by Paul Wegener.
The Golem
Director
1960 Movie
Krach und Glück um Künnemann
Director
1937 Movie
Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
Director
1937 Movie
Moskau - Shanghai
Director
1936 Movie
Die Stunde der Versuchung
Director
1936 Movie
4.8
A Man Wants to Get to Germany
Director
1934 Movie
Die Freundin eines großen Mannes
Director
1934 Movie
Living Buddhas
Director
1925 Movie
6.0
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Director
1918 Movie
5.5
The Golem and the Dancing Girl
Director
1917 Movie
The Yoghi
Director
1916 Movie
5.0
Rübezahl's Wedding
Director
1916 Movie
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6.7
The Golem
Screenplay
1915 Movie
6.0
Kolberg
as Loucadou
1945 Movie
Moskau - Shanghai
Director
1936 Movie
Monna Vanna
as Guido Gursino
1922 Movie
Herzog Ferrantes Ende
Writer
1922 Movie
7.0
The Golem: How He Came Into the World
Screenplay
1920 Movie
Living Buddhas
Director
1925 Movie
6.0
Zwielicht
as Förster Kuhnert
1940 Movie
5.0
Rübezahl's Wedding
Director
1916 Movie
Figures of the Night
as Thomas Bezug
1920 Movie
6.0
Sumurun
as Der alte Scheich
1920 Movie
6.4
Madame DuBarry
1919 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Paul Wegener.
4.0
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Writer
1928 Movie
Herzog Ferrantes Ende
Writer
1922 Movie
Der verlorene Schatten
Writer
1921 Movie
7.0
The Golem: How He Came Into the World
Screenplay
1920 Movie
Der Galeerensträfling
Writer
1920 Movie
Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
Writer
1917 Movie
6.7
The Golem
Screenplay
1915 Movie
6.0
The Student of Prague
Screenplay
1913 Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Paul Wegener.
FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
as The Golem (archive footage)
2025 Movie
The Golem
as The Golem
1960 Movie
6.0
Eyes of Love
as Prof. Mochmann
1951 Movie
6.0
Kolberg
as Loucadou
1945 Movie
8.0
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
as The Mad Inventor
1943 Movie
6.1
Diesel
as Direktor Buz
1943 Movie
7.0
Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
as Leonhard von Krakow
1942 Movie
6.9
The Great King
as Gen. Czernitscheff
1942 Movie
6.2
My Life for Ireland
as Sir George Beverley
1941 Movie
6.0
Zwielicht
as Förster Kuhnert
1940 Movie
Das Recht auf Liebe
as Herr von Salurn, Schloßgutsbesitzer in Tirol
1939 Movie
6.5
The Immortal Heart
as Dr. Schedel
1939 Movie