Acting
Oct 31, 1873
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Frida Richard
Acting
Biography
Austrian actress. Married to fellow actor Fritz Richard.
Feature Films (157)
Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.
Faust
A young priest finds an unconscious Gypsy girl by the churchyard and takes her home to live with him and his mother. Militza has fled a traveling circus to escape the harassment of a clown who has already stabbed someone out of jealousy. The priest quickly falls in love with her and keeps her with him, against his mother's wishes.
Superstition
In early 20th Century Europe, a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between two men, a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.
Lowlands
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
Phantom
In Vienna of 1913 a young woman coming from vaudeville theatre circles stands before the wedding with a construction draftsman; this must move to the military and sends his bride on the country, so that she cannot be enticed to the stage. However, she does it and gets by an officer's love affair so in confusion that she commits suicide. - This end environment-close and differentiates of produced melodrama was rejected by press and audience vehemently; the new second film end with the rescue of the desperate was supplied later, so that in this version only a bittersweet common melodrama with excellent actors and good photograph was left. In the rental company copy is the second version of the end jointly contain.
