Ossip Runitsch
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Ossip Iliych Runitsch (Russian: Осип Ильич Рунич, IPA: [ˈosʲɪp ɨˈlʲjitɕ rʊˈnʲitɕ]; born Osip Fradkin, 1889 – 6 April 1947) was a Russian Empire silent film actor, producer and stage director.
He was one of the biggest stars of Russian
Molchi, grust... molchi and Posledneiye tango with other film stars such as Vera Kholodnaya, Vitold Polonsky and Pyotr Chardynin
.
Runitsch was a long time admirer of his co-star Kholodnaya and after her death in 1919 during Russian Civil War, he fled Russia and left for Italy where he took part in a number of films. Later, he moved to Germany where he starred together with Emil Jannings and other famous German actors.
In 1925 he married Nina Pavlishcheva, a courtier ballet dancer.
By the late 1930s, he was living in
Jewish
friends. He stayed in South Africa and became a founder of one of the first professional theatre companies in a country. He also produced operas for the State Theatre in the mid 1940s.
Filmography
- Война и Мир (Voyna i mir) (1915) as Nikolai Rostov
- Песнь торжествующей любви (Pesn torzhestvuyushchey lyubvi) (1915)
- Обожженные крылья (Obozhzhenniye krylya) (1915)
- Истерзанные души (Isterzannye dushi) (1917) as Ingenieur Karin
- Человек-зверь (Chelovek - zver) (1917)
- Живой труп (Zhivoy trup) (1918)
- Женщина,которая изобрела любовь (Zhenshchina, kotoraya izobrela lyubov) (1918)
- Молчи, грусть... молчи... (Molchi, grust... molchi) (1918) as Zaritskii, a barrister
- Последнее танго (Posledneiye tango) (1918) as Joe
- Die Bestie im Menschen (1920) as Jacques Lantier
- L'orchidea fatale (1920)
- Lord Bluff (1920)
- La catena (1920)
- L'automobile errante (1921)
- Danton (1921) as Desmoulins
- Playing with Fire (1921)
- Dubrowsky, der Räuber Ataman (1921)
- The Infernal Power (1922)
- Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin (1922)
- Psicha, die Tänzerin Katherina (1923)
- The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning (1923)
- Düstere Schatten, strahlendes Glück (1924) as F. C. Morland
- Frühlingsfluten (1924)
- Prater (1924) as Graf Rynon
- The Golden Calf (1925) as Leibgardist
- Diary of a Coquette (1929) as Hoteldirektor Lambert
- Sensation im Wintergarten (1929) as Zirkusdirektor
- Das Donkosakenlied (1930) as Basmanoff
See also
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