Nils Asther

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Known For
Acting
Born
January 16, 1897 (84 years old)
Died
October 13, 1981
Place of Birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Popular Genres
Drama Romance Comedy
Career Span
1916 – 2022

Nils Asther

4 nominations
66 credits

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Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 done in the silent era.

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Personal Info

Born
Jan 16, 1897
From
Copenhagen, Denmark
Known For
Acting
Career
1916 – 2022

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Nominations

Complete Filmography

2022

Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer as Self (archive footage)

1963

Gudrun as Mr. Roscoe

1962

Lady in White as Simon Ek

1961

Svenska Floyd as Vincent Mitella

1960

When Darkness Falls as Vicar Tord Ekstedt

1953

That Man from Tangier as Henri

1948

The Feathered Serpent as Paul Evans Award

1945

Son of Lassie as Olav Award
The Man in Half Moon Street as Dr. Julian Karell
Love, Honor and Goodbye as Tony Linnard
Jealousy as Peter Urban

1944

Bluebeard as Inspector Lefevre Award
Alaska as Thomas Leroux
The Hour Before the Dawn as Kurt van der Breughel

1943

Submarine Alert as Dr. Arthur Huneker Award
Mystery Broadcast as Ricky Moreno Award

1942

Night Monster as Agor Singh Award
The Night Before the Divorce as Victor Roselle Award
Sweater Girl as Prof. Henri Menard

1941

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day as Constanzo Labardi Award
The Night of January 16th as Bjorn Faulkner Award
Flying Blind as Eric Karolek
The Man Who Lost Himself as Peter Ransome
Forced Landing as Col. Jan Golas

1937

Make-Up as Bux

1936

The Marriage of Corbal as Varennes
Guilty Melody as Galloni

1935

Abdul the Damned as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
Do You Remember? as (archive footage)

1934

The Crime Doctor as Gary Patten Award
Madame Spy as Capt. Franck
Love Time as Franz Schubert

1933

Storm at Daybreak as Capt. Geza Petery Award
By Candlelight as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
If I Were Free as Tono Casanove
The Right To Romance as Dr. Helmuth Heppling

1932

The Bitter Tea of General Yen as General Yen Award
The Washington Masquerade as Henri Brenner Award
But the Flesh Is Weak as Prince Paul
Letty Lynton as Emile Renaul
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself

1930

The Sea Bat as Carl Award

1929

The Single Standard as Packy Cannon Award
Wild Orchids as Prince de Gace Award

1928

Laugh, Clown, Laugh as Count Luigi Ravelli Award
Our Dancing Daughters as Norman Award
The Cardboard Lover as Andre
The Cossacks as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
Dream of Love as Prince Mauritz
Loves of an Actress as Raoul Duval
The Blue Danube as Erich von Statzen

1927

Topsy and Eva as George Shelby
Gauner im Frack as George Valeska
Sorrell and Son as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
Hotelratten as Fürst Ladrone

1926

Wrath of the Seas as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
The Golden Butterfly as Andy McFarland
Die drei Kuckucksuhren as Reginald Ellis

1924

Carl XII:s kurir as Stanislaus, Potockis nevö

1923

The Norrtull Gang

1922

Love's Crucible as Apprentice

1920

The Gyurkovics Boys as Bandi Gyurkovics

1918

A Trip to Mars as Martian citizen
Retten sejrer

1917

Hittebarnet

1916

The Wings as Aspiring actor

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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Night Monster
Bluebeard
Son of Lassie

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