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Axel von Ambesser

German playwright and film director

Axel von Ambesser
Axel von Ambesser in 1950.
Born	(1910-06-22)22 June 1910 Hamburg, Germany
Died	6 September 1988(1988-09-06) (aged 78) Munich, West Germany
Other names	Axel Eugen Alexander von Österreich
Occupation(s)	Film actor and film director
Years active	1935–1988

Axel Eugen Alexander von Oesterreich (22 June 1910 – 6 September 1988), better known as Axel von Ambesser, was a German playwright, actor and film director.^[1]

Ambesser's father was Alexander Constantin von Oesterreich. Ambesser was born in Hamburg and attended Wilhelm-Gymnasium. He appeared as a stage actor in the Hamburg Kammerspiele, and went on to play in the Stadttheater Augsburg, the Münchner Kammerspiele, from 1937 the Deutsche Theater Berlin, from 1942 the Staatstheater Berlin, and the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.^[2]

Works[edit]

• Das Abgründige in Herrn Gerstenberg, play, 1946
• Begegnung im Herbst, play, 1967

Selected filmography[edit]

Actor

Director

• Drei, von denen man spricht [de] (1953) — (based on Youth at the Helm)
• Bruder Martin [de] (1954) — (based on a play by Karl Costa [de])
• Her First Date (1955) — (screenplay by Max Colpet, remake of Premier rendez-vous)
• Die Freundin meines Mannes [de] (1957)
• The Crammer (1958)
• Frau im besten Mannesalter [de] (1959)
• Die schöne Lügnerin [de] (1959) — (based on a play by Ernst Nebhut [de] and Just Scheu [de])
• Adorable Arabella (1959) — (based on ArabellabyGeorgette Heyer)
• The Good Soldier Schweik (1960) — (based on The Good Soldier Švejk)
• Crook and the Cross [de] (1960)
• Eine hübscher als die andere [de] (1961)
• He Can't Stop Doing It (1962) — (Father Brown film)
• Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1962) — (remake of Kohlhiesels Töchter)
• Breakfast in Bed (1963) — (based on a novel by S. Fischer-Fabian [de])
• I Learned It from Father (1964)
• Marry Me, Cherie (1964) — (based on a novel by Gábor Vaszary)
• Who Wants to Sleep? (1965, anthology film)
• Die fromme Helene [de] (1965) — (based on illustrated stories by Wilhelm Busch)
• Die schöne Helena (1975, TV film) — (based on the opera La belle Hélène)

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External links[edit]

• Axel von AmbesseratIMDb

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