Nils Asther
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-01-16
Day of Death
1981-10-13 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nils Asther
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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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Known For
Acting
(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
(1945)
Son of Lassie
as Olav
(1945)
Jealousy
as Peter Urban
(1945)
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Dr. Julian Karell
(1945)
Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Tony Linnard
(1944)
Bluebeard
as Inspector Lefevre
(1944)
Alaska
as Thomas Leroux
(1944)
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Kurt van der Breughel
(1943)
Submarine Alert
as Dr. Arthur Huneker
(1943)
Mystery Broadcast
as Ricky Moreno
(1942)
Night Monster
as Agor Singh
(1942)
Sweater Girl
as Prof. Henri Menard
(1942)
The Night Before the Divorce
as Victor Roselle
(1941)
The Night of January 16th
as Bjorn Faulkner
(1941)
Flying Blind
as Eric Karolek
(1941)
Forced Landing
as Col. Jan Golas
(1941)
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
as Constanzo Labardi
(1941)
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Peter Ransome
(1937)
Make-Up
as Bux
(1936)
Guilty Melody
as Galloni
(1936)
The Marriage of Corbal
as Varennes
(1935)
Abdul the Damned
as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
(1935)
Do You Remember?
as (archive footage)
(1934)
The Crime Doctor
as Gary Patten
(1934)
Madame Spy
as Capt. Franck
(1934)
Love Time
as Franz Schubert
(1933)
If I Were Free
as Tono Casanove
(1933)
By Candlelight
as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
(1933)
The Right To Romance
as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
(1933)
Storm at Daybreak
as Capt. Geza Petery
(1932)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as General Yen
(1932)
The Washington Masquerade
as Henri Brenner
(1932)
But the Flesh Is Weak
as Prince Paul
(1932)
Letty Lynton
as Emile Renaul
(1932)
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
as Himself
(1930)
The Sea Bat
as Carl
(1929)
The Single Standard
as Packy Cannon
(1929)
Wild Orchids
as Prince de Gace
(1928)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
as Count Luigi Ravelli
(1928)
Dream of Love
as Prince Mauritz
(1928)
Our Dancing Daughters
as Norman
(1928)
The Cossacks
as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
(1928)
The Blue Danube
as Erich von Statzen
(1928)
The Cardboard Lover
as Andre
(1928)
Loves of an Actress
as Raoul Duval
(1927)
Sorrell and Son
as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
(1927)
Topsy and Eva
as George Shelby
(1927)
Hotelratten
as Fürst Ladrone
(1927)
Gauner im Frack
as George Valeska
(1926)
Wrath of the Seas
as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
(1926)
The Golden Butterfly
as Andy McFarland
(1926)
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
as Reginald Ellis
(1924)
Carl XII:s kurir
as Stanislaus, Potockis nevö
(1923)
(1922)
Love's Crucible
as Apprentice
(1920)
The Gyurkovics Boys
as Bandi Gyurkovics
(1918)
A Trip to Mars
as Martian citizen
(1918)
(1917)
(1916)
The Wings
as Aspiring actor