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)
Jealousy
as Peter Urban
(1945)
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Dr. Julian Karell
(1945)
Son of Lassie
as Olav
(1945)
Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Tony Linnard
(1944)
Bluebeard
as Inspector Lefevre
(1944)
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Kurt van der Breughel
(1944)
Alaska
as Thomas Leroux
(1943)
Submarine Alert
as Dr. Arthur Huneker
(1943)
Mystery Broadcast
as Ricky Moreno
(1942)
The Night Before the Divorce
as Victor Roselle
(1942)
Night Monster
as Agor Singh
(1942)
Sweater Girl
as Prof. Henri Menard
(1941)
Flying Blind
as Eric Karolek
(1941)
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Peter Ransome
(1941)
Forced Landing
as Col. Jan Golas
(1941)
The Night of January 16th
as Bjorn Faulkner
(1941)
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
as Constanzo Labardi
(1937)
Make-Up
as Bux
(1936)
Guilty Melody
as Galloni
(1936)
The Marriage of Corbal
as Varennes
(1935)
Do You Remember?
as (archive footage)
(1935)
Abdul the Damned
as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
(1934)
Love Time
as Franz Schubert
(1934)
Madame Spy
as Capt. Franck
(1934)
The Crime Doctor
as Gary Patten
(1933)
By Candlelight
as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
(1933)
Storm at Daybreak
as Capt. Geza Petery
(1933)
If I Were Free
as Tono Casanove
(1933)
The Right To Romance
as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
(1932)
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
as Himself
(1932)
Letty Lynton
as Emile Renaul
(1932)
The Washington Masquerade
as Henri Brenner
(1932)
But the Flesh Is Weak
as Prince Paul
(1932)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as General Yen
(1930)
The Sea Bat
as Carl
(1929)
The Single Standard
as Packy Cannon
(1929)
Wild Orchids
as Prince de Gace
(1928)
The Blue Danube
as Erich von Statzen
(1928)
The Cardboard Lover
as Andre
(1928)
Our Dancing Daughters
as Norman
(1928)
Dream of Love
as Prince Mauritz
(1928)
The Cossacks
as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
(1928)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
as Count Luigi Ravelli
(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)
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
as Reginald Ellis
(1926)
The Golden Butterfly
as Andy McFarland
(1926)
Wrath of the Seas
as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
(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