Willi Forst

Willi Forst was born Wilhelm Anton Frohs on the 7^th April 1903; he died on the 11^th August 1980. He was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director and a producer. He was also a singer.

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As a debonair actor of the country, Willi Forst was a darling of the German-speaking movie audiences.

As a director in the movie industry of the country, Willi Forst was one of the most crucial maker of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s called Wiener Filme.

From the mid-1930, Willi Forst also recorded several records.

Biography

Willi Forst’s first major role was the opposite Marlene Dietrich in the silent movie Café Elektric in the year 1927. Meanwhile, he is best known for his characters in the light musicals that made his a popular star of the country. He was the man that developed the genre of the Viennese movie with the writer called Walter Reisch in the 1930s, starting with the Franz Schubert melodrama Leise flehen meine Lieder of the year 1934 that became a great role the actors of the country like Hans Jaray and Maskerade, and that launched his popularity as a crucial director and gained international fame for Paula Wessely.

Willi Forst founded his own movie industry called Willi Forst-Film in the year 1937 and he thought about going to the Hollywood that same year.

With the annexation of the country in the year 1938, he was much courted by the National Socialists, though he avoided overt political statement and concentrated on the opulent period musical entertainment that made him famous and that was also much at the time of the World War II. At the time of the 7 years period of the national socialist rule in the country, Willi Forst manufactured the totl of 4 movies and none of them was political.

After the war, Willi Forst had a little success with the exception of the movie called Die Sünderin of the year 1950 that became a scandal due to the protest of the Roman Catholic Church against the nudity of the movie.

Filmography

As actor

Ø  1922 Sodom und Gomorrha

Ø  1922 Oh, du lieber Augustin

Ø  1922 Der verwechselte Filmstar

Ø  1923 Lieb' mich und die Welt ist mein

Ø  1927 Die elf Teufel

Ø  1927 Café Elektric

Ø  1927 Die drei Niemandskinder

Ø  1928 Amor auf Ski

Ø  1928 Ein besserer Herr

Ø  1928 Ein Tag Film

Ø  1928 Folly of Love

Ø  1928 Die blaue Maus

Ø  1928 Liebfraumilch

Ø  The Convict from Istanbul (1929)

Ø  1929 Die Lustigen Vagabunden

Ø  1929 Fräulein Fähnrich

Ø  1929 'Atlantik (his first sound film); Poldi, with Fritz Kortner

Ø  1929 Die Frau, die jeder liebt, bist du!

Ø  The White Roses of Ravensberg (1929)

Ø  1929 Gefahren der Brautzeit

Ø  Katharina Knie (1929)

Ø  1930 Das Lied ist aus

Ø  1930 Der Herr auf Bestellung

Ø  A Student's Song of Heidelberg (1930)

Ø  1930 Ein Tango für Dich

Ø  1930 Petit officier… Adieu!

Ø  1930 Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel Takt

Ø  1931 Der Raub der Mona Lisa, Vicenzo Peruggia, with Gustaf Gründgens, Roda Roda

Ø  1931 Die Lustigen Weiber von Wien

Ø  The Prince of Arcadia (1932)

Ø  1932 Ein blonder Traum

Ø  You Don't Forget Such a Girl (1932)

Ø  Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1932)

Ø  1933 Ihre Durchlaucht, die Verkäuferin

Ø  The Burning Secret (1933)

As director

Ø  Gently My Songs Entreat (1933)

Ø  1933 Brennendes Geheimnis

Ø  1934 Ich kenn' dich nicht und liebe dich

Ø  1934 So endete eine Liebe

Ø  1934 Maskerade

Ø  1935 Königswalzer

Ø  1935 Mazurka

Ø  1936 Burgtheater

Ø  1936 Tomfoolery

Ø  1937 Capriolen

Ø  1937 Serenade

Ø  1938 Es leuchten die Sterne

Ø  1939 Ich bin Sebastian Ott

Ø  1939 Bel Ami, directed and acted (Georges Duroy)

Ø  1940 Operette, directed and acted (Franz Jauner)

Ø  1942 Wiener Blut

Ø  Women Are No Angels (1943)

Ø  1944 Hundstage

Ø  1944 Ein Blick zurück

Ø  1945 Wiener Mädeln, directed and acted (Carl Michael Ziehrer)

Ø  1947 Der Hofrat Geiger

Ø  1948 Die Frau am Weg

Ø  1948 Das Kuckucksei

Ø  1949 Die Stimme Österreichs

Ø  1950 Die Sünderin

Ø  1950 Herrliche Zeiten

Ø  1951 Es geschehen noch Wunder

Ø  1952 Alle kann ich nicht heiraten

Ø  1952 The White Horse Inn

Ø  1954 Bei Dir war es immer so schön

Ø  1954 Weg in die Vergangenheit, directed and acted (Clemens)

Ø  1955 Die Drei von der Tankstelle

Ø  1955 Ein Mann vergisst die Liebe

Ø  1956 Kaiserjäger

Ø  1957 Die unentschuldigte Stunde

Ø  1957 Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume

Awards

Ø  1968 Bundesfilmpreis (Filmband in Gold) for his life's work