Adolphe Engers was born on June 20, 1884 in Gulpen, Limburg, Netherlands. He was an actor and writer, known for Finances of the Grand Duke (1924), De man op den achtergrond (1922) and Serenissimus und die letzte Jungfrau (1928). He died on December 8, 1945 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
He co-wrote and played the lead in the film Terra Nova/New Land (1932, Gerard Rutten). This fisher drama was meant as the first Dutch sound film, but disappeared completely after differences about the result between the director and the producer.
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When the talkies followed to the silent time it meant the end of Adolphe Engers film career in Germany. He returned to Holland where he lived in Den Haag. He only acted sporadically in front of the camera, so in "Op stap" (1935), "Veertig Jaren" (1938) and "De spooktrein" (1939).
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He became a very busy actor in the 20's and he took part in well-known movies. Beside it he was also very successful with the leading role in the "Flappy" serial for the Berliner Terra Film AG.
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The Dutch actor Adolphe Engers was born in Gulpen. He also made his film debut in Holland with "De Kroon der schande" (1918) before he appeared regularly in German productions from 1919.
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In the beginning of World War II he was a member of the stage company De Komedianten, but the Nazis gave the Jewish Engers a 'Berufsverbot' ('professional ban').
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In the 1930's he was also active as an author of stage plays and novels like Ardjoena - Indische roman (1936). He also gave acting classes at the Conservatory of The Hague.
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Engers last film was a curiosity he made while hiding for the nazis. Moord in het modehuis/Murder in the Fashion Store (1943, Alfred Mazure, Piet van der Ham), was a film version of Mazure's popular detective comic Dick Bos. The film would never be shown in the cinema. One of the reasons was that Mazure refused to make a nazi of his hero.
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His creative cinematical power kept undiminished in the second part of the 20's till the end of the silent movie era.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
De spooktrein
1939
Professor Alberto
Veertig jaren
1938
Jan de Oude
Op een avond in mei
1936
Johan
Op stap
1935
Oom Barend uit Batavia
De Big van het regiment
1935
Kruitnagel
Sensation im Wintergarten
1929
Varietédirektor
Sündig und süß
1929
Albert - Willings' Diener
Ein kleiner Vorschuß auf die Seligkeit
1929
Autohändler
Die vierte von rechts
1929
Bob Murphy
Serenissimus und die letzte Jungfrau
1928
Kindermann
Don Juan in der Mädchenschule
1928
Fritz Stürmer
Die Königin seines Herzens
1928
Manager
Liebe und Diebe
1928
Mertens, Kriminalassistent
Schuldig
1928
Georg Aschmann
Die lustigen Vagabunden
1928
Alois Gradwohl, Wirt
Er geht rechts - Sie geht links!
1928
Karl
Der falsche Prinz
1927
Frabrikant Müller
Le roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
1927
Monsieur de Bévallan
Das gefährliche Alter
1927
Mr.Pierre
Ein Mädel aus dem Volke
1927
Leibarzt Quarin
Gehetzte Frauen
1927
Lutschku
Das Fürstenkind
1927
Dr. Hyppolyte Clerinay
Frühere Verhältnisse
1927
Baron
Students' Love
1927
Teacher
Faschingszauber
1927
Bruder Zwillinger, Vendas Verehrer
Wenn der junge Wein blüht
1927
Toto von Giri
Die glühende Gasse
1927
Snyders, ein merkwürdiger Bräutigam
Fräulein Josette - Meine Frau
1926
Panard
Der Prinz und die Tänzerin
1926
Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer
1926
Bobby
Die Wiskottens
1926
Gastwirt Zinters
Im Krug zum grünen Kranze
1925
Michel, beider Sohn
Die Moral der Gasse
1925
Ausgelernte lebemann
Elegantes Pack
1925
Barbesitzer
Die Puppe vom Lunapark
1925
Heiratsschwindler
1925
Nick, der König der Chauffeure
1925
Morris W. Stanley
Der Mann um Mitternacht
1924
Auf Befehl der Pompadour
1924
Finances of the Grand Duke
1924
Don Esteban Paqueno
Der Evangelimann
1924
Daisy. Das Abenteuer einer Lady
1923
Der Frauenkönig
1923
Der Fund in der Eilenriede oder Liebesrausch und Opfermut
1922
Lumpaci the Vagabond
1922
De man op den achtergrond
1922
Willem Hendriks
Der Mann im Hintergrund
1922
Willem Hendriks
She and the Three
1922
Der Schwärmer für Kino undSuppe
De bruut
1922
George Smith
Madeleine
1921
Die Geliebte Roswolskys
1921
Jean Meyer
Der Erbe der van Diemen
1921
Der Liebeskorridor
1921
Wuttke
Die Präriediva
1920
Die Benefiz-Vorstellung der vier Teufel
1920
Fate's Plaything
1920
De kroon der schande
1918
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Terra nova
1932
Documentary
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Terra nova
1932
Documentary
Old boatsman
Known for movies
Finances of the Grand Duke (1924) as Don Esteban Paqueno
De man op den achtergrond (1922) as Willem Hendriks
Serenissimus und die letzte Jungfrau (1928) as Kindermann
Sensation im Wintergarten (1929) as Varietédirektor
$1.4 Million
