Very little is known about the leading actors in the world of Silent movie, among them we can mention Hans albers, a nice German who was born in the city of Hamburg a September 12, 1892, a man who with only twenty years of age managed to enter the silent film and be considered one of the most prolific actors of his time.
Hans Albers began his acting career like many at that time who did pininos in the circus, in the music hall and in the operetta. Once he stood out in these three scenarios, he made his way to the cinema and in a short time became one of the best-known faces in Germany and was called to work in countless productions, among which are films such as: Halbseide directed by Richard Oswald shot in 1925, another of the productions that was considered the best of the time was Der Pinz und die Tänzerin in 1926 and which was directed by Richard Eichberg.
Already by the year 1929 he worked in Asphalt from Joe May, a story based on the political, cultural and social reality of the moment. By the thirties he worked in The Blue Angell, a production by the outstanding director Josef von Sternberg. He has also been closely associated with the director Gustavo Ucicky, an Australian who stood out for his endless film productions such as Fugitives in 1933, A new family in 1929 and Unter heissem Himmel , 1934.
Already in the 1940s Hans Albers worked on one of the most surprising films of the time, called The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen in which the great show dominates where Hans Albers is thrown into the air from a cannon, this image was captured for many years as the magic of cinema, for this reason he was also an actor who until today is remembered as an icon of silent cinema . This film was a production of Josef von Baky, who had to deal with the problems that the Second World War brought, but this film has been considered one of the best cinematic successes in Germany.
He continued to work on various productions, but already with the talking cinema his peculiarity was decreasing and he was called less and less. He worked on some talking productions but none of great importance. Hans Albers died young, only 63 years old, in the city of Kempfenhausen in 1960, on July 24.