Rochus Gliese

Rochus Gliese
Born	(1891-01-06)6 January 1891 Berlin, German Empire
Died	22 December 1978(1978-12-22)(aged 87) Berlin, East Germany
Occupation(s)	Actor, director and production designer
Years active	1915-1967

Rochus Gliese(6 January 1891 — 22 December 1978) was a Germanactor,director,production designer,andAcademy Award-nominatedart directorof early films from the 1910s and 1920s. He was born inBerlin.

He is most remembered in theUnited Statesfor his work as an art director on the filmSunrise: A Song of Two Humans.Most of his other films did not receive wide release in the United States. His final film as a director was 1930'sChasing Fortune,though he did some behind-the-scenes roles through the 1930s and in the 1950s. His final work was 1955'sFidelio,where he worked as aset decorator.

He died in 1978 in Berlin.

Main filmography

Director

• Rübezahl's Wedding(co-director:Paul Wegener,1916)
• The Yogi(co-director:Paul Wegener,1916)
• The Galley Slave(co-director:Paul Wegener,1919)
• The Lost Shadow(1921)
• Duke Ferrante's End(director:Paul Wegener,1922), uncredited
• The Burning Secret(1923)
• Comedy of the Heart(1924)
• The Found Bride(1925)
• The Pink Diamond(1926)
• People on Sunday(co-directors:Robert Siodmak,Edgar G. Ulmer,1930)
• Chasing Fortune(1930)

Art director

• The Golem(1915)
• The Yogi(1916)
• Rübezahl's Wedding(1916)
• The Golem and the Dancing Girl(1917)
• Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty(1917)
• The Foreign Prince(1918)
• Der Antiquar von Straßburg(1918)
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin(1918)
• Intoxication(1919)
• Malaria(1919)
• The Oyster Princess(1919)
• Helmsman Holk(1920)
• Catherine the Great(1920)
• The Burning Soil(1922)
• Alexandra(1922)
• Der Kampf ums Ich(1922)
• The Love Nest(1922)
• The Burning Secret(1923)
• The Expulsion(1923)
• Finances of the Grand Duke(1924)
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans(1927)
• The Main Event(1927)
• A City Upside Down(1933)
• Amphitryon(1935), costume designer
• Dance on the Volcano(1938)
• Ein Walzer mit dir(1943)
• Hanna Amon(1951)
• Ein Polterabend(1955)
• Fidelio(1956)

See also

• List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees

External links

• Rochus GlieseatIMDb