Harry Peel (creative nickname), German. Harry Piel , real name Hubert Augustus Piel , German. Hubert August Piel , ( July 12, 1892 , Dusseldorf - March 27, 1963 , Munich ) - German film actor, director, screenwriter and producer, who became famous in the era of silent cinema .
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| Birth name | Hubert August Peel him. Hubert august piel |
| Date of Birth | July 12, 1892 |
| Place of Birth | Dusseldorf , German Empire |
| Date of death | March 27, 1963 (aged 70) |
| Place of death | Munich , Germany |
| Citizenship |  Germany |
| Profession | actor , filmmaker , screenwriter , film producer |
| Career | 1912 - 1953 |
| Direction | adventure , detective |
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Biography
After graduating from school in 1909, he became a naval cadet on the Grossherzogin Elisabeth sailboat, but after 2 years he abandoned the career of a sailor.
In 1912 he arrived in Berlin , where he organized a film company and, as a screenwriter, director and producer, made his first film, “Black Blood” (“Schwarzes Blut”) starring Kurt Goetz.
Since 1915 he began to act in films. Peel, who preferred the action movie genre, was one of the movie stars of his time, including in the Soviet film distribution. The figure of Peel is mentioned in the verses of Valentin Kataev “Causes and Consequences”, by Vladimir Mayakovsky “Marusya Poisoned”, “ Bedbug ” and a number of other literary works.
(...) Harry Peel in a car
Feather in pillars of dense dust.
Harry Peel Enemy - Bandit -
It was not like a bast too.
Outstripping Harry Peel,
Mentioned thug
Dump out of car
Harry Peel strives. (...)- V. Kataev, “Causes and Consequences”, 1926
(…) On the streets,
under the direction of
Harry Piley
placed
the network
Sovkino -
from our
today's
were difficult
takes away
to life to another. (...)- Vl. Mayakovsky, "Maroussia was poisoned", 1927
Peel was nicknamed "Dynamite Director" for the frequent use of Pyrotechnics . In fact, one of Peel’s friends was an engineer who supervised the demolition of buildings: he had warned his friend in advance of the impending blasting, and Peel inserted shots from the buildings and bridges in advance into his films.
Some of them were especially successful at the box office, including Man Against Man (1928), Attention - Car Thieves (1930) and Artists (1935).
In 1927, Pil married actress Darya Holm.
In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and was enrolled in the SS . With the outbreak of World War II, Peel, as a famous and popular actor, was included by Goebbels in the list of artists involved in the filming of propaganda films .
Despite this, the film “Panik”, shot by Peel in 1928, in the story of which the animals scatter from the cells of the zoo and begin to terrorize the inhabitants of the city, was banned from showing in the Third Reich due to the too realistic image of the air raid.
During the war, 72 negative Peel films were destroyed as a result of the bombing, including almost all silent pictures.
In 1945, Peel was sentenced to 6 months in prison. After 5 years of the ban on professional activities, in 1950 in Hamburg he created the film company Ariel-Film and continued to make films.
Peel’s last film, Gesprengte Gitter, which he directed and starred in, was released in 1953.
Filmography
- 1912 - Black Blood
- 1918 - Diplomats
- 1922 - Black Envelope
- 1926 - Black Pierrot
- 1928 - Panic
- 1928 - Man versus Man
- 1930 - Warning - car thieves!
- 1934 - World without a mask
- 1935 - Artists
- 1953 - Exploded Grid
Literature
- Gerald Ramm: Das märkische Grabmal. Vergessene Filmlegenden zweier Drehorte . Woltersdorf 1997, p. 158, ISBN 3-930958-06-6 (German)
Links
- Harry Piel on the Internet Movie Database
- Harry Peel at Silent Movie
- Project Leonid Mileev "Photo List". Harry peel
- Photos and literature on virtual-history.com