Profile
Willy Fritsch
Actor + Leading Man
Male
Born
Jan 27, 1901
Hometown
Katowice
Died
Jul 13, 1973
Death Place
Hamburg
Other Names
Wilhelm Egon Frit...
Willy Fritsch was a German theater and film actor, the popular leading man in German silent motion-pictures.
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Dinah GraceMarried 1937 - 1963
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1901
Birth
Born on January 27, 1901.
TEENAGE
1912
11 Years Old
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the son of a factory owner in Kattowitz (present-day Katowice) in the Prussian province of Silesia. After the bankruptcy of his father in 1912, the family moved to Berlin, where Fritsch sr. worked as an employee of the Siemens-Schuckert company.
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1919
18 Years Old
From 1919 he attended Max Reinhardt's drama school at the Deutsches Theater, where he debuted with small roles, and made his feature debut in films as a supporting player in 1921's Miß Venus.
TWENTIES
1928
27 Years Old
Fritsch remained a popular juvenile figure in films and the theater, but his real success came after being paired with Lilian Harvey in 1928, when they appeared regularly together in UFA movies like Der Kongreß tanzt (Congress Dances) by Erik Charell, released every year thereafter until Harvey's emigration in 1939.
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THIRTIES
1936
35 Years Old
In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Lilian Harvey's duet with Willy Fritsch from the 1936 film "Glückskinder", Ich wollt' ich wär ein Huhn ("I wish I was a chicken") can be heard playing on a phonograph in the basement scene "La Louisiane" as well as in the extended scene "Lunch With Goebbels", as Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) happily sings a portion of the song after deciding to hold a private screening of the film.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1964
63 Years Old
He continued to appear on stage and in movies like Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (When the White Lilacs Bloom Again) side by side with young Romy Schneider; his final film was 1964's I Learned It from Father (Das hab' ich von Papa gelernt) directed by Axel von Ambesser, in which he performed together with his son, actor Thomas Fritsch.
1973
73 Years Old
Died on July 13, 1973.
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