Nils Asther
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 – 19 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, whereof 16 done in the silent era. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nils Anton Alfhild Asther, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jan 17, 1897 In Hellerup, Denmark
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 67
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Wings 1916-09-04
- Latest Project:
- Movie Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer 2022-02-25
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer | Self (archive footage) | 2022-02-25 |
| Movie | Gudrun | Mr. Roscoe | 1963-11-20 |
| Movie | Lady in White | Simon Ek | 1962-07-02 |
| Movie | Svenska Floyd | Vincent Mitella | 1961-07-10 |
| Movie | When Darkness Falls | Vicar Tord Ekstedt | 1960-12-26 |
| Movie | That Man from Tangier | Henri | 1953-05-08 |
| Movie | The Feathered Serpent | Paul Evans | 1948-12-19 |
| Movie | The Man in Half Moon Street | Dr. Julian Karell | 1945-01-19 |
| Movie | Son of Lassie | Olav | 1945-04-20 |
| Movie | Jealousy | Peter Urban | 1945-07-23 |
| Movie | Love, Honor and Goodbye | Tony Linnard | 1945-09-15 |
| Movie | Bluebeard | Inspector Lefevre | 1944-10-26 |
| Movie | The Hour Before the Dawn | Kurt van der Breughel | 1944-05-10 |
| Movie | Alaska | Thomas Leroux | 1944-11-18 |
| Movie | Submarine Alert | Dr. Arthur Huneker | 1943-06-28 |
| Movie | Mystery Broadcast | Ricky Moreno | 1943-11-23 |
| Movie | The Night Before the Divorce | Victor Roselle | 1942-03-06 |
| Movie | Night Monster | Agor Singh | 1942-10-20 |
| Movie | Sweater Girl | Prof. Henri Menard | 1942-07-13 |
| Movie | The Man Who Lost Himself | Peter Ransome | 1941-03-21 |
| Movie | Forced Landing | Col. Jan Golas | 1941-07-11 |
| Movie | Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day | Constanzo Labardi | 1941-08-22 |
| Movie | The Night of January 16th | Bjorn Faulkner | 1941-11-28 |
| Movie | Flying Blind | Eric Karolek | 1941-08-29 |
| Movie | Make-Up | Bux | 1937-06-28 |
| Movie | The Marriage of Corbal | Varennes | 1936-05-28 |
| Movie | Guilty Melody | Galloni | 1936-07-21 |
| Movie | Abdul the Damned | Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police | 1935-08-05 |
| Movie | Do You Remember? | (archive footage) | 1935-01-01 |
| Movie | Madame Spy | Capt. Franck | 1934-02-10 |
| Movie | The Crime Doctor | Gary Patten | 1934-03-14 |
| Movie | Love Time | Franz Schubert | 1934-11-03 |
| Movie | Bombshell | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) | 1933-10-13 |
| Movie | Storm at Daybreak | Capt. Geza Petery | 1933-06-14 |
| Movie | If I Were Free | Tono Casanove | 1933-12-01 |
| Movie | The Right To Romance | Dr. Helmuth Heppling | 1933-11-17 |
| Movie | By Candlelight | Prince Alfred Von Rommer | 1933-12-18 |
| Movie | Letty Lynton | Emile Renaul | 1932-04-30 |
| Movie | Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) | Himself | 1932-06-17 |
| Movie | But the Flesh Is Weak | Prince Paul | 1932-04-09 |
| Movie | The Washington Masquerade | Henri Brenner | 1932-07-09 |
| Movie | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | General Yen | 1932-12-25 |
| Movie | The Sea Bat | Carl | 1930-07-05 |
| Movie | Wild Orchids | Prince de Gace | 1929-02-23 |
| Movie | The Single Standard | Packy Cannon | 1929-07-27 |
| Movie | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Himself (scenes deleted) | 1929-11-23 |
| Movie | Loves of an Actress | Raoul Duval | 1928-08-18 |
| Movie | The Blue Danube | Erich von Statzen | 1928-03-11 |
| Movie | Laugh, Clown, Laugh | Count Luigi Ravelli | 1928-04-14 |
| Movie | The Cossacks | Prince Olenin Stieshneff | 1928-06-23 |
| Movie | Our Dancing Daughters | Norman | 1928-09-01 |
| Movie | Dream of Love | Prince Mauritz | 1928-12-01 |
| Movie | The Cardboard Lover | Andre | 1928-09-02 |
| Movie | Gauner im Frack | George Valeska | 1927-02-04 |
| Movie | Hotelratten | Fürst Ladrone | 1927-04-13 |
| Movie | Sorrell and Son | Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell | 1927-12-02 |
| Movie | Topsy and Eva | George Shelby | 1927-07-26 |
| Movie | Die drei Kuckucksuhren | Reginald Ellis | 1926-05-25 |
| Movie | The Golden Butterfly | Andy McFarland | 1926-07-31 |
| Movie | Wrath of the Seas | Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried | 1926-12-01 |
| Movie | Carl XII:s kurir | Stanislaus, Potockis nevö | 1924-04-07 |
| Movie | The Norrtull Gang | 1923-12-23 | |
| Movie | Love's Crucible | Apprentice | 1922-01-01 |
| Movie | The Gyurkovics Boys | Bandi Gyurkovics | 1920-12-26 |
| Movie | A Trip to Mars | Martian citizen | 1918-02-22 |
| Movie | Hittebarnet | 1917-11-26 | |
| Movie | The Wings | Aspiring actor | 1916-09-04 |