Nils Asther

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 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, 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.

Known For

Night Monster

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Feathered Serpent

The Hour Before the Dawn

Letty Lynton

Bluebeard

The Man in Half Moon Street

When Darkness Falls

All Movies (68)

• Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Gudrun1963 · as Mr. Roscoe
• Lady in White1962 · as Simon Ek
• Svenska Floyd1961 · as Vincent Mitella
• When Darkness Falls1960 · as Vicar Tord Ekstedt
• That Man from Tangier1953 · as Henri
• The Feathered Serpent1948 · as Paul Evans
• Love, Honor and Goodbye1945 · as Tony Linnard
• Jealousy1945 · as Peter Urban
• Son of Lassie1945 · as Olav
• The Man in Half Moon Street1945 · as Dr. Julian Karell
• Alaska1944 · as Thomas Leroux
• Bluebeard1944 · as Inspector Lefevre
• The Hour Before the Dawn1944 · as Kurt van der Breughel
• Mystery Broadcast1943 · as Ricky Moreno
• Submarine Alert1943 · as Dr. Arthur Huneker
• Night Monster1942 · as Agor Singh
• Sweater Girl1942 · as Prof. Henri Menard
• The Night Before the Divorce1942 · as Victor Roselle
• The Night of January 16th1941 · as Bjorn Faulkner
• Flying Blind1941 · as Eric Karolek
• Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day1941 · as Constanzo Labardi
• Forced Landing1941 · as Col. Jan Golas
• The Man Who Lost Himself1941 · as Peter Ransome
• Make-Up1937 · as Bux
• Guilty Melody1936 · as Galloni
• The Marriage of Corbal1936 · as Varennes
• Abdul the Damned1935 · as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
• Do You Remember?1935 · as (archive footage)
• Love Time1934 · as Franz Schubert
• The Love Captive1934 · as Dr. Alexis Collender
• The Crime Doctor1934 · as Gary Patten
• Madame Spy1934 · as Capt. Franck
• By Candlelight1933 · as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
• If I Were Free1933 · as Tono Casanove
• The Right To Romance1933 · as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
• Storm at Daybreak1933 · as Capt. Geza Petery
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen1932 · as General Yen
• The Washington Masquerade1932 · as Henri Brenner
• Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)1932 · as Himself
• Letty Lynton1932 · as Emile Renaul
• But the Flesh Is Weak1932 · as Prince Paul
• The Sea Bat1930 · as Carl
• The Single Standard1929 · as Packy Cannon
• Wild Orchids1929 · as Prince de Gace
• Dream of Love1928 · as Prince Mauritz
• The Cardboard Lover1928 · as Andre
• Our Dancing Daughters1928 · as Norman
• Loves of an Actress1928 · as Raoul Duval
• The Cossacks1928 · as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh1928 · as Count Luigi Ravelli
• The Blue Danube1928 · as Erich von Statzen
• Sorrell and Son1927 · as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
• Topsy and Eva1927 · as George Shelby
• Hotelratten1927 · as Fürst Ladrone
• Crooks in Tails1927 · as George Valeska
• Wrath of the Seas1926 · as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
• The Sweet Girl1926 · as The Prince's Son
• The Golden Butterfly1926 · as Andy McFarland
• Adventure Mad1926 · as Reginald Ellis
• Carl XII:s Courier1924 · as Stanislaus, Potockis nevö
• The Norrtull Gang1923
• Love's Crucible1922 · as Apprentice
• The Gyurkovics Boys1920 · as Bandi Gyurkovics
• A Trip to Mars1918 · as Martian citizen
• Retten sejrer1918
• Hittebarnet1917
• The Wings1916 · as Aspiring actor