Rochus Gliese

Rochus Gliese (6 January 1891 — 22 December 1978) was a German actor, director, production designer, and Academy Award-nominated art director of early films from the 1910s and 1920s. He was born in Berlin.

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

He is most remembered in the United States for his work as an art director on the film Sunrise: 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's Chasing Fortune, though he did some behind-the-scenes roles through the 1930s and in the 1950s. His final work was 1955's Fidelio, where he worked as a set 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 Gliese at IMDb