1923
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Alternating directing with being in front of the camera, Schünzel proved a versatile performer -- equally at home in light comedy or in dramatic roles, often as irredeemable villains or as suave, powerful men of a dubious or corruptible nature.
- January 1, 1
- Hamburg, Germany (some sources say 1888)
- January 1, 1
- Munich, Germany
Reinhold Schünzel (or Schuenzel) started his career as an actor in 1915 with a role in the film Werner Krafft. He directed his first film in 1918's Mary Magdalene and in 1920 directed The Girl from Acker Street and Catherine the Great.
Amphitryon is a 1935 German musical film. Written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel, it is based on plays by Molière, Plautus, and Heinrich von Kleist, which in turn are based on Greek mythology.
Victor and Victoria (German: Viktor und Viktoria) is a 1933 German musical comedy film written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel, starring Renate Müller as a woman pretending to be a female impersonator.
Reinhold Schünzel is known as an Actor, Director, Writer, Screenplay, Producer, Original Film Writer, Story, and Scenario Writer. Some of his work includes Notorious, The 3 Penny Opera, Eerie Tales, Different from the Others, Berlin Express, Madame DuBarry, Hangmen Also Die!, and Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!.
Victor and Victoria: Directed by Reinhold Schünzel. With Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig, Hilde Hildebrand, Friedel Pisetta. Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man.
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He emigrated to the USA where he directed four films, e.g. "Ice Follies of 1939" (1939) and "Balalaika" (1939). Afterwards he became employed as a slogan-like Nazi scoundrel in movies as "Hangmen Also Die" (1942) and "The Hitler Gang" (1944).
