Henry Victor

Personal Info

Birthday

October 2, 1892

Day of Death

1945-03-15

(52 years old)

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Henry Victor

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films. Later in his career, he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent. He died at 52 of a brain tumor. He is buried in Chatsworth, California's at the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Victor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Freaks

The Mummy

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

To Be or Not to Be

Suicide Fleet

The Beloved Rogue

Above Suspicion

Spring Parade

Filmography

1945
Betrayal from the East
as Brunzman (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
as Russian General (uncredited)
1943
Above Suspicion
as German Office (Uncredited)
Mission to Moscow
as Herr Schufeldt - Hamburg Official (uncredited)
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
as Heilrich
1942
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
as Professor Frederic Hoffner (uncredited)
Underground Agent
as Johann Schrode
Once Upon a Honeymoon
as German Storm Trooper (uncredited)
Desperate Journey
as Heinrich Schwarzmueller
The Wife Takes a Flyer
as Col. Bosch
To Be or Not to Be
as Capt. Schultz
Blue, White, and Perfect
as Rudolf Hagerman
1941
Dangerously They Live
as U-Boat Captain Horst (uncredited)
Underground
as Gestapo Agent
King of the Zombies
as Dr. Miklos Sangre
1940
The Mad Doctor
as Furber (Uncredited)
Charter Pilot
as Faber
Escape
as Gestapo Officer with Hooked Nose (uncredited)
Mystery Sea Raider
as Cmdr. Bulow
Seven Sinners
as Dutch Police Officer (uncredited)
Spring Parade
as Dutch Officer
The Mortal Storm
as Gestapo Official Confiscating Book on Train
Zanzibar
as Mate Simpson
1939
Nick Carter, Master Detective
as Hammil - tall spy boss
Pack Up Your Troubles
as Col. Schlager
Espionage Agent
as Foreign Official
Thunder Afloat
as German U-Boat Officer
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Jaubec
Hotel Imperial
as Sultanov (uncredited)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Wildebrandt
1937
Fine Feathers
as Gibbons
Our Fighting Navy
as Lt. d'Enriquo
The Great Barrier
as Bulldog Kelly
1936
Fame
as Actor
1935
Can You Hear Me, Mother?
as Father
The Way of Youth
as M. Sylvestre
Murder at Monte Carlo
as Major
1934
Tiger Bay
as Olaf
I Spy
as KPO
The Scotland Yard Mystery
as Floyd
1933
Luxury Liner
as Baron von Luden
1932
The Mummy
as The Saxon Warrior (scenes deleted)
Freaks
as Hercules
1931
The Conquest of the Air
as Otto Lilienthal
Suicide Fleet
as Captain Von Schlettow
Seas Beneath
as Baron Ernst von Steuben (U-boat commander)
1930
One Heavenly Night
as Almady, the Officer
Song of Soho
as Henry
1929
The Hate Ship
as Count Boris Ivanoff
After the Verdict
as Mr. Sabine
1928
L'Argent
as Jacques Hamelin
Tommy Atkins
as Victor
The Guns of Loos
as John Grimlaw
1927
The Luck of the Navy
as Lt. Clive Stanton
Topsy and Eva
as Augustine St. Claire
The Beloved Rogue
as Thibault d'Aussigny
1926
Crossed Signals
as Jack McDermott
1925
Braveheart
as Sam Harris
The White Monkey
as Wilfrid Desert
1924
The Sins Ye Do
as Ronald Hillier
The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
as Ronald Cavendish
The White Shadow
as Louis Chadwick
His Grace Gives Notice
as George Berwick
Slaves of Destiny
as Ralph Warriner
Henry, King of Navarre
as Duc de Guise
1923
The Royal Oak
as Charles I / Charles II
1922
A Bill of Divorcement
as Grey Meredith
Diana of the Crossways
as Hon. Percy Dacier
A Romance of Old Baghdad
as Horne Jerningham
Bentley's Conscience
as Fletcer
1921
The Old Wives' Tale
as Gerald
1920
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
as Dr. Lucien Calvert
John Heriot's Wife
as John Henriot
As God Made Her
as Seward Pendyne
1916
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Dorian Gray
She
as Leo Vincey