Nils Asther

Personal Info

Birthday

January 16, 1897

Day of Death

1981-10-13

(84 years old)

Place of Birth

Copenhagen, Denmark

Also Known As

Nils Anton Alfhild Asther

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

The Single Standard

The Night Before the Divorce

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

Son of Lassie

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

Submarine Alert

Wrath of the Seas

A Trip to Mars

Filmography

2022
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
as Self (archive footage)
1963
Gudrun
as Mr. Roscoe
1962
Lady in White
as Simon Ek
1961
Svenska Floyd
as Vincent Mitella
1960
When Darkness Falls
as Vicar Tord Ekstedt
1953
That Man from Tangier
as Henri
1948
The Feathered Serpent
as Paul Evans
1945
Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Tony Linnard
Jealousy
as Peter Urban
Son of Lassie
as Olav
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Dr. Julian Karell
1944
Alaska
as Thomas Leroux
Bluebeard
as Inspector Lefevre
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Kurt van der Breughel
1943
Mystery Broadcast
as Ricky Moreno
Submarine Alert
as Dr. Arthur Huneker
1942
Night Monster
as Agor Singh
Sweater Girl
as Prof. Henri Menard
The Night Before the Divorce
as Victor Roselle
1941
The Night of January 16th
as Bjorn Faulkner
Flying Blind
as Eric Karolek
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
as Constanzo Labardi
Forced Landing
as Col. Jan Golas
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Peter Ransome
1937
Make-Up
as Bux
1936
Guilty Melody
as Galloni
The Marriage of Corbal
as Varennes
1935
Abdul the Damned
as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
Do You Remember?
as (archive footage)
1934
Love Time
as Franz Schubert
The Crime Doctor
as Gary Patten
Madame Spy
as Capt. Franck
1933
By Candlelight
as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
If I Were Free
as Tono Casanove
The Right To Romance
as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
Storm at Daybreak
as Capt. Geza Petery
1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as General Yen
The Washington Masquerade
as Henri Brenner
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
as Himself
Letty Lynton
as Emile Renaul
But the Flesh Is Weak
as Prince Paul
1930
The Sea Bat
as Carl
1929
The Single Standard
as Packy Cannon
Wild Orchids
as Prince de Gace
1928
Dream of Love
as Prince Mauritz
The Cardboard Lover
as Andre
Our Dancing Daughters
as Norman
Loves of an Actress
as Raoul Duval
The Cossacks
as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
as Count Luigi Ravelli
The Blue Danube
as Erich von Statzen
1927
Sorrell and Son
as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
Topsy and Eva
as George Shelby
Hotelratten
as Fürst Ladrone
Gauner im Frack
as George Valeska
1926
Wrath of the Seas
as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
The Golden Butterfly
as Andy McFarland
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
as Reginald Ellis
1924
Carl XII:s kurir
as Stanislaus, Potockis nevö
1922
Love's Crucible
as Apprentice
1920
The Gyurkovics Boys
as Bandi Gyurkovics
1918
A Trip to Mars
as Martian citizen
1916
The Wings
as Aspiring actor