Lupu Pick
{{short description|German actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = Lupu-Pick.jpg
| name = Lupu Pick
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|1|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Iaşi, Romania
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|3|7|1886|1|2|df=y}}
| death_place = Berlin, Germany
| occupation = Actor, film director
| yearsactive = 1910–1931
| spouse = Edith Posca
}}
Lupu Pick (2 January 1886 – 7 March 1931) was a Romanian-German actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1910 and 1928.
Born in Romania, Pick's father was a Jewish Austrian,Hans Morgenstern "Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon. Eine Sammlung von bedeutenden Persönlichkeiten jüdischer Herkunft ab 1800", LIT Verlag, Vienna; p.637 and his mother of Romanian origin. He began as a stage actor in Hamburg, Flensburg and Berlin before 1910. In 1917 he founded the film company Rex-Film AG.
He served on the board of the Film Association of Industrialists (Vorstand des Verbandes der Filmindustriellen), SPIO and the Film Directors Association of Germany (Verbandes der Filmregisseure Deutschlands) and worked intensively to establish the union-based umbrella organization of Filmmakers in Germany (Filmschaffenden Deutschlands) (Dacho). He was the organization's first chairman.
Pick was married to actress Edith Posca.
Selected filmography
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- Die geheimnisvolle Villa (1914)
- No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (1915)
- A Night of Horror (1916)
- The Uncanny House (1916)
- Tales of Hoffmann (1916)
- Frank Hansen's Fortune (1917)
- The Lord of Hohenstein (1917)
- Mountain Air (1917)
- Let There Be Light (1917)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917)
- The Mirror of the World (1918)
- The Serenyi (1918)
- The Forbidden Way (1920)
- Nobody Knows (1920)
- Shattered (1921)
- Nights of Terror (1921)
- To the Ladies' Paradise (1922)
- City in View (1923)
- New Year's Eve (1924)
- The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin (1926)
- The Armoured Vault (1926)
- Countess Ironing-Maid (1926)
- Grandstand for General Staff (1926)
- The House of Lies (1926)
- The Girl with the Five Zeros (1927)
- Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein (1927)
- Spies (1928)
- A Knight in London (1929)
- The Street Song (1931)
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References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0681726|Lupu Pick}}
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Category:20th-century Romanian male actors
Category:German male silent film actors
Category:Film people from Berlin
Category:Romanian male film actors
Category:Romanian male silent film actors
Category:Romanian film directors
Category:Romanian film producers
Category:Romanian screenwriters
Category:Romanian expatriates in Germany
Category:German people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Category:Film people from Iași
Category:Male actors from Berlin
Category:20th-century German male actors
Category:Silent film screenwriters