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Paul Kemp (actor)

{{short description|German actor}}

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|image = Paul Kemp Egon Wilden.jpg

|caption = Paul Kemp, sketch circa 1925 by Egon Wilden

| name = Paul Kemp

| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|5|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bad Godesberg
German Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|8|13|1896|4|20|df=y}}

| death_place = Bad Godesberg
West Germany

| othername = Paul Peter Kemp

| occupation = Film actor

| yearsactive = 1920–1953

}}

Paul Kemp (20 May 1896 – 13 August 1953) was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War.{{cite book |last1=Bock |first1=Hans-Michael |last2=Bergfelder |first2=Tim |date=1 November 2004 |title=Concise Cinegraph: An Encyclopedia of German Cinema |location= New York City |publisher=Berghahn Books |page=239 |isbn=978-1-57181-655-9 }} Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953.

Selected filmography

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book | editor-first1 = Hans-Michael | editor-last1 = Bock | editor-link1 = Hans-Michael Bock | editor-first2 = Tim | editor-last2 = Bergfelder | title = The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2009 | location = New York | isbn = 978-1-57181-655-9 }}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0447349}}

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Category:1896 births

Category:1953 deaths

Category:20th-century German male actors

Category:Male actors from Bonn

Category:German male film actors

Category:German male stage actors

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