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Gustav von Seyffertitz
Gustav von Seyffertitz
	Seyffertitz in 1922
Born	Gustav Carl Viktor Bodo Maria von Seyffertitz; 4 August 1862; Haimhausen, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation
Died	25 December 1943 (aged 81); Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	ca. 1880–1939
Spouse(s)	Katharina Hoffmann (1886); Toni Creutzburg (1894); Frieda; Eugenie von Mink; Nelly Thorne
Children	Wilhelm (1882); Joan Goodridge

Gustav von Seyffertitz (4 August 1862 – 25 December 1943) was a German film actor and director. He settled in the United States. He was born in Haimhausen, Bavaria, and died in Los Angeles, California, aged 81.

Biography

Gustav von Seyffertitz was born into an aristocratic family as the son of Guido Freiherr von Seyffertitz and his wife Anna Gräfin von Butler Clonebough zu Haimhausen. His family expected him to start a military career, but was shocked when he said that he wanted to be an actor. He was a member of the Meiningen Court Theatre and also appeared in operas. He emigrated to the United States in 1896, after being asked by the Austrian-American theatre director Heinrich Conried. Despite his thick German accent, he was successful on Broadway where he worked as a stage actor and director during the 1900s and 1910s. He appeared as an actor in such lavish productions as The Brass Bottle in 1910. This play was turned into several films and was the idea for the television show I Dream of Jeannie in the 1960s.^[2] He made his film debut in 1917, appearing with Douglas Fairbanks in Down to Earth.

In his films, the dignified-looking Seyffertitz often played the "very embodiment of the Hideous Hun - America's notion of the merciless, atrocity-happy German military officer".^[3] One of his most successful film roles was Professor Moriarty in 1922's Sherlock Holmes with John Barrymore. He also played the antagonist to Mary Pickford in Sparrows (1926) and appeared as Ramon Novarro's uncle, the king of a small German state, in Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927). He continued his career into the sound film and portrayed supporting roles in the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich films Dishonored (1931) and Shanghai Express (1932). Among his later film roles was a parody on Sigmund Freud in Frank Capra's film classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). He appeared in 118 films between 1917 and 1939.

Seyffertitz was married five times and had numerous children.^[4]

Filmography

As actor

Down to Earth (1917) as Dr. Jollyem
The Countess Charming (1917) as Jacob Vandergraft
The Little Princess (1917) as Mr. Carrisford
The Devil-Stone (1917) as Stephen Densmore
Stella Maris (1918) as The Surgeon (uncredited)
Rimrock Jones (1918) as Stoddard
The Widow's Might (1918) as Horace Hammer
The Hidden Pearls (1918) as Senator Joseph Benton
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918) as Surgeon (uncredited)
The Whispering Chorus (1918) as Mocking face
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918) as Professor Balthasar
Mr. Fix-It (1918) as Doctor (uncredited)
Old Wives for New (1918) as Melville Bladen
To Hell with the Kaiser! (1918)
Less Than Kin (1918) as Endicott Lee
Till I Come Back to You (1918) as Karl von Drutz
The Source (1918) as Ekstrom
Sic 'Em, Sam (1918, Short)
Swat the Kaiser (1918, Short) as The Kaiser
The Roaring Road (1919) as Minor Role (uncredited)
The Dark Star (1919) as German Spy
The Vengeance of Durand (1919) as Henri Durand
Even as Eve (1920) as Amasu Munn
Slaves of Pride (1920) as John Reynolds
The Sporting Duchess (1920) as Major Roland Mostyn
Madonnas and Men (1920) as Grimaldo / John Grimm
Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920) as Señor Joaquin
Sherlock Holmes (1922) as Professor Moriarty
When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922) as Grammont
The Face in the Fog (1922) as Michael
The Inner Man (1922) as Jud Benson
Mark of the Beast (1923) as John Hunter
Unseeing Eyes (1923) as Father Paquette
Under the Red Robe (1923) as Clom
Yolanda (1924) as Oliver de Daim
The Lone Wolf (1924) as Wetheimer
The Bandolero (1924) as Marques de Bazan
The Hooded Falcon (1924)
Grounds for Divorce (1925) as Labell
The Goose Woman (1925) as Mr. Vogel
A Regular Fellow (1925) as Prime Minister
Flower of Night (1925) as Vigilante leader
The Eagle (1925) as Court Servant at Dinner (uncredited)
The Danger Girl (1926) as James
Red Dice (1926) as Andrew North
Sparrows (1926) as Mr. Grimes
The Dice Woman (1926) as Datto of Mandat
The Bells (1926) as Jerome Frantz
Don Juan (1926) as Neri the alchemist (uncredited)
The Lone Wolf Returns (1926) as Morphew
Unknown Treasures (1926) as Simmons
Diplomacy (1926) as Baron Ballin
My Official Wife (1926) as Grand Duke
Private Izzy Murphy (1926) as Cohannigan
Going Crooked (1926) as Mordaunt
Anything Once! (1927, Short) as Chancellor Gherkin
The Price of Honor (1927) as Peter Fielding
Birds of Prey (1927) as Foxy
Barbed Wire (1927) as Pierre Corlet
The Magic Flame (1927) as The Chancellor
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) as King Karl VII
Rose of the Golden West (1927) as Gomez
The Gaucho (1927) as Ruiz the usurper
The Wizard (1927) as Prof. Paul Coriolos
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928) as Nathan Cherry
Vamping Venus (1928) as Jupiter
Yellow Lily (1928) as Kinkelin
The Mysterious Lady (1928) as General Boris Alexandroff
The Red Mark (1928) as De Nou
The Docks of New York (1928) as "Hymn Book" Harry
The Woman Disputed (1928) as Otto Krueger
Me, Gangster (1928) as Factory Owner
The Case of Lena Smith (1929) as Herr Hofrat
The Canary Murder Case (1929) as Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
Come Across (1929) as Pop Hanson
Chasing Through Europe (1929) as Phineas Merrill
His Glorious Night (1929) as Krehl
Seven Faces (1929) as M. Pratouchy
Dangerous Paradise (1930) as Mr. Jones
The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930) as General Schieffenzahn
The Bat Whispers (1930) as Dr Venrees
Are You There? (1930) as Barber
Dishonored (1931) as Austrian Secret Service Chief
The Front Page (1931) as Professor Max J. Engelhoffer (uncredited)
Ambassador Bill (1931) as Prince de Polikoff
Safe in Hell (1931) as Larson
Shanghai Express (1932) as Eric Baum
The Roadhouse Murder (1932) as Charles Spengler
Doomed Battalion (1932) as Austrian General
Almost Married (1932) as Pringle's Doctor
Afraid to Talk (1932) as Attorney Harry Berger
The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) as Von Donnen / Dr Max Bloom
Rasputin and the Empress (1932) as Dr. Franz Wolfe (uncredited)
The Silver Cord (1932) as German Doctor (uncredited)
When Strangers Marry (1933) as Van Wyck
Captured! (1933) as German Military Judge (uncredited)
Queen Christina (1933) as General
Mystery Liner (1934) as Inspector Von Kessling
All Men Are Enemies (1934) as Baron (uncredited)
Change of Heart (1934) as Dr. Nathan Kurtzman
Murder on the Blackboard (1934) as Dr. Max Von Immen
The Moonstone (1934) as Carl von Lucker
Little Men (1934) as Schoolmaster Page (uncredited)
The Night Is Young (1935) as Ambassador (uncredited)
She (1935) as Billali (uncredited)
Remember Last Night? (1935) as Professor Karl Jones
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) as Doctor Emile von Haller (uncredited)
Murder on a Bridle Path (1936) as Doctor Bloom
Mad Holiday (1936) as Hendrick Van Mier
In Old Chicago (1938) as Dutch
Paradise for Three (1938) as Lawyer (uncredited)
Swiss Miss (1938) as Gardener (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette (1938) as King's Confessor (uncredited)
King of Alcatraz (1938) as Bill Lustig (uncredited)
Cipher Bureau (1938) as Albert Grood
Son of Frankenstein (1939) as A burgher #1
Hotel Imperial (1939) as Priest (uncredited)
Never Say Die (1939) as Chemist (uncredited)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939) as President of Court
The Mad Empress (1939) as Ambassador Metternich

As director

The Secret Garden (1919)
Princess Jones (1921)
Closed Doors (1921)
Peggy Puts It Over (1921)

References

^ "Gustav von Seyffertitz, The true Hollywood Artistocrat". www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ "Gustav von Seyffertitz at Internet Broadway Database". IBDb. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
^ "Gustav von Seyffertitz, Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^ "Gustav von Seyffertitz, The true Hollywood Artistocrat". www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

External links

Gustav von Seyffertitz at IMDb
Gustav von Seyffertitz at the Internet Broadway Database
Gustav von Seyffertitz at Find a Grave

[1] "Gustav von Seyffertitz, The true Hollywood Artistocrat". www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

[ibdb-2] "Gustav von Seyffertitz at Internet Broadway Database". IBDb. 27 April 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2012.

[3] "Gustav von Seyffertitz, Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

[4] "Gustav von Seyffertitz, The true Hollywood Artistocrat". www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2019.

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