His Late Excellency
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Directed by	Adolf E. Licho Wilhelm Thiele
Written by	Rudolf Presber L.W. Stein Adolf E. Licho Wilhelm Thiele
Starring	Willy Fritsch Olga Chekhova Ernst Gronau
Cinematography	Werner Brandes
Production company	UFA
Distributed by	Parufamet
Release date	16 September 1927 (1927-09-16)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

His Late Excellency (German: Die selige Exzellenz) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Adolf E. Licho and Wilhelm Thiele and starring Willy Fritsch, Olga Chekhova, and Ernst Gronau.^[1] It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Erich Czerwonski and Günther Hentschel.

When a veteran aristocrat dies there is deep concern about the reported scandalous content of his memoirs, detailing the misdeeds of many of the country's leading citizens. They have come into the possession of Baroness von Windegg who enlists the help of the young Prince Ernst Albrecht to prevent a series of attempted thefts.

• Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
• Bock, Hans-Michael & Töteberg, Michael . Das Ufa-Buch. Zweitausendeins, 1992.

• His Late Excellency at IMDb

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