Wolf Albach-Retty

Wolf Albach-Retty was an Austrian actor. He was the father of Romy Schneider with the German actress Magda Schneider.

Career

Born as Wolfgang Helmuth Albert Albach in Vienna to actress Rosa Albach-Retty and K. u. K. officer Karl Albach, Albach-Retty trained at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and at the age of twenty played his first role at the Vienna Burgtheater.
He was a young man when he first appeared in a silent film role in 1927. In 1933 Albach-Retty became a patron member of the SS and in 1940 he joined the Nazi Party.
During the Third Reich, he made romance films and musicals. In 1936 he married Magda Schneider and temporarily took up German citizenship. In 1944, he was added to head of Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels' Gottbegnadeten list of individuals that Goebbels considered crucial to Nazi culture. His addition to the list made him exempt from military service obligations.
After World War II, his acting career soured as his past successes were no longer remembered, and he was only able to find supporting acting roles in films. He returned to the Burgtheater and starred in, among other plays, Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler. By that time, he was into his second marriage to actress Trude Marlen. Together, they had a daughter, Sacha Darwin. He died in Vienna on 21 February 1967 and is buried in Vienna's Zentralfriedhof.

Selected filmography

' Ein Wiener Musikantenmädel The Mysterious Mirror as SculptorLove in May Der Dieb im Schlafcoupée The Uncle from Sumatra General Babka Der Fleck auf der Ehr as Fred, Mrs. von Werner's grandsonWiener Zauberklänge as Teddy BeamgardenTwo Hearts Beat as One as Victor Müller

Girls to Marry as Paul, Robert Groll's brotherThe Beautiful Adventure as Andre d'EguzonThe Black Hussar as Leutnant Aribert von BlomeAnd the Plains Are Gleaming as Peter Borly, HusarenleutnantKind, ich freu' mich auf dein Kommen as HerbertLove Must Be Understood as Bobby Brandt, Ellens VetterJust Once a Great Lady as Heinz von WolfensteinSpring Parade as Wilhelm August Jurek
Tales from the Vienna Woods as Graf Rudi von WaldheimDie Katz' im Sack as Edmund Vernon, RennfahrerWinter Night's Dream as Peter Kreutzberg
Großreinemachen as Robert CoxThe Bird Seller as Adam der VogelhändlerSylvia und ihr Chauffeur as Dr. Hartenegg
Rendezvous in Wien as Franz Lenhardt – MusikerThe Fairy Doll as Alexander – sein Bruder
Geheimnis eines alten Hauses as Teddy EberleinMillionäre/Ich möcht' so gern mit Dir allein sein as Fred, beider SohnDie glücklichste Ehe der Welt as Peter ReitererDarling of the Sailors as Kapitänleutnant Igor JuritschFrühlingsluft as Erbprinz, RudolfDer Hampelmann as Paul OertelHotel Sacher as Lt. Herrngruber
Liebe streng verboten Heimatland as Günther Nordmann, ReitlehrerA Mother's Love as Walter Pirlinger – 1922Das Glück wohnt nebenan Wie konntest Du, Veronika as Dr. Fred JunkerFalstaff in Vienna as Robert von Weitenegg
Seven Years Hard Luck as Heinz KerstenSo gefällst Du mir as Peter SeidlTanz mit dem Kaiser as Rittmeister von KleberDie heimliche Gräfin as Michael HohenwardtSeven Years of Good Luck/''Seven Years of Happiness as Heinz KerstenTwo Happy People Mask in Blue as Georg HardingAbenteuer im Grand Hotel as Rudolf, Count Lerchenau / Rudi LindtThe White Dream as Ernst EderReisebekanntschaft as Walter FalkeAlles aus Liebe as Rolf Möller, TierdresseurRomantische Brautfahrt as Der junge Baron Ferdinand CrisanderHundstage as Dr. Paul WendlerA Man Like Maximilian as Dr. Thomas HesseWie ein Dieb in der Nacht Alles Lüge as Will WoltersEin bezaubernder Schwindler as Martin Palmer, junger Komponist
Dangerous Guests as Peter AndersGrossstadtnacht as Alfred SiedlerTwo in One Suit as Otto VogelThe Man in Search of Himself as Marius AldonCzardas of Hearts as Peter Tornay / Paul EndreWoe to Him Who Loves as Dr. GöttUnschuld in tausend Nöten/Das Mädel aus der Konfektion as Dr. Singer

' as Sandor von Halvany' as Georg SchmittleinDer Mann in der Wanne Ideal Woman Sought as Robby HolmThe Mine Foreman as Andreas Spaun, ein KavalierThe Bird Seller as FürstThe Great Lola as Carlo Werner
The Sweetest Fruits as Roberto di Caramello / Bananen-BeppoSchool for Marriage as TobiasThe Seven Dresses of Katrin as Martin PallHis Daughter is Called Peter as Ingenieur Max Klaar, ihr VaterYour Life Guards as Onkel NikolausAnd Who Is Kissing Me? as Lindner
' as Enrico AlovanisEngagement at Wolfgangsee as Erich EckbergImperial and Royal Field Marshal as Baron Linsky' as Kapitän Paul Heider
' as Baron Siebenzell' as Erzherzog MaxEndangered Girls as Dr. Thomas JensenMan ist nur zweimal jung asPeter GrafeneggerImmer die Radfahrer as Prof. Johannes BüttnerMein ganzes Herz ist voll Musik as Niko Berthold
' as Albert TürkheimPeter, das Zirkuskind/Auf allen Strassen as Christian, GutsbesitzerGirls for the Mambo-Bar as KrügerHunting Party as Friedrich DahlhoffFrauen in Teufels Hand as Herr von Parisi' as Mr. Reichert
' as Baron von DanningAutofahrer unterwegs/Auf den Strassen einer Stadt as PetersThe Post Has Gone as Lukas LenzThe Forester's Daughter as Graf PaalenBergwind as Herr MeisterThe Cardinal as Baron Hartman
' asChef der Wiener Eisrevue
Die Kinder as Gandolf Graf Freyn
' as Herr BaumannLeinen aus Irland as Ministerialrat Kress
Die Tänzerin Fanny Elßler'' as Fürst Esterházy