Max Schreck Biography

by Andre Soares | | Leave a Comment     

 

Max Schreck in NosferatuDave Graham reports in Reuters that later this year what appears to be the first biography of silent-film actor Max Schreck, in my view the most effective movie vampire of them all, will be published in Germany.

Schreck starred in F.W. Murnau’s excellent 1922 horror drama Nosferatu, presumably the first feature film based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. (In this unauthorized adaptation, the Count is called Orlock.)

Author Stefan Eickhoff has tried to bring to light the actor’s career in Max Schreck — Gespenstertheater ("Ghost Theatre"), though the man himself — no real vampire he — apparently will remain a mystery. Precious little was written about him while he was alive or after he was dead.

As per Graham’s piece, the few reminiscences about Schreck, who died of heart failure in 1936, refer to him "as a loyal, conscientious loner with an offbeat sense of humor and a talent for playing the grotesque."

 

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by Andre Soares | May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Actors, Books, Film, German Cinema, Silent Films 

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