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Nils Asther



Filmography

Nils Asther - filmography


  • Bluebeard (1944)
    Starring: John Carradine,  Jean Parker,  Nils Asther
    Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Catherine takes great pleasure in terrifying her elder sister Marie-Anne by reading her the infamous tale of "Bluebeard" until the poor girl is so frightened she bursts into tears. She also enjoys performing re-enactments of the fairy-tale in the role of Marie-Catherine, Bluebeard's last wife. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 64 members
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  • Submarine Alert on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Richard Arlen,  Wendy Barrie,  Nils Asther
    Director: Frank McDonald
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Richard Arlen plays FBI radio engineer Lee Deerhold, who turns bitter and vindictive when he is abruptly fired. Actually, his termination was engineered by his FBI superiors, so that Deerhold will be susceptible to a job offer from a gang of Nazi saboteurs. When Deerhold finally gets wise to what's ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 10 members
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  • Prisoner Of Corbal on DVD (1936)
    Starring: Hugh Sinclair,  Nils Asther,  Hazel Terry
    Director: Karl Grune
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Hazel Terry plays Cleonie, the romantic bone of contention between the French aristocrat Marquis de Corbal (Hugh Sinclair) and insurrectionist Varennes (Nils Asther). To save Cleonie from the guillotine during the Revolution, Varennes disguises her as his nephew (!) and smuggles her out of the ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 16 members
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  • The Bitter Tea of General Yen on DVD (1933)
    Starring: Barbara Stanwyck,  Nils Asther,  Toshia Mori
    Director: Frank Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in China during the "Warlord Period" of the late 20s and early 30s, the film concerns the strange abduction of a New England missionary and a cruel but highly cultured Chinese general. As the general tries to woo the missionary, her conflicted feelings for him come to the forefront, all the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 259 members
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  • Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
    Starring: Joan Crawford,  Johnny Mack Brown,  Nils Asther
    Director: Harry Beaumont
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When two women are interested in the same man he ultimately chooses the apparantly more modest of the two. However he soon questions his choice as the cracks in the marriage show and his true feelings begin to show.
    1.5 stars out of 5 32% from 7 members
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Nils Asther facts

5 most recent films

Bluebeard - 2.0 stars
Submarine Alert - 2.5 stars
Prisoner Of Corbal - 2.0 stars
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - 3.5 stars
Our Dancing Daughters - 1.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Bitter Tea of General Yen - 3.5 stars
Bluebeard - 2.0 stars
Submarine Alert - 2.5 stars
Prisoner Of Corbal - 2.0 stars
Our Dancing Daughters - 1.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Our Dancing Daughters - 1.5 stars
Prisoner Of Corbal - 2.0 stars
Submarine Alert - 2.5 stars
Bluebeard - 2.0 stars
The Bitter Tea of General Yen - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Barbara Stanwyck - 1 times - show films
George Pembroke - 1 times - show films
Hazel Terry - 1 times - show films
Noah Beery Jr. - 1 times - show films
John Miljan - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Harry Beaumont - 1 times - show films
Karl Grune - 1 times - show films
Edgar G. Ulmer - 1 times - show films
Frank McDonald - 1 times - show films
Frank Capra - 1 times - show films