From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 done in the silent era. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nils Anton Alfhild Asther, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
| Birth Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
|---|---|
| Born | 1897-01-16 |
| Died | 1981-10-13 |
Movies
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Gudrun
as Mr. Roscoe
1963
Lady in White
as Simon Ek
1962
Svenska Floyd
as Vincent Mitella
1961
When Darkness Falls
as Vicar Tord Ekstedt
1960
That Man from Tangier
as Henri
1953
The Feathered Serpent
as Paul Evans
1948
Love, Honor and Goodbye
as Tony Linnard
1945
Jealousy
as Peter Urban
1945
Son of Lassie
as Olav
1945
The Man in Half Moon Street
as Dr. Julian Karell
1945
Alaska
as Thomas Leroux
1944
Bluebeard
as Inspector Lefevre
1944
The Hour Before the Dawn
as Kurt van der Breughel
1944
Mystery Broadcast
as Ricky Moreno
1943
Submarine Alert
as Dr. Arthur Huneker
1943
Night Monster
as Agor Singh
1942
Sweater Girl
as Prof. Henri Menard
1942
The Night Before the Divorce
as Victor Roselle
1942
The Night of January 16th
as Bjorn Faulkner
1941
Flying Blind
as Eric Karolek
1941
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
as Constanzo Labardi
1941
Forced Landing
as Col. Jan Golas
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Peter Ransome
1941
Make-Up
as Bux
1937
Guilty Melody
as Galloni
1936
The Marriage of Corbal
as Varennes
1936
Abdul the Damned
as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
1935
Do You Remember?
as (archive footage)
1935
Love Time
as Franz Schubert
1934
The Crime Doctor
as Gary Patten
1934
Madame Spy
as Capt. Franck
1934
By Candlelight
as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
1933
If I Were Free
as Tono Casanove
1933
The Right To Romance
as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
1933
Storm at Daybreak
as Capt. Geza Petery
1933
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as General Yen
1933
The Washington Masquerade
as Henri Brenner
1932
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
as Himself
1932
Letty Lynton
as Emile Renaul
1932
But the Flesh Is Weak
as Prince Paul
1932
The Sea Bat
as Carl
1930
The Single Standard
as Packy Cannon
1929
Wild Orchids
as Prince de Gace
1929
Dream of Love
as Prince Mauritz
1928
The Cardboard Lover
as Andre
1928
Our Dancing Daughters
as Norman
1928
Loves of an Actress
as Raoul Duval
1928
The Cossacks
as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
1928
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
as Count Luigi Ravelli
1928
The Blue Danube
as Erich von Statzen
1928
Sorrell and Son
as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
1927
Topsy and Eva
as George Shelby
1927
Hotelratten
as Fürst Ladrone
1927
Gauner im Frack
as George Valeska
1927
Wrath of the Seas
as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
1926
The Golden Butterfly
as Andy McFarland
1926
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
as Reginald Ellis
1926
Carl XII:s kurir
as Stanislaus, Potockis nevö
1924
1923
Love's Crucible
as Apprentice
1922
The Gyurkovics Boys
as Bandi Gyurkovics
1920
A Trip to Mars
as Martian citizen
1918
1918
1917
The Wings
as Aspiring actor
1916
Nils Asther hasn't worked on any movies or TV shows
