Leo Peukert

Leonhard "Leo" Peukert (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy The Happy Journey (1924),[1] he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era.

Leo Peukert
Born	Leonhard Peukert 26 August 1885 Munich, Bavaria German Empire
Died	6 January 1944 (aged 58) Waldshut-Tiengen Nazi Germany
Resting place	Munich Waldfriedhof
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1904–1944
Spouse(s)	Sabine Impekoven ​ ​ (m. 1914; his death 1944)​

He was married to the actress Sabine Impekoven who appeared with him in several silent films.

Selected filmography

• Poor Jenny (1912)
• My Leopold (1914)
• My Leopold (1919)
• The Love of Marion Bach (1919)
• King Krause (1919)
• Hasemann's Daughters (1920)
• My Leopold (1924)
• The Happy Journey (1924)
• The Second Mother (1925)
• Radio Magic (1927)
• Two Under the Stars (1927)
• I Stand in the Dark Midnight (1927)
• Mikosch Comes In (1928)
• Autumn on the Rhine (1928)
• Escape from Hell (1928)
• A Better Master (1928)
• Almenrausch and Edelweiss (1928)
• Beware of Loose Women (1929)
• The Lord of the Tax Office (1929)
• I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland (1928)
• The Convict from Istanbul (1929)
• Scandal in Baden-Baden (1929)
• Three Days Confined to Barracks (1930)
• Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1930)
• The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
• Moritz Makes his Fortune (1931)
• The Testament of Cornelius Gulden (1932)
• Happy Days in Aranjuez (1933)
• A Woman Who Knows What She Wants (1934)
• At the Strasbourg (1934)
• Gypsy Blood (1934)
• The Four Musketeers (1934)
• All Because of the Dog (1935)
• Paul and Pauline (1936)
• Diamonds (1937)
• My Son the Minister (1937)
• Gordian the Tyrant (1937)
• The Vagabonds (1937)
• Between the Parents (1938)
• The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl (1938)
• The Secret Lie (1938)
• The Deruga Case (1938)
• A Hopeless Case (1939)
• Central Rio (1939)
• Hotel Sacher (1939)
• The Scoundrel (1939)
• My Aunt, Your Aunt (1939)
• Kora Terry (1940)
• Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
• Counterfeiters (1940)
• Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree (1940)
• Women Are Better Diplomats (1941)
• Quax the Crash Pilot (1941)
• Doctor Crippen (1942)
• Diesel (1942)
• The Thing About Styx (1942)
• Mask in Blue (1943)
• Back Then (1943)
• Romance in a Minor Key (1943)
• Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1943)
• Tonelli (1943)

References

1. Grange p.164

Bibliography

• Grange, William. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

• Leo Peukert at IMDb