Louis Brody

Louis Brody was a Cameroonian-born German film actor, musician and showfighter.

Biography

Brody was born in Douala, in the German colony of Kamerun. His career began in the 1910s after he moved to Germany and lasted uninterrupted throughout the Nazi regime till his death in 1951. Brody engaged also in political work in favour of Afro-Germans as part of the African Aid Organisation, established by and for Afro-Germans living in Germany and was co-founder and president of the Liga zur Verteidigung der Negerrasse. In 1938 he married Erika Diek, the daughter of Mandenga Diek; she was an Afro-German woman from Danzig. Brody remained active and successful as an artist during World War II.

Selected filmography

' as the Black African The Dagger of Malaya as Jack JohnsonThe Mistress of the World as Mallkalle the medicine man / Simba the Chinese servantGenuine as the MalayThe Secret of Bombay Der Kleine Muck as AchmetThe Conspiracy in Genoa as Mulay HassanThe Man Without a Name as Bill BurnsDie Abenteuer eines Ermordeten The Pearl of the Orient as the Rajah's servantDestiny as Moor / MohrThe Poisoned Stream The Indian Tomb as Maharadjah's black servant The Secret of Santa Maria The Island of the Lost as the king of the islandWildnis Homo sum Lust for Life as JimmyDas Spielzeug einer Tänzerin as BrutusThe Pleasure Garden as the plantation manager The Great Duchess I Once Had a Comrade as Moor / MohrThe Boxer's Bride as Fighting BobThe Armoured Vault as the chauffeurMata Hari The Last Testament Death Drive for the World Record as Salto King's servantStürmisch die Nacht No More Love as cookCalais-Dover as cookPeter Voss, Thief of Millions as Pascha's servantThe White Demon as the theater porterNarcotics as the theater porter The Flower of Hawaii as the waiterHard Luck Mary as black manThe Riders of German East Africa as HamissiPunks Arrives from America as the barkeeperPillars of Society as the cowboyLa Habanera as Puerto Rican passerbyThe Mystery of Betty Bonn as Seaman HigginsThe Impossible Mister Pitt as Seaman HannibalKautschuk as man In geheimer Mission Sergeant Berry as Berry's neighborWater for Canitoga as JohnnyKennwort Machin as New York hotel porter

'Jud Süß as Duke's black valetBlutsbrüderschaft as cabaret singerCarl Peters as East African tribal chiefOhm Kruger as LobenguelaGoodbye, Franziska as South American hotel porter Giungla as Je-Crois-En-DieuVom Schicksal verweht as tribal chiefDoctor Crippen as PedroMünchhausen as Abd al-Hamid's servant as King WapungaHerr Sanders lebt gefährlich Kolberg as a Black French soldier Peter Voss, Thief of Millions Quax in Africa as medicine manNights on the Nile as EgyptianThe Black Forest Girl as party guest The Last Year as café patron