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 Johnson
  • The Mistress of the World as Mallkalle the medicine man / Simba the Chinese servant
  • Genuine as the Malay
  • The Secret of Bombay
  • Der Kleine Muck as Achmet
  • The Conspiracy in Genoa as Mulay Hassan
  • The Man Without a Name as Bill Burns
  • Die Abenteuer eines Ermordeten
  • The Pearl of the Orient as the Rajah's servant
  • Destiny as Moor / Mohr
  • The 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 island
  • Wildnis
  • Homo sum
  • Lust for Life as Jimmy
  • Das Spielzeug einer Tänzerin as Brutus
  • The Pleasure Garden as the plantation manager
  • The Great Duchess
  • I Once Had a Comrade as Moor / Mohr
  • The Boxer's Bride as Fighting Bob
  • The Armoured Vault as the chauffeur
  • Mata Hari
  • The Last Testament
  • Death Drive for the World Record as Salto King's servant
  • Stürmisch die Nacht
  • No More Love as cook
  • Calais-Dover as cook
  • Peter Voss, Thief of Millions as Pascha's servant
  • The White Demon as the theater porter
  • Narcotics as the theater porter
  • The Flower of Hawaii as the waiter
  • Hard Luck Mary as black man
  • The Riders of German East Africa as Hamissi
  • Punks Arrives from America as the barkeeper
  • Pillars of Society as the cowboy
  • La Habanera as Puerto Rican passerby
  • The Mystery of Betty Bonn as Seaman Higgins
  • The Impossible Mister Pitt as Seaman Hannibal
  • Kautschuk as man
  • In geheimer Mission
  • Sergeant Berry as Berry's neighbor
  • Water for Canitoga as Johnny
  • Kennwort Machin as New York hotel porter
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  • Jud Süß as Duke's black valet
  • Blutsbrüderschaft as cabaret singer
  • Carl Peters as East African tribal chief
  • Ohm Kruger as Lobenguela
  • Goodbye, Franziska as South American hotel porter
  • Giungla as Je-Crois-En-Dieu
  • Vom Schicksal verweht as tribal chief
  • Doctor Crippen as Pedro
  • Münchhausen as Abd al-Hamid's servant
  • as King Wapunga
  • Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich
  • Kolberg as a Black French soldier
  • Peter Voss, Thief of Millions
  • Quax in Africa as medicine man
  • Nights on the Nile as Egyptian
  • The Black Forest Girl as party guest
  • The Last Year as café patron