Lupu Pick (2 January 1886 – 7 March 1931) was a Romanian-born German actor, film director, producer and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 50 films between 1910 and 1928.Born in Romania, Pick's father was a Jewish Austrian, his mother, of Romanian origin. He began as a stage actor in Hamburg, Flensburg and Berlin before 1910. In 1917 he founded the film company Rex-Film AG.He served on the board of the Film Association of Industrialists (Vorstand des Verbandes der Filmindustriellen), SPIO and the Film Directors Association of Germany (Verbandes der Filmregisseure Deutschlands) and worked intensively to establish the union-based umbrella organization of Filmmakers in Germany (Filmschaffenden Deutschlands) (Dacho). He was the organization's first chairman.Pick was married to actress Edith Posca.
He served on the board of the Film Association of Industrialists (Vorstand des Verbandes der Filmindustriellen), SPIO and the Film Directors Association of Germany (Verbandes der Filmregisseure Deutschlands) and worked intensively to establish the union-based umbrella organization of Filmmakers in Germany (Filmschaffenden Deutschlands) (Dacho). He was the organization's first chairman.
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Lupu Pick was a co-founder of the Rex-Film GmbH in 1918 and from now on he acted often as a director, writer and producer. He put his acting activities into to background and appeared only sporadically in front of the camera.
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His wife, the actress Edith Posca, committed suicide four months after Lupu Pick's death.
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He already made his film debut in 1910 with "Japanisches Opfer" (1910), and from 1915 Lupu Pick appeared regularly in movies, especially the director Richard Oswald relied on his service.
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After an acting education he was engaged tot the Schillertheater Altona in 1909, it followed other stages which led him to Berlin.
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In 1931 he shot his only sound film as a director with the title "Gassenhauer" (1931).
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He began as a stage actor in Hamburg, Flensburg and Berlin before 1910.
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Although he even wasn't 30 years old he normally impersonated old people which he masterly knew how to play.
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Born in Romania, Pick's father was a Jewish Austrian, his mother, of Romanian origin.
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The actor Lupu Pick showed first interests to the theater in his childhood which he underpinned later in a layman group.
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When Lupu Pick unexpected died because of a gastric complaint in 1931 an impressive career came to an end.
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Former stage actor, in films from 1915. Founded his own studio (Rex) in 1917, subsequently directing psychological dramas about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. His style differed substantially from the macabre, expressionist fantasies prevalent in German cinema at the time. In the mid-1920's, he briefly returned to acting, then made several films in England and France before his untimely death from gastric poisoning in 1931.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Spies
1928
Doctor Masimoto (Matsumoto, English version)
Der Feldherrnhügel
1926
Die letzte Droschke von Berlin
1926
Gottlieb Lüdecke
Zum Paradies der Damen
1922
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit
1922
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 1. Fliehende Schatten
1922
Scherben
1921
Reisender (uncredited)
Der Dummkopf
1921
Dr. Thilenius
Niemand weiß es
1920
Richter
Tötet nicht mehr
1920
Der verbotene Weg
1920
Amtsmann
Mr. Wu
1919/II
Maria Magdalena
1918
Die Rothenburger
1918
Die Serenyi
1918
Es werde Licht! 3. Teil
1918
Die zweite Frau
1918
Aus Liebe gefehlt
1917
Das Geheimnis der Briefmarke
1917
Das Geschäft
1917
Sekretär bei Gerdes
Der Fall Dombronowska...!
1917
Baron Leuven
Der Tod des Baumeisters Olsen
1917
Short
Diener
Lehrer Matthiesen
1917
Short
Merten, Rektor
Die schwarze Kugel
1917
Short
Edelweiß
1917
Höhenluft
1917
Von Melbitz
Die Claudi vom Geiserhof
1917
Old servant
Der Fremde
1917
Short
Der Schloßherr von Hohenstein
1917
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
1917
Dorians Kammerdiener
Frank Hansens Glück
1917
Des Goldes Fluch
1917
Alter Wucherer
Es werde Licht! 1. Teil
1917
Dr. Franzius, annoncierender Arzt
Nächte des Grauens
1917
Das Opfer der Yella Rogesius
1917
Der Fall Routt...!
1917
Die grüne Phiole
1916
Homunculus, 4. Teil - Die Rache des Homunculus
1916
Freitag, der 13. - Das unheimliche Haus, 2. Teil
1916
Der chinesische Götze - Das unheimliche Haus, 3. Teil
1916
Wu, ein chinesischer Diener
Das unheimliche Haus
1916
Junger Mann
Die Rache der Toten
1916
Homunculus, 1. Teil
1916
unconfirmed
Seine letzte Maske
1916
Hoffmanns Erzählungen
1916
Spalanzani, Alchimisten / Direktor eines Museums
Auf der Alm, da gibt's ka Sünd
1915
Seppl
Satan Opium
1915
Und wandern sollst Du ruhelos
1915
Schlemihl
1915
Moritz
Die Pagode
1914
The Black Triangle
1914
Japanisches Opfer
1910
Baron Kamaishi, der Führer der japanischen Delegation
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Marionetten der Leidenschaft
1919
Mr. Wu
1919/II
Der Weltspiegel
1918
Die Liebe des Van Royk
1918
Die tolle Heirat von Laló
1918
Die Rothenburger
1918
Les quatre vagabonds
1931
Gassenhauer
1931
Napoleon auf St. Helena
1929
A Knight in London
1928
Karl Hau
1926
Short
The Armored Vault
1926
Das Haus der Lüge
1926
Misericordia
1924
New Year's Eve
1924
Weltspiegel
1923
Oliver Twist
1922/II
Zum Paradies der Damen
1922
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit
1922
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 1. Fliehende Schatten
1922
Grausige Nächte
1921
Scherben
1921
Der Dummkopf
1921
Das lachende Grauen
1920
Niemand weiß es
1920
Tötet nicht mehr
1920
Der Terministenklub
1919
Die Herrenschneiderin
1919
Kitsch
1919
Mein Wille ist Gesetz
1919
Der Seelenverkäufer
1919
Der Herr über Leben und Tod
1919
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Les quatre vagabonds
1931
producer
Gassenhauer
1931
producer
Napoleon auf St. Helena
1929
producer
Familientag im Hause Prellstein
1927
producer
Das Mädchen mit den fünf Nullen
1927
producer
The Armored Vault
1926
producer
Gräfin Plättmamsell
1926
producer
Die letzte Droschke von Berlin
1926
producer
Das Haus der Lüge
1926
producer
New Year's Eve
1924
producer
Das Haus ohne Lachen
1923
producer
Stadt in Sicht
1923
producer
Zum Paradies der Damen
1922
producer
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit
1922
producer
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 1. Fliehende Schatten
1922
producer
Grausige Nächte
1921
producer
Scherben
1921
producer
Der Dummkopf
1921
producer
Niemand weiß es
1920
producer
Tötet nicht mehr
1920
producer
Der verbotene Weg
1920
producer
Kitsch
1919
producer
Mein Wille ist Gesetz
1919
producer
Seelenverkäufer
1919
producer
Der Herr über Leben und Tod
1919
producer
Marionetten der Leidenschaft
1919
producer
Mr. Wu
1919/II
producer
Der Weltspiegel
1918
producer
Die Liebe des Van Royk
1918
producer
Die tolle Heirat von Laló
1918
producer
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Napoleon auf St. Helena
1929
writer
The Armored Vault
1926
Das Haus der Lüge
1926
Zum Paradies der Damen
1922
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 2. Lüge und Wahrheit
1922
as Pilar
Aus den Erinnerungen eines Frauenarztes - 1. Fliehende Schatten