title: Franz Stein
text: # Franz Stein
  
  Franz Stein (1880–1958) was a German cinematographer and film actor. During the silent era he shot a number of films, many of them for National Film. After 1925 his film appearances were exclusively as an actor.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  ### Cinematographer
  
  * Lotte Lore (1921)
  * Your Brother's Wife (1921)
  * Your Bad Reputation (1922)
  * La Boheme (1923)
  * The Red Rider (1923)
  * Maud Rockefeller's Bet (1924)
  * The Doomed (1924)
  * Set Me Free (1924)
  * Za La Mort (1924)
  * The Proud Silence (1925)
  * Hedda Gabler (1925)
  * Lena Warnstetten (1925)
  * Battle of the Butterflies (1924)
  
  ### Actor
  
  * The Catwalk (1927) - Landrat von Krotkeim
  * The Old Fritz (1928) - Lordmarschall Keith
  * Luther (1928)
  * Fair Game (1928) - Regisseur Finke
  * Robert and Bertram (1928) - 2. Vagabund
  * Die von der Scholle sind (1928)
  * The Lord of the Tax Office (1929) - Udo von Langwitzs Vater
  * Andreas Hofer (1929) - Pater Haspinger
  * The Way Through the Night (1929)
  * Marriage in Name Only (1930)
  * Wibbel the Tailor (1931) - Nachtwächter
  * M (1931) - Minister
  * The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931) - Gesangslehrer
  * The Eleven Schill Officers (1932)
  * Unheimliche Geschichten (1932) - Kreisel in der Irrenanstalt
  * The Black Hussar (1932) - Der Spion
  * The First Right of the Child (1932)
  * The Lake Calls (1933) - Der alte Jansen
  * The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
  * Music in the Blood (1934)
  * Love and the First Railway (1934)
  * The Two Seals (1934) - Dr.Spärlich
  * The Gypsy Baron (1935)
  * The Bird Seller (1935)
  * A Pair of Lovers (1935)
  * The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1935) - Vater Christmann
  * Frisians in Peril (1935) - Christian Kröger
  * Pillars of Society (1935) - Ein Bürger
  * Augustus the Strong (1936) - Superintendent
  * Soldaten - Kameraden (1936)
  * Das schöne Fräulein Schragg (1937) - Schreiber
  * Madame Bovary (1937) - Herzog de Laverrière
  * To New Shores (1937) - Puritaner
  * La Habanera (1937) - Falk
  * Der nackte Spatz (1938) - Engel - Schneidermeister
  * Spaßvögel (1939) - Kimpel
  * Salonwagen E 417 (1939)
  * Detours to Happiness (1939) - Dr. Lehmann
  * Die Geliebte (1939)
  * The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939) - Dr. Ossorgin (uncredited)
  * Robert Koch (1939) - Wissenschaftler im Pathologischen Institu
  * Kornblumenblau (1939)
  * Ein ganzer Kerl (1939) - Versicherungsbeamter
  * My Aunt, Your Aunt (1939)
  * Rheinische Brautfahrt (1939) - Hausknecht August
  * The Girl at the Reception (1940) - Hauptschriftleiter Grimm
  * Clothes Make the Man (1940)
  * Frieder und Catherlieschen (1940)
  * The Swedish Nightingale (1941) - Hofuhrmacher
  * Rembrandt (1942) - Stadtschreiber
  * Der große Schatten (1942) - Zeitungsredakteur
  * Münchhausen (1943) - Leibjäger Rösemeyer (uncredited)
  * Paracelsus (1943) - Doctor
  * Die Zaubergeige (1944)
  * Shiva und die Galgenblume (1945)
  * The Adventures of Fridolin (1948) - Der Standesbeamte
  * Knall and Fall as Detectives (1953) - Professor Brott
  * The Star of Rio (1955) - (final film role)
  