Fred Hennings

{{short description|Austrian actor}} {{Infobox person | name = Fred Hennings | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 26 January 1895 | birth_place = Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austro-Hungarian Empire | death_date = 22 November 1981 | death_place = Vienna, Austria | other_names = Franz von Papen-Pawlowski | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1923-1964 (film) }}

'''Fred Hennings''' (1895–1981) was an Austrian stage and film actor.<ref>https://www.filmportal.de/person/fred-hennings_a3c6ac9a16084afb9f75a6bd6eb90677</ref><ref>Von Dassanowsky p.299-300</ref> Although active primarily in the theatre, he appeared in supporting roles in a number of films over the decades. A committed Nazi, he had joined the Austrian Nazi Party in the early 1930s, when it was then illegal.<ref>Weyr p.80</ref> In 1977 he was awarded the Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna.

==Selected filmography== * ''The Portrait'' (1923) * ''Play Around a Man'' (1929) * ''At Blonde Kathrein's Place'' (1934) * ''Harvest'' 1936) * ''Silhouettes'' (1936) * ''Cordula'' (1950) * ''1. April 2000'' (1952) * ''Franz Schubert'' (1953) * ''The Spendthrift'' (1953) * ''Don Juan'' (1955) * ''Mozart'' (1955) * ''Goetz von Berlichingen'' (1955) * ''The Vulture Wally'' (1956) * ''Vienna, City of My Dreams'' (1957) * ''The Spendthrift'' (1964)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Von Dassanowsky, Robert. ''Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938''. Indiana University Press, 2018 * Weyr, Thomas . ''The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler''. Oxford University Press, 2005.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0377457}}

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