Gerd Briese

{{Short description|German actor (1897–1957)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Gerd Briese | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|12|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Thorn, West Prussia, German Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|8|13|1897|12|27|df=yes}} | death_place = West Berlin, West Germany | other_names = Gert Briese | resting_place = | occupation = Actor, theatre director | years_active = 1924–1957 }} '''Gerd Briese''' (25 December 1897 – 13 August 1957) was a German stage and film actor.

Briese's film career began in 1924, and he late worked as a stage actor and director. He was killed in a traffic accident in the Wilmersdorf district of West Berlin in 1957, aged 59.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_film20b40/134_briese_gerd.htm | title=Gerd Briese }}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Rosenmontag'' (1924) * ''Reveille: The Great Awakening'' (1925) * ''In the Valleys of the Southern Rhine'' (1925) * ''Accommodations for Marriage'' (1926) * ''The Sea Cadet'' (1926) * ''The Flames Lie'' (1926) * ''The Pirates of the Baltic Sea'' (1926) * ''The Flames Lie'' (1926) * ''U-9 Weddigen'' (1927) * ''Linden Lady on the Rhine'' (1927) * ''Forbidden Love'' (1927) * ''Radio Magic'' (1927) * ''Lützow's Wild Hunt'' (1927) * ''A Day of Roses in August'' (1927) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * ''Fair Game'' (1928) * ''Sex in Chains'' (1928) * ''The Lady from Argentina'' (1928) * ''Roses Bloom on the Moorland'' (1929) * ''Perjury'' (1929) * ''The Customs Judge'' (1929)

==Bibliography== * Kester, Bernadette. ''Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933)''. Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0108944}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Briese, Gerd}} Category:1897 births Category:1957 deaths Category:German male film actors Category:German male silent film actors Category:Actors from Toruń Category:People from West Prussia Category:20th-century German male actors Category:Road incident deaths in Germany