Helmut Weiss

{{short description|German actor, filmmaker}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | name = Helmut Weiss | birth_date = {{birth date|1907|1|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Göttingen, Lower Saxony <br /> German Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|1969|1|13|1907|1|25|df=y}} | death_place = West Berlin, West Germany | other_names = | occupation = Actor, screenwriter, film director | years_active = 1935–1969 }} '''Helmut Weiss''' (January 25, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was a German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was notable for directing ''Tell the Truth'', the first film produced after the Second World War in what was to become West Germany . It was made in Hamburg in the British Zone of Occupation.{{sfn|Kreimeier|p=375}} Much of the film had already been made at the UFA studios in Berlin shortly before the arrival of the Red Army, but Weiss dramatically re-shot it. The film was significant in its use of outdoor locations in common with other post-war rubble films.

==Selected filmography== ===Actor=== * ''Trouble Backstairs'' (1935) * ''Scandal at the Fledermaus'' (1936) * ''Back in the Country'' (1936) * ''The Merry Wives'' (1936) * ''Family Parade'' (1936) * ''Nanon'' (1938) * ''Kitty and the World Conference'' (1939) * ''The Leghorn Hat'' (1939) * ''The Girl from Fano'' (1941) * ''The Gasman'' (1941) * ''Rembrandt'' (1942) * ''Love and Trumpets'' (1954) * ''Oasis'' (1955) * ''Fanny Hill'' (1964)

===Screenwriter=== * ''I Entrust My Wife to You'' (1943) * ''Hello, Fraulein!'' (1949) * ''Beloved Liar'' (1950) * ''Street Serenade'' (1953) * ''Santa Lucia'' (1956) * ''Paradise for Sailors'' (1959)

===Director=== * ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944) * ''Quax in Africa'' (not completed during the Reich; allied ban in 1945; shown in West Germany in 1953) * ''Tell the Truth'' (1946) * ''King of Hearts'' (1947) * ''Tromba'' (1949) * ''Don't Dream, Annette'' (1949) * ''The Secret of the Red Cat'' (1949) * ''The Disturbed Wedding Night'' (1950) * ''My Friend the Thief'' (1951) * ''The Secret of a Marriage'' (1951) * ''Once on the Rhine'' (1952) * ''Hubertus Castle'' (1954) * ''Love and Trumpets'' (1954) * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) * ''Engagement at Wolfgangsee'' (1956) * ''Lemke's Widow'' (1957) * ''An American in Salzburg'' (1958) * ''Every Day Isn't Sunday'' (1959) * ''Rendezvous in Vienna'' (1959) * ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1961)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Kreimeier}} | last = Kreimeier | first = Klaus | title = The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 | location = Berkeley | isbn = 978-0-520-22069-0 }}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0919012}}

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