Leo Peukert

{{Short description|German actor (1885–1944)}} {{Infobox person | name = Leo Peukert | image = Leo Peukert by Becker & Maass.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 26 August 1885 | birth_place = Munich, Bavaria <br>German Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|1944|1|6|1885|8|26|df=y}} | death_place = Waldshut-Tiengen <br> Nazi Germany | resting_place = Munich Waldfriedhof | other_names = | birth_name = Leonhard Peukert | spouse = {{Marriage|Sabine Impekoven|1914}} | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1904–1944 }} '''Leonhard "Leo" Peukert''' (26 August 1885 – 6 January 1944) was a prolific German film actor and film director, appearing in more than a hundred and fifty productions between 1910 and his death in 1944. While occasionally he played a leading role in his early years, such as the comedy ''The Happy Journey'' (1924),<ref>Grange p.164</ref> he mostly appeared as a character actor. Peukert was also a film director, making eleven short and feature films during the silent era.

He was married to the actress Sabine Impekoven who appeared with him in several silent films.

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''Poor Jenny'' (1912) * ''My Leopold'' (1914) * ''My Leopold'' (1919) * ''The Love of Marion Bach'' (1919) * ''King Krause'' (1919) * ''Hasemann's Daughters'' (1920) * ''The Journey to Happiness'' (1923) * ''My Leopold'' (1924) * ''The Happy Journey'' (1924) * ''The Second Mother'' (1925) * ''Radio Magic'' (1927) * ''Two Under the Stars'' (1927) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927) * ''Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * ''Autumn on the Rhine'' (1928) * ''Escape from Hell'' (1928) * ''A Better Master'' (1928) * ''Almenrausch and Edelweiss'' (1928) * ''Beware of Loose Women'' (1929) * ''The Midnight Waltz'' (1929) * ''The Lord of the Tax Office'' (1929) * ''I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland'' (1928) * ''The Convict from Istanbul'' (1929) * ''Scandal in Baden-Baden'' (1929) * ''Three Days Confined to Barracks'' (1930) * ''Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' (1930) * ''The Son of the White Mountain'' (1930) * ''Moritz Makes his Fortune'' (1931) * ''My Friend the Millionaire'' (1932) * ''Spies at the Savoy Hotel'' (1932) * ''The Tsar's Diamond'' (1932) * ''The Testament of Cornelius Gulden'' (1932) * ''Happy Days in Aranjuez'' (1933) * ''A Woman Who Knows What She Wants'' (1934) * ''At the Strasbourg'' (1934) * ''Gypsy Blood'' (1934) * ''The Four Musketeers'' (1934) * ''All Because of the Dog'' (1935) * ''Paul and Pauline'' (1936) * ''Orders Are Orders'' (1936) * ''Diamonds'' (1937) * ''My Son the Minister'' (1937) * ''Gordian the Tyrant'' (1937) * ''Meiseken'' (1937) * ''The Vagabonds'' (1937) * ''Between the Parents'' (1938) * ''The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl'' (1938) *''The Secret Lie'' (1938) * ''The Deruga Case'' (1938) * ''A Hopeless Case'' (1939) * ''Central Rio'' (1939) * ''The Sensational Casilla Trial'' (1939) * ''Hotel Sacher'' (1939) * ''The Scoundrel'' (1939) * ''My Aunt, Your Aunt'' (1939) * ''Kora Terry'' (1940) * ''Between Hamburg and Haiti'' (1940) * ''Counterfeiters'' (1940) * ''Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree'' (1940) * ''Mistress Moon'' (1941) * ''The Way to Freedom'' (1941) * ''Thrice Wed'' (1941) * ''Women Are Better Diplomats'' (1941) * ''Quax the Crash Pilot'' (1941) * ''Doctor Crippen'' (1942) * ''Diesel'' (1942) * ''The Night in Venice'' (1942) * ''The Old Boss'' (1942) * ''The Thing About Styx'' (1942) * ''Mask in Blue'' (1943) * ''Back Then'' (1943) * ''My Summer Companion'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' (1943) * ''Light of Heart'' (1943) * ''Romance in a Minor Key'' (1943) * ''Kohlhiesel's Daughters'' (1943) * ''Tonelli'' (1943) {{div col end}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0678891}}

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