Max Schreck
Actor

Max Schreck Net Worth

Max Schreck was a German actor born in Berlin in 1879. After his father's death, he enrolled in a school for acting and toured the country with his peers. He was a part of Max Reinhardt's group of innovative German actors, playing mostly out of the norm characters. He also had small roles in films, but his real career was in German theatre, where he played hundreds of roles. He was married to Fanny Normann, a fellow performer, but they had no children. He died in 1936 from a heart attack.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor
Birth Day September 06, 1879
Birth Place  Berlin, Germany, Germany
Age 140 YEARS OLD
Died On 20 February 1936(1936-02-20) (aged 56)\nMunich, Nazi Germany
Birth Sign Libra
Years active 1920–1936
Spouse(s) Fanny Normann (m. 1910–1936)

💰 Net worth: $700,000 (2024)

Max Schreck, a well-known actor in Germany, is estimated to have a net worth of $700,000 in 2024. With a successful career spanning several years, Schreck has made considerable contributions to the entertainment industry. He is best recognized for his exceptional talent and captivating performances in various films and theater productions. Max Schreck's net worth is a testament to his hard work and dedication, solidifying his position as a prominent figure in the German acting scene.

Biography/Timeline

1879

Max Schreck was born in Berlin-Friedenau, on 6 September 1879. Six years later, his father bought a house in the independent rural community of Friedenau, then part of the district of Teltow.

1902

Schreck received his training at the Berliner Staatstheater (State Theatre of Berlin), completing it in 1902. He made his stage début in Meseritz and Speyer, and then toured Germany for two years, appearing at theatres in Zittau, Erfurt, Bremen, Lucerne, Gera, and Frankfurt am Main. Schreck then joined Max Reinhardt's company of performers in Berlin. Many members of Reinhardt's troupe went on to make significant contributions to the German film industry.

1919

For three years between 1919 and 1922, Schreck appeared at the Munich Kammerspiele, including a role in the expressionist production of Bertolt Brecht's début, Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night) (in which he played the "freakshow landlord" Glubb). During this time he also worked on his first film The Mayor of Zalamea, adapted from a six-act play, for Decla Bioscop. In 1921, he was hired by Prana Film for its first and only production, Nosferatu. The company declared itself bankrupt after the film was released to avoid paying copyright infringement costs to Dracula author Bram Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker. Schreck portrayed Count Orlok, a character analogous to Count Dracula.

1923

In 1923, while still in Munich, Schreck appeared in a 16-minute (one-reeler) slapstick, "surreal comedy" written by Bertolt Brecht with cabaret and stage actors Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt, Erwin Faber, and Blandine Ebinger, entitled Mysterien eines Friseursalons (Mysteries of a Barbershop), directed by Erich Engel. Also in 1923, Schreck appeared as a blind man in the film Die Straße (The Street).

1924

Schreck's second collaboration with Nosferatu Director F. W. Murnau was the 1924 comedy Die Finanzen des Grossherzogs (The Grand Duke's Finances). Even Murnau did not hesitate to declare his contempt for the picture.

1936

In 1926, Schreck returned to the Kammerspiele in Munich and continued to act in films surviving the advent of sound until his death in 1936 of heart failure. On 19 February 1936, Schreck had just played The Grand Inquisitor in the play Don Carlos, standing in for Will Dohm. That evening he felt unwell and the Doctor sent him to the hospital where he died early the next morning of a heart attack. His obituary especially praised his role as The Miser in Molière's comedy play. He was buried on 14 March 1936 at Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof Stahnsdorf in Brandenburg.

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