--- name: "Erich Ponto" canonical: "https://film.one/person/erich-ponto" fi1m_id: "erich-ponto" imdb_id: "nm0690691" tmdb_id: 13376 wikidata_id: "Q92072" roles: ["Actor"] born: "14 December 1884" died: "4 February 1957" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T21:21:26.974625+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Erich Ponto ## Identity Erich Ponto - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erich-ponto - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** erich-ponto - **IMDb ID:** nm0690691 - **TMDB ID:** 13376 - **Wikidata ID:** Q92072 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Ponto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92072, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13376 Actor. Born 14 December 1884 in Lübeck, Germany. Died 4 February 1957. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 14 December 1884, Lübeck, Germany - **Died:** 4 February 1957 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Ponto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92072, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13376 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Third Man*](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md) (92) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Erich Ponto was a German stage and film actor. After studying pharmacy, he trained in acting and made his professional stage debut in 1908. He became a long-standing member of the Dresden State Theatre ensemble from 1914 to 1947, appearing in numerous productions including the original staging of Bertolt Brecht's *The Threepenny Opera*. Ponto began appearing regularly in films in the sound era, typically in supporting character roles. He played Professor Crey in *The Punch Bowl* (1944) and Dr. Winkel in Carol Reed's *The Third Man* (1949). He received the German Film Award for best supporting actor in 1956. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Third Man* (1949), Fi1m 92, as Dr. Winkel — [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md) ## Complete filmography (76) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Star of Africa* (1957), as Ein alter Franzose - *The Zurich Engagement* (1957), as Old Man - *The Girl and the Legend* (1957), as Daniel Defoe - *Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss* (1957), as Professor Virchow - *Wenn wir alle Engel wären* (1956), as Amtsrichter - *Ballerina* (1956), as Schimanski - *Sky Without Stars* (1955), as Vater Kaminski - *The Golden Plague* (1954), as Dr. Sierich - *Keine Angst vor Schwiegermüttern* (1954), Actor - *The Flying Classroom* (1954), as Sanitätsrat Dr. Hartwig - *...und ewig bleibt die Liebe* (1954), Actor - *The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch* (1954), as Chefarzt Psychiatrie - *Hokuspokus* (1953), as Mr. Arthur Graham - *Not Afraid of Big Animals* (1953), as Polizeikommissar - *Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor* (1953), as Plünne (voice) - *Die große Versuchung* (1952), as Prof. Dr. Gandolphi - *Der weißblaue Löwe* (1952), as Regierungspräsident - *Monks, Girls and Pandours* (1952), as Fellerer, Goldschmied - *Haus des Lebens* (1952), as Geheimrat Merk - *No Greater Love* (1952), as Minister - *Primanerinnen* (1951), as Krautkopf - *Was das Herz befiehlt* (1951), Actor - *Zwischen Herz und Gewissen* (1951), as Prokurist Knopp - *Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius* (1950), as Professor Speiter - *Geliebter Lügner* (1950), as Plage - *Hans im Glück* (1949), as Müller - *Love '47* (1949), as Alter Mann - *Schicksal aus zweiter Hand* (1949), as Professor Sapis - *The Third Man* (1949), as Dr. Winkel — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/the-third-man.md) - *Palace Scandal* (1949), as Prince Serenissimus - *Verspieltes Leben* (1949), as Mathematik-Professor - *Die kupferne Hochzeit* (1948), as Old teacher - *The Lost Face* (1948), as Wissenschaftler - *Film Without Title* (1948), as Herr Schichtholz - *Between Yesterday and Tomorrow* (1947), as Professor von Walther - *In the Evening After the Opera* (1945), as Stephan Schneider - *Der Scheiterhaufen* (1945), Actor - *The Molander Case* (1945), as Dannemann - *The Angel and the Lyre* (1944), as Barnabas, Diener bei Strengholt - *Philharmonic* (1944), as Orchesterdiener Straehle - *Der Meisterdetektiv* (1944), as Gutsbesitzer Theobald Langendorff - *The Punch Bowl* (1944), as Professor Crey, genannt Schnauz - *The Two Sisters* (1943), as Adolph Menzel - *Ein glücklicher Mensch* (1943), as Pauly - *Diesel* (1943), as Theodor Diesel - *Der große Schatten* (1942), as Oswald Siebel - *Attack on Baku* (1942), as Mr. Jensen, Danish Oil Tycoon - *Der Fall Rainer* (1942), as Hotelwirt - *The Night in Venice* (1942), as Direktor Arnold Richard Schmitz, Parfümfabrikant - *Her Other Self* (1941), as Geheimrat Wuellner - *Leichte Muse* (1941), as Chorleiter Palitsch - *I Accuse* (1941), as Prof. Werther - *Blutsbrüderschaft* (1941), as Direktor Gösch - *The Heart of a Queen* (1940), as Gaukler - *The Young Lady of Barnhelm* (1940), as Wirt - *Clothes Make the Man* (1940), as Puppenspieler Christoffel - *Wie konntest Du, Veronika!* (1940), as Bankier - *Aus erster Ehe* (1940), as Professor Skutor - *The Rothschilds* (1940), as Mayer Amschel Rothschild - *Der Feuerteufel* (1940), as Napoleon Bonaparte - *Achtung! Feind hört mit!* (1940), as Monsieur Bock - *In letzter Minute* (1939), as Alexander Piepenbrink - *Wibbel the Tailor* (1939), as Schneider Anton Wibbel - *Hallo Janine* (1939), as Monsieur Pamion - *Thirteen Men and a Cannon* (1938), Actor - *The Four Companions* (1938), as Regierungsrat Alfred Hintze - *Am seidenen Faden* (1938), as Theodor Kalbach - *The Mystery of Betty Bonn* (1938), as Kapitän Spurling - *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1937), as Stapleton - *The Final Chord* (1936), as Vorsitzender des Schwurgerichts - *The Last Four on Santa Cruz* (1936), as Alexander Ghazaroff - *The King's Prisoner* (1935), as Friseur - *Joan of Arc* (1935), as Lord Talbot, englischer Armeeführer - *Love, Death and the Devil* (1934), as The Old Man - *The Man Who Committed the Murder* (1931), as Bouchet - *Woman in the Jungle* (1931), Actor ## Gallery - ![Erich Ponto](https://film.one/media/person/59028/gallery-6d3b4e3d2edc.jpg) Erich Ponto — Abraham Pisarek, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Fotothek_df_pk_0000156_028_Aufnahmen_von_M._Friedrichs%2C_M._Fischer%2C_Hermann_Matern%2C_Arno_Schellenberg_und_F.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Dreigroschenoper Theaterzettel 1928 Seite 2](https://film.one/media/person/59028/gallery-96acf30bf200.jpg) Dreigroschenoper Theaterzettel 1928 Seite 2 — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Dreigroschenoper_Theaterzettel_1928_Seite_2.jpg/1280px-Dreigroschenoper_Theaterzettel_1928_Seite_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Erich Ponto](https://film.one/media/person/59028/gallery-38d7c29b6fca.jpg) Erich Ponto — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won - Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1954: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won) - Staatsschauspieler 1938: Staatsschauspieler (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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