---
name: "Erwin Biswanger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erwin-biswanger"
fi1m_id: "erwin-biswanger"
imdb_id: "nm0084430"
tmdb_id: 80
wikidata_id: "Q15233185"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 November 1896"
died: "1 January 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:22:44.786276+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."
---

# Erwin Biswanger

## Identity

Erwin Biswanger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erwin-biswanger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erwin-biswanger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0084430
- **TMDB ID:** 80
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15233185
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Biswanger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15233185, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0084430/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/80

Actor. Born 26 November 1896 in Berlin, Germany. Died 1 January 1970.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 November 1896, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 1 January 1970
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Biswanger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15233185, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0084430/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/80

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Metropolis*](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md) (87)

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## Biography

Erwin Biswanger was a German actor and screenwriter. Born in Berlin on 26 November 1896, he entered the film industry in 1918 and appeared on stage, including at the Berlin Lessing Theater in the 1920/21 season.

He is known for supporting roles in Fritz Lang's silent films, playing Giselher in both parts of *Die Nibelungen* (1924) and the worker No. 11811, Georgy, in *Metropolis* (1927). His other acting credits from the 1920s include *In Treue stark* (1926). From the late 1930s he worked as a screenwriter on films such as *In letzter Minute* (1939).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Metropolis* (1927), Fi1m 87, as No. 11811 - Georgy — [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Metropolis* (1927), as No. 11811 - Georgy — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md)
- *Op hoop van zegen* (1924), as Bos
- *Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge* (1924), as Giselher
- *Die Nibelungen: Siegfried* (1924), as Giselher
- *Earth Spirit* (1923), as Eugenberg
- *Un­ter Räubern und Bestien* (1921), Actor
- *Wildes Blut* (1920), Actor

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