--- name: "Georg H. Schnell" canonical: "https://film.one/person/georg-h-schnell" fi1m_id: "georg-h-schnell" imdb_id: "nm0774114" tmdb_id: 9843 wikidata_id: "Q95681" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 April 1878" died: "31 March 1951" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T05:56:26.800857+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." --- # Georg H. Schnell ## Identity Georg H. Schnell - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/georg-h-schnell - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** georg-h-schnell - **IMDb ID:** nm0774114 - **TMDB ID:** 9843 - **Wikidata ID:** Q95681 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_H._Schnell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95681, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774114/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9843 Actor. Born 11 April 1878 in Tschifu (now Yantai), China. Died 31 March 1951. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 April 1878, Tschifu (now Yantai), China - **Died:** 31 March 1951 - **Also known as:** G. H. Schnell - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_H._Schnell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95681, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0774114/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9843 ## Streaming the US now - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Nosferatu*](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md) (88) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Georg H. Schnell, also credited as G. H. Schnell and Georg Heinrich Schnell, was a German actor. He was born on 11 April 1878 in Tschifu (now Yantai), China, and died on 31 March 1951 in West Berlin. After acting training, Schnell began his stage career in 1903 at the municipal theatre in Elbing. He later performed in Düsseldorf, Strasbourg and Munich, served in the First World War, and from 1919 worked mainly in Berlin, appearing in productions directed by Max Reinhardt. Between 1919 and 1943 he appeared in around 130 films, usually in supporting roles. He is known for playing shipowner Harding in F. W. Murnau’s *Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens* (1922) and a member of the punch-bowl circle in *Die Feuerzangenbowle* (1944). *Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Nosferatu* (1922), Fi1m 88, as Harding — [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md) ## Complete filmography (84) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror* (2025), as Harding - ein Reeder - *Synthwave Horror: Nosferatu* (2023), as Harding - *Nora* (1944), as Bankpräsident - *The Punch Bowl* (1944), as Mitglied der Bowlenrunde - *The Rothschilds* (1940), Actor - *Ein Mann auf Abwegen* (1940), Actor - *Das Gewehr über* (1939), as Großkaufmann Thomson - *Das Recht auf Liebe* (1939), as Oberst v. Kettler - *In letzter Minute* (1939), as Kriminalbeamter - *Der Polizeifunk meldet* (1939), Actor - *Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit* (1939), Actor - *Die Nacht der Entscheidung* (1938), as Vorsitzender des Londoner Syndikats - *Liebelei und Liebe* (1938), as Direktor der Technischen Hochschule - *Am seidenen Faden* (1938), as Dr. Klipper - *Stärker als die Liebe* (1938), Actor - *Die kleine und die große Liebe* (1938), as Der amerikanische Flugpassagier - *The Impossible Mr. Pitt* (1938), as Chiron - *Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht* (1938), as Parker - *Under Sealed Orders* (1938), as Resa Khan - *The Coral Princess* (1937), as Fliegerkommandant - *An Enemy of the People* (1937), as Ministerialdirektor Prof. Köster - *Der Mustergatte* (1937), Actor - *When Women Keep Silent* (1937), as Conti - *Heimweh* (1937), as Ein amerikanischer Staatsanwalt - *Seven Slaps* (1937), as Dr. Lorenz - *Alarm in Peking* (1937), as Gesandter - *Madame Bovary* (1937), as Marquis de Andervillier - *Die Kronzeugin* (1937), as Gerichtsvorsitzender - *A Castle in Flanders* (1936), as Regiments-Adjutant - *Moral* (1936), as Großherzog - *Heiteres und Ernstes um den großen König* (1936), as Baron Warkotsch - *Hot Blood* (1936), Actor - *The Valley of Love* (1935), as Herr von Geldern - *The Girl from the Marsh Croft* (1935), Actor - *Stradivari* (1935), Actor - *Top Sergeant Schwenke* (1935), Actor - *Der interessante Fall* (1935), as Uncle - *Vacationing from Oneself* (1934), as Dr. Hartung - *Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika* (1934), as Colonel Black, englischer Generalstabsoffizier - *The Island* (1934), as Hollen - *The Champion of Pontresina* (1934), as I.P. Moore, Bankier - *Police Report* (1934), as Staatsanwalt - *Wilhelm Tell* (1934), as Kaiserlicher Statthalter - *Her Majesty Love* (1933), Actor - *Kampf* (1932), as Kurt Harder - *Tannenberg* (1932), as General der Kavallerie Shilinski - *My Wife, the Adventuress* (1931), Actor - *In the Employ of the Secret Service* (1931), as Nikolajewski - *Circus Life* (1931), as 1. Kriminalkommissar - *Kaiserliebchen* (1931), as Hauptmann Erlaa - *The Twelfth Hour* (1930), as Hartung (Archive footage) - *The Flame of Love* (1930), as Grand Duke - *The Road to Dishonour* (1930), as Pawel - *Das Donkosakenlied* (1930), as Fürst Gagarin - *Hurrah! I'm Alive!* (1928), as Joe Jefferson - *Moderne Piraten* (1928), as Kapitän der Sultana - *The Old Fritz II* (1928), as Großkanzler Fürst - *Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?* (1927), as Mr. Shiffer - *The Eighteen Year Old* (1927), Actor - *Crooks in Tails* (1927), as Lennoys Sekretär - *Der gute Ruf* (1926), Actor - *Der Stolz der Kompagnie* (1926), as Der Hauptmann - *Die Mühle von Sanssouci* (1926), as General Seydlitz - *Marcco, der Bezwinger des Todes* (1925), Actor - *Liebet das Leben* (1924), Actor - *Um eines Weibes Ehre* (1924), Actor - *Die Tochter Napoleons* (1922), as Bertin - *Marie Antoinette - Das Leben einer Königin* (1922), as Lafayette - *Nosferatu* (1922), as Harding — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md) - *Fräulein Julie* (1922), Actor - *Die Dreizehn aus Stahl* (1921), Actor - *Panic in the House of Ardon* (1920), Actor - *Die Tarantel* (1920), Actor - *Die Tragödie eines Großen* (1920), Actor - *Das rote Plakat* (1920), Actor - *Dolls of Death* (1920), as Lorenzo - *Die Arche. 2. Teil: Die letzten Menschen* (1919), Actor - *Das Werkzeug des Cosimo* (1919), as Werner Burghoff - *The Arc* (1919), Actor - *Die Schuld* (1919), as Jürgen Halström - *Die rollende Kugel* (1919), Actor - *Her Sport* (1919), as Rudolf Walters - *Der verführte Heilige* (1919), Actor - *ScreenPlaza presents: Nosferatu*, as Harding --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/georg-h-schnell