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name: "Gustav von Seyffertitz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gustav-von-seyffertitz"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 August 1862"
died: "25 December 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:30:26.908084+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."
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# Gustav von Seyffertitz

Actor. Born 4 August 1862 in Haimhausen, Germany. Died 25 December 1943.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 August 1862, Haimhausen, Germany
- **Died:** 25 December 1943
- **Active:** 1932–1938
- **Also known as:** G. Butler Clonbough, G. Butler Clonebaugh, G.V. Seyffertitz, George von Seyffertitz, Gustave von Seyffertitz
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_von_Seyffertitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73168, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167032/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13345

## Biography

Gustav von Seyffertitz was a German actor and director. Born in Haimhausen, Bavaria, he trained at the Meininger Hoftheater and worked in opera before emigrating to the United States in the mid-1890s. He appeared on Broadway in the 1900s and 1910s, and during the First World War used pseudonyms including G. Butler Clonebaugh.

He made his film debut in 1917 and acted in around 120 films until 1939, often as stern or villainous characters. Notable roles include Professor Moriarty in *Sherlock Holmes* (1922), supporting parts in Josef von Sternberg’s *Dishonored* (1931) and *Shanghai Express* (1932), and appearances in *Queen Christina* (1934) and *Son of Frankenstein* (1939). He also directed four silent films.

Von Seyffertitz settled in the United States and continued working after the transition to sound despite his accent.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *In Old Chicago* (1938), Fi1m 64, as Dutch - Politician in Jack's Office — [page](https://film.one/film/in-old-chicago.md)
- *Shanghai Express* (1932), Fi1m 80, as Eric Baum — [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* (1936), Fi1m 82, as Emile Von Hallor (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/mr-deeds-goes-to-town.md)

## Complete filmography (109)

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

- *The Mad Empress* (1939), as Metternich
- *Nurse Edith Cavell* (1939), as President of Trial Court
- *Hotel Imperial* (1939), as Priest (uncredited)
- *Never Say Die* (1939), as Chemist
- *Son of Frankenstein* (1939), as Burgher
- *Cipher Bureau* (1938), as Albert Grood
- *Marie Antoinette* (1938), as King's Confessor (uncredited)
- *Paradise for Three* (1938), as Lawyer (uncredited)
- *Swiss Miss* (1938), as Gardener (uncredited)
- *In Old Chicago* (1938), as Dutch - Politician in Jack's Office — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/in-old-chicago.md)
- *Mad Holiday* (1936), as Hendrick Van Mier
- *Murder on a Bridle Path* (1936), as Dr. Bloom, Police Dept.
- *Mr. Deeds Goes to Town* (1936), as Emile Von Hallor (uncredited) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-deeds-goes-to-town.md)
- *Remember Last Night?* (1935), as Professor Jones
- *She* (1935), as Billali
- *The Night Is Young* (1935), as Ambassador (uncredited)
- *The Moonstone* (1934), as Carl Von Lucker
- *Murder on the Blackboard* (1934), as Dr. Von Immen
- *Change of Heart* (1934), as Dr. Kurtzman
- *Mystery Liner* (1934), as Inspector Von Kessling
- *Queen Christina* (1934), as The General
- *When Strangers Marry* (1933), as Van Wyck
- *The Silver Cord* (1933), as German Doctor
- *Rasputin and the Empress* (1932), as Dr. Franz Wolfe (uncredited)
- *The Penguin Pool Murder* (1932), as Von Donnen
- *Afraid to Talk* (1932), as Attorney Harry Berger
- *Almost Married* (1932), as Pringle's Doctor
- *The Doomed Battalion* (1932), as Austrian General
- *The Roadhouse Murder* (1932), as Porter
- *Shanghai Express* (1932), as Eric Baum — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/shanghai-express.md)
- *Safe in Hell* (1931), as Larson
- *Ambassador Bill* (1931), as Prince de Polikoff
- *The Front Page* (1931), as Professor Max J. Egelhoffer (uncredited)
- *Dishonored* (1931), as Austrian Secret Service Chief
- *Are You There?* (1930), as Barber
- *The Bat Whispers* (1930), as Dr. Venrees
- *The Case of Sergeant Grischa* (1930), as Geneneral Schieffenzahn
- *Dangerous Paradise* (1930), as Mr. Jones
- *Seven Faces* (1929), as M. Pratouchy
- *His Glorious Night* (1929), as Krehl
- *Chasing Through Europe* (1929), as Phineas Merrill
- *Come Across* (1929), as Pop Hanson
- *The Canary Murder Case* (1929), as Dr. Ambrose Lindquist
- *The Case of Lena Smith* (1929), as Herr Hofrat
- *Me, Gangster* (1928), as Factory Owner
- *The Docks of New York* (1928), as Hymn Book Harry
- *The Woman Disputed* (1928), as Otto Krueger
- *The Red Mark* (1928), as De Nou
- *The Mysterious Lady* (1928), as General Boris Alexandroff
- *The Yellow Lily* (1928), as Kinkelin
- *Vamping Venus* (1928), as Jupiter
- *The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg* (1928), as King Karl VII
- *The Wizard* (1927), as Prof. Paul Coriolos
- *The Gaucho* (1927), as The Usurper Ruiz
- *Rose of the Golden West* (1927), as Gómez
- *The Magic Flame* (1927), as The Chancellor
- *Barbed Wire* (1927), as Pierre Corlet
- *Birds of Prey* (1927), as Foxy
- *The Price of Honor* (1927), as Peter Fielding
- *Going Crooked* (1926), as Mordaunt
- *Private Izzy Murphy* (1926), as Cohannigan
- *My Official Wife* (1926), as Grand Duke
- *Diplomacy* (1926), as Baron Ballin
- *Sparrows* (1926), as Mr. Grimes
- *Unknown Treasures* (1926), as Simmons
- *The Lone Wolf Returns* (1926), as Morphew
- *Don Juan* (1926), as Neri - the Alchemist (uncredited)
- *The Bells* (1926), as Jerome Frantz
- *The Dice Woman* (1926), as Datto of Mandat
- *Red Dice* (1926), as Andrew North
- *The Danger Girl* (1926), as James, the butler
- *The Eagle* (1925), as Court Servant at Dinner (uncredited)
- *Flower of Night* (1925), as Vigilante Leader
- *He's a Prince!* (1925), as Prime Minister
- *The Goose Woman* (1925), as Mr. Vogel
- *The Bandolero* (1924), as Marques de Bazan
- *Yolanda* (1924), as Oliver de Daim
- *The Lone Wolf* (1924), as Wetheimer
- *Unseeing Eyes* (1923), as Father Paquette
- *Under the Red Robe* (1923), as Clom
- *The Inner Man* (1922), as Jud Benson
- *When Knighthood Was in Flower* (1922), as Grammont
- *Sherlock Holmes* (1922), as Professor Moriarty
- *Closed Doors* (1921), Director
- *Princess Jones* (1921), Director
- *Dead Men Tell No Tales* (1920), as Señor Joaquin Santos
- *Madonnas and Men* (1920), as Grimaldo / John Grimm
- *The Sporting Duchess* (1920), as Major Roland Mostyn
- *Even as Eve* (1920), as Amasu Munn
- *The Vengeance of Durand* (1919), as Henri Durand
- *The Dark Star* (1919), as German Spy
- *The Secret Garden* (1919), Director
- *The Source* (1918), as Ekstrom
- *Till I Come Back to You* (1918), as Karl Von Drutz
- *Less Than Kin* (1918), as Endicott Lee
- *To Hell with the Kaiser!* (1918), Actor
- *Old Wives for New* (1918), as Melville Bladen
- *Mr. Fix-It* (1918), as Doctor (uncredited)
- *His Majesty, Bunker Bean* (1918), as Professor Balthasar
- *The Whispering Chorus* (1918), as Mocking Face
- *Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley* (1918), as Surgeon (uncredited)
- *Hidden Pearls* (1918), as Senator Joseph Benton
- *The Widow's Might* (1918), as Horace Hammer
- *Stella Maris* (1918), as The Surgeon (uncredited)
- *Rimrock Jones* (1918), as Stoddard
- *The Devil Stone* (1917), as Stephen Densmore
- *A Little Princess* (1917), as Mr. Carrisford
- *The Countess Charming* (1917), as Jacob Vandergraft
- *Down to Earth* (1917), as Dr. Jollyem

## Gallery

- ![Gustav von Seyffertitz](https://film.one/media/person/1225776/gallery-fb55c56d348f.jpg) Gustav von Seyffertitz — film screenshot (Monogram Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Gustav_von_Seyffertitz_in_Mystery_Liner.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Gustav Von Seyffertitz, silent film actor Subjects: actors (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/1225776/gallery-208c096762b2.jpg) Gustav Von Seyffertitz, silent film actor Subjects: actors (1922) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Gustav_Von_Seyffertitz%2C_silent_film_actor_%28SAYRE_10699%29.jpg/1280px-Gustav_Von_Seyffertitz%2C_silent_film_actor_%28SAYRE_10699%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gustav Von Seyffertitz, silent film actor, from the American drama film Sherlock Holmes (1922). Subjects: actors](https://film.one/media/person/1225776/gallery-d195e22f4bee.jpg) Gustav Von Seyffertitz, silent film actor, from the American drama film Sherlock Holmes (1922). Subjects: actors — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Gustav_Von_Seyffertitz%2C_silent_film_actor_%28SAYRE_10599%29.jpg/1280px-Gustav_Von_Seyffertitz%2C_silent_film_actor_%28SAYRE_10599%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Still from the American romantic drama film Rose of the Golden West (1927). Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors](https://film.one/media/person/1225776/gallery-70ae8a980251.jpg) Still from the American romantic drama film Rose of the Golden West (1927). Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Rose_of_the_Golden_West_%28SAYRE_14775%29.jpg/1280px-Rose_of_the_Golden_West_%28SAYRE_14775%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gustav von Seyffertitz](https://film.one/media/person/1225776/gallery-adca567bcdae.jpg) Gustav von Seyffertitz — Image via TMDB
- ![John Barrymore (left) & Gustav von Seyffertitz in Sherlock Holmes - publicity still (original image cropped : see source) (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/1225776/gallery-9691cf20a796.jpg) John Barrymore (left) & Gustav von Seyffertitz in Sherlock Holmes - publicity still (original image cropped : see source) (1922) — Albert Parker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Sherlock_Holmes_%281922%29_3.jpg/1280px-Sherlock_Holmes_%281922%29_3.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gustav von Seyffertitz and Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case - publicity still (cropped : see source) (1929)](https://film.one/media/person/1225776/gallery-58a51f7d0e4d.jpg) Gustav von Seyffertitz and Louise Brooks in The Canary Murder Case - publicity still (cropped : see source) (1929) — unknown (Paramount Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/The_Canary_Murder_Case_%281929%29_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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