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name: "Hans Unterkircher"
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fi1m_id: "hans-unterkircher"
imdb_id: "nm0007207"
tmdb_id: 47030
wikidata_id: "Q87625"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 August 1894"
died: "27 May 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:03:32.353187+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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# Hans Unterkircher

## Identity

Hans Unterkircher

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hans-unterkircher
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hans-unterkircher
- **IMDb ID:** nm0007207
- **TMDB ID:** 47030
- **Wikidata ID:** Q87625
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Unterkircher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87625, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007207/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47030

Actor. Born 21 August 1894 in Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Died 27 May 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 August 1894, Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- **Died:** 27 May 1971
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Unterkircher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87625, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007207/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/47030

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Last Laugh*](https://film.one/film/the-last-laugh.md) (84)

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## Biography

Hans Unterkircher (22 August 1894 – 27 May 1971) was an Austrian actor and film director. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1916 and 1971, as well as working extensively in the theatre.

Born in Graz, he trained at the Vienna Conservatory and began his stage career in 1910. He performed in Graz, Aussig and Berlin, where he worked under Max Reinhardt, before moving to New York in 1914 and Hollywood in 1916 under contract to Universal. He returned to Europe in 1918 and continued working in film and on stage in Germany and Austria. His best-known screen role was as the hotel manager in F. W. Murnau’s *The Last Laugh* (1924). He also directed the 1948 film *An klingenden Ufern*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Last Laugh* (1924), Fi1m 84, as Hotel Manager — [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-laugh.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

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

- *Passion eines Politkers* (1970), as Gastgeber
- *Der Gürtel des Namajo* (1969), as Beppo
- *Shots in 3/4 Time* (1965), as Bernard
- *Der Zerrissene* (1961), as Stifler
- *Song Without End* (1960), as Czar
- *Katia* (1959), as Paskievitch
- *Ober zahlen* (1957), as Chess Player
- *Gasparone* (1955), Actor
- *Sarajevo* (1955), as Graf Franz von Harrach
- *Ja, so ist das mit der Liebe* (1955), Actor
- *On Resonant Shores* (1949), as Alexander Varena · Director, Producer
- *Am Ende der Welt* (1947), as Baron
- *The Two Sisters* (1943), as Ballettmeister Baldini
- *His Son* (1942), as Willis Lehrer
- *Die heimliche Gräfin* (1942), Actor
- *Jenny und der Herr im Frack* (1941), as Arthur Kinsky, Präsident des philatelistischen Kongresses
- *Donauschiffer* (1940), Actor
- *Judgement Day* (1940), as Stammtilschbruder
- *Mother Love* (1939), as von Neuhausen, Ballettmeister
- *Immortal Waltz* (1939), as Regierungsrat
- *Castles in the Air* (1939), Actor
- *Hotel Sacher* (1939), as Graf Lagarde
- *The Optimist* (1938), Actor
- *13 Chairs* (1938), as Zauberer
- *Darling of the Sailors* (1938), as Fürst Wurozeff
- *Flowers from Nice* (1936), Actor
- *Die Fahrt in die Jugend* (1935), as Heinzl, Kapellmeister
- *Salto in die Seligkeit* (1934), as Baron Rivoli
- *Der Dieb im Schlafcoupée* (1929), Actor
- *Die Dame auf der Banknote* (1929), Actor
- *Die Strecke* (1927), Actor
- *The Last Laugh* (1924), as Hotel Manager — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-last-laugh.md)
- *Das schöne Abenteuer* (1924), Actor
- *The Brazen Beauty* (1918), as Bruce Edwards (as Thornton Church)
- *The Deciding Kiss* (1918), as Peter Bolling
- *The Tiger Woman* (1917), as (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![Hans Unterkircher](https://film.one/media/person/3849578/gallery-6088d0348ac7.jpg) Hans Unterkircher — Edith Barakovich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Hans_Unterkircher_by_Edith_Barakovich.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hans Unterkircher](https://film.one/media/person/3849578/gallery-74823b72947d.jpg) Hans Unterkircher — Image via TMDB

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