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name: "Max Schreck"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/max-schreck"
fi1m_id: "max-schreck"
imdb_id: "nm0775180"
tmdb_id: 9839
wikidata_id: "Q58822"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 September 1879"
died: "20 February 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:56:24.611614+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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# Max Schreck

## Identity

Max Schreck

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/max-schreck
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** max-schreck
- **IMDb ID:** nm0775180
- **TMDB ID:** 9839
- **Wikidata ID:** Q58822
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schreck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0775180/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9839

Actor. Born 6 September 1879 in Berlin, Germany. Died 20 February 1936.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 September 1879, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 20 February 1936
- **Also known as:** Maximilian Schreck, Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schreck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0775180/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9839

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Nosferatu*](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md) (88)

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## Biography

Max Schreck was a German actor. Born Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck in Berlin in 1879, he trained at the Berlin State Theatre and worked in various theatres, including a period with the Munich Kammerspiele. He appeared in films from the early 1920s onwards.

Schreck is best known for his performance as the vampire Count Orlok in F. W. Murnau’s *Nosferatu* (1922). He also appeared in other silent films including *The Mayor of Zalamea* (1920) and *Nathan the Wise* (1922), and worked again with Murnau on *The Grand Duke's Finances* (1924). He continued acting on stage and in films into the sound era until his death in Munich in 1936.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nosferatu* (1922), Fi1m 88, as Count Orlok — [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)

## Complete filmography (58)

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

- *Haiku por Ozziel* (2026), as Sel (archive footage)
- *Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror* (2025), as Graf Orlok
- *Eternal Ghosts* (2025), as Count Orlok (Archival Footage)
- *Death Of The Rat* (2024), as Count Orlok (archive footage)
- *The Tomb of Nosferatu* (2023), as Count Orlok (archive footage)
- *Synthwave Horror: Nosferatu* (2023), as Count Orlok
- *Speedball Nosferatu* (2022), as Count Orlok
- *Nosferatu and the Birth of Vampires in Cinema* (2022), as Count Orlok (archive footage)
- *CALCO (A Symphony of Echo)* (2019), as Nosferatu
- *Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode* (2011), as Nosferatu (archive footage)
- *The Bathroom Mirror* (2008), as Graf Orlok (archival footage)
- *The Many Faces of Dracula* (2000), as Graf Orlok (archive footage)
- *Eyewitness: Monster* (1997), as Count Dracula (archive footage)
- *Dracula: Fact or Fiction?* (1992), as Count Orlok (archive footage)
- *Dracula in the Movies* (1992), as (archive footage)
- *Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook* (1991), as Graf Orlok (archive footage)
- *Luzern Viper* (1988), as Nosferatu
- *The Horror of It All* (1983), as Nosferatu (archive footage)
- *The Vampire* (1945), as Nosferatu (archive footage)
- *The Last Four on Santa Cruz* (1936), as William
- *Donogoo Tonka* (1936), as Auswanderer
- *Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann* (1935), as Leiter der Künstleragentur
- *The Steel Animal* (1935), as Cugnot
- *Peer Gynt* (1934), as Redner auf Hochzeitsfeier
- *Atlantic Hotel* (1933), as Hoteldirektor
- *Ein Kuß in der Sommernacht* (1933), as Herr Krause
- *Der Tunnel* (1933), as Chesterfield
- *Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen* (1933), as Diener
- *Roman einer Nacht* (1933), as Professor Kolski
- *Boo* (1932), as Dracula-Nosferatu (edited from "Nosferatu")
- *A Man with Heart* (1932), Actor
- *Fürst Seppl* (1932), as Knappe
- *The Bartered Bride* (1932), as Muff
- *The Night of Temptation* (1932), as Offizier
- *The Twelfth Hour* (1930), as Count Wolkoff (Archive footage)
- *The Land of Smiles* (1930), as 100 years old man
- *Ludwig II, King of Bavaria* (1930), Actor
- *Fight of the Tertia* (1929), as Benno Biersack
- *Wolga Wolga* (1928), Actor
- *Moderne Piraten* (1928), as Philipps
- *Rasputins Liebesabenteuer* (1928), as Nikolai Nikolajewitsch
- *Luther* (1928), as Alexander
- *The Old Fritz II* (1928), as Kammerdiener Rietz
- *The Old Fritz* (1928), as Kammerdiener Rietz
- *Lady Juan* (1928), as Juana's Father
- *The Strange Case of Captain Ramper* (1928), Actor
- *At the Edge of the World* (1927), as Trödler
- *Der Sohn der Hagar* (1927), Actor
- *Dudu, ein Menschenschicksal* (1924), Actor
- *The Finances of the Grand Duke* (1924), as der Unheimliche
- *The Street* (1923), as The blind man
- *The Jew of Mestri* (1923), as Doge of Venice
- *The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop* (1923), as Kunde
- *Nathan der Weise* (1922), as Grossmeister der Templeherren
- *Nosferatu* (1922), as Count Orlok — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/nosferatu-1922.md)
- *The Mayor of Zalamea* (1920), as Don Mendo
- *The Mysterious Castles in the Carpathians*, as Count Orlok
- *ScreenPlaza presents: Nosferatu*, as Count Orlock

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