---
name: "Tonio Selwart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tonio-selwart"
fi1m_id: "tonio-selwart"
imdb_id: "nm0783615"
tmdb_id: 88463
wikidata_id: "Q108989"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 June 1896"
died: "2 November 2002"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T06:45:18.350403+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."
---

# Tonio Selwart

## Identity

Tonio Selwart

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tonio-selwart
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tonio-selwart
- **IMDb ID:** nm0783615
- **TMDB ID:** 88463
- **Wikidata ID:** Q108989
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonio_Selwart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108989, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783615/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88463

Actor. Born 9 June 1896 in Wartenberg. Died 2 November 2002.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 June 1896, Wartenberg
- **Died:** 2 November 2002
- **Active:** 1944–1954
- **Also known as:** Tony Selwart
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 61 (1), 1950s 76 (2)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $9m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonio_Selwart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108989, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783615/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/88463

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Senso*](https://film.one/film/senso.md) (79)

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## Biography

Tonio Selwart (also credited as Tony Selwart) was a German actor who worked in theatre and film. Born in Wartenberg, Bavaria, he trained as an actor after initially studying medicine and appeared in stage productions across Europe before emigrating to the United States in the early 1930s.

He achieved early success on Broadway in the Theatre Guild production of *The Pursuit of Happiness* (1933–1934). Selwart made his film debut in *Hangmen Also Die!* (1943) and appeared in numerous supporting roles, often as military officers, in American, Italian and French productions. His credits include *Edge of Darkness* (1943), *The Cross of Lorraine* (1943), *Wilson* (1944), *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), *Helen of Troy* (1956), *Anzio* (1968) and *Senso* (1954) as Il Colonello Kleist. His final screen role was in Orson Welles's *The Other Side of the Wind* (2018).

He was also active in American television and on stage into the 1960s, with later appearances including *Romanoff and Juliet* (1961).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Senso* (1954), Fi1m 79, as Il Colonello Kleist — [page](https://film.one/film/senso.md)
- *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), Fi1m 74, as Pretender — [page](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md)
- *Wilson* (1944), Fi1m 61, as Count Von Bernstorff — [page](https://film.one/film/wilson.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *The Other Side of the Wind* (2018), as The Baron
- *Anzio* (1968), as Gen. Van MacKensen
- *Sign of Zorro* (1963), Actor
- *The Reluctant Saint* (1962), as Examining Prelate
- *Romanoff and Juliet* (1961), as U.N. President
- *Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place* (1960), as Dr. Klodt
- *Five Branded Women* (1960), Actor
- *The Fifth Column* (1960), Actor
- *The Naked Maja* (1958), as Aranda
- *Tempest* (1958), Actor
- *Congo Crossing* (1956), as Carl Rittner
- *Helen of Troy* (1956), as Alpheus
- *The Barefoot Contessa* (1954), as Pretender — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-barefoot-contessa.md)
- *Night of Love* (1954), as General Renner
- *Senso* (1954), as Il Colonello Kleist — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/senso.md)
- *My Favorite Spy* (1951), as Harry Crock
- *Frontier Wolf* (1951), as Peter
- *Studio One* (1948), series, Actor
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Actor
- *Strange Affair* (1944), as Leslie Carlson
- *Wilson* (1944), as Count Von Bernstorff — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/wilson.md)
- *The Hitler Gang* (1944), as Alfred Rosenberg
- *Tampico* (1944), as Kruger
- *The Cross of Lorraine* (1943), as Major Bruhl
- *The North Star* (1943), as German Captain
- *Edge of Darkness* (1943), as German Corporal Paul
- *Hangmen Also Die!* (1943), as Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas

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