Leonard Steckel

Leonard Steckel (18 January 1901 – 9 February 1971) was a German-Jewish^[1] actor and director of stage and screen.

Steckel was born as Leonhard Steckel in Knihinin, a Galician town that is today a district of the city Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. He began his career as a stage actor and spent the duration of World War II in exile in Zürich, Switzerland, where he had gone to work at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. It was during this time that he began to direct. Steckel was killed in a major rail accident on 9 February 1971 in Aitrang, Germany.

Selected filmography

• Phantoms of Happiness (1929)
• The Adventurer of Tunis (1931)
• The Daredevil (1931)
• The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
• Nights in Port Said (1932)
• I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are (1932)
• The Company's in Love (1932)
• Gitta Discovers Her Heart (1932)
• The House of Dora Green (1933)
• Invisible Opponent (1933)
• A Song for You (1933)
• Palace Hotel (1952)
• Southern Nights (1953)
• The Seven Dresses of Katrin (1954)
• Spring Song (1954)
• Ballerina (1956)
• Stresemann (1957)
• The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958)
• The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (1958)
• Sweetheart of the Gods (1960)
• The Phone Rings Every Night (1962)
• The Visit (1964)
• Once a Greek (1966)

References

• Biography with photo (in German)
• Leonard Steckel on IMDb