Torben Meyer

Highest Rated: 100% Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)

Lowest Rated: 25% Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Birthday: Dec 1, 1884

Birthplace: Not Available

Sour-visaged Danish actor Torben Meyer entered films as early as 1913, when he was prominently featured in the Danish super-production Atlantis. Despite his Scandinavian heritage, Meyer was usually typecast in Germanic roles after making his American screen debut in 1933. Many of his parts were fleeting, such as the Amsterdam banker who is offended because "Mister Rick" won't join him for a drink in Casablanca (1942). He was shown to excellent advantage in the films of producer/director Preston Sturges, beginning with Christmas in July (1940) and ending with The Beautiful Blonde of Bashful Bend (1949). Evidently as a private joke, Sturges nearly always cast Meyer as a character named Schultz, with such conspicuous exceptions as "Dr. Kluck" in The Palm Beach Story (1942). Torben Meyer made his last movie appearance in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), playing one of the German judges on trial for war crimes; Meyer's guilt-ridden inability to explain his actions was one of the film's most powerful moments.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
92%	Judgment at Nuremberg	Werner Lammpe	—	1961
No Score Yet	The Matchmaker	Maitre D'	—	1958
95%	The Fly	Gaston	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Conqueror	Scribe	—	1956
No Score Yet	Deep in My Heart	Card Player	—	1954
No Score Yet	Living It Up	Chef	—	1954
85%	Houdini	Headwaiter	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Story of Three Loves	Man	—	1953
80%	Call Me Madam	Rudolph	—	1953
63%	What Price Glory?	Mayor	—	1952
No Score Yet	My Favorite Spy	Headwaiter	—	1951
No Score Yet	Come Fill the Cup	Welder	—	1951
No Score Yet	Mad Wednesday	Barber	—	1951
No Score Yet	A Christmas Wish (The Great Rupert)	Actor	—	1950
63%	The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend	Dr. Schultz	—	1949
94%	Unfaithfully Yours	Dr. Schultz	—	1948
60%	Julia Misbehaves	Commissar	—	1948
100%	Letter From an Unknown Woman	Carriage Driver	—	1948
No Score Yet	Sealed Verdict	Interpreter	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Exile	Sea Captain	—	1947
No Score Yet	Variety Girl	Andre, the Headwaiter at Brown Derby	—	1947
89%	Sin of Harold Diddlebock	Barber	—	1947
No Score Yet	Heartbeat	Thief at Ball	—	1946
60%	The Kid From Brooklyn	Guest	—	1946
No Score Yet	The Mighty McGurk	Second Brewer	—	1946
No Score Yet	Hotel Berlin	Franz	—	1945
33%	A Royal Scandal	Stooge	—	1945
No Score Yet	Greenwich Village	Butler	—	1944
95%	Hail the Conquering Hero	Mr. Schultz	—	1944
No Score Yet	Once upon a Time	Hotel Manager	—	1944
No Score Yet	The Purple Heart	Karl Kappel	—	1944
86%	The Miracle of Morgan's Creek	Doctor	—	1944
No Score Yet	Jack London	Literary Guest	—	1943
25%	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man	Gypsy	—	1943
No Score Yet	Edge of Darkness	Clerk	—	1943
No Score Yet	They Came to Blow Up America	Gottwald	—	1943
99%	Casablanca	Banker	—	1942
97%	The Palm Beach Story	Dr. Kluck	—	1942
No Score Yet	Crossroads	Old Man	—	1942
100%	Sullivan's Travels	The Doctor	—	1941
No Score Yet	Sunny	Head Waiter	—	1941
100%	The Lady Eve	Purser	—	1941
No Score Yet	No, No, Nanette	Furtlemertle	—	1940
95%	Christmas in July	Mr. Schmidt	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Way of All Flesh	Sandor Nemzeti	—	1940
No Score Yet	Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet	Kadereit	—	1940
No Score Yet	Everything Happens at Night	Station Master	—	1939
No Score Yet	Topper Takes a Trip	Doorman	—	1938
No Score Yet	Bulldog Drummond's Peril	Hoffman	—	1938
No Score Yet	The First Hundred Years	Karl	—	1938
No Score Yet	Romance in the Dark	Prof. Jacobsen	—	1938
No Score Yet	Tovarich	Servant	—	1937
No Score Yet	Thin Ice	Chauffeur	—	1937
100%	The Prisoner of Zenda	Michael's Butler	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Emperor's Candlesticks	Train Announcer	—	1937
89%	Shall We Dance	Show Producer	—	1937
No Score Yet	The King and the Chorus Girl	Eric	—	1937
No Score Yet	Wedding Present	Winternitz	—	1936
No Score Yet	Piccadilly Jim	Butler	—	1936
No Score Yet	Till We Meet Again	Kraus	—	1936
No Score Yet	King of Burlesque	Valet	—	1936
80%	Front Page Woman	Janitor	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Black Room	Peter	—	1935
80%	Mark of the Vampire	Card Player	—	1935
86%	Roberta	Albert	—	1935
86%	The Good Fairy	Actor	—	1935
No Score Yet	Splendor	Baron von Hoffstatter	—	1935
No Score Yet	Two for Tonight	Waiter	—	1935
No Score Yet	Enter Madame	Carlson	—	1935
No Score Yet	Music in the Air	Pharmacist	—	1934
No Score Yet	The World Moves On	German Chamberlain	—	1934
No Score Yet	Mandalay	Mr. Van Brinker	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Crime of the Century	Eric Ericson	—	1933
No Score Yet	The Animal Kingdom (The Woman in His House)	Idealistic Printer	—	1932
100%	Broken Lullaby, (The Man I Killed)	Waiter at Inn	—	1932
No Score Yet	The Last Warning	Gene	—	1929
100%	The Man Who Laughs	The Spy	—	1928
No Score Yet	The Viking	Odd	—	1928
No Score Yet	Once Upon a Time	Actor	—	1922
71%	The Great Moment	Dr. Dahlmeyer	—	1921
No Score Yet	Atlantis	Actor	—	1913

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	I Dream of Jeannie 1965-1970	Sven	1966
No Score Yet	I Love Lucy 1951-1957	Bandleader	1956

Quotes from Torben Meyer's Characters

Werner Lammpe:	You do not think it was like that, do you? [the other defendants are silent] There were executions, yes, but nothing like that. Nothing at all! [turns to another prisoner] PÃ¶hl. PÃ¶hl! You ran those concentration camps, you and Eichmann. They say we killed millions of people. [scoffs] Millions of people! How could it be possible? Tell them, how could it be possible?
Werner Lammpe:	You do not think it was like that, do you? [the other defendants are silent] There were executions, yes, but nothing like that. Nothing at all! [turns to another prisoner] You ran those concentration camps, you and Eichmann. They say we killed millions of people. [scoffs] Millions of people! How could it be possible? Tell them, how could it be possible?
Pohl:	[matter-of-fact] It's possible.
Werner Lammpe:	[aghast] How?
Pohl:	You mean, technically? It all depends on your facilities. Say you have two chambers to accommodate 2000 people apiece. Figure it out. It's possible to get rid of 10,000 in a half hour. You don't even need knives to do it. You can tell them they're going to take a shower, then instead of water, you turn on the gas. It's not the killing that's the problem, it's disposing of the bodies. That's the problem.

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Torben Meyer

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

TV

Quotes from Torben Meyer's Characters