Nils Asther (1897 - 1981)

Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood

* January 17, 1897 Hellerup, Denmark
 as Nils Anton Alfhild Asther
 October 13, 1981 Farsta, Sweden



Vintage magazines

Photoplay, March 1928
Photoplay, October 1928
Photoplay, October 1928

Photoplay, October 1928
Photoplay, January 1929
Photoplay, February 1929

Photoplay, February 1929
Photoplay, February 1929
Photoplay, March 1929



Books with an entry on Nils Asther

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Roy Liebman Silent Film Performers Roy Liebman
Silent Film Performers, An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for over 350 Actors and Actresses
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1996

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1982, A Survey of 1981 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1982
p. 478 info

Martin J. Quigley (ed.) The Motion Picture Almanac Martin J. Quigley (ed.)
The Motion Picture Almanac, Big Stars in Big Pictures
Chicago, Ill., 1929

Books with photograph(s) of Nils Asther

John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups John Richard Finch and Paul Elby
Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978

Articles on Nils Asther

Gunnar Lundquist, Nils Asther, The International Star, in: Films in Review, vol. 30, 1979 pp. 385-403

Films

1918
Himmelskibet

1922
Vem dömer

1924
Wienerbarnet

1925
Briefe, die ihn nicht erreichten

1926
Die versunkene Flotte
Der goldene Schmetterling
Der Mann seiner Frau

1927
Hotelratten
Sorrell and Son

1928
Loves of an Actress
Our Dancing Daughters
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Dream of Love
The Blue Danube
The Cardboard Lover
The Cossacks

1929
Wild Orchids
Die versunkene Flotte
The Single Standard
The Hollywood Revue of 1929

1930
The Sea Bat

1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Letty Lynton
But the Flesh Is Weak
The Washington Masquerade

1933
If I Were Free
By Candlelight
The Right to Romance
Bombshell

1934
The Crime Doctor
Love Time
The Love Captive
Madame Spy

1935
Abdul the Damned

1936
Guilty Melody

1941
Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
The Night of January 16th
Flying Blind
The Man Who Lost Himself
Forced Landing

1942
Night Monster
The Night Before the Divorce
Sweater Girl

1943
Submarine Alert
Mystery Broadcast

1944
Bluebeard
The Hour Before the Dawn
Alaska

1945
Son of Lassie
The Man in Half Moon Street
Jealousy

1948
The Feathered Serpent

1949
Samson and Delilah

1962
Vita frun

1963
Gudrun

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