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- Birth nameCount Alexander Kolowrat-Krakowský
- Alexander Kolowrat was born on January 29, 1886 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Pampulik kriegt ein Kind (1912), Pampulik hat Hunger (1913) and Der Liebe Macht, des Rechtes Sieg (1918). He was married to Sophie Nikolajevna Trubecká. He died on December 4, 1927 in Vienna, Austria.
- SpouseSophie Nikolajevna Trubecká(April 30, 1923 - December 4, 1927) (his death)
- He was responsible for creating the first major film studio Sascha-Film in Vienna.
- Kolowrat-Krakowsky discovered many actors, e.g. Marlene Dietrich and Willi Forst, who both performed in the 1927 silent film Café Elektric directed by Gustav Ucicky.
- The count owned a large city palace on Wenceslas Square in Prague.
- He studied at the Catholic University of Leuven (present-day Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in Belgium where he became a member of the German Catholic fraternity Katholische Academische Verbindung Lovania Leuven.
- He served in the army and was able to speak many European languages.
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