Trivia

The career of the actor Fred Louis Lerch was limited to the 20's.

He began his career in the middle of the 20's with silent movies like "Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion (1926), and "Der rote Kreis" (1929) - an Edgar-Wallace-adaption of director Friedrich Zelnik.

When the talkies arose he retired from the film business. He only appeared in front of the camera for "Um eine Nasenlänge" (1931).

In the 50s he returned to the film business, but not as an actor but as a production manager.

After four sound films, Lerch's acting career ended in 1932. He was only 30 years old at the time. He did not appear on screen again until twenty years later.

Fred Louis Lerch began his career as a film actor at the age of 20 with small roles in Austrian feature films, the titles of which are hardly known today.

Fred Louis Lerch was an Austrian actor who was a star of German films.

Having gained international fame through his leading male role in Jacques Feyder's Carmen, he played leading roles in the 1927 German-Swedish co-productions "Versiegelte Lippen" (Sealed Lips) and alongside Ruth Weyher and Margit Manstad in the triangular drama "Dr. Monnier und die Frauen" (Dr. Monnier and the Women), both directed by Gustaf Molander.

As a production manager, he worked from 1951 onwards for various German film production companies, which at that time primarily produced Heimatfilme (films set in rural Germany or Austria). The best-known films for which he organized the filming were Rudolf Jugert's Anzengruber adaptation "Der Meineidbauer" (1956, with Carl Wery and Heidemarie Hatheyer) and "Kleiner Mann - ganz groß" (1957).

In 1926, he appeared alongside the Berlin cabaret artist Claire Waldoff in the German film comedy "Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion" (The Young Man from the Ready-Made Clothing).