Paul Muller (actor)
Paul Konrad Muller is a Swiss actor who has appeared mostly in Italian films. His motion picture acting career in Europe spanned a period of 51 years.
Acting
Theatre
In 1941/1942 he studied acting at the “Conservatoire National Supérieur d`Art Dramatique” in Paris. Until 1944 he had different engagements at theatres in Paris, e. g. “Theatre Pigalle”, “Salle Pleyel”, “Theatre des Ambassadeurs”.From 1944 to 1946 he was called up for military service in the French Army in Indochina shortly before the First Indochina War took place there. He caught malaria during that time and, in consequence of the disease, was left hard of hearing.
From 1947 to 1948 he had different engagements at theatres and touring companies not only in France, but also in the French part of Allied-occupied Germany and in Florence, e. g. “Tournée Spectacles Moyses”, Teatro della Pergola. He acted, inter alia, under the direction of Georges Douking. His first film role came at age 25 in Ruy Blas.
Film
Paul Muller appeared in over 230 films since his first role in 1948. He spent most of his life by working in Italy, his main country of residence.He worked over more than 60 years with most of the well-known European actresses and actors of classic cinema and with some famous names of the Cinema of Italy like Roberto Rossellini, Carlo Ponti, Federico Fellini, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Michelangelo Antonioni. He also made his appearance in films under the direction of Veit Harlan, Artur Brauner, Jesús "Jess" Franco, René Clement, Michael Curtiz, Richard Fleischer, Jean-Pierre Mocky and many others..
Today he lives withdrawn near Rome.
Selected filmography
- Ruy Blas
- Une grande fille toute simple
- Buried Alive, as Count Federico De Rossi
- Fabiola
- William Tell, as Gessler
- Il bacio di una morta, as Hans
- Sicilian Uprising, as Duke de Saint-Rémy, Governor of Palermo
- Il falco rosso, as Baron Goffredo
- Romanticismo, as Cesky
- Toto Looks for a Wife, as Carlo
- La bisarca
- The Black Captain, as Giuliano
- Four Ways Out, as Guido Marchi
- Revenge of the Pirates, as Espinosa
- Stasera sciopero, as The mad man
- Pentimento, as Berardo Morelli
- Viva il cinema!
- La voce del sangue, as Count Franco Sampieri
- Abracadabra, as Alfredo
- Il Tenente Giorgio, as Count Stefano di Monserrato
- Fratelli d'Italia, as Luigi Staffi
- I sette dell'Orsa maggiore, as Enemy agent
- The Blind Woman of Sorrento, as Carlo Basileo
- Anna's Sin, as Alberto
- I misteri della giungla nera, as Suyodhana
- La prigioniera di Amalfi, as Baron Cangemi
- Two Nights with Cleopatra, as Tortul
- Public Opinion, as Carlo Leone
- La vendetta dei Tughs, as Suyodhana
- Schiava del peccato, as Voyager
- Journey to Italy, as Paul Dupont
- ', as Richard Sorge
- Suonno d'ammore, as Carmelo
- Tom Toms of Mayumba, as Dr. Assar
- Agguato sul mare, as Baron Staratta
- Lacrime di sposa, as Toni Icardi
- Incatenata dal destino, as Piero
- Checkpoint, as Petersen
- The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, as Rudolf von Kraft
- I Vampiri, as Joseph Signoret
- Pirate of the Half Moon, as Charles V
- Il Conte di Matera, as Filiberto
- ', as Bevallan
- Quando gli angeli piangono
- Slave Women of Corinth, as L'Asiatico
- The Naked Maja, as The French ambassador
- Captain Falcon, as Rusca
- Sheba and the Gladiator, as High Priest
- Un canto nel deserto, as Rudi
- Due selvaggi a corte, as Count Sarzese
- Signé Arsène Lupin, as Attaché at the embassy in Rome
- Purple Noon, as The blind man
- La strada dei giganti, as Count Monza
- Queen of the Pirates, as Duke Zulian
- The Conqueror of the Orient, as Sultan Dakar
- Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete, as Medico di Corte
- La grande vallata
- The Wastrel
- Legge di guerra, as Interpreter
- Capitani di ventura, as Count Falcino
- Pontius Pilate, as Mehlik
- Avenger of the Seven Seas, as Hornblut
- Lasciapassare per il morto, as The fourth accomplice
- It Happened in Athens, as Priest
- Women of Devil's Island, as Lefèvre
- Attack of the Normans, as Thomas
- Street of Temptation, as Dr. Salvatori
- Torpedo Bay, as Police Commander
- Goliath and the Sins of Babylon, as King Rukus of Cafaus
- ', as Botanist Alamian
- Desert Raiders, as Yussuf
- Cover Girls, as Enrico
- Da Istanbul ordine di uccidere
- Fall of the Mohicans, as Colonel Munro
- Nightmare Castle, as Dr. Stephen Arrowsmith
- Don Camillo in Moscow, as Russian priest
- La vendetta di Lady Morgan, as Sir Harold Morgan
- Thompson 1880, as Jameson Brady
- ', as Theotocritos
- '
- Uno di più all'inferno, as George Ward
- Stuntman, as Lamb
- Bootleggers, as Pythagoras
- Malenka, as Dr. Albert
- Venus in Furs, as Hermann
- How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?, as The Director
- Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion, as Monsieur de Mistival
- Eugenie de Sade, as Albert Radeck de Franval
- Count Dracula, as Dr. Seward
- Angeli senza paradiso, as Hermann Fux
- The Devil Came from Akasava, as Dr. Henry
- Vampyros Lesbos, as Dr. Steiner
- ', as John Somers
- L'Albatros, as President Ernest Cavalier
- Lady Frankenstein, as Dr. Charles Marshall
- She Killed in Ecstasy, as Dr. Franklin Houston
- Gang War in Naples, as L'onorevole
- Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?, as Mr. Summitt
- Treasure Island, as Blind Pew
- Tragic Ceremony, as Doctor
- Maria Rosa la guardona
- Studio legale per una rapina, as Albert
- The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot, as Brother Hugo
- A Virgin Among the Living Dead, as Ernesto Pablo Reiner
- The Arena, as Lucilius
- Miracles Still Happen, as Juliane's father
- Kidnap, as Jimmy
- Un linceul n'a pas de poches, as Minecci
- Heroes in Hell, as German Soldier
- Furia nera
- Une vierge pour Saint-Tropez, as Mr. Witson
- Frauengefängnis Barbed Wire Dolls, as Carlos Costa
- Tutto suo padre, as Stringer
- Mark Strikes Again, as Austrian inspector
- A Woman at Her Window, as Hotel manager
- The Witness, as Maurisson's brother-in-law
- The Perfect Crime, as Gibson
- Derrick - Season 6, Episode 7: "Lena", as Mr. Witte
- Fantozzi contro tutti, as Visconte Cobram
- Camera d'albergo, as Hans
- Sogni mostruosamente proibiti, as The hotel butler
- Nana, the True Key of Pleasure, as Xavier
- The Practice of Love, as French Industrialist
- The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal, as Thief in Monte Carlo
- Fracchia contro Dracula, as The employer of Fracchia
- Let's Hope It's a Girl, as Priest
- Salome, as Doctor
- Meglio baciare un cobra, as Fontaine
- , as Carbalo
- Fantozzi va in pensione, as Duke Count Francesco Maria Barambani
- La bottega dell'orefice, as Driver
- Fantozzi alla riscossa, as Duke Count Francesco Maria Barambani
- Paprika, as Milvio
- Li chiamarono... briganti!, as Bishop of Melfi
Awards and honors