Louis Brody

Louis Brody (born Ludwig M'bebe Mpessa; 15 February 1896 – 11 February 1951) was a Cameroonian-born German film actor, musician and showfighter.
Brody was born in Douala, in the German colony of Kamerun. His career began in the 1920s after he moved to Germany and lasted uninterrupted throughout the Nazi regime till his death in 1951. Brody engaged also in political work in favour of Afro-Germans as part of the African Aid Organisation, established by and for Afro-Germans living in Germany and was co-founder and an active member of the Liga zur Verteidigung der Negerrasse. In 1938 he married a unknown woman from Danzig. Brody remained active and successful as an artist during World War II.
Selected filmography
(1915) as the Black African (film debut)
The Dagger of Malaya (1919) as Jack Johnson
The Mistress of the World (1919-1920, part 1, 4-6) as Mallkalle the medicine man / Simba the Chinese servant
Genuine (1920) as the Malay
The Secret of Bombay (1921)
Der Kleine Muck (1921) as Achmet
The Conspiracy in Genoa (1921) as Mulay Hassan
The Man Without a Name (1921, part 1, 2, 4-7) as Bill Burns
Die Abenteuer eines Ermordeten (1921, part 2)
The Pearl of the Orient (1921) as the Rajah's servant
Destiny (1921) as Moor / Mohr
The Poisoned Stream (1921)
The Indian Tomb (1921, part 1, 2) as Maharadjah's black servant (uncredited)
The Secret of Santa Maria (1921)
The Island of the Lost (1921) as king of the island
Wildnis (1922)
Homo sum (1922)
Lust for Life (1922) as Jimmy
Das Spielzeug einer Tänzerin (1923) as Brutus
The Pleasure Garden (1925) as plantation manager (uncredited)
The Great Duchess (1926)
I Once Had a Comrade (1926) as Moor / Mohr
The Boxer's Bride (1926) as Fighting Bob
The Armoured Vault (1926) as chauffeur
Mata Hari (1927)
The Last Testament (1929)
Death Drive for the World Record (1929) as Salto King's servant
Stürmisch die Nacht (1931)
No More Love (1931) as cook
Calais-Dover (1931) as cook
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1932) as Pascha's servant
The White Demon (1932) as the theater porter
Narcotics (1932) as theater porter (uncredited)
The Flower of Hawaii (1933) as a waiter
Hard Luck Mary (1934) as black man
The Riders of German East Africa (1934) as Hamissi
Punks Arrives from America (1935) as barkeeper
Pillars of Society (1935) as cowboy
La Habanera (1937) as Puerto Rican passerby
The Mystery of Betty Bonn (1938) as Seaman Higgins
The Impossible Mister Pitt (1938) as Seaman Hannibal
Kautschuk (1938) as man (uncredited)
In geheimer Mission (1938)
Sergeant Berry (1938) as Berry's neighbor
Water for Canitoga (1939) as Johnny
Kennwort Machin (1939) as New York hotel porter
(1939)
Jud Süß (1940) as Duke's black valet
Blutsbrüderschaft (1941) as cabaret singer
Carl Peters (1941) as East African tribal chief
Ohm Kruger (1941) as Lobenguela
Goodbye, Franziska (1941) as South American hotel porter (uncredited)
Giungla (1942) as Je-Crois-En-Dieu
Vom Schicksal verweht (1942) as tribal chief
Doctor Crippen (1942) as Pedro
Münchhausen (1943) as Abd al-Hamid's servant (uncredited)
(1943) as King Wapunga
Herr Sanders lebt gefährlich (1944)
Kolberg (1945) as a Black French soldier (uncredited)
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1946)
Quax in Africa (1947) as medicine man
Nights on the Nile (1949) as Egyptian
The Black Forest Girl (1950) as party guest (uncredited)
The Last Year (1951) as café patron (final film role)
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1892 births
1952 deaths
20th-century German male actors
German male silent film actors
German male film actors
People from Douala
Cameroonian male actors
Cameroonian emigrants to Germany