Heinz Rühmann
Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993.
He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a German film legend.
Rühmann is best known for playing the part of a comic ordinary citizen in film comedies such as "Three from the Filling Station" and "The Punch Bowl".
During his later years, he was also a respected character actor in films such as "The Captain from Köpenick" and "It Happened in Broad Daylight".
His only English-speaking movie was "Ship of Fools" in 1964.
The Three from the Filling Station (1930 film)
The Three from the Filling Station( German: Die Drei von der Tankstelle) is a 1930 German musical film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Heinz Rühmann, and Oskar Karlweis.
Produced by Erich Pommer, the film was a major success for the UFA studio, outgrossing even" The Blue Angel".
Several songs composed by Werner R. Heymann and performed by the Comedian Harmonists have remained popular up to today.
The film also had a heavy influence on Hollywood musicals during the 1930s.
Hans Wolff (director)
Hans Wolff (1911, Berlin – 1979) was a German film editor and director.
Burglars (film)
Burglars is a 1930 German musical comedy film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Ralph Arthur Roberts, Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, and Heinz Rühmann.
It is also known in English by the alternative title Murder For Sale.
It is based on the French play" Guignol le cambrioleur" by Louis Verneuil, who co-wrote the screenplay.
A French- language version, titled" Caught in the Act", was filmed at the same time.
The film was intended by the studio UFA as a follow- up to the hit musical" The Three from the Filling Station".
The film's set were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut.
It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin with location filming also taking place in Paris.
The Road to Paradise (1956 film)
The Road to Paradise( French: Le chemin du paradis) is a 1956 French- German romantic comedy film directed by Willi Forst and Hans Wolff and starring Georges Guétary, Christine Carère and Claude Farell.
The film is the French version of the 1955 German film" The Three from the Filling Station", which was itself a remake of a 1930 film.
The Road to Paradise
The Road to Paradise( French: Le chemin du paradis) is a 1930 musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and Max de Vaucorbeil and starring Lilian Harvey, Henri Garat and René Lefèvre.
It was made by the German studio UFA as the French- language version of the hit film" The Three from the Filling Station".
The Three from the Filling Station (1955 film)
The Three from the Filling Station  is a 1955 West German musical film directed by Hans Wolff and starring Adrian Hoven, Walter Müller and Walter Giller.
After losing their money, three young men go to work at a filling station where they all fall in love with the same woman.
The film is a remake of the 1930 UFA film "The Three from the Filling Station".
It was one of a series of remakes made during the 1950s of major hits during the Weimar and Nazi eras.
A separate French-language remake "
The Road to Paradise" was released in 1956.
Leo Monosson
Leo Monosson( Russian: Лев Исаакович Моносзон, lit. Lev Isaakovich Monoisson)( 1897– 1967) was a tenor singer born in Moscow, who found fame in Germany in the years 1928- 1933.
He spoke eleven languages and produced over 1400 records, one of his best- known being Liebling, mein Herz lässt dich grüßen with the Ben Berlin Orchestra.
He was also an actor, appearing in films such as the musical" The Three From the Filling Station".
As a Jew, he had to leave Germany in 1933, moving first to France and then the United States.
In New York, he started a new career as a stamp trader.
Her Dark Secret
Her Dark Secret is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Harry Halm.
The film reuninted Harvey and Fritsch who had previously appeared together in" Chaste Susanne"( 1926), although this time their characters become a couple at the end of the film.
This provided a template for a number of popular films over the following decade such as" The Three from the Filling Station".
The film's art direction was by Jacek Rotmil.
Three from the Unemployment Office
Three from the Unemployment Office( German: Drei von der Stempelstelle) is a 1932 German comedy film directed by Eugen Thiele and starring Fritz Kampers, Paul Kemp and Anton Walbrook.
It premiered on February 29, 1932.
The film's title alludes to the 1930 hit" The Three from the Filling Station".

Question: Where did the director of film The Three From The Filling Station (1955 Film) die?
Answer: Berlin