Alex Benno
Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles
Movie - 1915, 2h 15m • as Impresario
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
When his granddaughter is born, debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken misses out on Aunt Roselaar's allowance of 20,000 guilders. Anxious to keep the money, his son-in-law telegraphs the aunt that a son was born, Frans, and the girl is brought up as a boy. Based on the novel by Anna L.G. Bosboom-Toussaint.
Movie - 1920, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.
Movie - 1913, 2h 15m • as Janus Blanus
Annie falls in love with a circus clown, but her circus-hating father forbids their romance. Until a fire breaks out...
Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • as Dronken brandweerman
Mavis Keeves is the daughter of a man who is ruined and dies as a result of reckless speculation, encouraged by Sir Harry Winderbank.
Movie - 1914, 2h 15m • as Rabbijn
An orthodox Jewish man refuses to accept the marriage of his daughter to a Christian man.
Movie - 1920, 2h 15m • as Sally
When self-made businessman Pancras Duif decides to marry his much younger housekeeper, his entire family protests; eager to protect the family capital, sons Henk, Jan and Toon enlist a psychiatrist for help. The film is considered lost.
Movie - 1914, 2h 15m • as Kapitein
Dutch silent comedy film where a bunch of women cause havoc wherever they go.
Movie - 1916, 2h 15m • as Smokkelaar / Smuggler
Young poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. There was, however, one witness: captain Van Oort, but he promises to keep silent. Five years later Hendrik has become a lighthouse-keeper and is courting Annie. Van Oort is also trying to win Annie's affections, and in his jealousy he decides to remind Hendrik of what he knows about his past...