[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Curd Cappi was a German silent film actor born Conrad Heinrich Paul Lehmann in Weimar, Thuringia, Germany on January 8, 1878. He was a son of the grand ducal court actor Guido Lehmann [1826-1909] and his wife Marie. Living in Graz from 1896, he studied for four semesters at the Technical University. After that he was employed as an accounting clerk at the Styrian governor's office. After his studies at the Institute of Technology he began an acting career in 1908 in the theater. He went into temporary retirement in October 1912 and went to Berlin to devote himself entirely to the stage. From this point on he used the stage names Curt Cappi. He first worked on stage as an actor in Austria and Germany.
He joined the film business in 1919 with "Lebenshunger" and he soon became a busy supporting actor in the 1920s. He appeared in 70 plus films from 1919 to 1943.
After 1943 he then moved to Linz in Upper Austria and withdrew into private life. There he died in the nursing home "House of Mercy" on October 7, 1964, in Linz.
Cappi appeared in only one Euro-western as D.I. Winsor in 1920’s “Apachenrache, 3. Teil - Die Verschwundene Million” (Apache Revenge, Part 3 - The Missing Million).
CAPPI, Curt (aka Conrad Curt Cappi, Curt Conrad Cappi,
Konrad Cappi, Cappi Curd) (Conrad Heinrich Paul Lehmann) [1/8/1878,
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany – 10/7/1964, Linz, Austria] – theater, film actor,
son of actor Guido Lehmann [1826-1909]
Apachenrache, 3. Teil - Die Verschwundene Million – 1920
(D.I. Winsor)
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