Franz Schnyder

Franz Schnyder was born on 5 March 1910 in Burgdorf, in the Emmental; he had a twin brother, Felix. Trained as an actor and stage director in Berlin and Düsseldorf, he made his debut in Mainz in 1932, then acted and directed at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and the Kammerspiele in Munich. Back in Switzerland in 1939, he worked at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. He shot his first film in 1941 and his last in 1968, then devoted his final years to a project on Pestalozzi that never saw the light of day. He died in Münsingen, in the canton of Bern, on 8 February 1993.

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• Feature filmUli der KnechtFranz Schnyder · 1954Cinema