Bruno Kastner

Bruno Kastner was a German stage and film actor, screenwriter and film producer whose career was most prominent in the 1910s and 1920s during the silent film era. Kastner was one of the most popular leading men in German films during his careers peak in the 1920s.

Kastner was born Richard Otto Bruno Kastner in Forst , Brandenburg, Germany in 1890. His father was a forestry tax minister. Kastner attended schools in Frstenwalde and afterward served a short, seventeen day stint in the military before being relieved of his duties due to an injury. He subsequently travelled to Berlin and took acting lessons from stage actor Paul Biensfeldt and then relocated briefly to Hamburg where he performed at the Harburger Theater. After a brief period in touring companies he worked as a choral singer and actor at the MeinhardBernauer Bhnen in Berlin.

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