Einar Zangenberg

Einar Zangenberg was stage-trained in Copenhagen but soon found steady and fun-filled employment in silent films from 1908. He was known as a dare-devil in early Danish silent cinema. As a swimmer, motorist and even airman he dazzled the audience. Never one to settle down he worked as an actor, director and writer in Denmark, Sweden and finally Germany, where he took residence in 1914. His films in Germany and Austria are lost and forgotten today but in his heyday, he made quite a few action/adventure films that thrilled the movie-going public. In Germany he was associated with Flora-Film. He was married to actress Alfi Zangenberg when he died in Vienna, Austria from the dreaded Spanish Influenza - aged 35.