Gustav Von Seyffertitz

As the very image of Evil, "Professor Moriarty," ideally matched with John Barrymore's titular sleuth in the nearly-lost silent Sherlock Holmes
As another classic silent movie villain, vile "Mr. Grimes," threatening Mary Pickford and her orphan charges in Sparrows
As "Dr. Venner," lending Batmosphere to Roland West's talkie version of the theatrical thriller The Bat Whispers
As "Professor Max J. Engelhoffer," whose crackbrained psychiatry goads a condemned man to escape in the whirlwind first talkie version of The Front Page
As sickly "Eric Baum," an imperiled traveler captured by Chinese warlord Warner Oland (along with Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong) in Josef Von Sternberg's wildly exotic Shanghai Express
As "Billali," high minister to "She Who Must Be Obeyed" (Helen Gahagan) in the 30's adventure classic She (a role later played by Christopher Lee in the Hammer version with Ursula Andress)
As town councilman "Burgher #1,", blowing his majestic nose and cursing Basil Rathbone's family in Son Frankenstein

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