---
title: 'The Earl of Essex (1922)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Peter Paul Felner'
released: '1922-01-01'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-earl-of-essex-1922'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013199/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Earl of Essex (1922)

1922 · Germany

Original title: Der Graf von Essex

## Synopsis

The Earl of Essex is a 1922 German silent historical film directed by Peter Paul Felner and starring Eugen Klöpfer, Fritz Kortner and Werner Krauss. It was loosely based on the 1761 play Der Graf von Essex by Peter von Stüven set in Elizabethan England and based in turn on the 1678 work Le Comte d'Essex by Thomas Corneille.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Peter Paul Felner](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-paul-felner)
- **Director of Photography:** [Fritz Arno Wagner](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-arno-wagner), [Karl Hasselmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-hasselmann)

## Cast

- [Fritz Kortner](https://cinepixo.com/people/fritz-kortner)
- [Agnes Straub](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnes-straub)
- [Charles Puffy](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-puffy)
- [Magnus Stifter](https://cinepixo.com/people/magnus-stifter)
- [Werner Krauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/werner-krauss)
- [Eugen Klöpfer](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugen-klopfer)
- [Eva May](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-may)
- [Erna Morena](https://cinepixo.com/people/erna-morena)
- [Rosa Valetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/rosa-valetti)
- [Friedrich Kühne](https://cinepixo.com/people/friedrich-kuhne)
- [Ferdinand von Alten](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferdinand-von-alten)

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