Autographs of Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (born Wilhelm Egon Fritz, 27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German Silesian theatre and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, as the only son of a factory owner in the Upper Silesian city of Kattowitz (present-day Katowice) in the Prussian province of Silesia. After the bankruptcy of his father in 1912, the family moved to Berlin, where Fritsch Sr. worked as an employee of the Siemens-Schuckert company. Young Willy originally planned an apprenticeship as a mechanic, but soon began working as an extra at the Großes Schauspielhaus theatre.
From 1919 he attended Max Reinhardt's drama school at the Deutsches Theater, where he debuted with small roles and played as understudy at times side by side with Marlene Dietrich (i.e. Spring Awakening). He made his feature debut in films as a supporting player in 1920's Miss Venus and got his first important engagement in His Mysterious Adventure three years later. In 1925, Fritsch gained international attention by playing the leading role in the silent film A Waltz Dream directed by Ludwig Berger. Afterwards he was offered a United Artists contract, but refused to move to the United States, being concerned about his limited English. His career was pushed now through the UFA film company by being cast as a juvenile lover in silent comedies such as Chaste Susanne (1926), The Last Waltz (1927), Hungarian Rhapsody (1928), and Her Dark Secret (1929). Fritsch also starred in two silent films directed by Fritz Lang: the thriller Spies (1928) and the sci-fi film Woman in the Moon (1929), where he played serious characters. Again, these films gained him international success.
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Traded items with a signature of Willy Fritsch
The most expensive item with a signature of Willy Fritsch (100% original autograph card autographed Willy Fritsch J1.4) was sold in March 2026 for £59.12 while the cheapest item (Willy Fritsch , Autogramm/Autograph, Film, Kino, Schauspiel, signiert,Ross Verlag) found a new owner for £2.58 in October 2022. The month with the most items sold (4) was June 2025 with an average selling price of £13.11 for an autographed item of Willy Fritsch. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in February 2026 with £18.83 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £7.25 was September 2025. In average, an autographed item from Willy Fritsch is worth £11.45.
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