Adolphe Engers

Biography

Adolphe Engers was originally an insurance agent, but came into contact with the stage at an early age. Starting in 1912, he acted in various theatre companies and appeared in the films Kroon der schande and Wat eeuwig blijft.

At the beginning of the 1920s, Engers made a career for himself in Germany as a film actor, for example playing a role in the German-Dutch co-production De man op den achtergrond. The advent of sound films meant the end of Engers' career in Germany.

Back in the Netherlands, he continued his stage career, and acted in several films. In the film Terra nova, he spoke the first sound-synchronized words in Dutch cinema history (‘The dike is closed’).

In addition to being an actor, Engers was also a novelist and translator of foreign plays.