- Back home in Hamburg from Africa, he claims to have served as a secretary in the Argentine consulate for a year and then worked as a hotel manager in Hamburg and Sopot for two years and managed a forest sanatorium in Berlin-Hermsdorf in the same position for another year.
- He was a German actor, screenwriter, theatre director and journalist with a previous life as a merchant and diplomat in the imperial era.
- After leaving France he was able to continue his film career as an actor in Germany.
- Besides his activity as an actor Harald Bredow also wrote the screenplay for the production "Symphonie des Todes" (1921).
- Son of the North German writer Sophia Heinrich Breckling (1827-1883) and a pianist who died in 1911, he wanted to have attended the Royal Realgymnasium in Altona and subsequently received acting lessons with Leo Forst.
- His films, which he shot in France before 1914 under the direction of pioneers such as Louis Feuillade, Léonce Perret and Victorin Jasset and for which he claims to have provided one or two screenplay manuscripts, cannot currently be verified by name.
- After practicing various professions, he became interested in acting and was engaged at Berlin's Rose Theater and at a German-American stage. The early joys of the theater are said to have lasted only briefly, because Bredow had suffered from delayed appendicitis, which had tied him to the sick bed for a long time. He then went working behind the curtain and was deputy director and director at the variety show in Elberfeld.
- He was a co-founder of the "Deutsche Eidophon Film GmbH" in 1932 which was liquidated shortly afterwards.
- With the outbreak of the war he was internated in France for a brief time, afterwards he returned to Germany.
- Bredow claimed to have made contact with the French celluloid industry through the film company Éclair and received leading roles from this company, for example as a schemer in Nick Carter films (around 1908 to 1910). He would have received further offers from the companies Lux, Lion, Pathé and Gaumont.
- He first worked in Paris till World War I where he among others realised a film serial with the actress Suzanne Grandais.
- Bredow claimed to have traveled to Paris as an independent impresario, where he toured with the Nouveau Grand Cirque de Paris as "general director". He also claimed to have performed at regular theaters such as the Paris Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin and the Théâtre François Coppée.
- He also worked as a journalist for different newspapers and he was the editor of the "Internationales Film-Magazins".
- His last cinematical works came already at the beginning of the 20s into being and Harald Bredow played support roles in movies like "Der Kammersänger" (1920), "Cocain" (1921) as well as "Symphonie des Todes" (1921).
- Surprised by the outbreak of the First World War in France, he was arrested on suspicion of espionage and only deported to Switzerland several years later. It was not until June 1918 that he returned from there to Germany.
- According to his own statements, his life was very adventurous. According to Bredow, after completing an apprenticeship as an employee of the Hamburg import and export company Louis Ritz & Co., his path led him to the German African colonies. He worked in German East Africa for two and a half years, then in the west of the continent (Gold Coast) for two years as a manager. This time was very bad for him, since he constantly suffered from tropical diseases (dysentery, malaria, yellow fever).
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