Emerging from a war-torn Berlin childhood, Horst Buchholz entered the stage in 1949 after brief schooling and quickly secured engagements at the Schiller Theater and in radio, laying the foundation for a prolific screen career. By the mid-1950s he became a teenage idol in Germany with Die Halbstarken and achieved his first major lead in Confessions of Felix Krull, after which he expanded into Engl…
