Emerging from a Berlin postal-worker family, he funded his Abitur and private acting lessons by taking extra roles at the Großes Schauspielhaus and the State Opera, then debuted on stage in 1936 at the Landestheater Altenburg. His screen entrance came with the 1941 Heinz Rühmann comedy The Gasman, after which military service interrupted his early career. Post-war, he joined the Hebbel-Theater ens… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! 1966 PlayTime 1967 The Tin Drum 1979 All the Way Boys 1972 ★ 7.3 The Damned 1969
Konstantin von Essenbeck ★ 6.9 They Called Him Bulldozer 1978
Colonel Martin ★ 6.8 All the Way Boys 1972
Mr. Ears ★ 7.3 The Captain from Kopenick 1956
Soldat ★ 7.2 The Man Between 1953
Kolldehoff EaEasstern German Police Officer commanding the hunt for Ivo Kern and Susanne Mallison (uncredited) Series ★ 7.3 The Winds of War 1983
Hermann Göring ★ 6.8 The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 1960
Roberto Menil aka 'Klumpfuß' ★ 6.9 The Horse 1970
Hans ★ 6.9 Operation: Daybreak 1975
Fleischer, Gestapo ★ 6.8 Revolver 1973
French Lawyer ★ 6.6 Fellowship of the Frog 1959
Lew Brady ★ 6.6 The Strange Countess 1961
Butler John Addams ★ 6.5 Julie Darling 1983
Lt. Rossmore ★ 6.5 The Counterfeit Traitor 1962
Col. Erdmann (uncredited) Series ★ 6.3 The Old Fox 1977
Basinsky ★ 6.4 Borsalino and Co. 1974
Sam ★ 6 The Master Touch 1972
Detective Hoffman ★ 6.2 Line of Demarcation 1966
le Major von Pritsch ★ 6 The Lion Has Seven Heads 1971
Governor ★ 5.7 Boomerang 1976
Le banquier Feldman ★ 6.2 Atlantic Wall 1970
Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor' ★ 6 Shout at the Devil 1976
Herman Fleischer Series ★ 6.2 Scene of the Crime 1970
Kaiser ★ 5.8 The Revengers 1972
Zweig ★ 5.6 The Little Drummer Girl 1984
Inspector ★ 5.4 The Romantic Englishwoman 1975
Herman ★ 5.9 Moon Over Parador 1988
Gunther ★ 5.8 I Love You, I Don't 1976
Boris ★ 5.5 The Formula 1980
Reimeck ★ 5 Just a Gigolo 1978
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