Lil Dagover

Lil Dagover born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980 was a German actress whose career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar Republic. Contents   1Early life 2Acting career in the Weimar Republic 3Talkies and the Third Reich 4Later career

Daniel Brühl

Daniel César Martin Brühl González Domingo born 16 June 1978 is a Spanish-German actor. He began his work at a young age in a German soap opera called Verbotene Liebe in 1995. In 2003, his starring role in the German film Good Bye, Lenin! received wider recognition and critical acclaim which garnered him the European Film Award for Best Actor and the German Film Award for Best Actor. Brühl has worked in

Rutger Hauer

Rutger Oelsen Hauer 23 January 1944 – 19 July 2019 was a Dutch actor. In 1999, he was named by the Dutch public as the Best Dutch Actor of the Century. Hauer’s career began in 1969 with the title role in the Dutch television series Floris and surged with his leading role in Turkish Delight (1973), which in 1999

Herbert Grönemeyer

Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer (born 12 April 1956) is a German singer, musician, producer, composer and actor, popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Grönemeyer starred as war correspondent Lieutenant Werner in Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film Das Boot, but later focused on his musical career. His fifth album 4630 Bochum (1984) and his 11th album Mensch (2002) are the third and first best-selling

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell 8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014 was an Austrian-born Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film Judgment at Nuremberg, his second acting role in Hollywood. Born in Austria, his parents were involved in the arts

Rüdiger Vogler

Rüdiger Vogler born 14 May 1942 in Warthausen, near Biberach an der Riß is a German film and stage actor. Contents   1Biography 2Collaboration with Wim Wenders 3Selected filmography 4References 5External links Biography Rüdiger Vogler attended acting school in Heidelberg from 1963 to 1965. Later he played for six years at “Theater am Turm” in Frankfurt am Main, often in the plays by Peter Handke.

Bruno S.

Bruno Schleinstein 2 June 1932 – 11 August 2010, often credited as Bruno S., was a German film actor, artist, and musician. He is known internationally for his roles in two films directed by Werner Herzog, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Stroszek (1976). Contents   1Life 2References 3Further resources 4External links Life Schleinstein was often beaten as a child, and spent

Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski  born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991 was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and was a leading role actor in the films of Werner Herzog, including Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), and Cobra Verde (1987). He also appeared in many Spaghetti Westerns, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965), A

Harry Baer

Harry Baer born Harry Zöttl on 27 September 1947 is a German actor, producer and author, best known for his work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also been credited as Harry Bär. Contents   1Life 2Filmography 3Notes 4Bibliography 5External links Life Harry Baer began his career in Munich when he joined the Action Theatre, a theatrical

Helmut Griem

Helmut Griem 6 April 1932 – 19 November 2004 was a German film, television and stage actor, and director. Contents   1Biography 2Theatre 3Filmography 4References 5External links Biography Born in Hamburg, Griem was primarily a stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in