Remember great german speaking actors from A to Z

1. Max Adalbert

Although somewhat forgotten these days, Max Adalbert was a great name of the German theater at he beginning of the twentieth century. Born Max Kampf in Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland) Max Adalbert worked in Lübeck, St. Gallen (Switzerland), Vienna and Berlin (Kleines Theater, Reinhardt-Bühnen). ...

2. Hans Albers

Soundtrack | Soul Kitchen

Life companion was the actress Hansi Burg. Their relationship started in 1925. They separated in 1935 due to the pressure of the German Nazi government. In 1938 she went into exile in Switzerland (later London). Shortly after this she married the Norwegian Erich Blydt. Burg returned to Germany and ...

3. Ewald Balser

Actor | Rembrandt

Ewald Balser was born on October 5, 1898 in Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany. He was an actor, known for Rembrandt (1942), Sauerbruch - Das war mein Leben (1954) and Spionage (1955). He was married to Ernestine Bauer and Vera Balser-Eberle. He died on April 17, 1978 in Vienna, Austria.

4. Albert Bassermann

Actor | Foreign Correspondent

Classically-trained actor, former chemist, whose formative years on the stage were spent in Bern (Switzerland) and, from 1909, the Deutsches Theater Berlin under Max Reinhardt's direction. Specialised in Shakespearean roles ('Richard III', 'Hamlet') and was a famous interpreter of the plays of ...

5. Heinz Bennent

Actor | Possession

Heinz Bennent was born on July 18, 1921 in Stolberg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Possession (1981), The Last Metro (1980) and Im Jahr der Schildkröte (1988). He was married to Paulette Renou. He died on October 12, 2011 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.

6. Martin Benrath

Actor | Der Laden

Martin Benrath was born on November 9, 1926 in Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Laden (1998), Stalingrad (1993) and Morituri (1965). He was married to Marianne Klein. He died on January 31, 2000 in Herrsching am Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany.

7. Hans Christian Blech

Actor | The Longest Day

Hans Christian Blech was born on February 20, 1915 in Darmstadt, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Longest Day (1962), Battle of the Bulge (1965) and Wer zu spät kommt - Das Politbüro erlebt die deutsche Revolution (1990). He was married to Erni Wilhelmi. He died on March 5, 1993 in...

8. Dieter Borsche

Actor | Die große Versuchung

Dieter Borsche was born on October 25, 1909 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Die große Versuchung (1952), Fanfaren der Liebe (1951) and No Greater Love (1952). He was married to Ursula Willick, Monika Drum and Ursula Poser. He died on August 5, 1982 in Nuremberg, ...

9. Rolf Boysen

Actor | Das Vergnügen, anständig zu sein

Rolf Boysen was born on March 31, 1920 in Flensburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Vergnügen, anständig zu sein (1966), Pontius Pilatus (1966) and Michael Kohlhaas (1969). He died on May 16, 2014 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

10. Pinkas Braun

Actor | Les brigades du Tigre

This lean, incisive, basso-voiced Swiss actor with the unsettling mephistophelean countenance was the son of a Galician-Jewish merchant. Pinkas Braun began his chosen vocation at the age of eighteen as an extra with the Zürcher Schauspielhaus (embracing what he considered the 'order and discipline'...

11. Horst Buchholz

Actor | La vita è bella

On the cast list of The Magnificent Seven (1960), you will find several names that doubtless you know well: Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Yul Brynner. But there is one name that you will have difficulty pronouncing, let alone identifying as an actor you have seen before. That man is Horst ...

12. Horst Caspar

Actor | Begegnung mit Werther

Horst Caspar was born on January 20, 1913 in Radegast, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He was an actor, known for Begegnung mit Werther (1949), Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies (1940) and Burning Hearts (1945). He was married to Antje Weisgerber. He died on December 27, 1952 in Dahlem, Berlin,...

13. Paul Dahlke

Actor | Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull

Paul Dahlke was born on April 12, 1904 in Groß-Streitz, Pomerania, Germany [now Strzezenice, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Confessions of Felix Krull (1957), Flying Classroom (1954) and Die Heiden von Kummerow und ihre lustigen Streiche (1967). He was married to Elfe ...

14. René Deltgen

Actor | Der Tiger von Eschnapur

René Deltgen was born on April 30, 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. He was an actor, known for The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959), No Way Back (1953) and Journey to the Lost City (1960). He was married to Anita Irene Wapordjieff and Elisabeth Scherer. He died on January 29, 1979 in Cologne, North ...

15. Ernst Deutsch

Actor | The Third Man

Ernst Deutsch was born on September 16, 1890 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for The Third Man (1949), Der Prozeß (1948) and Isle of the Dead (1945). He was married to Anuschka Fuchs. He died on March 22, 1969 in West Berlin, West Germany.

16. Peter van Eyck

Actor | The Longest Day

With his whitish blond crew-cut, slow, menacing drawl and Germanic manner, Van Eyck was destined to be typecast as stereotypically scowling, arrogant Nazi officers. This was ironic, because he was an avowed anti-fascist who had left Germany in 1931 -- two years before Adolf Hitler came to power. ...

17. O.W. Fischer

Actor | Ich suche dich

O.W. Fischer was born on April 1, 1915 in Klosterneuburg, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor and director, known for Ich suche dich (1956), Arms and the Man (1958) and Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein (1961). He was married to Anna Usell. He died on January 29, 2004 in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland.

18. Rudolf Forster

Actor | Das Glas Wasser

Rudolf Forster was born on October 30, 1884 in Gröbming, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Das Glas Wasser (1960), The Threepenny Opera (1931) and Wälsungenblut (1965). He was married to Wilhelmine Karoline Klara Schachschneider and Eleonora von Mendelssohn. He died on October 25, ...

19. Horst Frank

Actor | Albino

The blond, steely-eyed bad guy of European westerns and potboilers was born in Lübeck, Germany, the son of a porcelain painter. Horst Frank financed his acting studies by working part-time as a babysitter and night watchman. He actually failed his final exams at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, but ...

20. Uwe Friedrichsen

Actor | Maximilian von Mexiko

Uwe Friedrichsen was born on May 27, 1934 in Altona (now Hamburg), Germany. He was an actor, known for Maximilian von Mexiko (1970), Elephant Boy (1972) and John Klings Abenteuer (1965). He was married to Ute Papst and Nathalie Emery. He died on April 30, 2016 in Hamburg, Germany.

21. Gert Fröbe

Actor | Goldfinger

Tall, portly built German born actor (and talented violinist) who notched up over 100 film appearances, predominantly in German-language productions. He will forever be remembered by Western audiences as the bombastic megalomaniac "Auric Goldfinger" trying to kill Sean Connery and irradiate the ...

22. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer

Actor | Titanic

Ernst Fritz Fürbringer was born on July 27, 1900 in Brunswick, Germany. He was an actor, known for Titanic (1943), Wallenstein (1978) and Vienna Blood (1942). He was married to Lizzi Rademacher. He died on October 30, 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.

23. Bruno Ganz

Actor | Der Untergang

Bruno Ganz was an acclaimed Swiss actor who was a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He is internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004).

Ganz was born in Zürich, to a Swiss mechanic father and a ...

24. Götz George

Actor | Der Totmacher

Götz George, born in Berlin in 1938, is the son of the famous actor Heinrich George and his wife, the actress Berta Drews. After first appearances on the stage of Berlin's Hebbel Theater during his childhood, Götz George was trained as an actor by the recognized teacher Else Bongers. At the age of ...

25. Heinrich George

Actor | Metropolis

Heinrich George was born on October 9, 1893 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor and producer, known for Metropolis (1927), Burning Hearts (1945) and Die Degenhardts (1944). He was married to Berta Drews. He died on September 25, 1946 in Soviet ...

26. Frank Giering

Actor | Funny Games

Born and raised in Magdeburg (Germany), Frank Giering gained first stage experience as a background actor at the former known "Maxim-Gorki" theatre Magdeburg". During this time the desire arose to become an actor even though he said at a later time, that this desire was mainly animated due to his ...

27. Vadim Glowna

Actor | Cross of Iron

Vadim Glowna was born on September 26, 1941 in Eutin, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Cross of Iron (1977), Desperado City (1981) and Dies rigorose Leben (1983). He was married to Vera Tschechowa. He died on January 24, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.

28. Boy Gobert

Actor | Monpti

Boy Gobert was born on June 5, 1925 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Monpti (1957), Die Fledermaus (1962) and Mylord weiß sich zu helfen (1958). He died on May 30, 1986 in Vienna, Austria.

29. Curt Goetz

Writer | Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius

Curt Goetz was born on November 17, 1888 in Mainz, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate], Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Frauenarzt Dr. Prätorius (1950), Hocuspocus (1953) and Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend (1923). He was married to Valerie von Martens and ...

30. Robert Graf

Actor | The Great Escape

Robert Graf was born on November 18, 1923 in Witten, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Great Escape (1963), Aren't We Wonderful? (1958) and Jonas (1957). He was married to Selma Urfer. He died on February 4, 1966 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.

31. Alexander Granach

Actor | Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens

Alexander Granach was born in the region of Galizia, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Ukraine). Given the name Jessaja Szajko Gronish, he was one of a dozen children of a poor Jewish family eking out a living, first in a farming village, later in a series of small towns and ...

32. Helmut Griem

Actor | Cabaret

Helmut Griem was born on April 6, 1932 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Cabaret (1972), The Damned (1969) and Fabrik der Offiziere (1960). He was married to Helga Koehler. He died on November 19, 2004 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

33. Gustaf Gründgens

Actor | M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

After his school education, Gustaf Gründgens volunteered for the Western Front in 1916. The following year he joined the Saarlouis front theater group, which he led two years later. After the war, he trained from 1919 to 1920 at the Düsseldorf Theater School of Stage Arts. He took on his first ...

34. O.E. Hasse

Actor | I Confess

O.E. Hasse was born on July 11, 1903 in Obersitzko, Prussia, Germany [now Obrzycko, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for I Confess (1953), Deadly Decision (1954) and The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957). He died on September 11, 1978 in West Berlin, West Germany.

35. Martin Held

Actor | Canaris

Martin Held was a leading German film actor of the 1950's and 60's. He attended school in Berlin and then worked for a while as a technician at Siemens. In 1929, he received a stipend to train for acting at the Berlin University of the Arts, graduating in 1931. He then performed at most of the ...

36. Jürgen Hentsch

Actor | Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman

Jürgen Hentsch was born on March 17, 1936 in Görlitz, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001), Im Schatten der Macht (2003) and Hamlet_X (2003). He was married to Wassilka. He died on December 21, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

37. Werner Hinz

Actor | The Longest Day

Werner Hinz was born on January 18, 1903 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Longest Day (1962), No Greater Love (1952) and The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955). He was married to Ehmi Bessel. He died on February 10, 1985 in Hamburg, West Germany.

38. Thomas Holtzmann

Actor | Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge?

Thomas Holtzmann was born on April 1, 1927 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Qui êtes-vous, Monsieur Sorge? (1961), Man on Horseback (1969) and Funeral in Berlin (1966). He was married to Gustl Halenke. He died on January 4, 2013 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

39. Rolf Hoppe

Actor | Sardsch

Rolf Hoppe was born on December 6, 1930 in Ellrich, Thuringia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Sardsch (1997), La piovra (1984) and Mephisto (1981). He was married to Friederike. He died on November 14, 2018 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany.

40. Attila Hörbiger

Actor | Fast ein Poet

Attila Hörbiger was born on April 21, 1896 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Fast ein Poet (1968), Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen (1961) and Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg (1966). He was married to Paula Wessely. He died on April 27, 1987 in Vienna, Austria.

41. Paul Hörbiger

Actor | The Third Man

Paul Hörbiger was born on April 29, 1894 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor and producer, known for The Third Man (1949), Three Girls Around Schubert (1936) and The Gypsy Baron (1954). He was married to Josefa Gettke. He died on March 5, 1981 in Vienna, Austria.

42. Emil Jannings

Actor | The Last Command

His real name was Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, and in the early 1900s, he was already working in the theater under Max Reinhardt's company. Important movies where he defined himself as a convincing actor were Passion (1919) and Quo Vadis? (1924), followed by The Last Laugh (1924) (aka The Last ...

43. Gottfried John

Actor | Astérix & Obélix contre César

Gottfried John was born on August 29, 1942 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), GoldenEye (1995) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). He was married to Brigitte. He died on September 1, 2014 in Utting am Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany.

44. Harald Juhnke

Actor | Schtonk

At the age of 15, Harald Juhnke was drafted into military service in the Second World War. After the end of the war he attended drama school. At the age of 24, Juhnke appeared on stage in Berlin for the first time. Three years later he took on his first film role in the film "Three Girls Are ...

45. Curd Jürgens

Actor | The Spy Who Loved Me

Curd Jürgens (commonly billed as "Curt Jurgens" in anglophone countries) was one of the most successful European film actors of the 20th Century. He was born Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens on December 13, 1915, in Solln, Bavaria, in Hohenzollern Imperial Germany, a subject of Kaiser ...

46. Joachim Kemmer

Actor | Der Blinde

Joachim Kemmer was born on September 12, 1939 in Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Blinde (1996), Matchball (1994) and Das Karussell des Todes (1996). He was married to Krista Stadler. He died on April 27, 2000 in Vienna, Austria.

47. Wolfgang Kieling

Actor | Torn Curtain

Wolfgang Kieling was born on March 16, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Torn Curtain (1966), Polizeirevier Davidswache (1964) and Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1970). He was married to Monika Gabriel, Gisela Uhlen, Jola Jobst and Johanna Kieling. He ...

48. Klaus Kinski

Actor | Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht

Klaus Kinski was born as Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski in Zoppot, Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Susanne (Lutze), a nurse, and Bruno Nakszynski, a pharmacist. He grew up in Berlin, was drafted into the German army in 1944 and captured by British forces in Holland. After the war he began...

49. Gustav Knuth

Actor | Sissi

Gustav Knuth was born on 7 July 1901 in Brunswick, Germany. After he received acting lessons from Casimir Paris, a well known actor at that time, he made his stage debut at the Stadttheater Heidelberg in 1918. Later, he played in Hamburg and also in Basel, Switzerland, but finally returned to ...

50. Walter Kohut

Actor | A Bridge Too Far

Walter Kohut was born on November 20, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for A Bridge Too Far (1977), Supermarket (1974) and Volpone oder Der Fuchs (1966). He was married to Immy Schell and Elfriede Irrall. He died on May 18, 1980 in Innsbruck, Austria.

51. Viktor de Kowa

Actor | Peter Voss, der Millionendieb

Viktor de Kowa was born on March 8, 1904 in Hochkirch/Löbau, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Peter Voss, der Millionendieb (1946), Schneider Wibbel (1939) and Kopf hoch, Johannes! (1941). He was married to Michiko Tanaka and Ursula Grabley. He died on April 8, 1973 in West ...

52. Werner Krauss

Actor | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

Werner Krauss was born on June 23, 1884 in Gestungshausen, Sonnefeld, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Paracelsus (1943) and Robert Koch: The Battle Against Death (1939). He was married to Liselotte Graf, Maria Bard and Paula Saenger. He died on ...

53. Manfred Krug

Actor | Liebling Kreuzberg

In 1950, Krug moved to East Germany where he worked in heavy industry before he started his career as an actor and, later on, as a singer and entertainer in the communist GDR. In 1968, he got the national prize and was only at the beginning of his career. He starred in many successful East German ...

54. Karl Lieffen

Actor | One, Two, Three

German character actor on screen, TV and stage. Trained in Brunswick he had his stage debut in Freiburg. Later he was on stage in Frankfurt and since 1975 in Munich. After more and more bigger filmparts since 1949 he played his only leading role in The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon (1959). Then he ...

55. Theo Lingen

Actor | M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

Theo Lingen was born on June 10, 1903 in Hanover, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for M (1931), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) and Till Eulenspiegel: Wie Eulenspiegel sich einmal erbot, zu fliegen (1936). He was married to Marianne Zoff. He died on November 10, 1978 in Vienna, ...

56. Helmuth Lohner

Actor | The Plot to Kill Hitler

Helmuth Lohner was born on April 24, 1933 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor and director, known for The Plot to Kill Hitler (1990), Die schöne Lügnerin (1959) and Frau Warrens Gewerbe (1960). He was married to Elisabeth Gürtler, Karin Baal, Susanne Cramer and Ricarda Reinisch. He died ...

57. Hanns Lothar

Actor | One, Two, Three

Hanns Lothar was born on April 10, 1929 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for One, Two, Three (1961), The Buddenbrooks (1959) and The Buddenbrooks (1959). He was married to Wiemer, Gabriele, Ingrid Andree and Kari Noller. He died on March 11, 1967 in Hamburg, West Germany.

58. Klaus Löwitsch

Actor | Welt am Draht

Klaus Löwitsch was born on April 8, 1936 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for World on a Wire (1973), Firefox (1982) and Cross of Iron (1977). He was married to Helga Heinrich. He died on December 3, 2002 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

59. Siegfried Lowitz

Actor | Der Alte

Siegfried Lowitz was born on September 22, 1914 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Old Fox (1977), The Vengeance of Doctor Mabuse (1972) and Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1967). He was married to Marianne Probst and Elisabeth Felber. He died on June 27, 1999 in Munich, Bavaria, ...

60. Günther Lüders

Actor | Kein Auskommen mit dem Einkommen!

Günther Lüders was born on March 5, 1905 in Lübeck, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Kein Auskommen mit dem Einkommen! (1957), Vater, unser bestes Stück (1957) and Rosen im Herbst (1955). He died on March 1, 1975 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.

61. Günter Mack

Actor | Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.)

Günter Mack was born on December 12, 1930 in Augsburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.) (1966), Das Feuerschiff (1963) and Hiob (1978). He was married to Wiltrud and Ulrike Luderer. He died on March 27, 2007 in Gröbenzell, Bavaria, Germany.

62. Ferdinand Marian

Actor | Jud Süß

Ferdinand Marian was born on August 14, 1902 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Jud Süß (1940), Ohm Krüger (1941) and Madame Bovary (1937). He was married to Maria Byk and Irene Saager. He died on August 7, 1946 in near Dürneck, Freising, Bavaria, ...

63. Josef Meinrad

Actor | Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin

Josef Meinrad was born on April 21, 1913 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (1956), Die Fledermaus (1983) and Dulcinea del Toboso (1964). He was married to Germaine Renée Clement. He died on February 18, 1996 in Großgmain bei...

64. Hannes Messemer

Actor | The Great Escape

Hannes Messemer was born on May 17, 1924 in Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Great Escape (1963), General Della Rovere (1959) and The Devil Strikes at Night (1957). He was married to Monika Keusch, Susanne Korda, Rose Schäfer and Herta Jung. He died on ...

65. Hubert von Meyerinck

Actor | Ein Mann geht durch die Wand

Complete with waxed moustache and monocle, bald, straight-backed Hubert von Meyerinck looked every inch a poster boy for Prussian militarism. A practised condescension and raspy, sometimes shrill delivery further added to this image. In fact, his grandfather had been a commanding general and his ...

66. Bernhard Minetti

Actor | Das unsterbliche Herz

Bernhard Minetti was born on January 26, 1905 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Immortal Heart (1939), Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931) and Die Rothschilds (1940). He was married to Anne Gerbrandt and Elisabeth Minetti. He died on October 12, 1998 in Berlin,...

67. Alexander Moissi

Actor | Die Königsloge

Alexander Moissi was born on April 2, 1879 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor and director, known for Die Königsloge (1929), Der junge Goethe (1919) and Figaros Hochzeit (1920). He was married to Johanna Terwin and Marie Urfus. He died on March 23, 1935 in Lugano, Switzerland.

68. Peter Mosbacher

Actor | Der 20. Juli

Peter Mosbacher was born on February 17, 1912 in Mannheim, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) and Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956). He was married to Edith Schneider. He died on October 9, 1977 in Kempfenhausen, Bavaria, ...

69. Hans Moser

Actor | 7 Jahre Pech

Hans Moser, whose real name is Jean Juliet, was trained in theater by the court actor Josef Moser. He later took his last name and combined it with the German translation of his first name. In 1897 he had his first engagement in Bohemia. He later took part in a traveling theater that took him ...

70. Ulrich Mühe

Actor | Das Leben der Anderen

Ulrich Mühe was born on June 20, 1953 in Grimma, East Germany. He was an actor and director, known for The Lives of Others (2006), Funny Games (1997) and Der letzte Zeuge (1998). He was married to Susanne Lothar, Jenny Gröllmann and Annegret Hahn. He died on July 22, 2007 in Walbeck, Saxony-Anhalt,...

71. Fritz Muliar

Actor | Kommissar Rex

After his education at the Vienna Conservatory he got his first engagement at Stella Kadmons cabaret in 1937. Little time later he was engaged at the 'Theater an der Josefstadt', where he became one of Austria's most popular artists and where he is still acting and directing in various productions.

72. Joseph Offenbach

Actor | Das Mädchen vom Moorhof

Joseph Offenbach was born on December 28, 1904 in Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1958), Salto mortale (1969) and The Captain from Köpenick (1956). He was married to Maria Eckerlein. He died on October 15, 1971 in Darmstadt, Hesse, ...

73. Max Pallenberg

Actor | Der brave Sünder

Max Pallenberg was born on December 18, 1877 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for The Upright Sinner (1931), Kapellmeister Pflegekind (1915) and Max und seine zwei Frauen (1915). He was married to Fritzi Massary and Betty Franke. He died on June 26, 1934 in near ...

74. Peter Pasetti

Actor | Mozart

Peter Pasetti was born on July 8, 1916 in Munich, Germany. He was an actor, known for Mozart (1982), Othello (1958) and Antonius und Cleopatra (1963). He was married to Marianne Swoboda, Eva Maria Patzak and Margot Werner. He died on May 23, 1996 in Dießen am Ammersee, Bavaria, Germany.

75. Rudolf Platte

Actor | Tante Wanda aus Uganda

Rudolf Platte was born on February 12, 1904 in Hörde [now Dortmund], Germany. He was an actor, known for Tante Wanda aus Uganda (1957), Veronika Voss (1982) and Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1960). He was married to Georgia Lind, Marina Ried and Vally Hager. He died on December 18, 1984 in West ...

76. Ulrich Pleitgen

Actor | Nicht von schlechten Eltern

Ulrich Pleitgen was born on November 1, 1942 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He was an actor, known for Nicht von schlechten Eltern (1993), Die Kinder (1990) and K3 - Kripo Hamburg (2003). He was married to Monika Koepchen. He died on February 21, 2018 in Hamburg, Germany.

77. Erich Ponto

Actor | The Third Man

Erich Ponto was born on December 14, 1884 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The Third Man (1949), Sky Without Stars (1955) and Schneider Wibbel (1939). He was married to Tony Kresse. He died on February 4, 1957 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, ...

78. Hans Putz

Actor | Fast ein Poet

Hans Putz was born on November 17, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for Fast ein Poet (1961), Die rote Rosa (1966) and Die wahre Geschichte vom geschändeten und wiederhergestellten Kreuz (1963). He was married to Christa Fügner and Margret Putz. He died on January 31, 1990 in ...

79. Will Quadflieg

Actor | Lola Montès

Quadflieg attended high school, where he graduated with a high school diploma. He took acting lessons while he was still at school. In 1933 he played for the first time at the theater in Oberhausen. This was followed by engagements in Giessen, Gera and Düsseldorf. In 1936 he first played in Berlin ...

80. Helmut Qualtinger

Actor | Der Name der Rose

Helmut Qualtinger was born on October 8, 1928 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor and writer, known for The Name of the Rose (1986), Der Paukenspieler (1971) and End of the Game (1975). He was married to Vera Borek and Seidler, Leomare. He died on September 29, 1986 in Vienna, Austria.

81. Carl Raddatz

Actor | Opfergang

Carl Raddatz was born on March 13, 1912 in Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Opfergang (1944), Everyone Dies Alone (1976) and Rosen im Herbst (1955). He was married to Helga Cartsburg, Hildegard Matschke and Hannelore Schroth. He died on May 19, 2004 in Berlin, Germany.

82. Wolfgang Reichmann

Actor | Othello

Wolfgang Reichmann was born on January 7, 1932 in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Bytom, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for Othello (1968), Von Mäusen und Menschen (1968) and Der seidene Schuh (1965). He died on May 7, 1991 in Waltalingen, Zurich, Switzerland.

83. Charles Regnier

Actor | Herrin der Welt

Charles Regnier was born on July 22, 1914 in Fribourg, Switzerland. He was an actor and writer, known for Mistress of the World (1960), The Secret Ways (1961) and The Black Abbot (1963). He was married to Sonja Ziemann and Pamela Wedekind. He died on September 13, 2001 in Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, ...

84. Hans-Michael Rehberg

Actor | Schindler's List

Hans-Michael Rehberg was born on April 2, 1938 in Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Schindler's List (1993), Geography of the Heart (2016) and Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland (1989). He was married to Barbara Sukowa. He died on November 7, 2017 in Berlin, Germany.

85. Heinz Rühmann

Actor | Ein Mann geht durch die Wand

First he should take over his father's inheritance. When his parents divorced, Rühmann was just 14 years old. His father then committed suicide. In 1919, after completing his schooling and completing his secondary school leaving certificate, Rühmann took acting lessons. He got his first theater ...

86. Otto Sander

Actor | Der Himmel über Berlin

Sander spent his childhood and youth in Hanover and Kassel. He also went to school there and graduated from high school in 1962. After his military service in the navy, he studied theater studies, German, literature, art history and philosophy until 1967. Sander made his theater debut in 1965 at ...

87. Maximilian Schell

Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg

Maximilian Schell was the most successful German-speaking actor in English-language films since Emil Jannings, the winner of the first Best Actor Academy Award. Like Jannings, Schell won the Oscar, but unlike him, he was a dedicated anti-Nazi. Indeed, with the exception of Maurice Chevalier and ...

88. Walter Schmidinger

Actor | Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit

Walter Schmidinger was born on April 28, 1933 in Linz, Austria. He was an actor, known for Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit (1986), Opera Ball (1998) and Hölderlin-Comics (1994). He died on September 28, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

89. Ernst Schröder

Actor | Stresemann

Ernst Schröder was born on January 27, 1915 in Wanne-Eickel, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Stresemann (1957), The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955) and The Counterfeit Traitor (1962). He was married to Gesa Ferck and Inge Thiesfeld. He died on July 26, 1994 in Berlin, Germany.

90. Klaus Schwarzkopf

Actor | Einer von uns beiden

Klaus Schwarzkopf was born on December 18, 1922 in Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for One or the Other (1974), Alle Menschen werden Brüder (1973) and The Confessions of Felix Krull (1982). He died on June 21, 1991 in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

91. Hans Söhnker

Actor | Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes

Hans Söhnker was born on October 11, 1903 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Film Without a Name (1948) and Brand im Ozean (1939). He was married to Ingeborg Knoche-Lücken and Charlotte Berlow. He died on April 20, 1981 in West Berlin, West ...

92. Hilmar Thate

Actor | Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

Hilmar Thate was born on April 17, 1931 in Dölau, Saalkreis, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Halle/Saale, Saxony-Anhalt], Germany. He was an actor, known for Veronika Voss (1982), Wege in die Nacht (1999) and Professor Mamlock (1961). He was married to Angelica Domröse and Lore. He died on ...

93. Luis Trenker

Actor | Der Kaiser von Kalifornien

Luis Trenker (born in St-Ulrich, southern Tyrol (now Italy) as Alois Franz Trenker) was a film director, singer, author, ski champion and mountain climber, wood-carver, stage and film actor. He went to school in Bolzano to become a carver artist. From 1912 to 1914 he studied Architecture.

He fought ...

94. Conrad Veidt

Actor | Casablanca

Conrad Veidt attended the Sophiengymnasium (secondary school) in the Schoeneberg district of Berlin, and graduated without a diploma in 1912, last in his class of 13. Conrad liked animals, theater, cinema, fast cars, pastries, thunderstorms, gardening, swimming and golfing. He disliked heights, ...

95. Karl Michael Vogler

Actor | Patton

Tall, dark-haired German leading actor, the son of a blacksmith. Vogler was educated in Innsbruck and Vienna, where he studied psychology and art history, in addition to taking acting classes on the side. He made his theatrical debut in Innsbruck in 1950, then acted in classical roles on stage in ...

96. Anton Walbrook

Actor | The Red Shoes

This dark, debonair, dashing and extremely distinguished Austrian actor was christened Adolf Wohlbrück in Vienna, the scion of a family of circus clowns. He broke away easily from generations of tradition as the circus life had no appeal whatsoever to Walbrook.

Trained by the legendary director Max ...

97. Paul Wegener

Actor | Der Golem

Paul Wegener was born in Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, part of the German Empire. His birthplace is currently part of Poland, under the name "Jarantowice". Wegener's family included a number of scientists, the most notable being his cousin Alfred Wegener (1880-1930). Alfred is remembered as the ...

98. Oskar Werner

Actor | Ship of Fools

Remote, somewhat morose and, as a result, intriguing, Viennese talent Oskar Werner was born in 1922, not far from the birthplace of "Waltz King" Johann Strauss, and christened Oskar Josef Bschließmayer. His parents divorced when he was fairly young.

While growing up, Oskar found performing in school...

99. Ulrich Wildgruber

Actor | Super

Ulrich Wildgruber was born on November 18, 1937 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He was an actor, known for Super (1984), Felidae (1994) and Queen Margot (1994). He was married to Vera. He died on November 30, 1999 in Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

100. Klausjürgen Wussow

Actor | Die Schwarzwaldklinik

Klausjürgen Wussow was born on April 30, 1929 in Cammin, Pomerania, Germany [now Kamien Pomorski, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for The Black Forest Hospital (1985), Der grüne Bogenschütze (1961) and Sergeant Berry (1974). He was married to Sabine Scholz, Yvonne ...