Actor. He was best known for playing the character roles of servants, sheriffs, pastors, illusionists, directors, lawyers, judges, counts, barons, generals, and businessmen. He will be best remembered for playing the role of the British businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, 'Sir Bruce Ismay' in the historical action Nazi propaganda film drama, "Titanic" (1943). The film which was directed by Herbert Selpin and Werner Klingler, which was written for the screen by Harald Bratt, Hansi Köck, and Herbert Selpin, and which also starred Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, and Kirsten Helbig, is the Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on July 27, 1900. He studied agricultural education, but was already interested in acting and became a stage actor with the ensemble Hamburg Kammerspiele and made his stage debut in Hamburg, Germany, in 1925. He later made the transition to films and eventually television. He made his actual film debut playing in the short film, "Wasser hat Balken" (1933), which was directed by Wilhelm Prager, and which also starred Ursula Herking. He will also be best remembered for playing the role of the great master detective 'Sherlock Holmes' in the episode entitled, "Sherlock Holmes liegt im Sterben," of the crime television series, "Die Galerie der großen Detektive," which originally aired on November 30, 1954. The episode was directed and written by Peter A. Horn, was based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and which also starred Harald Mannl as his assistant 'Dr. John Watson,' Wolfgang Jarnach as 'Culverton Smith,' Carl Balhaus as 'Inspector Morton,' and Annemarie Schradiek as 'Mrs. Hudson.' Besides, "Wasser hat Balken" (1933), and "Titanic" (1943), his many other film credits include, "Die große und die kleine Welt" (1936), "Street Music" (1936), "Dinner Is Served" (1936), "Thou Art My Joy" (1936), "Truxa" (1937), "An Enemy Of The People" (1937), "The Stars Shine" (1938), "Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone" (1938), "Wasser für Canitoga" (1939), "Fasching" (1939), "The Singing Gate" (1939), 'Casa Iontana" (1939), "Der Feuerteufel" (1940), "Das Fräulein von Barnhelm" (1940), "Carl Peters" (1941), "Venus On Trial" (1941), "Comrades" (1941), "Alarmstufe V" (1941), "Vienna Blood" (1942), "Die heimlichen Bräute" (1942), "Andreas Schlüter" (1942), "Der Unendliche Weg" (1943), "Die unheimliche Wandlung des Alex Roscher" (1943), "Ich brauche dich" (1944), "Ein Blick zurück" (1944), "Ich bitte um Vollmacht" (1944), "Der Fall Molander" (1945), "Geld ins Haus" (1947), "Spuk im Schloß" (1947), "Der Herr vom andern Stern" (1948), "Die Reise nach Marrakesch" (1949), "Der große Fall" (1949), "Kronjuwelen" (1950), "Grenzstation 58" (1951), "The Lady In Black" (1951), "Der blaue Stern des Südens" (1951), "Gefangene Seele" (1952), "Zwei Menschen" (1952), "Der weißblaue Löwe" (1952), "Captain Bay-Bay" (1953), "Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo" (1953), "A Heart's Foul Play" (1953), 'Ewiger Gutenberg" (1953), "Eight Witnesses" (1954), "Geliebte Feindin" (1955), "It Happened On July 20th" (1955), "Heiße Ernte" (1956), "King In Shadow" (1957), "The Girl And The Legend" (1957), "The Devil Strikes At Night" (1957), "Der Herr im ersten Stock" (1957), "Don Carlos" (1957), "Dr. med. Hiob Praetorius" (1958), "The Crammer" (1958), "Auferstehung" (1958), "Der Filmschnitt" (1958), "Face Of The Frog" (1959), "Ein Mann geht durch die Wand" (1959), "Raskolnikoff" (1959), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1960), "The Red Circle" (1960), "Hexenjagd" (1960), "Der Spielverderber" (1960), "The Terrible People" (1960), "Gericht über Las Casas" (1960), "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg" (1961), "Der Besuch im Karzer" (1961), "Towarisch" (1961), "Blond muß man sein auf Capri" (1961), "Mary Rose" (1961), "Der Komödienstadel: Lottchens Geburtstag" (1961), "Das Wunderkind Europas" (1962), "Secret Of The Red Orchid" (1962), "Bubusch" (1962), "Wallenstein" (1962), "Ein netter Abend" (1962), "Der Schlaf der Gerechten" (1962), "Die Soldaten" (1962), "Zaubereien oder Die Tücke des Objekts" (1962), "Die weiße Weste" (1962), "Sind wir das nicht alle?" (1962), "Kaum zu glauben" (1962), "Im Schatten des Krieges" (1963), "Die Nacht der Schrecken" (1963), "Der Belagerungszustand" (1963), "Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker" (1963), "König Ödipus" (1963), "Ein besserer Herr" (1963), "Whiskey And Sofa" (1963), "Don Carlos-Infant von Spanien" (1963), "A Mission For Mr. Dodd" (1964), "Lu" (1964), "The Curse Of The Hidden Vault" (1964), "Der Kreis" (1964), "Sergeant Dower muß sterben" (1964), "Tales Of A Young Scamp" (1964), "Kennen Sie Heberlein?" (1964), "Die letzte Vorstellung" (1965), "Der arme Mann Luther" (1965), "Medea" (1965), "Brave Diebe" (1965), "Das Gespenst von Canterville" (1965), "Platons Gastmahl" (1965), "Der Fall Michael Reiber" (1965), "Der neue Mann" (1965), "Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten" (1965), "Der zerbrochene Krug" (1965), "Ein Wintermärchen" (1965), "Der Fall Han van Meegeren" (1965), "Das Missgeschick, ein Lord zu sein" (1965), "The Case Of Joan Of Arc" (1966), "Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte" (1966), "Caroline" (1966), "Agent Joe Walker: Operation Far East" (1966), "Is Paris Burning?" (1966), "Das Experiment" (1966), "Ein Riß im Eis" (1967), "Die Affäre Eulenburg" (1967), "Kapitän Brassbounds Bekehrung" (1967), "Die Mühle" (1967), "Unser Herr Diener" (1967), "Willst Du nicht das Lämmlein hüten?" (1967), "Der Tod des Sokrates" (1967), "Die Flucht nach Holland" (1967), "König Richard II" (1967), "Der Monat der fallenden Blätter" (1968), "Meinungsverschiedenheiten" (1968), "Die Schlacht bei Lobositz" (1968), "Othello" (1968), "Der Reformator" (1968), "Novemberverbrecher - Eine Erinnerung" (1968), "Die Wilde" (1968), "Der Kampf um den Reigen" (1969), "Hannibal Brooks" (1969), "Die Kuba-Krise 1962" (1969), "Ludwig On The Lookout For A Wife" (1969), "Die Konferenz der Tiere" (1969), "Der Tod vom Sokrates" (1969), "Die Zirkusprinzessin" (1970), "Sir Henri Deterding" (1970), "Wie es euch gefällt" (1970), "Paul Esbeck" (1970), "Operation Walküre" (1971), "FBI Operation Pakistan" (1971), "Der Hitler/Ludendorff-Prozeß - Szenen aus einem Hochverratsprozeß in einer Republik ohne Republikaner" (1971), "Die Stimme hinter dem Vorhang" (1971), "Die heilige Johanna" (1971), "Sie liebten sich einen Sommer" (1972), "Frohe Ostern" (1972), "The Serpent" (1973), "Scheibenschießen" (1973), "Zinngeschrei" (1973), "Memento Mori" (1975), "Heimat - Ja, wir lieben dieses Land" (1975), "Manchmal Märchen" (1976), "Sperrmüll" (1976), "Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß" (1977), "Ein Tisch zu viert" (1977), "Der Kreis" (1979), "Die Alten kommen" (1980), "Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder: Die Feuerprobe" (1981), "Urlaub am Meer" (1982), and "Martin Luther" (1983). Besides, playing the role of the great master detective 'Sherlock Holmes' in the episode entitled, "Sherlock Holmes liegt im Sterben," of the crime television series, "Die Galerie der großen Detektive," which originally aired on November 30, 1954, which was directed and written by Peter A. Horn, was based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and which also starred Harald Mannl as his assistant 'Dr. John Watson,' Wolfgang Jarnach as 'Culverton Smith,' Carl Balhaus as 'Inspector Morton,' and Annemarie Schradiek as 'Mrs. Hudson.' his many other television credits include, "Rheingold Theatre," "Tim Frazer," "Willy Reichert in..." "Interview mit der Geschichte," "Der seidene Schuh," "Verräter," "Der Tod läuft hinterher," "Les aventures de Tom Sawyer," "Der Kommissar," "Elfer Gespräche," "The Leatherstocking Tales," "D'Artagnan," "Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre," "Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger," "Journal 1870/71," "Begegnungen auf dem Parnass," "Pater Brown," "Stadt ohne Sheriff," "L'éducation sentimentale," "Tatort," "Okay S.I.R." "Wallenstein," "Heidi," "Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie," "Die Magermilchbande," "Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten," "Unheimliche Geschichten," "Rom ist in der kleinsten Hütte," "Kontakt bitte..." "Ein Abend mit Georg Thomalla," "Monaco Franze - Der ewige Stenz," "Die Krimistunde," "Konsul Möllers Erben," "Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht," "Engel auf Rädern," "Helga und die Nordlichter," "Der Sonne entgegen," "...Erbin sein - dagegen sehr," "Derrick," "Priester," "The Black Forest Hospital," and "Der Prins muss her." He was also a talented voice actor who provided the German dubbing voices for foreign stars such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Melvyn Douglas, Vittorio De Sica, and Rex Harrison. He passed away in Munich, Germany, on October 30, 1988, at the age of 88, and he was buried in the Waldfriedhof München in Grosshadern, Germany. He was married to Lizzi Rademacher from 1932 until his death. Together they had three children.
Actor. He was best known for playing the character roles of servants, sheriffs, pastors, illusionists, directors, lawyers, judges, counts, barons, generals, and businessmen. He will be best remembered for playing the role of the British businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, 'Sir Bruce Ismay' in the historical action Nazi propaganda film drama, "Titanic" (1943). The film which was directed by Herbert Selpin and Werner Klingler, which was written for the screen by Harald Bratt, Hansi Köck, and Herbert Selpin, and which also starred Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, and Kirsten Helbig, is the Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on July 27, 1900. He studied agricultural education, but was already interested in acting and became a stage actor with the ensemble Hamburg Kammerspiele and made his stage debut in Hamburg, Germany, in 1925. He later made the transition to films and eventually television. He made his actual film debut playing in the short film, "Wasser hat Balken" (1933), which was directed by Wilhelm Prager, and which also starred Ursula Herking. He will also be best remembered for playing the role of the great master detective 'Sherlock Holmes' in the episode entitled, "Sherlock Holmes liegt im Sterben," of the crime television series, "Die Galerie der großen Detektive," which originally aired on November 30, 1954. The episode was directed and written by Peter A. Horn, was based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and which also starred Harald Mannl as his assistant 'Dr. John Watson,' Wolfgang Jarnach as 'Culverton Smith,' Carl Balhaus as 'Inspector Morton,' and Annemarie Schradiek as 'Mrs. Hudson.' Besides, "Wasser hat Balken" (1933), and "Titanic" (1943), his many other film credits include, "Die große und die kleine Welt" (1936), "Street Music" (1936), "Dinner Is Served" (1936), "Thou Art My Joy" (1936), "Truxa" (1937), "An Enemy Of The People" (1937), "The Stars Shine" (1938), "Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone" (1938), "Wasser für Canitoga" (1939), "Fasching" (1939), "The Singing Gate" (1939), 'Casa Iontana" (1939), "Der Feuerteufel" (1940), "Das Fräulein von Barnhelm" (1940), "Carl Peters" (1941), "Venus On Trial" (1941), "Comrades" (1941), "Alarmstufe V" (1941), "Vienna Blood" (1942), "Die heimlichen Bräute" (1942), "Andreas Schlüter" (1942), "Der Unendliche Weg" (1943), "Die unheimliche Wandlung des Alex Roscher" (1943), "Ich brauche dich" (1944), "Ein Blick zurück" (1944), "Ich bitte um Vollmacht" (1944), "Der Fall Molander" (1945), "Geld ins Haus" (1947), "Spuk im Schloß" (1947), "Der Herr vom andern Stern" (1948), "Die Reise nach Marrakesch" (1949), "Der große Fall" (1949), "Kronjuwelen" (1950), "Grenzstation 58" (1951), "The Lady In Black" (1951), "Der blaue Stern des Südens" (1951), "Gefangene Seele" (1952), "Zwei Menschen" (1952), "Der weißblaue Löwe" (1952), "Captain Bay-Bay" (1953), "Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo" (1953), "A Heart's Foul Play" (1953), 'Ewiger Gutenberg" (1953), "Eight Witnesses" (1954), "Geliebte Feindin" (1955), "It Happened On July 20th" (1955), "Heiße Ernte" (1956), "King In Shadow" (1957), "The Girl And The Legend" (1957), "The Devil Strikes At Night" (1957), "Der Herr im ersten Stock" (1957), "Don Carlos" (1957), "Dr. med. Hiob Praetorius" (1958), "The Crammer" (1958), "Auferstehung" (1958), "Der Filmschnitt" (1958), "Face Of The Frog" (1959), "Ein Mann geht durch die Wand" (1959), "Raskolnikoff" (1959), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1960), "The Red Circle" (1960), "Hexenjagd" (1960), "Der Spielverderber" (1960), "The Terrible People" (1960), "Gericht über Las Casas" (1960), "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg" (1961), "Der Besuch im Karzer" (1961), "Towarisch" (1961), "Blond muß man sein auf Capri" (1961), "Mary Rose" (1961), "Der Komödienstadel: Lottchens Geburtstag" (1961), "Das Wunderkind Europas" (1962), "Secret Of The Red Orchid" (1962), "Bubusch" (1962), "Wallenstein" (1962), "Ein netter Abend" (1962), "Der Schlaf der Gerechten" (1962), "Die Soldaten" (1962), "Zaubereien oder Die Tücke des Objekts" (1962), "Die weiße Weste" (1962), "Sind wir das nicht alle?" (1962), "Kaum zu glauben" (1962), "Im Schatten des Krieges" (1963), "Die Nacht der Schrecken" (1963), "Der Belagerungszustand" (1963), "Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker" (1963), "König Ödipus" (1963), "Ein besserer Herr" (1963), "Whiskey And Sofa" (1963), "Don Carlos-Infant von Spanien" (1963), "A Mission For Mr. Dodd" (1964), "Lu" (1964), "The Curse Of The Hidden Vault" (1964), "Der Kreis" (1964), "Sergeant Dower muß sterben" (1964), "Tales Of A Young Scamp" (1964), "Kennen Sie Heberlein?" (1964), "Die letzte Vorstellung" (1965), "Der arme Mann Luther" (1965), "Medea" (1965), "Brave Diebe" (1965), "Das Gespenst von Canterville" (1965), "Platons Gastmahl" (1965), "Der Fall Michael Reiber" (1965), "Der neue Mann" (1965), "Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten" (1965), "Der zerbrochene Krug" (1965), "Ein Wintermärchen" (1965), "Der Fall Han van Meegeren" (1965), "Das Missgeschick, ein Lord zu sein" (1965), "The Case Of Joan Of Arc" (1966), "Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte" (1966), "Caroline" (1966), "Agent Joe Walker: Operation Far East" (1966), "Is Paris Burning?" (1966), "Das Experiment" (1966), "Ein Riß im Eis" (1967), "Die Affäre Eulenburg" (1967), "Kapitän Brassbounds Bekehrung" (1967), "Die Mühle" (1967), "Unser Herr Diener" (1967), "Willst Du nicht das Lämmlein hüten?" (1967), "Der Tod des Sokrates" (1967), "Die Flucht nach Holland" (1967), "König Richard II" (1967), "Der Monat der fallenden Blätter" (1968), "Meinungsverschiedenheiten" (1968), "Die Schlacht bei Lobositz" (1968), "Othello" (1968), "Der Reformator" (1968), "Novemberverbrecher - Eine Erinnerung" (1968), "Die Wilde" (1968), "Der Kampf um den Reigen" (1969), "Hannibal Brooks" (1969), "Die Kuba-Krise 1962" (1969), "Ludwig On The Lookout For A Wife" (1969), "Die Konferenz der Tiere" (1969), "Der Tod vom Sokrates" (1969), "Die Zirkusprinzessin" (1970), "Sir Henri Deterding" (1970), "Wie es euch gefällt" (1970), "Paul Esbeck" (1970), "Operation Walküre" (1971), "FBI Operation Pakistan" (1971), "Der Hitler/Ludendorff-Prozeß - Szenen aus einem Hochverratsprozeß in einer Republik ohne Republikaner" (1971), "Die Stimme hinter dem Vorhang" (1971), "Die heilige Johanna" (1971), "Sie liebten sich einen Sommer" (1972), "Frohe Ostern" (1972), "The Serpent" (1973), "Scheibenschießen" (1973), "Zinngeschrei" (1973), "Memento Mori" (1975), "Heimat - Ja, wir lieben dieses Land" (1975), "Manchmal Märchen" (1976), "Sperrmüll" (1976), "Bei Westwind hört man keinen Schuß" (1977), "Ein Tisch zu viert" (1977), "Der Kreis" (1979), "Die Alten kommen" (1980), "Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder: Die Feuerprobe" (1981), "Urlaub am Meer" (1982), and "Martin Luther" (1983). Besides, playing the role of the great master detective 'Sherlock Holmes' in the episode entitled, "Sherlock Holmes liegt im Sterben," of the crime television series, "Die Galerie der großen Detektive," which originally aired on November 30, 1954, which was directed and written by Peter A. Horn, was based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and which also starred Harald Mannl as his assistant 'Dr. John Watson,' Wolfgang Jarnach as 'Culverton Smith,' Carl Balhaus as 'Inspector Morton,' and Annemarie Schradiek as 'Mrs. Hudson.' his many other television credits include, "Rheingold Theatre," "Tim Frazer," "Willy Reichert in..." "Interview mit der Geschichte," "Der seidene Schuh," "Verräter," "Der Tod läuft hinterher," "Les aventures de Tom Sawyer," "Der Kommissar," "Elfer Gespräche," "The Leatherstocking Tales," "D'Artagnan," "Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre," "Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger," "Journal 1870/71," "Begegnungen auf dem Parnass," "Pater Brown," "Stadt ohne Sheriff," "L'éducation sentimentale," "Tatort," "Okay S.I.R." "Wallenstein," "Heidi," "Theodor Chindler - Die Geschichte einer deutschen Familie," "Die Magermilchbande," "Goldene Zeiten - Bittere Zeiten," "Unheimliche Geschichten," "Rom ist in der kleinsten Hütte," "Kontakt bitte..." "Ein Abend mit Georg Thomalla," "Monaco Franze - Der ewige Stenz," "Die Krimistunde," "Konsul Möllers Erben," "Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht," "Engel auf Rädern," "Helga und die Nordlichter," "Der Sonne entgegen," "...Erbin sein - dagegen sehr," "Derrick," "Priester," "The Black Forest Hospital," and "Der Prins muss her." He was also a talented voice actor who provided the German dubbing voices for foreign stars such as James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gregory Peck, Melvyn Douglas, Vittorio De Sica, and Rex Harrison. He passed away in Munich, Germany, on October 30, 1988, at the age of 88, and he was buried in the Waldfriedhof München in Grosshadern, Germany. He was married to Lizzi Rademacher from 1932 until his death. Together they had three children.
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