Helmut Griem
Birthday: 1932-04-06 | Place of Birth: Hamburg, GermanyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helmut Griem (born April 6, 1932 in Hamburg – November 19, 2004 in Munich) was a German actor. Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich. Among his many film and TV appearances (a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), in which he played the rich "Baron Maximilian von Heune" is probably the best-known; other internationally-known performances include his work in The Damned, The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig. Griem starred in the television mini-series "The Devil's Lieutenant" directed by John Goldschmidt, adapted by Jack Rosenthal and based on the novel by M Fagyas, for Channel 4 and ZDF. Despite his success in film, the theatre remained at the heart of Griem's work, and he performed in many classic roles from both the German and English-language repertoire. Later in his career Griem turned to theatre direction, including Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Before his death, Griem had planned to direct the Botho Strauss play Die eine and die andere (This One and The Other). Griem twice won the Bambi Award: in 1961 and in 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helmut Griem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Acting
Role
as Dürckheim
as Col. Greisberg
as Auguste La Fontaine
as Günther Lehmann
as Rolf Sutter
as Gustav Regler
as Pertussini
as Erwin Rommel
as Kronschneider
as Karl Fischer
as Alexander Menshikov
as Carl Gustav Carus
as Judge Advocate Kunze
as Edouard Otto
as Benno
as Ludwig
as Michel Wiener
as Dürckheim
as Hans
as Brasch
as Major Stransky
as Sebastian
as Heinrich Schneider
as Phillip Braun
as TV-Redakteur
as Willi Mohr
as Lieutenant Simeon
