John van Dreelen
John van Dreelen ( born May 5, 1922 as Jacques Theodore van Drielen Gimberg in Amsterdam, † September 4, 1992 in Cap d' Agde, France) was a Dutch actor, film often cast as pithy, smooth hunk, cultured cold - precious Gangster or opaque foreigners.
The early years on stage
The son of actor Louis Gimberg (1880-1959) had received in his home city of Amsterdam from 1939 for two years acting classes and was then, at the age of 19 years, his stage debut in the play ' De gele nachtegaal '. Soon after, he also played for the first time in Germany ( for a season in Oldenburg) and introduced a little later see a cabaret troupe on its feet. 1943, the Nazis imprisoned him in the Emsland camps.
Shortly after the war, van Dreelen returned to the Netherlands and there was his film debut. 1949 saw him Laurence Olivier as Romeo in ' Romeo and Juliet ' and engaged him the following year for the lead role in ' Daphne Laureola '. Together with Olivier's Old Vic ensemble played Dreelen van in London and New York ( 1950). On Broadway, he succeeded later as Baron von Trapp in the musical ' The Sound of Music'.
Van Dreelen remained still an actor Direction Cosmopolitan: The perfect German speaking Dutch with the sonorous voice, then played at theaters in Paris, Rome, tours took him to Austria, Switzerland and the Federal Republic. At the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt van Dreelen landed successes with the pieces ' Sabrina ' and ' Gigi ', 1965, he joined with fireworks at the Deutsches Theater in Munich. He celebrated another notable success together with Hannelore Schroth in Kiss Me Kate.
Work in film and television
The international film dedicated John van Dreelen regularly. In Germany was allowed to play him often in the 50s smart and classy lovers charmers. Since the end of this decade, mainly active in the U.S., occupied one of the most attractive Dutch as slick alien and sinister villains with kid gloves. Multiple left Hollywood van Dreelen Nazi officers play. In the 60s and 70s, he took in a considerable number of U.S. series ( Smoking among other Colts, Solo for Oncel, FBI, Cobra, accept, ' It Takes a Thief ', ' Tarzan ', The Chief, ' Dr. Marcus Welby MD ', Charlie's Angels, The Rockford Files - Just call, Knight Rider, Dynasty ) guest roles.
He had received in 1966 in the German television series ' community 0 1 clock to midnight ' A rare starring role - van Dreelen played a detective from Interpol. Five years later he took over in Germany another major role: in Niklaus Schilling's psychological thriller night shadows. 1974 saw him as soignierten manufacturers and husband Ulla Jacobsson, whose son will be turning out in Wolfgang Petersen's famous Tatort episode ' Night Frost' as a call girl killer and provided by a mass contingent of police in a forest.
Since then, van Dreelen was only very sporadically in German productions as a guest, most recently in 1991/92 in the series Our Hagenbeck. He played his last role in 1992 in the episode ' Dornach Dornach against ' the ZDF series marriages in court. He died shortly thereafter in southern France.