Reinhard Kolldehoff
Reinhard " René " Kolldehoff ( born April 29, 1914 in Berlin, † November 18, 1995 ) was a German actor.
With around 170 film roles in more than 30 countries, numerous appearances on stage, for television and radio, as well as a voice actor Kolldehoff belonged until 1989 to the busiest actors of the German post-war period and the few Germans who were able to make a career in an international film.
Biography
The son of a postman initially funded the high school and later his private acting lessons with the acquisition of extras roles at the Grosses Schauspielhaus and the State Opera of his hometown. In 1936, Kolldehoff his debut in the National Theatre Altenburg. In 1941, he had in the Heinz Riihmann movie The Gassmann his first small movie appearance. In the same year he was called up for military service.
After the war Kolldehoff belonged until 1948 to the ensemble of the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. Also in the following years he was on stage operates since 1955 as the Hamburg Schauspielhaus under Gustaf. However Kolldehoff turned his attention increasingly on a movie career. In 1948 he first appeared in a few films of the East German DEFA, so in Erich Engels Affaire Blum as an intricate in a legal scandal of the 1920s school teachers, including later than one from the burgeoning Nazism enthusiastic workers in Wolfgang Staudtes rotation (1949 ) and as a returning soldier Hans Mueller in Comedy Mayor Anna (1950).
Then made Kolldehoff career in West German and international film ( here often called " René Kolldehoff ", where his last name was reproduced in all possible variations in the movie credits ). He turned with colleagues such as Kirk Douglas, Lee Marvin, Catherine Deneuve, Marianne Koch, Hans Albers, OW Fischer, Hardy Krüger, Richard Widmark, Roger Moore, William Holden, Jane Birkin, Marlene Dietrich, Gérard Depardieu and Alain Delon. Among the film directors with whom he worked, Henri Verneuil included, Jacques Deray, Claude Chabrol, George Roy Hill, Edouard Molinaro, José Giovanni, Philippe de Broca and Helmut Käutner.
Were noted by the critics most Kolldehoffs appearances in the movies in Jacques Tati's Wonderful Times (1967 ) as a confused German manager and Luchino Visconti The Damned ( 1969) as zermürbter force man. One of his few leading roles was the appearance of a home sold in village priest Peter Fleischmann's social satire The disaster (1972).
Typical of the cast in the film were Kolldehoffs roles such as that of the " Club Foot" in Fritz Lang's 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse The (1960 ) that the dodgy " Butler Addams " in Josef von Bákys Edgar Wallace film The Strange Countess (1961 ) and the SS officer in Paul Verhoeven's soldier of Orange (1977). Even in literary adaptations such as Everyone dies alone (1962 ) from the novel by Hans Fallada he was seen. As a voice actor he lent et al Lex Barker ( only in my wife's sake ) and Sam Shepard ( in In Days of Heaven ) his voice.
Kolldehoff was occupied almost exclusively in supporting roles. His gigantic stature and his distinctive voice impressed themselves from the public for decades, without his name outside of specialist circles the term was. His appearance predestined him for appearances as a " movie villain " and especially abroad for the type of the " ugly German ". Although he took many such roles, but was also cast against his usual role type and in unfamiliar contexts repeatedly Reinhard Kolldehoff of directors.
In the late 1980s fell ill Reinhard Kolldehoff from Parkinson 's disease and diabetes. His last appearance in front of the camera, he completed in 1989 for the German TV series Forstinspektor Buchholz in a wheelchair. After that he was still working for some time as a speaker before he had to end his career.
Reinhard Kolldehoff died at 81 years. His final resting place he found in the cemetery Wilmersdorf in Berlin. He was married to his second wife and left his wife Helma and two children, Colette ( b. 1970 ) and René ( b. 1973 ).
Quotes
" Yes, my life was very colorful. A beautiful career by three-quarters of the world, they called me a world star. A wonderful feeling. Popular and respected. What remains - totally unable to work! Since God has once again built crap. "
" In Hollywood, he would have ranked among the, heavies ' - to the actors, who do not shy away from depicting the violence. For us, it was obviously too heavy. "