Alexander Golling
Alexander Golling ( born August 2, 1905 in Munich, † February 28, 1989 in Rottach-Egern/Oberbayern ) was a German actor.
Life and career
Alexander Golling attended drama school by Max Bayrhammer in his hometown of Munich. After a debut in Rudolstadt (1924 ) and involvement in Erfurt, Heidelberg and Leipzig, he came in 1934 to the Berlin Volksbühne. Since 1935, he appeared as a performer of rogues or criminologists in films, mostly in supporting roles. In addition to starring in Herbert Selpins submarine drama Secret Files WB 1 (1941 /42) he had more appearances in the films 90 minutes stay ( 1936), Thirteen man and a gun ( 1938) and Gold in New Frisco ( 1939).
Immediately after his appointment as state actor took over Alexander Golling 1938, the artistic director of the Bavarian State Theatre. From that point on, he concentrated on theater work and appeared only rarely in the film.
Gollings sympathy for Nazism, which had the nickname "The Prince of brown Theater München" entered him, prevented after the end of the Second World War a seamless continuation of his film career. In 1950 he was back in front of the camera and was initially limited to engagements with directors such as Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner and Karl Ritter instructed who had also been in the time of National Socialism on the side of the regime. By the end of the 1970s he appeared in supporting roles in 21 other films. Since the mid- 1960s, he was often next be seen in television productions.
Alexander Golling was married from 1937 to 1941 to actress Annie Markart. From a later marriage, the actress Claudia Golling comes (* 1950).
His tomb is located in the cemetery in Rottach -Egern.