Claus Holm

Claus Holm, actually Helmut Gerhard Ozygus, (* August 4, 1918 in Bochum, Germany, † September 21, 1996 in Berlin, Germany ) was a German actor.

Life

Claus Holm has appeared in the 1950s in some home movies. In his role at the Hasso Sigbjörnson in the television series Space Patrol he departed from this genre. In three Edgar Wallace films Holm has played.

Claus Holm, among others, three years miner and boxing champion in 1937. For acting, he was only in the mid -1940s in Berlin. After the war he built the Altmärkische theater in Salzwedel with it, and soon stood for DEFA front of the camera. The 1947 marriage resulting in the shade it was one of his most important films. He also played at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, the predecessor of Brecht's Berliner Ensemble in East Berlin.

1953 Holm fled from East Germany to the West, where he soon was doing theater, so under Boleslaw Barlog the Schiller Theatre and the Castle Park Theatre in Berlin. During this time he was also a sought-after actor. Holm played the 1957 Commissioner Axel Kersten in the Oscar-nominated movie night, when the devil came and stood for Fritz Lang's remake of The Tiger of Eschnapur front of the camera (1959).

With 47 years he played Hasso Sigbjörnson, the flight engineer of Orion. Later he said: " If I all of the high -tech bells and whistles of today look at me like that, I must say that we really were better back then. "

From the mid- 1960s, Holm played mainly theater and only in a few films, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz. After numerous visits his niece Katinka White Claus Holm last lived a very retired life and died aged 78 on 21 September 1996. He was buried in the cemetery military road in the Berlin district of Westend.

Filmography

Synchronization

As a voice actor he lent among other things, Joseph Cotten (El Perdido ), Gordon Jackson ( The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ) and Michael Ripper ( The Deadly Bees ) his voice.