Gerd Baltus
Gerd Baltus ( born March 29, 1932 in Bremen ) is a German actor.
Biography
During a law degree in 1952 Baltus was in a small role, his film debut. In 1953, he received no training as an actor his first theater engagement under Gustaf in Hamburg, in 1956, he moved to Bonn, then to Berlin and Munich. From 1959 to 1966 he was part of the ensemble of the Munich Studio Theater. For a while, Baltus was a member of the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. Mid-1970s, he gave the theater work in favor of an acting job on TV.
His breakthrough in the German television had Baltus with a total of four appearances in the crime drama The Commissioner. A wide audience, he was also known as a regular guest in crime series such as Derrick, The Old or the crime scene in the First. The actor was most often cast in tough, brooding loner and opaque, even psychopathic characters. Supporting roles he had in the short series PS - stories about cars, 1975, in the ZDF series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi and family saga Lorentz and Sons, where he stood together with Ernst Schröder and Hans Korte front of the camera. Besides Wolfgang Fierek, Ottfried Fischer he starred in the series Ein Bayer auf Rügen the mayor Donatius Domberger. In the television series Now more than ever, he embodied the judge Dr. Heribert Koch. In the occupied by Günter Strack as the main character series " heart and soul " he embodied the 1989 journalist Klaus Bardusch. Most recently, he worked for ARD: 1996-2009 in four episodes of the primetime series Großstadtrevier, 2008 in an episode of the medical drama In aller Freundschaft.
His biggest success on the big screen had the actor in 1965 with the film in addition to, inter alia, Michael May- Wälsungenblut and Rudolf Forster directed by Rolf Thiele. For his design of the role of the Lieutenant of Beckerath in the film adaptation of the story by Thomas Mann, he was awarded the German Film Award for Best Young Actor. However, a film career, he did not pursue.
In addition, Baltus still works extensively as a radio speaker. Thus he spoke, for example, in 1968 one of the main characters in the last Paul Temple miniseries, the WDR produced and directed by Otto Duben, namely Paul Temple and the Alex. His partners were Paul Klinger, Margot Leonard, Kurt and Ernst Lieck Hilbich. In 1991, he spoke under the direction of Hans Gerd Krogmann the part of the English writer William Shakespeare, in which by the European Broadcasting Union commissioned radio play The meeting in Valladolid.
He is married to his second wife with the presenter and actress Brigitte Rohkohl. The couple lives in Hamburg.
Filmography (selection)
Radio plays (selection)
- John von Duffel: cry of geese. Director: Christiane Ohaus, radio scene. Radio Bremen 2008.
- Matthias Wittekindt total loss. Director: Sven Stricker. Radio scene, NDR 2011.