Heinz Drache
Heinz Drache ( born February 9, 1923 in Essen, † April 3, 2002 in Berlin) was a German actor, radio drama and voice actor.
Life and work
Heinz Drache made his Abitur at the Alfred -Krupp -Gymnasium in Essen- Frohnhausen. His acting career began in the theater. He played in Nuremberg, Dusseldorf and Berlin. In Berlin he met Gustaf. This brought him later to Dusseldorf, where dragon for a role in Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers and was in the 1947 piece premiered Committed to the shadows. His colleagues included, among other things, Käthe Gold, Marianne Hoppe, Gustav Knuth and Elisabeth Flickenschildt.
Already in the 1950s, has appeared in numerous television films in lead roles dragon. He achieved fame in the 1960s in the crime films by Edgar Wallace and Francis Durbridge. In 1962, he starred alongside Albert Lieven in the six-part " Street Sweeper " The scarf the Detective Inspector Harry Yates Littleshaw. Although this was his only Durbridge film, at the same time, however, the most successful television miniseries from Durbridges spring. Due to its popularity received Dragon in 1962 by the readers of the youth magazine BRAVO Golden Otto Bravo as the most popular TV star. From 1985 to 1989 he also identified as a Commissioner Bülow for the crime scene. " Don Flanello " said Dragon's nickname because of his penchant for tailored suits, was a total of six crime scene sequences in Berlin in front of the camera.
Since 1946, he was used extensively as radio speaker in use, mainly when NWDR Cologne and the consequential WDR. He was in most productions to the main cast, so in 1951 next to Edith Teichmann and Max Eckard in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway or 1971 in the subject as Diederich Hessling, with among others Heiner Schmidt, Walter Andreas Schwarz, Heinz von Cleve and Irmgard Först as a partner.
In addition, Dragon also worked in the selected part as a voice actor. He borrowed otherwise of other synchronized Hollywood greats such as Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Frank Sinatra, Patrick McGoohan, Sean Connery and Richard Widmark his voice. The most well-known synchronous work of Heinz Drache, the German versions of Apocalypse Now (Robert Duvall ) and the resynchronization of The Third Man ( Trevor Howard).
In his last role, he stood for the first episode of the ARD series needle romances front of the camera.
Heinz Drache was married since 1957 with Rosemarie Nordmann ( 1928-2006 ), the marriage produced three children. From a previous relationship with actress Edith Teichmann, born 1948 daughter Angelica comes.
He died after a long battle with cancer of pneumonia in a hospital in Berlin. His grave is located in Berlin's Dahlem cemetery in field 1