Horst Janson (actor)
Horst Janson ( born October 4, 1935 in Mainz -Kastel ) is a German actor.
Life
Horst Janson is the son of a magistrate. He grew up in Mainz, Bad Soden, Wiesbaden and was a student in his school performances active. In 1951 he completed a fitness test on the Frankfurt Bühnengenossenschaft and subsequently took at drama school Genzmer acting lessons. After the training, he appeared in the drama Lorenzaccio at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. He received further training in the junior studios UFA and became known as Morten Schwarzkopf in a film adaptation of The Buddenbrooks in 1959, that he soon after starring in the movie ... and even offered was cheeky too.
In Helmut Käutner film A Glass of Water (1960), with Gustaf and Liselotte Pulver he gained great popularity. He has played from 1967 to 1969 in a country doctor, Dr. Brock, but his breakthrough came in 1968 with the Janson ARD TV series somersault, in which he embodied the trapeze artists Sascha Doria. In 1970 he played alongside international star Tony Curtis in the Anglo-American cinema production Two guys from granite.
A wide audience he is best known for the television series The Bastian (1973 ), in which he, due to its youthful radiance casual -. Although already 37 years old - played the students Bastian Due to its success, the series that was initially broadcasted on the eve of the ZDF program was sent a year later in prime time, as the audience once again wanted to see that oft-quoted " mischievous smile " of the " lovable airhead ". The series broke with the then existing public conventions because men at that time were not allowed to occur with long hair on television, and Janson had long blond hair. Around the same time Janson joined with the twins from Immenhof (1973) and Spring on Immenhof (1974 ) in the sphere of popular Immenhof films. His partner was in the likewise popular Heidi Brühl, the " left " was from the first generation of these films.
Horst Janson worked in the subsequent period in numerous British and American productions, including the second part of Steiner - The Iron Cross on the side of Richard Burton and Robert Mitchum. Noteworthy is already his earlier involvement in the unusual, extremely well-received by critics Irish- British war film The McKenzie Break ( outbreak of the 28, 1970). In the film Blue Blood 1987 he played among other things on the side of Lewis Collins.
In the early 1980s he inspired a whole generation of children as a " nest" on Sesame Street. In 1998, he played in Bad Segeberg the Old Shatterhand and the 2001 Old Fire hand. In the Süddeutsche Karl May Festival in the Western City Dasing at Augsburg, he played 2006 Old Shatterhand in The Treasure of Silver Lake and in the following two years he was a Buffalo Bill seen together with his daughter Sarah -Jane in Dasing. In 2009, Janson joined as Buffalo Bill in Winnetou and captain Cayman at the Festival on.
In the ARD television series under white sails, he played 2004/2005 a captain; the series led him, inter alia, for four weeks after Egypt, for four weeks to the Greek islands and for four weeks after Cuba. In September and November 2008, he was seen as a pastor Lehmann in the ZDF telenovela way to happiness. From December 2008 to January 2009 and April-May 2009, he served in the German telenovela storm of love to see as Dr. Paul Wielander.
Horst Janson was married to actress Monika Lundi in the years 1973 to 1976. With her he took in 1975 under the production of Michael Kunze the record we want to have it on. In this case it was the German version of the Paul Anka - hits Having My Baby. However, the single was not a commercial success.
Janson now lives with his second wife Hella (birth first name Helgardt ), born Ruthardt, and his two adult daughters, Laura - Mary and Sarah -Jane ( also an actress ) in Grünwald near Munich.
According to its website Janson was listed as a GFK study of February 2002 on the most famous German actors.
Filmography (selection)
Television series and rows:
Movies: