Rudolf Platte
Rudolf Antonius Heinrich plate ( born February 12, 1904 in Horde, † December 18, 1984 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
When Rudolf plate was three years old, his parents moved with him to Hildesheim. The son of the merchant Josef plate and his wife Karoline left sixteen year before graduation the school and took acting classes. Rudolf Platte began as an actor in the theater and was in 1925 made his debut as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare on the outdoor stage Dusseldorf. It was followed by engagements in Bad Harzburg, Hildesheim, Hagen, Wuppertal and at the Residenz Theater Hannover. Some time was spent on Lobe Theatre in Wroclaw, where he also directed.
In 1927 he came to Berlin, where he led together with Werner Finck and Hans Deppe cabaret The catacomb. In the 1930s, plate also appeared in music revues in Berlin. Due to his performance in the revue A kiss is traveling around the world with Hilde Seipp and Aribert Mog, music by Josef Rixner he also gained the attention of the media.
His film debut disc 1929 revolt in the education building. After that he was seen in the course of his career in more than 200 films. This plate often played roles of unrecognized, reserved and shy, but loving people. Almost always it was small, simple people who were, he embodied as a "man on the street".
From 1940 to 1944 he was director of the theater in Behrenstraße and from 1945 to 1947, he headed the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. As an actor dominated Rudolf Platte equally tragic as comic figures and played both on stage and in the 1970s also increasingly on television - in shows like even in demanding literary adaptations. Through his role gradually going blind Carman in the play window to the hallway by Curt Flatow and Horst pillau, with which he appeared in 278 performances at the Hebbel Theater, plate became one of the most popular people of Berlin actor.
Rudolf plate was first marriage with Vally Hager, then 1942 in second marriage briefly with actress Georgia Lind. From 1942 to 1953, the actress Marina Ried was his wife, then he remarried Georgia Lind.
When he 1984 - eight days after his wife - died at the age of 80 years, the newspapers hailed him as " the last true folk actor ". The common wealth of about two million marks bequeathed the childless couple the Hermann Gmeiner Fund for the Promotion of SOS Children's Villages.
Rudolf plate was buried in the cemetery Wilmersdorf in Berlin next to his wife. Their final resting place is since November 2010 an honorary grave of Berlin. Since November 2009 recalls in Hildesheim a plaque on his last residence there at him.