Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Amon Prack ( born August 2, 1905 in Vienna, † December 2, 1981 in Vienna) was an Austrian actor.
Life
The son of postal officials Rudolf Prack († March 1922 as a 43- year-old) and his wife Melanie Elisabeth (7 April 1883-12. June 1976) attended after secondary school, the Business Academy. He was a bank clerk to fund the visit of the was established in 1929, at that time not yet officially known as the Max-Reinhardt - Seminar. After his training as an actor, he played briefly in 1924-1933 and 1933-1935 by Max Reinhardt directed by Otto Preminger Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.
His first film turned Prack 1937. Followed from 1938 to 1945 some of the Nazi regime agreeable films of Wien-Film GmbH, which has not yet meant the great success for him. In Lehmann's address Prack Vienna in 1938, was not entered. In the expenditure 1939-1942 ( the last published ), he was with the address 14, Hadikgasse 12 recorded, and thus from 1940/1941 to the immediate neighbor of here relocated Acting School of Burgtheater, known since 1945, Max Reinhardt Seminar.
The breakthrough was a real star, he managed in 1950 with the film Schwarzwaldmädel and finally in 1951, Green is the Heath, as in the years of the West German economic miracle, the genre of the film home has become increasingly popular.
His film roles earned him the reputation of being the " most kissed man of German cinema ." Although Rudolf Prack at that time around 50 years old was already and its partners, including several times Sonja Ziemann, 20 years younger than he, the age difference never became a movie theme. In the years 1949 and 1950 Prack received a Bambi.
Prack also worked as a television actor, such as from 1967 to 1969 as a country doctor series Country Doctor, Dr. Brock. With an unsympathetic role in The Jesus of Ottakring, a 1976 filmed play by William Pellert and Helmut Korherr, he showed differently than usual. He was also active as an author of short stories and Hörspielen.In Felix Dvorak, excellent in Montreux, TV show MAD IN AUSTRIA he excelled in a parody of High Noon.
Prack was married to Maria Heinisch (15 October 1904-17. January 1974). The couple had two children, Michael and Adelheid. It inhabited after 1945 (?) Villa in the 13th district of Vienna, Hietzing, in the Stoesslgasse 15 ( corner Kupelwiesergasse ) in the district part sub - St. - Veit ( in the same part of the district at that time had also Hans Moser his villa ), right next to the hill park.
Rudolf Prack died in 1981 of pneumonia. He was buried at the cemetery in the grave Hietzinger group 50 number 37 in his parents and his wife's grave. ( His mother died two years after his wife. ) The grave is dedicated to cemetery duration.
Prack was reputed to to have been the lover of the German and Austrian post-war film par excellence. He allegedly called the woman reluctant hero and to have played leading roles in more than 100 films.