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- Eric Braeden is a German actor in America who began his career playing Nazis and eventually became a star of daytime soap operas. Born Hans Gudegast in Kiel, Germany, during the Second World War, he was a superb athlete who excelled in track-and-field events. As a teenager, he immigrated to the United States and worked in Texas and Montana as a translator, a cowhand, and a lumber millhand. His athleticism won him a scholarship to Montana State University. While attending college, he and friend Bob McKinnon made a film, The Riverbusters, about their successful attempt to be the first men to take a boat from the source to the mouth of the Salmon river and back again. He traveled to Los Angeles in hopes of finding a distributor for the documentary, but instead found that his handsome visage and accented English made him a valuable commodity as an actor. He appeared in small parts under his real name before landing the leading role of the antagonist, Captain Hans Dietrich, on the World War II television series The Rat Patrol (1966).
The series was a hit, and Gudegast's sympathetic German officer was very popular. He appeared in a few movies and television films thereafter in supporting roles, then was given the lead in Universal's science-fiction computer thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). His delight at this huge career boost was muted by the studio's insistence that he change his name. With extreme reluctance, he agreed and became known subsequently as Eric Braeden. Braeden worked continuously in television movies for the next decade. He also worked on Broadway and in Los Angeles area theatre. In 1980, he reluctantly accepted a role in a daytime drama, The Young and the Restless (1973), and gained a stardom in this medium that had just eluded him in film and prime time television. As lead Victor Newman, Braeden brought a gravity and a strong center to the program. Amazingly handsome and athletic into his sixties, Braeden maintained the charisma that first brought him notice in "The Rat Patrol".
His infrequent film work during his nearly quarter century on "The Young and the Restless" included a prominent role as John Jacob Astor in Titanic (1997). A five-time Emmy nominee for his "The Young and the Restless" role (he won in 1998), he was also nominated eleven times for the Soap Opera Digest Outstanding Leading Actor Award, winning three times. In 1987, he was appointed, along with Henry Kissinger, Paul Volker, Steffi Graf, Alexander Haig, and Katherine Graham, to the German-American Advisory Board, and in 1991 received the Federal Medal of Honor from the president of his native land, Germany. He married his college sweetheart Dale Russell in 1966. Their son, Christian Gudegast is a screenwriter. - Dieter Laser is a German actor. He is known to English-speaking audiences for his roles: Mantrid in Lexx, Prof. Otto Blaettchen in The Ogre and Dr. Joseph Heiter in The Human Centipede (First Sequence), for which he won Best Actor at the Austin Fantastic Fest. In 1975, he was awarded the German Film Award in Gold in the category of Best Actor for his title role in John Glueckstadt.
He was born in Kiel. On a cold winter afternoon at the age of sixteen, Dieter Laser went to the stage door of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg at that time the most famous theatre in Germany and he asked the doorman how to become an actor. There was an extra missing for the Christmas fairy tale afternoon-performance for children and 30 minutes later he stood on stage among a bunch of "sailors". That was the beginning of his career as an extra. - He had grown up in a fundamentalist Christian sect where the Theatre was regarded as devil's work. As a brainwashed believer he had to hazard the consequences. Therefore he made a deal with the devil: 'I will become an actor and I'll pay later on - in hell!' - Watching as an extra the famous actors "The Gods" by doing their marvelous work during rehearsals and performances became his "drama school". Gradually he got a word to speak in a play - then two words - even a sentence - a tiny part - another little part - and one day he suddenly got a contract and overnight his dream had come true: he now was a real actor with whom the "Gods" shook hands. - After 14 passionate years on stage and as a co-founder and member of the board of the meanwhile most famous German theatre, the Schaubuehne in Berlin, he decided to become a freelancer and got his first work for the cinema: the title role in John Glueckstadt. For this performance he won the German Film Award in Gold. Since then, and besides countless guest appearances on the most important stages of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxemburg, with parts like Don Juan, Valmont, Peer Gynt, Macbeth, Captain Ahab etc. Dieter Laser played in about 65 films, at times co-starring with "Gods" like Burt Lancaster, Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Glenn Close, John Malkovich etc.. - Actor
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Wolf Kahler is a German born character actor who, thanks to his height (6'2") and blue eyes was often cast as a Nazi or unsympathetic German characters in his career. He has appeared in several successful franchises (Indiana Jones, The Dirty Dozen), both playing a Nazi officer named Dietrich, and most recently was cast as Dr. Hoffmanstahl in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.- Actress
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Judith Malina was born on 4 June 1926 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress and director, known for The Addams Family (1991), The Secret of My Success (1987) and When in Rome (2010). She was married to Hanon Reznikov and Julian Beck. She died on 10 April 2015 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Actor
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Film/TV role in Better Call Saul in 2018 as Werner Ziegler Better call Saul is the prequel to AMC's Breaking Bad. Bock was the engineer who designed and built Gus Fringe's underground Meth lab.
Winner (2018) ... Werner Ziegler- Wiedersehen (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Coushatta (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Something Stupid (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Piñata (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Quite a Ride (2018) ... Werner Ziegler
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Margit Carstensen was born on 29 February 1940 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Possession (1981) and Martha (1974). She died on 1 June 2023 in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.- Heinz Reincke was born on 28 May 1925 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein (1977), The Country Doctor (1987) and Geschichten aus der Heimat (1983). He was married to Elfi Petsch, Erni Mangold and Herta Maria Gessulat. He died on 13 July 2011 in Vienna, Austria.
- Axel Milberg was born on 1 August 1956 in Kiel, Germany. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Doktor Martin (2007) and Hannah Arendt (2012). He has been married to Judith Betzler since January 2004. They have one child.
- Lukas Heller was born on 21 July 1930 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was a writer, known for Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and Flight of the Phoenix (2004). He died on 2 November 1988 in Camden, London, England, UK.
- Writer
- Actor
Shimon Wincelberg was born on 26 September 1924 in Kiel, Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Law & Order (1990), Mannix (1967) and Kraft Theatre (1947). He died on 29 September 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Birgit Bergen was born on 17 August 1938 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Brass Target (1978), Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhos'n (1973) and Maciste contro i mostri (1962).
- Director
- Writer
- Casting Director
Juraj Lerotic was born in 1978 in Kiel, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Safe Place (2022), Onda vidim Tanju (2010) and 12 (2004).- Hans Söhnker was born on 11 October 1903 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Film Without a Name (1948) and Brand im Ozean (1939). He was married to Ingeborg Knoche-Lücken and Charlotte Berlow. He died on 20 April 1981 in West Berlin, West Germany.
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Karl Heinz Vosgerau was born on 16 August 1927 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Wie ein Blitz (1970), Die Wächter (1986) and M.E.T.R.O. - Ein Team auf Leben und Tod (2006). He was married to Sabine. He died on 4 January 2021 in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany.- Actor
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Peter Belli was born on 19 June 1943 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Rejsen til Saturn (2008), Bølle Bob og Smukke Sally (2005) and A Family (2010). He was married to June Belli. He died on 8 June 2023 in Denmark.- Katrin Pollitt was born on 27 October 1966 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Anonymous (2011), The Countess (2009) and Passion (2012). She is married to Thorsten Näter.
- Thomas Chemnitz was born in 1963 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Constant Gardener (2005), Deutschland 83 (2015) and Frauen, die Geschichte machten (2013).
- Lars Weström was born in 1971 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for For Heaven's Sake (2002), Zwei Ärzte sind einer zu viel (2006) and Tatort (1970).
- Michel Haebler was born in 1974 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for The Herald, L.H.O. (2007) and Notes of Berlin (2020).
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Oswalt Kolle was born on 2 October 1928 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was a writer and producer, known for Oswalt Kolle - Zum Beispiel: Ehebruch (1969). He was married to Marlies Kolle. He died on 24 September 2010 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Johannes Hendrik Langer was born in 1985 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He is an actor, known for Frauen, die Geschichte machten (2013), A Low Life Mythology (2012) and Jack (2014).
- Alexander Bommes was born on 21 January 1976 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was previously married to Julia Westlake.
- Antje Geerk was born on 17 July 1938 in Kiel, Germany. She is an actress, known for Ein Sommer, den man nie vergisst (1959), False Shame (1958) and Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram (1957).
- Hermann Nehlsen was born on 30 January 1920 in Kiel, Germany. He was an actor, known for Interpol (1963), Island of the Doomed (1967) and Keepers of the Night (1949). He was married to Susanne Cramer. He died in 1970.
- Editor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
Fritz Stapenhorst was born on 16 January 1914 in Kiel, Deutsches Reich. He is an editor and assistant director, known for Es war die erste Liebe (1958), Parole Heimat (1955) and Heldentum nach Ladenschluß (1955).