Wolf Roth
Wolf Roth (born August 30, 1944 in Torgau ) is a German actor .
Life
Wolf Roth was born in Torgau when the family was on the run. He spent his childhood and youth in Bremen. In 1961 he went to the United States as an exchange student , where he graduated from college in Detroit . Then he hitchhiked through the Midwest. On his return he did his Abitur in Bremen and then attended the Free University of Berlin , where he studied sociology and business administration. Friends took him to the entrance exam at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama , where he was discovered by the actress Hilde Körber . While still a student, he was seen by Boleslaw Barlog and engaged by Katajew for his performance of the play Quadrature of the Circle . In 1967 he made his theater debut at the Schillertheater Berlin . In 1967 he moved to the Oberhausen Theater . During the 1968/1969 season he went back to Berlin to play at the Berlin theater and at the Schaubühne on Halleschen Ufer (today Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz ). During this time, Wolf Roth worked in productions for television. Initially in several films by Wolfgang Petersen ; later he became famous as a performer in numerous German crime and television series, including Der Kommissar , Derrick and Der Alte as well as in Das Erbe der Guldenburgs . He also had guest appearances in US television series, such as Agentin mit Herz , Magnum , Quincy and Code Name: Eternity .
He is married to Barbara May , also an actress and founder of a drama school, the filmacademy in Vienna, and has a son, David Christopher Roth .
Filmography (selection)
- 1970: Perrak
- 1971: The Devil in Love (TV)
- 1971: I'll kill you, wolf
- 1971: Crime scene: Blechschaden (TV series)
- 1972: Crime scene: flotsam
- 1973: Crime scene: hunting ground
- 1973: The Commissioner : The plot
- 1974: One of us both
- 1975: Crime scene: short circuit
- 1975: The inspector: The death of the pharmacist
- 1977: Peter Voss, the Millionaire Thief (TV series)
- 1977: Quincy (TV series)
- 1978: plutonium
- 1978: The old man : The convict woman
- 1979: meat
- 1981: The old man: death of a dropout
- 1981–1985: Golden Times - Bitter Times (TV series)
- 1982: Fine company - limited liability
- 1983: Derrick - Via Genoa
- 1983: A Case for Professor Chase (TV series)
- 1984: Derrick - A game with death
- 1984: Agent with a Heart (TV series, an episode)
- 1985: The old man: The pharmacist's fear
- 1985: The red elephants (mini series in 7 parts, ZDF)
- 1986: The legacy of the Guldenburgs
- 1986: In the best company (O: Symphony) (TV series)
- 1987: Bülowbogen practice
- 1990: Derrick: Fall from Hell
- 1990: the intruder
- 1991: Police Call 110: Thanner's New Job (TV series)
- 1991: Derrick: The Scream
- 1994: Derrick: Don't shake hands with the killer
- 1994: Air Albatros (TV series)
- 1994: Grandmother's Courage (TV series)
- 1995: The old man: This time it was murder
- 1995: Derrick: The Indistinctness of the Murderers
- 1996: thieves
- 1996: The men from K3 : Tomsky's last trip
- 1996: A murder on the bank account
- 1997: The old man: The suspicion
- 1997: The forest
- 1999: Three shots in the heart
- 2004: Pastor Braun (TV series, episode Der Fluch der Pröpstin )
- 2005: Siska
- 2005: golden times
- 2007: The Dream Hotel - Dubai - Abu Dhabi (TV series)
- 2007: Notruf Hafenkante (TV series, episode of Lucky's last coup )
- 2008: play me that song and you'll be dead!
- 2008: The secret in the forest
- 2008: Murder in good company: The Senator's Nights (crime series, episode 3)
- 2009: Protectors - To life and death
- 2009: murder is my business, darling
- 2011: Rookie - almost flat
- 2012: Russian Roulette (TV two-part)
- 2014: The loneliness of the killer before the shot
- 2017: Holmes and Watson
- 2018: Fantastic Beasts: Grindelwald crime (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald)
theatre
- Squaring the circle by Valentin Petrowitsch Katajew , Schillertheater, Werkstatt Berlin 1967.
- Half up on the tree by Peter Ustinov , as Robert, Oberhausen, 1967/1968.
- The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht , as Filch, Oberhausen, 1967/1968, director: Günther Büch .
- The state examination of Alexander Wampilow , as Koljossow, Oberhausen, 1967/1968.
- The beautiful Helena by Jacques Offenbach , as Paris, Oberhausen, 1967/1968, directed by Günther Büch.
- Kaspar von Peter Handke (world premiere), as Einsager, Oberhausen, 1968, director: Günther Büch.
- The robbers by Friedrich Schiller , as Franz Moor, Oberhausen, 1968, directed by Günther Büch.
- What's so sexy about Tolen? by Ann Jellicoe , as Tolen, Oberhausen, 1968, directed by Günther Büch.
- Once a year (theater adaptation of the play Avanti, Avanti! By Samuel A. Taylor , filmed by Billy Wilder under the same name ), as Baldo Pantaleone, Berliner Theater , 1969, director: Victor de Kowa .
Trivia
Wolf Roth trained as a pianist in his youth. At the age of 12 he gave his first Mozart evening in Bremen, at 14 his first Beethoven concert and at 16 in the USA the “Warsaw Concerto” by Addinsell and the “ Rhapsody in Blue ” by George Gershwin . In the production of the "Robbers", a production in modern clothing, he played the grand piano live on stage.
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Web links
- Wolf Roth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wolf Roth at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolf Roth. Biography. In: wolfroth.com, accessed on January 28, 2018.
- ↑ Derrick. Episode 187 (1990): Fall from Hell. In: derrick-database.com, accessed January 28, 2018.
- ↑ Theater program of the Städt. Bühnen Oberhausen from 1968, biography of Wolf Roth
- ↑ Wolf Roth. Biography. In: wolfroth.com, accessed April 1, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Roth, wolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roth, Wolf K .; Klapproth, Wolf Egbert (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 30, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Torgau |