Alexander Stephan (actor)

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Alexander Stephan , actually Gunnar Warner , (born July 20, 1945 in Brannenburg , Upper Bavaria , † January 27, 2011 in Munich ) was a German actor .

Life

Stephan grew up in Berchtesgaden and Bremen . During his school days he performed children's roles at the Bremen Theater . He also worked as a speaker for children's roles on the radio . After graduating from high school , Stephan attended the Munich Music Academy , where he received vocal training; at the same time he completed an acting training at the New Munich Drama School .

After completing his training, he had his first engagements as a theater actor at the Munich Tribune and at the Small Comedy in Munich. At the Little Comedy he appeared in the crime comedy No corpse without Lilly by Jack Popplewell . He had other engagements at the Fritz-Rémond-Theater in Frankfurt am Main (in Dear Daddy by Dennis Cannan ) and at various touring theaters. In touring productions, he played in Salome , Mein Freund Harvey , in the operetta Die Försterchristl , in the musical comedy Das kleine Hofkonzert , in the play Johannisfeuer by Hermann Sudermann , in Hamlet and in Volpone by Ben Jonson .

In the early 1970s he was discovered for the film by the producer and director Horst Hächler after he had previously tried to start a career as a pop singer and actor under his birth name . There he played mainly in the reprints of Heimatfilms based on the literary models by Ludwig Ganghofer . Stephan was mostly cast in the role of the youthful lover in the film, whereby he succeeded in interpreting both the South German outdoorsman as well as nobles and counts in a role and type-appropriate manner.

In the homeland film Der Jäger von Fall (1974) he played the loyal and sincere hunter Friedl , who returns to his hometown after completing his military service and has to find out that his former girlfriend is living with another man who is involved in poaching . In Der Edelweißkönig (1975) he took on the role of Count Luitpold , who was influenced by his domineering mother and who fell in love with a peasant girl. In the remake Das Schweigen im Walde (1976), he succumbs as Count Ettingen to the charms of a baroness from Munich , who is only after his money. In the last film in the Ganghofer series, Waldrausch , in 1977 he played the noble civil engineer Ambros Lutz at the side of Uschi Glas , who defended the Italian " foreign workers " employed in the construction of a dam against hostility from the local population.

A supporting role in the US television production Firestorm and Ash , the sequel to the television series The Firestorm , largely marked the end of his relatively short film career. Occasionally he still played the theater. Stephan last lived in Munich .

Filmography

literature

  • Langen Müller's Acting Dictionary of the Present. Germany. Austria. Switzerland . Albert Langen. Georg Müller Publishing House. Munich Vienna 1986, p. 984. ISBN 3-7844-2058-3

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personal data
SURNAME Stephan, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warner, Gunnar (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Brannenburg , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2011
Place of death Munich