Benno Sterzenbach

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Benno Sterzenbach (born March 3, 1916 in Osnabrück , † September 13, 1985 in Feldafing ) was a German actor and director .

Life

His major role as a theater actor was that of " Götz von Berlichingen " at the Jagsthausen Castle Festival alongside Ellen Schwiers as Adelheid. He was also involved in theater films on television, such as the first television version of Der Richter und seine Henker (1957) based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt , in Der Schlaf der Gerechten (1962) based on Albrecht Goes and in Mirandolina (1963) based on Carlo Goldoni as well as in other.

He played his first film role in Weg im Zwielicht (1948) under the direction of Gustav Fröhlich . In 1960 he worked in one of the first Edgar Wallace films of the post-war period, in The Avenger . In the same year he also starred in the street sweeper It's So Far from the series of Durbridge films. In 1966, Sterzenbach was part of the cast of the very first German color television series , Adrian the Tulip Thief, alongside Heinz Reincke . In the film Max the Pickpocket (1962), with Heinz Rühmann in the title role and Arno Assmann as detective inspector, Sterzenbach played the role of the criminal. In 1964 he was seen alongside Hanns Lothar in the film Flight in Danger, which resulted in a whole series of air disaster films.

Sterzenbach became well known through the television series Raumpatrouille as General Winston Woodrow Wamsler . In the 1970s, Sterzenbach played master mechanic Karl Brensberger in the TV series PS - Stories about the Car . He was also seen in guest roles in television series such as The Fifth Column , Derrick and The Old One . He also played a double role in the youth series On the Road to Atlantis as the crazy alchemist Kelley and as Dr. Graf, a researcher from the future.

As a voice actor, Sterzenbach lent his voice a. a. Don Ameche (in Columbo ), Ned Beatty (in The Tiger Chases the Pack ), Lou Jacobi (in The Diary of Anne Frank ) and Theodore Bikel (in Defeated Hatred ).

He was married to his colleague Almut Rothweiler in his second marriage and had four children. Sterzenbach rests in the Tutzing cemetery , Ilkahöhe .

Filmography

Radio plays / audio books

Benno Sterzenbach was also the voice actor in the television series " Die Rote Zora und seine Gang " (1979), the resulting radio play and in the horror radio plays about " Larry Brent ".

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benno Sterzenbach in: Hersfeld Prize
personal data
SURNAME Sterzenbach, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1985
Place of death Feldafing