Carlos Thompson

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Carlos Thompson (born June 7, 1923 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ; † October 10, 1990 there ; real name Juan Carlos Mundin Schaffter ) was an Argentine actor and writer .

Life

The son of German-Swiss immigrants began his career at the age of 16 as an actor in a film in Argentina in 1939 with Carlos F. Borcosque's work Y mañana serán hombres (Men of Tomorrow). He then appeared in plays by Giraudoux , Lope de Vega , Anouilh and others. In 1958 he played the leading role alongside Barbara Rütting and Wolfgang Preiss in the crime film I was a slave to Wolfgang Becker and, alongside Liselotte Pulver, the robber captain in the comedy Das Wirtshaus im Spessart , who falls in love with the Comtesse von und zu Sandau. After further roles, he went to New York to study and then studied for a few semesters at the University of Buenos Aires.

He later made a world tour through the United States , Canada , Africa and Asia Minor . Eventually he returned to Argentine film. In addition, he also pursued his other artistic inclinations as a sculptor , painter and writer .

In Argentina, a volume of short stories under the title published All is God and the award-winning novel The Other Cheek and The Night and the Sun .

Thompson finally embarked on a second career as a writer and historian after working in film . He undertook a detailed refutation, based on his own research , of the assertion made by David Irving ( Accident. The Death of General Sikorski , 1967) and Rolf Hochhuth ( soldier theater , German premiere in 1967) that Winston Churchill had General Sikorski , the head of the Polish government-in-exile , murdered by sabotaging his plane. Sikorski was killed in a crash on July 4, 1943 in Gibraltar shortly after take-off.

Thompson married actress Lilli Palmer on September 21, 1957 . He motivated her to be literary as well, with which she had great success on the German market. Four years after the death of his wife, Thompson committed suicide in Buenos Aires in 1990. He was buried at the Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires .

Works

  • The assassination of Winston Churchill. C. Smythe, Buckinghamshire 1969. German as:
The defamation of Winston Churchill. Droemer-Knaur, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-426-03619-3 . (Nonfiction book in which Thompson refutes the claim made by David Irving and Rolf Hochhuth that Winston Churchill had General Sikorski murdered.)

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Reiner Boller: Carlos Thompson - the noble robber chief. Publishing alliance, Bad Birnbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-938109-42-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Thompson, Carlos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born Argentinian, actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1990
Place of death Buenos Aires