David Hurst
David Hurst (born May 8, 1926 in Berlin ; actually Heinrich Theodor Hirsch ; † September 15, 2019 in Berlin) was a German-American actor .
Life
Germany
Hurst comes from a theater family, his father worked for Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. He spent his childhood with his family both in Berlin (Regensburger Strasse) and then in Vienna. In Berlin and, after the annexation of Austria, also in Vienna, he experienced Nazi accusations because of his Jewish origins. In 1939 he had to leave his parents in Vienna due to the Nazi regime . The house that remained in Berlin had been "Aryanized" . After the pogroms on Kristallnacht , the “Jewish Community in England” offered the British government to cover the costs of taking in and rescuing the threatened Jewish children from Germany and Austria. At the age of 13, Hurst came to safety with the Kindertransport to Great Britain in July 1939 and ended up in Northern Ireland. During the transport he was in the care of his older brother Friedel. He never saw his parents again; they were murdered as Jews in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz extermination camps . Other relatives were killed in the Buchenwald concentration camp .
Great Britain
He spent his further childhood on an estate in Northern Ireland in the care of other participants in the Kindertransport. He was already in contact with acting in the family circle. So his brother had written scenes and David's job was to portray them "playfully". In Northern Ireland he was given the opportunity to engage in the performing arts and artistic drawing. He got his first stage experience in a repertory theater in Belfast. His German name Heinrich Hirsch is difficult for English speakers and was unfamiliar in his new home. His first name was 'David', which was based on Jewish , and his family name was 'Hurst', which sounds similar and is common in English. In later life, 'Hirsch' became his stage name.
During the Second World War , he joined the "Irish Fusiliers" when he was able to serve the military. The Irish had volunteered for combat. As a German emigrant and budding actor, he was employed by ENSA and worked as a conférencier and “entertainer” in the support of the British armed forces until the post-war period . He got around all of Europe through series of events in British military contingents and was deployed in Hamburg until 1947. At these appearances, his comic talent was particularly required and he was able to develop this artistic side. In 1949 he was retired from military service. Until 1954 he lived mainly in London and worked as an actor on various stages in the country.
In 1948 he had his first engagement in London's West End Theater as Wolfgang Winkel in the play “A Perfect Woman”. A robot should be developed as the “perfect woman” , but the designer poses as a robot. The play was filmed in 1949 with Hurst as Wolfgang Winkel (together with Patricia Roc ) and that is how his film career began, the German title is “Bespoke lovers”. A film that 50 years later was offered on DVD as "extremely sexist ".
In 1952, Hurst played a film role in Venice , which was still largely tourist-free . In the early 1950s he was engaged in the United States for roles in motion pictures. In London he continued to play classical and modern theater roles.
United States of America
In 1954 he moved to the USA due to the artistic possibilities and demand. In his new adopted home, he played on Broadway , but also in smaller off-Broadway stages. He got to know the other American art mentality. Classic theater roles are shortened to allow good timing. The focus is on profitability, which means on stage every evening. After the unexpected death of the director had to Hurst sometimes even at short notice direct the film himself. In changing engagements he played at various theaters across the USA, sometimes directing himself. Provincial theaters were part of the repertoire .
As a film actor, he cast around twenty leading roles in cinema and television films. He plays in the dramatic field, as a lover, but also in comic roles. In 1959 he received the Clarence Derwent Award for the most promising Broadway actor in the role of police inspector in "Look After Lulu". In 1964, the New York newspaper "The Village Voice" honored him with the Obie Award for his outstanding performance in the off-Broadway play A Month in the Country . This award is coveted and honorable.
He also worked as an acting teacher at Yale , Boston University , Carnegie Mellon and other colleges. During his shooting days he met well-known American stars , including Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau on Hello Dolly . In 1952 he played with Maria Schell in the love story "When the Heart Speaks".
He lived most of the time in California, but his acting activities also took him to the places where he was engaged and he was on tours, so that he got to know large parts of the vast country. With the increase in TV channels and TV audiences, more and more American TV series were shot and, in addition to stage appearances in dramatic and comic roles, he starred in numerous episode leading roles. Through US series it also came to German screens. He was seen as Ambassador Hodin in Star Trek at the end of the 1960s . In predominantly English-speaking roles, he stayed true to his childhood language and often played the role of German in films. So he was z. B. also used for the role of a fascist officer, for example in the English-American utopian film "The Boys From Brazil". He sees the role of his Judaism as liberal. "Skokie" tells the true story of a neo-fascist episode in Illinois about a former Jewish concentration camp inmate in a scenic documentary.
But he always stayed true to the stage, so he played the leading role in King Lear and roles in Goethe dramas. From 1984 to 1987 he lived and taught in Ohio, where he was engaged on several stages and tours. After his years in the USA, he returned to Europe in 1990, initially moving to Vienna.
Return to Germany
In the 1980s he was engaged in German-US-American co-productions and came back to Germany as an actor, but Vienna was also a planned location and residence. He played at the Residenztheater in Munich. When visiting his half-brother Wolfgang Heinz , he made the decision to move to Berlin. When he wanted to return to his hometown Berlin in 1987, the GDR authorities initially refused to allow him to move to East Berlin as an American . After staying in southern Germany in 1991, he followed George Tabori's call to Vienna and played under Tabori at the Vienna Burgtheater .
When he moved from Tabori to Berlin in 2000, Hurst finally returned to his hometown and initially moved to Prenzlauer Berg . He did not resume stage work in Berlin for health reasons.
Hurst was married three times and has several children and grandchildren. They live in Italy, Great Britain (England) and the USA (Florida) in his previous countries of residence. He died on September 15, 2019 in Berlin as a result of a stroke and pneumonia.
On- / Off-Broadway (selection)
| Play | Role / figure | theatre | Playtime |
|---|---|---|---|
| The faithful brothers from Pittstrasse | Joseph Knaitsch | Orpheum Theater | November 5, 1988 - November 20, 1988, 20 performances |
| Dracula (drama) | Abraham Van Helsing | OnBroadway | October 20, 1977 - January 6, 1980 |
| Emperor Henry IV | Dr. Dionysius Genoni | OnBroadway | May 28, 1973 - April 28, 1973 |
| Electra | an educator | Delacorte Theater | August 5, 1964 - August 29, 1964, 22 performances (New York Shakespeare Festival) |
| A Month in the Country | Ignaty Ilyitch Shpigelsky | Maidman Playhouse | 1963–1964, 48 performances |
| Camelot (musical) | Merlyn | OnBroadway | December 3, 1960 - January 5, 1963 |
| The Lunatic View (The Madman) | A young man | Lucille Lortel Theater | November 1962 (matinee) |
| Under the sycamore fig tree | The scientist | Cricket theater | March 7, 1960 - April 10, 1960, 41 performances |
| Look After Lulu (Comedy) | Police inspector | OnBroadway | March 3, 1959 - April 4, 1959 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (Comedy) | in the ensemble | OnBroadway | September 21, 1954 - October 17, 1954 |
Filmography
| Film / series title | Role / figure | Year of admission | Category of recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Perfect Woman (bespoke mistress) | Wolfgang Winkel | 1949 | Film adaptation |
| Tony Draws a Horse | Ivan | 1950 | Film satire on Freudianism |
| The Smart Aleck | Poppi | 1951 | Motion picture |
| Top Secret (The Blinded) | Professor German | 1952 | Film drama |
| Venetian Bird | Minelli | 1952 | Motion picture |
| Mother Riley Meets the Vampire | Mugsy | 1952 | Motion picture |
| So little time (when the heart speaks) | Blumel / Baumann | 1952 | Love movie |
| Always a Bride | Beckstein | 1953 | Motion picture |
| Rough Shoot (shot in the dark) | Lex | 1953 | Motion picture |
| Mad About Men | Signor Mantalini | 1954 | Motion picture |
| River Beat The hunt began in the harbor | Paddy McClure | 1954 | Police film |
| Look up and live | 1954 | Two main episode roles | |
| One Good Turn (In love, crazy and not married) | Professor Dofee | 1954 | Love movie |
| All for Mary (but they are nice) | Mr. Victor | 1955 | Motion picture |
| As Long as They're Happy (Existentialists) | Dr. Hermann Schneider / Dr. Ferenczy | 1955 | Motion picture |
| The Adventures of Aggie | Lazareff | 1956 | Episode Snap Judgment |
| Armstrong Circle Theater | Government official | 1957 | Episode The Shepherd of Paris |
| After the ball | Perelli | 1957 | Movie |
| Kraft Television Theater | 1958 | Episode Riddle of a Lady | |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | Mr. Stryver | 1958 | Episode A Tale of Two Cities |
| Dow Hour of Great Mysteries | The baron | 1960 | Episode The Dachet Diamonds |
| Play of the Week | propagandist | 1960 | Episodes Tiger at the Gates / The Emperor's Clothes |
| Car 54, Where Are You? (Car 54, please report) | Robin Stuart, playwright | 1962 | Episode That's Show Business |
| The Defenders (Preston & Preston) | Dr. Schaeffer | 1964 | Episode Drink Like a Lady |
| The Confession (marry me crook) | Gustave | 1964 | TV movie |
| The Patty Duke Show | Dennis LaTouche | 1965 | Episode It Takes a Heap of Livin ' |
| The Man from UNCLE (Solo for UNCLE) | Dr. Jan Vanovech | 1965/1968 | Multiple episodes |
| The Girl from UNCLE | Matthew Brecker | 1966 | Episode The Mata Hari Affair |
| Hawk | Louis Anselmi | 1966 | Episode The Longleat Chronicles |
| Mannix | Vladek | 1967 | Episode The Many Deaths of Saint Christopher |
| Hallmark Hall of Fame | Petrovini | 1967 | Episode Anastasia |
| Mission: Impossible (Cobra, Take Over) | Dr. Oswald Beck / Victor Grigov | 1967/1969 | TV crime series in several episodes |
| Run for Your Life | Heinrich Kleist | 1968 | Episode The Exchange |
| The Monkees (Monkees Race Again) | The baron | 1968 | Science fiction series |
| It takes a thief (your gig, Al Mundy!) | Captain Kovich | 1968 | Episode When Boy Meets Girl |
| To Die in Paris | Pirot | 1968 | TV movie |
| How to Steal the World | Dr. Jan Vanovech | 1968 | Action comedy based on the TV series Man of UNCLE |
| The Flying Well | Benito Gomez / Gus Mendoza (uncle of the Sixto sisters) | 1968/1969 | Episodes A Fish Story and The Lottery |
| Hello, Dolly! | Rudolph Reisenweber | 1968 | Motion picture |
| The Maltese Bippy | Dr. Charles Strauss | 1969 | Motion picture |
| Star Trek - Spaceship Enterprise | Council President Hodin | 1969 | Episode 72 The Mark of Gideon (Almost Immortal) |
| FBI | Alex Keeler | 1970 | Episode The Traitor |
| Kelly's Heroes (Shock Troop Gold) | Colonel Dunkhepf | 1970 | TV movie (Yugoslavia) |
| The Mod Squad (Twen Police) | 1970 | Episode The Exile | |
| NET Playhouse | Chanute | 1971 | Episode The Wright Brothers |
| Dark shadows | Justin Collins | 1971 | Three episodes of the first season |
| Paradise Lost | Schnable | 1974 | TV movie |
| Serpico | Ducek | 1976 | Episode from The Indian ; Dubbed version Who is the Indian? |
| Insight | 1977 | episode | |
| McCloud (A Sheriff in New York) | Captain Andrei Krasnavian | 1977 | Episode The Moscow Connection |
| Quincy ME (Quincey) | Dr. Fred Webber | 1978 | Episode Dead and Alive |
| The Boys from Brazil (Fourth Reich Secret Files) | Strasser | 1978 | Action movie |
| Child of Glass (Glass Doll) | Jacques Dumaine | 1978 | TV movie |
| Nero Wolfe | Fritz Brenner | 1979 | TV movie |
| Eight is enough | 1979 | Episode The Hipbone's Connected to the Thighbone | |
| Charlie's Angels (Three Angels for Charly) | Stovich | 1980 | Episode Arnstein's Miracle |
| Cross of Violence (Skokie) | Sol Goldstein | 1981 | TV movie |
| The Handmaid's Tale (Handmaid's Tale) | The uncle | 1989 | Science fiction film |
| Hey, hey we're the monkeys | Baron von Klutz | 1997 | |
| The Boy Who Had Everything | College runner | 1984 | Cinema drama |
| Leo Tolstoy: God Sees the Truth but Waits | 1999 | Movie count |
Web links
- David Hurst in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- David Hurst at filmportal.de
- Filmography
- In Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- Achim Klünder: Lexicon of television games 1978–1987 . KG Saur, Munich.London.Ney.York.Paris 1991, online in the Google book search
Individual evidence
- ↑ Turon47: Star Trek Round Table "Hermann Darnell" Potsdam Babelsberg: The Round Table mourns David Hurst. In: Star Trek Round Table "Hermann Darnell" Potsdam Babelsberg. September 16, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Own statement in an interview from 2000 in Deutschlandradio Kultur: Finding one's role - a portrait of the actor David Hirsch
- ↑ According to his own statement, the military secret service asked him to change his name so that his German origins were not clearly recognizable while he was doing military service.
- ↑ David Hurst - Biography
- ^ Program booklet of the film
- ↑ theperfectwoman_119230
- ↑ Obie Awards 1960s . Co-presented by the Village Voice and the American Theater Wing // OBIES 1963–1964 . The Village Voice. 28 May 1964.
- ^ Ambassador Hodin with picture accessed: December 14, 2010
- ↑ David Hurst deceased
- ^ David Hurst Broadway and Theater Credits
- ↑ Through their mutual affection for music, Nicole and the Colonel overcome all prejudices and time-related hostility. Ultimately, however, their love is broken by the cruelty of the war.
- ↑ Film Lexicon
- ↑ film database
- ↑ Almost Immortal [The Mark of Gideon] (72, 1969) After long negotiations, the high council of Gideon finally allows the Federation to establish direct contact. So Kirk can be beamed directly from Spock to the council chairman Hodin (David Hurst). But something is wrong. Kirk materializes on a deserted Enterprise. When he searches the ship, he only finds the naive Odona (Sharon Acker). She explains to him that every square meter of land on her planet is populated with people.
- ↑ 16.htm Startrekindex
- ↑ The Indian: episode of October 8, 1976
- ^ Serpico dubbing files : Serpico (1976-1977), TV series, Arena Synchron Berlin: David Hurst dubbed by Dieter Ranspach
- ↑ Film information
- ^ Table of contents Skokie
- ↑ Film Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hurst, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hirsch, Heinrich Theodor (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th September 2019 |
| Place of death | Berlin |