Ivan Desny
Ivan Desny (actually Russian Иван Николаевич Десницкий , Iwan Nikolajewitsch Desnizki ; born December 28, 1922 in Beijing , then Republic of China ; † April 13, 2002 in Ascona , Switzerland ) was a French - German actor of Russian-Swedish origin.
Life
Desny was born in Beijing in 1922 as the child of a Russian who worked as an embassy secretary at the French embassy, and a Swede. He spent his early youth in Tehran , Washington, DC , Paris and Brisbane . He came to France in 1926 and later studied law. During the Second World War Desny was sent to a German labor camp. After the war he attended a diplomatic school. He appeared on a student stage, was discovered by Pierre Fresnay and committed to the theater. From the end of the 1940s Desny was mainly only active in film. He played prominent roles in Bernhard Wicki's Die Eroberung der Zitadelle (1977) and in Rainer W. Fassbinder's Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979).
In 1956 and 1957 he played the main male role in the films by Falk Harnack , Anastasia, the last daughter of the Tsar and Wie ein Sturmwind . His partner in both films was Lilli Palmer . Later he turned u. a. 1974 Das Gewissen ( Touch Me Not ) with Lee Remick , Michael Hinz , Ingrid Garbo and 1993 Tatort - Dangerous Friendship . In the early crime scene thrillers with Sieghardt Rupp as Cologne customs investigator Kressin , he played the mysterious Mr. Sievers, who was behind almost all the crimes of the Kressin episodes, but could never be caught. In 1980 he received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film.
In 2002 Desny came under fire for appearing in a newspaper article as a supposedly cured cancer patient, although he was healthy. The drug Galavit , which is not approved in Germany and is highly controversial as an anti-cancer drug, was touted by Desny as a miracle cure against cancer .
Desny died on April 13, 2002 of pneumonia . His urn was buried in the municipal cemetery of Ascona , Canton Ticino .
Filmography (selection)
- 1947: La fleur de l'âge
- 1952: The Honorable Whore (La putain respectueuse)
- 1953: The lady without camellias (La signora senza camelie)
- 1953: An act of love (Un acte d'amour)
- 1953: Path without turning back
- 1954: private confession
- 1954: The golden plague
- 1955: Lord of life and death
- 1955: André and Ursula
- 1955: Frou-Frou, the Parisian (Frou-Frou)
- 1955: Lola Montez (Lola Montès)
- 1955: Dunja
- 1956: roses for Bettina
- 1956: Anastasia
- 1956: Forbidden for men (Club de femmes)
- 1956: Anastasia, the last daughter of the Tsar
- 1957: Girl trap (Donnez-moi ma chance)
- 1957: Scandal in Ischl
- 1958: All the sins of this earth
- 1958: Life for Two (La vie à deux)
- 1958: A Woman's Life (Une vie)
- 1958: Petersburg Nights
- 1958: The two-faced mirror (Le miroir à deux faces)
- 1958: Polikushka
- 1959: hot goods
- 1959: What a woman dreams in spring
- 1960: Satan lures with love
- 1960: luxury female (Femmine di lusso)
- 1960: Few Are Chosen (Song Without End)
- 1960: Symphony of Destiny (The Magnificent Rebel)
- 1960: Confession by a sixteen year old
- 1961: Soft skin in black silk (De quoi tu te mêles Daniela!)
- 1961: Mutiny (L'ammutinamento)
- 1962: Champagne in Paris (Bon Voyage!)
- 1962: Sherlock Holmes and the Necklace of Death
- 1963: The Invisible One
- 1963: is Geraldine an angel?
- 1963: Jack and Jenny
- 1964: Breakfast with death
- 1964: DM killer
- 1964: Hot track Cairo – London (La sfinge sorride prima di morire - stop - Londra)
- 1964: The last episode
- 1965: The Man of Toledo (L'uomo di Toledo)
- 1965: The love carousel
- 1966: The Beckett Affair (L'affare Beckett)
- 1966: Beloved Scoundrel (Tendre voyou)
- 1966: Hot spots for spies (Da Berlino l'apocalisse)
- 1967: The death of a doppelganger
- 1967: I killed Rasputin (J'ai tué Raspoutine)
- 1967: Love nights in the taiga
- 1967: The Crime Museum (TV series, episode: The postage stamp )
- 1968: San Sebastian (La Bataille de San Sebastian)
- 1968: Hot spots for spies (Da Berlino l'apocalisse)
- 1968: Mayerling
- 1969: Hot game for tough men (Rebus)
- 1970: The crime story (TV series)
- 1970: The Countess and Her Colonel (The Adventures of Gerard)
- 1970: The Feuerzangenbowle
- 1970: tanker
- 1970: You co-wrote : The Job (TV series)
- 1971: The dead from the Thames
- 1971: Crime scene: Kressin and the dead man in the fleet (TV series)
- 1971: Crime scene: Kressin and the truck to Liège (TV series)
- 1971: Crime scene: Kressin stops the Nordexpress (TV series)
- 1972: Crime scene: Kressin and the painter's wife (TV series)
- 1972: Crime scene: Kressin and the man with the yellow suitcase (TV series)
- 1972: On the trail of the perpetrator : No oats for Nicolo (TV series)
- 1973: They called her Little Mother
- 1973: Crime scene: Kressin and the two women from Jade (TV series)
- 1973: Welt am Draht (television)
- 1973: The Man of Metal (Who?)
- 1973: The Process (television)
- 1974: Crime Scene: Murder in the Ministry (TV series)
- 1974: Okay SIR - Sand in the Gears (TV series)
- 1974: The Conscience (Touch Me Not)
- 1975: Wrong move
- 1976: Lobster : The Child (TV series)
- 1977: The capture of the citadel
- 1977: Half-Half
- 1978: Heinrich Heine (TV series)
- 1978: Orgy of Death (Enigma rosso)
- 1978: Anton Keil, the special commissioner (TV series)
- 1978: The marriage of Maria Braun
- 1979: blood trail (Bloodline)
- 1979: Mathias Sandorf (TV series)
- 1979: Fabian
- 1979: Sun, Wine and Tough Nuts - The Madonna Thing (TV series)
- 1979: The minutes of Mr. M. - With marked cards (TV series)
- 1980: Ringstrasse Palace (TV series)
- 1980: No money for a dead person (TV)
- 1980: Car-napping - ordered - stolen - delivered
- 1980: Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV series)
- 1981: The Dream Ship (TV series)
- 1981: The Knapp Family (TV series)
- 1981: Lola
- 1982: A Case for Two (TV series, episode)
- 1983: The wild fifties
- 1985: Happy Holidays - Vacation Stories from Portugal (TV series)
- 1986: How life goes
- 1986, 1996: SOKO 5113 (TV series, two episodes)
- 1986: Detective Agency Roth (TV series, one episode)
- 1987: A case for TKKG (TV series, an episode)
- 1988: Rally (TV series)
- 1988: Heaven is Far (Un amore di donna)
- 1988: Black Red Gold (TV series, episode: Sugar-Sugar)
- 1989: faster than the eye
- 1990: Hotel Paradies (TV series)
- 1990: A Home for Animals (TV series, episode)
- 1990: Good evening, Mr. Wallenberg (God afton, Mr. Wallenberg - En Passionshistoria från verkligheten)
- 1991: I don't kiss (J'embrasse pas)
- 1991: The Disenchanted (La désenchantée)
- 1991: Gambling Express
- 1992: friends for life
- 1992: Happy Journey - Australia (TV series)
- 1993: Tatort: Dangerous Friendship (TV series)
- 1994: Christmas with Obstacles (Natale con papà) (TV movie)
- 1994: Tatort: Laura mein Engel (TV series)
- 1996: The girl Rosemarie (TV)
- 1996: Two of the same kind (television)
- 1996: Sin of a Night (TV)
- 1996: Thieves of the Night (Les voleurs)
- 1996: Tatort: Death in a Jaguar (TV series)
- 1996: OR calls Dr. Bruckner (TV series, an episode)
- 1997: Tatort: Eulenburg (TV series)
- 1997: A Guardian Angel on the Road (TV)
- 1998: Red as Blood (TV)
- 1998: The small roof damage (television)
- 1999: Em @ il an Gott (TV)
- 1999: Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland
- 2000: Lawyer Abel (TV series, an episode)
- 2000: The Rescue Pilots (TV series, an episode)
- 2001: Tatort: Death before Scharhörn (TV series)
- 2001: Divorce with Barriers (TV)
- 2002: Edel & Starck (TV series, one episode)
- 2002: St. Angela (TV series, an episode)
Web links
- Ivan Desny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ivan Desny at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Short biography with obituary
- Pictures by Ivan Desny In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article in Stern about Galavit
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Ivan Desny
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Desny, Ivan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Desnitzky, Ivan Nikolai; Десницкий, Иван Николаевич (Russian birth name); Desnizki, Iwan Nikolajewitsch (Russian) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Beijing , Republic of China |
DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 2002 |
Place of death | Ascona , Switzerland |