Dieter Geißler (actor)

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Dieter Geißler , also Dieter Geissler (born January 18, 1939 in Beuthen ), is a German actor and film producer .

Life

Geissler received an acting training from Ellen Mahlke . After his first stage experience and appearances in television series, he also began to work as a production and assistant director . In 1965 he gave German lessons on English television.

In 1967 Klaus Lemke gave him the lead role in his first full-length feature film 48 Hours to Acapulco . Geissler embodied the adventurous dropout Frank Murnau. He then appeared in the American series The Man Who Never Was before turning to film production.

His production company Dieter Geissler Film GmbH preferred to work with Italian partners in the 1970s. His greatest success was The Flambéed Woman in 1982 , with which he helped Gudrun Landgrebe to achieve a breakthrough. For his participation in the adaptation of the novel The Neverending Story , he received the Bavarian Film Prize in 1985 together with Bernd Eichinger and Günter Rohrbach . In the summer of 1990 he founded CineMagic Animation Studio GmbH & Co. Digital Effects KG , a special effects center, on the former DEFA site in Babelsberg ; the company no longer exists.

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