Dieter Okras

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Dieter Okras , born as Hans-Dieter Leuckert (born January 1, 1948 in Berlin ; † January 23, 2014 there ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Dieter Okras was the son of actress Gudrun Okras . He completed an acting training at the State Drama School Berlin , today's Academy for Dramatic Art Ernst Busch in East Berlin .

Since the late 1980s, Okras had primarily emerged as an actor in feature films , television films, and television series . After reunification he managed to switch to West German television productions. His enduring career on German television began in the mid-1990s. Okras took on several continuous series roles, recurring episode roles and guest roles.

Okras was often used on German television in crime series , but also in sophisticated television films and productions with a contemporary historical background. He often embodied unpleasant, arrogant and dodgy characters. Power types with an awareness of social status were often the role subject okra was set to be. Characters who make a film popular, however, remained the exception in its role repertoire.

In 1989 he had a smaller role than Egbert in the feature film Coming-Out , directed by Heiner Carow , the last feature film to be produced in the GDR . In the anti- war film Stalingrad (1993) he took over the role of Captain Haller , who forces the soldiers Müller , Reiser , Rohleder and von Witzland , who are the focus of the film, to shoot Russian civilians. In the movie Sass (2001) he played the stubborn, stubborn bailiff under the direction of Carlo Rola .

Gravestone for Hans-Dieter Leuckert (Dieter Okras) and his mother Gudrun Okras at the Lichtenrade cemetery in Berlin-Lichtenrade

He had continuous series roles as hotel manager Stern in the Sat.1 series Parkhotel Stern , as senior public prosecutor Dr. Zacher in the ZDF series Mona M. - With a woman's weapons and as party leader Wüllenweber in the comedy series Alone among farmers . In several episodes of the crime series Tatort he impersonated as Dr. Richard Poll the superiors of the crime scene commissioner Charlotte Lindholm ( Maria Furtwängler ). Okras also had numerous episode roles in various television series, including Liebling Kreuzberg (as the lawyer Huhn ), Unser Charly (as the criminal animal dealer Walter Reichert ) and in 2010 in Notruf Hafenkante (as the emotionally cold jeweler Koester ).

He was also seen in television films in the crime series Rosa Roth , Bella Block and Pastor Braun . In 2007 he played alongside Iris Berben in the historical television series Africa, mon amour .

Okras also worked extensively as a voice actor . He voiced John Billingsley in Navy CIS and Kelsey Grammer in Starship Enterprise: The Next Century , among others . He also dubbed numerous other, usually smaller roles in the series Starship Enterprise: The Next Century , Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Raumschiff Voyager .

Okras occasionally appeared under the name Hans-Dieter Leuckert-Okras.

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personal data
SURNAME OK, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leuckert, Hans-Dieter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 23rd January 2014
Place of death Berlin