Eric P. Caspar

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Eric P. Caspar (* 14. May 1941 as Jürg Kretz in Zurich ) is a Swiss actor and theater - director .

Life

After training as a business graduate and briefly working as a banker in Zurich, he studied drama, scenic design and musicals at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna from 1958 to 1962 .

After five years of permanent engagements in Chur , Linz and Cologne , he worked freelance in the theater, film and television sector. During his approximately one hundred stage roles in both classical and entertainment areas, Caspar played with Johannes Heesters , Hans Söhnker and Willy Millowitsch . In the classic sector, his spectrum ranged from Franz Moor to Orin, Ariel, Leonce and Heinrich Meisel .

Caspar has also appeared in about a hundred and fifty film and television productions in Germany, Switzerland, France, the USA, England, Scotland, and Italy. He took on important roles in films by international directors, such as As in Samuel Fuller Charlie umlaut in dead dove in Beethoven Street , at Jack Gold the camp commandant Franz Karl Reichleitner in Escape from Sobibor (Golden Globe film), with Dan Curtis to General Heusinger in War and Remembrance (Golden Globe Film), with Rainer Erler the Müller-Strehlitz comes in Ein Guru and the researcher Carolus Büdel in Das Blaue Palais etc.

He also played in eight musicals, including Nestor / Oskar in Irma la Douce . As a director, he staged six plays.

In addition to his work for film and stage, he devotes himself to painting and art photography and has already had exhibitions in Cologne and Munich. Caspar, who also works as a writer, lives in Munich.

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