Ferdinand Dux

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Ferdinand Dux (born February 21, 1920 in Thale ; † October 23, 2009 in Bremerhaven ) was a German actor .

biography

Dux began his artistic career after 1945 as a stage actor. He received theater engagements in Schwerin , Magdeburg , Karlsruhe , Flensburg , Bremerhaven (here he appeared in 1969 together with Ilse Werner as King of Siam in The King and I ) and Essen .

Since the mid-1960s, Dux also increasingly took on roles in film and television. He starred in literary adaptations such as Max Frisch's Chinese Wall and the multi-part Jauche und Levkojen based on Christine Brückner , in numerous television films such as the comedy Sailing Makes You Free (with Evelyn Hamann ), in the drama Guppies for Tea (with Inge Meysel ) and the love film Eine special Love after Rosamunde Pilcher . He also appeared in various crime series such as Tatort and in elaborate TV series such as Felix Mitterer's satire Die Piefke-Saga and Dieter Wedel's Der große Bellheim , in which he portrayed the father of the title character embodied by Mario Adorf .

In addition, Dux was one of the long-standing ensembles of various family series such as No recipe for love and Engels & Consorten , A Bavarian on Rügen , Der Pfundskerl and Jurek Becker's east-west satire We are just one people . In contrast, Dux was rarely seen in cinema productions, for example in the dramas Das Heimweh des Walerjan Wróbel , The Man with the Trees (Jean Giono) and Fickende Fisch (directed by Almut Getto ). Dux became known to a younger audience primarily through his role as "Grandpa Brass", which he played from 1986 to 1999 on Sesame Street . In addition, Dux took on guest roles in numerous television series such as Percy Stuart , Sonderdezernat K1 , Der Alte , Großstadtrevier , Das Traumschiff and For all cases Stefanie - here mostly cast for the profound grandfather type.

In addition, Dux worked for many years as a speaker for radio and dubbing. He spoke the "Grandpa Bommel" in Otto Waalkes ' Kommando Störtebeker (2001) and participated in numerous radio plays for young people on the EUROPA label , including Demonenkiller , Asterix , Die Funk-Füchse and TKKG .

Since 1957 Ferdinand Dux was married to a ballet master . Dux died in 2009 at the age of 89 and found himself on the Ev.- Luth. The cemetery of the parish of Schiffdorf in the district of Cuxhaven is his final resting place.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Ferdinand Dux
personal data
SURNAME Dux, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Thale
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2009
Place of death Bremerhaven