Fritz Tillmann (actor)

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Fritz Tillmann (born December 13, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main , Hesse ; † October 30, 1986 in Munich , Bavaria ) was a German actor and voice actor .

Life

Fritz Tillmann attended the Immermann Drama School in Düsseldorf from 1934 to 1936 . In 1936 he made his debut as a stage actor in Hagen . Engagements followed in Elbing , Breslau (1943–1945), Düsseldorf and Berlin ( Hebbel-Theater , Schillertheater , Theater am Kurfürstendamm ).

As a film actor

He made his film debut in 1950 as a positively drawn main character in Gustav von Wangenheim's east-west drama The Högler's order . In the same year he played a major role in another DEFA production: in Kurt Maetzig's The Council of Gods on IG Farben . In the following years he took part in numerous German cinema productions. He embodied Major General Henning von Tresckow in Falk Harnack's Der 20. Juli , the Detective Inspector in Dr. Crippen lives , the Prof. "Zeus" Knauer in the 1970 remake of the Feuerzangenbowle (in the Rühmann version embodied by Hans Leibelt ) and the reliable friend of the main character portrayed by Heinz Rühmann in the new Curt Goetz films Das Haus in Montevideo , Dr. med. Job Praetorius and hocus-pocus or: How do I make my husband disappear ...? . His other films include Helmut Käutner's Der Schinderhannes , the international co-production Raubfischer in Hellas (with Maria Schell ), the Simmel film It doesn't always have to be caviar , the Edgar Wallace crime film The Curse of the Yellow Snake , The Heiden von Kummerow and theirs funny pranks (after Ehm Welk ), Three Men in the Snow (after Erich Kästner ) and Wolfgang Petersen's thriller One of Us .

Since 1954 Tillmann also worked increasingly in television and gave numerous guest appearances in television series such as Sherlock Holmes (with Erich Schellow in the title role), Lokaltermin , Graf Yoster gives himself the honor and The Commissioner .

As a voice actor

In addition, Tillmann worked extensively as a voice actor. Between 1952 and 1979 he lent his distinctive voice to Richard Attenborough ( A Stranger Accounts ), Ernest Borgnine ( Johnny Guitar ), Henry Fonda ( To the Last Man ), John Gielgud ( Providence ), Van Heflin (among others, My Great Friend Shane ), Burl Ives ( My Room Becomes a Harem ), Charles Laughton ( Rembrandt ), Christopher Lee ( The Burning Eyes of Baltimore Castle ), Karl Malden ( The Obsessed One ), Jean Marais ( The Iron Mask ), John Mills ( The Baby on the Battleship ), Peter O'Toole ( Bank Robbery of the Century ), Donald Pleasence ( The Daring One ), Aldo Ray ( We Are Not Angels ), Telly Savalas ( The Revenge Of Johnny Cool ), Peter Sellers ( Waltz of Torreros ), Terry-Thomas (including Die Big Sause ), Peter Ustinov (including Spartacus ), Paul McCartney ( A Hard Days Night ), Orson Welles ( The Tenth Day ), and Maurice Evans ( Planet of the Apes ).

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Hermann J. Huber: Langen-Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present: Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Langen-Müller, Munich / Vienna 1986.

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personal data
SURNAME Tillmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Hessen, Germany
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1986
Place of death Munich , Bavaria, Germany