Günther Ungeheuer
Günther Ungeheuer (born December 15, 1925 in Cologne , † October 13, 1989 in Bonn ) was a German stage, film and television actor and voice actor .
Life
At the age of 17, Günther Ungeheuer began training at the drama school of the Städtische Bühnen in Cologne in 1942, and a little later he was drafted into military service in the Second World War. After returning from American captivity, he played theater in Cologne and Bonn from 1945. Further stages of his stage activity, where he appeared at the Bad Hersfeld Festival as " Mackie Messer ", as " Orest " and as " Hamlet ", as well as Schiller's "Fiesco" and "Iago" in Shakespeare's Othello , were Trier , Münster and Oberhausen , as well as eight years at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen .
In his numerous film and television roles, he mainly played gangsters and other villains due to his impressive physiognomy . The nasty soldier in his film debut Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever (director: Frank Wisbar ), the concentration camp supervisor next to Götz George as a prisoner in Mensch und Beast (1963) and also a neighborhood size in the Davidswache police station by Jürgen Roland in 1964 were just some of his over 100 roles in film and television productions.
In the street sweeper A man named Harry Brent by Francis Durbridge he played the title character. He was also represented in the popular crime series Der Kommissar , Derrick , Der Alte in the 1970s. In the 1980s he tried to break away from his rogue image and acted in comedies such as Sigi, der Straßenfeger (1984) and in Didi at full speed (1986) and Didi - Der Expert ( 1988) by Dieter Hallervorden .
Günther Ungeheuer died of lymph gland cancer in 1989 at the age of 63 in a hospital in Bonn . Since 1952 he was married to Roswitha Krämer, who was also his manager. His grave is in the Schwall cemetery near Emmelshausen in the Hunsrück.
Synchron and radio play
Ungeheuer also worked as a voice actor. He lent his voice to Allan D. Mercant in the series Perry Rhodan of the European radio play label and George Raft in fear of death at every dawn , Jean Yanne in Weekend and Claude Brasseur . In 1969 he spoke to Paul Cox in the radio play Permit, my name is Cox - Warm thanks for the cold buffet , directed by Heinz-Günter Stamm . Three years earlier he was the main character of Danny Clayton in the eleventh Paul Temple multipart (title Paul Temple and the Geneva case ) by Francis Durbridge and directed by Otto Düben . In 1975 he also spoke 'Prince Arco - the Black Knight' on LP. His distinctive voice earned him numerous engagements with record companies, which hired him as a narrator for their horror series produced in the 1980s.
Filmography (selection)
- 1959: triplets on board
- 1959: Dogs, do you want to live forever
- 1960: the last pedestrian
- 1963: Man and Beast (The Flight)
- 1964: Davidswache police station
- 1965: Diamond billiards (Un milliard dans un billard)
- 1965: Blessed Edwina Black
- 1966: Maigret and his greatest case
- 1966: 4 keys
- 1967: Hot plaster Cologne
- 1967: The crime museum - episode 24: The amulet
- 1967: The Crime Museum - Part 30: The postage stamp
- 1967: The crime museum - episode 34: The cable
- 1968: A man named Harry Brent (TV three-part)
- 1968: The Crime Museum - Episode 40: The check
- 1969: The Commissioner - Episode 5: A girl no longer answers
- 1969: Percy Stuart - Vendetta
- 1970: Der Kommissar - Episode 22: Death of a piano player
- 1970: The Black Count (TV series)
- 1970: On the trail of the perpetrator - Episode 8: Frogmen
- 1971: Eroticism at work - what every HR manager likes to keep quiet
- 1971: Urban prairie
- 1971: On the trail of the perpetrator - Episode 10: Death at the wheel
- 1973: Crime scene: Cherchez la femme or the ghosts from Mummelsee
- 1973: The Commissioner - Episode 63: Strange incidents in the house of Professor S.
- 1974: Crime scene: dangerous bedbugs
- 1976: Derrick - Episode 27: Risk
- 1977: Special Department K1
- 1977: The Old One - Two Murderers
- 1977: The old man - blossom dreams
- 1977: Tatort: The silent business
- 1978: Paul comes back
- 1978: The old man - Marholm's heirs
- 1979: crime scene: friend Gregor
- 1982: Hunters Battle
- 1982: Tatort: Such a day ...
- 1983: Crime scene: The Sleeper
- 1983: Is what, Chancellor?
- 1984: Sigi, the street sweeper
- 1984: Derrick gangsters have different rules of the game
- 1986: Didi in full swing
- 1988: Didi - The Expert
- 1988: Derrick - The end of an illusion
- 1989: Derrick - campaign of revenge
Web links
- Literature by and about Günther Ungeheuer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Günther Ungeheuer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Günther Ungeheuer at filmportal.de
- Günther Ungeheuer in the German dubbing file
- Photo and short biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Günther Ungeheuer
- ↑ Prince Arco - The Black Knight . From: discogs.com, accessed May 1, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Monsters, Günther |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1989 |
Place of death | Bonn |