Günther Ungeheuer

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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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Günther Ungeheuer
  2. ↑ Prince Arco - The Black Knight . From: discogs.com, accessed May 1, 2016
personal data
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