Gardy Granass

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Gardy Granass , sometimes Gardy Granass (* 7. January 1930 in Berlin ; native Hildegard Erika Charlotte Granass ) is a former German actress .

Life

At the age of six she took ballet lessons from Tatjana Gsovsky , performed in children's ballet and got her first engagement at the Städtische Oper Berlin in 1946 . After taking acting lessons with Herma Clement , she played theaters in Baden-Baden and Wiesbaden .

Gardy Granass was mainly involved in homeland films . In 1949, at the age of 19, she played together with Gustav Knuth and René Deltgen in the feature film Tromba , directed by Helmut Weiss . In 1952 she was awarded the Federal Film Prize "Golden Dose" for her role in Heidelberg Romance as the best young actress . But not until the mid-1950s in the films Drei Mädels vom Rhein (with Fita Benkhoff and Paul Henckels ), Schwarzwaldmelodie (with Claus Biederstaedt , Willy Fritsch and Walter Giller ) and Die Christel von der Post (with Hardy Krüger and Gunther Philipp ) performed, it gained great popularity. She also played increasingly under the director Paul Verhoeven and in films produced by Kurt Ulrich .

But at the beginning of the 1960s, Gardy Granass' film roles became smaller. After three appearances on television in Francis Durbridge's Das Halstuch (1962), in Das Kriminalmuseum and in the series Landarzt Dr. Brock (1965) she ended her acting career. The street sweeper Das Halstuch , in which she played the inconspicuous wife of Inspector Yates ( Heinz Drache ), had the greatest success . The six-part series was top-class with Albert Lieven , Horst Tappert , Dieter Borsche , Margot Trooger , Erwin Linder , Hellmut Lange and Erica Beer . Three years earlier she was seen alongside Willy Millowitsch and Elsa Scholten in the comedy Der müde Theodor , a television broadcast from the Millowitsch Theater in Cologne .

Gardy Granass married Werner Hess in 1979 , who was director of the Hessischer Rundfunk from 1962 . Werner Hess died on April 11, 2003 at the age of 88 in Munich, where Gardy Granass still lives today.

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SURNAME Granass, Gardy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granass, Gardy; Granass, Hildegard Erika Charlotte (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin