Heinz Drache (actor)

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Heinz Dragon

Heinz Drache (born February 9, 1923 in Essen , † April 3, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .

Life

Heinz Drache did his Abitur at the Alfred-Krupp-Gymnasium in Essen-Holsterhausen . He began his acting career at the theater. He played in Nuremberg , Düsseldorf and Berlin. In Berlin he also met Gustaf Gründgens . This later brought him to Düsseldorf, where Drache was engaged for a role in Friedrich von Schiller's Die Räuber and in the play Der Schatten , which premiered in 1947 . His colleagues included Käthe Gold , Marianne Hoppe , Gustav Knuth and Elisabeth Flickenschildt .

As early as the 1950s, Drache starred in numerous television films. He achieved fame in the 1960s in the crime films based on Edgar Wallace and Francis Durbridge . In 1962 he played alongside Albert Lieven in the six-part " Street Sweeper " Das Halstuch, the criminal inspector Harry Yates from Littleshaw. Although this was his only Durbridge film , it was also the most successful television series from Durbridge's pen. Due to its popularity, Drache received the Golden Bravo Otto as the most popular TV star in the readers' poll of the youth magazine BRAVO in 1962 . From 1985 to 1989 he also investigated Bülow for the crime scene as inspector . “Don Flanello”, Drache's nickname because of his preference for bespoke suits, was in front of the camera for a total of six Tatort episodes in Berlin.

Since 1946 he has worked extensively as a radio play speaker, mainly at the NWDR Cologne and the resulting WDR . He was one of the main actors in most productions, so in 1951 alongside Edith Teichmann and Max Eckard in The short happy life of Francis Macomber after Ernest Hemingway or in 1971 in Der Untertan as Diederich Heßling, with u. a. Heiner Schmidt , Walter Andreas Schwarz , Heinz von Cleve and Irmgard Först as partners.

In addition, Drache also worked as a voice actor in selected parts . He borrowed from other otherwise synchronized Hollywood -Sizes as Kirk Douglas , Glenn Ford , Frank Sinatra , Patrick McGoohan , Sean Connery or Richard Widmark his voice . Probably the best known dubbing works by Heinz Drache are the German versions of Apocalypse Now ( Robert Duvall ) and the re-dubbing of The Third Man ( Trevor Howard ).

In his last role he stood in front of the camera for the first episode of the ARD series Adelsromanzen .

Heinz Drache was married to Rosemarie Eveline Nordmann (1928–2006) since 1957. The marriage has three children. The daughter Angelika, born in 1948, comes from an earlier relationship with the actress Edith Teichmann (1921-2018).

Grave site , Koenigin-Luise-Strasse 57, in Berlin-Dahlem

He died of lung cancer in a Berlin hospital after several months of illness . His grave is in field 1 of the Dahlem cemetery .

Filmography

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Movies

Series

Radio plays

Heinz Drache (top center) in 1957 during a guest performance by the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus in the Kammerspiele Bad Godesberg in the play One long day's journey into the night by Eugene O'Neill alongside Martin Benrath (right) and (from left) Paul Hartmann and Elisabeth Bergner .
  • 1946: Now they are singing again (based on Max Frisch ) - Director: Theodor Mühlen
  • 1946: The good enemies - directed by Theodor Mühlen
  • 1948: The Secret of Father Brown; 3rd episode: The song to the flying fish - Director: Eduard Hermann
  • 1948: The organ must not be silent - author and director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1949: Ballad from Eulenspiegel, from Federle and from the thick Pompanne - directed by Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1949: Faust II (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ) - directed by Ludwig Berger
  • 1949: Woe to him who lies (based on Franz Grillparzer ) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1950: All my sons (based on Arthur Miller ) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1950: Madeleine 5 - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1950: The Family Day - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1951: Venus in the Light - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1951: Der Bote - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1951: Major Barbara (after George Bernard Shaw ) - Director: Edward Rothe
  • 1951: The short happy life of Francis Macomber (after Ernest Hemingway ) - directed by Ludwig Cremer
  • 1951: A Little Song - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1951: The holy shoemaker - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: Albert and Angelika - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: Faust (after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: Erasmus in a quiet corner - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: Side by side - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: fight against death; 1. Episode: The Divine Legacy - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1952: The Bridge Builder - Director: Eduard Hermann
  • 1952: The Last Baggage - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1952: fight against death; 2nd episode: Angels with black wings - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1952: Warning, self-shot! - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1952: The Thuringian Game of the Ten Virgins - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: The beaver fur (based on Gerhart Hauptmann ) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: Flemish Autumn - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1952: The Stranger's Visit - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1952: Our Street - Director: Ulrich Erfurth
  • 1953: The Road to Cavarcere - Directed by Edward Rothe
  • 1953: Lorenzaccio - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1953: The Lonely House - Director: Franz Zimmermann
  • 1953: Clarius finds a star - Director: Werner Honig
  • 1953: The decision was made at 10.30 a.m. - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1953: You don't jump from the Eiffel Tower - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1953: The Hammer - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1953: The Misanthrope (based on Molière ) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1953: I knew the voice - Director: Franz Zimmermann
  • 1953: Minna von Barnhelm (based on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ) - director: Lothar Müthel
  • 1953: fight against death; 8th episode: The immortal duel, 2nd part - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1953: Homecoming - Director: Erwin Piscator
  • 1953: The Sündflut - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1953: Goethe writes a radio play - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1953: The Death of Socrates - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1953: Red Poppy - Director: Franz Zimmermann
  • 1953: Jan the Dreamer - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1954: Even the smartest can do something stupid - Director: Walter Knaus
  • 1954: Family Professor Linden - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1954: Streams don't die - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1955: Vampire trial files (5 parts) - Director: Hans Gertberg
  • 1955: A gondola in Paris - Director: Hanns Korngiebel
  • 1956: The Crow Colony - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1956: Where is "Mister Milburry" (7 parts) - Director: Hans Bernd Müller
  • 1957: A Better Man - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1957: The curve - directed by Ludwig Cremer
  • 1957: The bill without the landlord - Director: Edward Rothe
  • 1957: Volpone - Director: Helmut Brennicke
  • 1957: Inspector Hornleigh on the trail (1) - Director: Hermann Pfeiffer
  • 1957: The tape (based on August Strindberg ) - Director: Gerhard F. Hering
  • 1957: Doktor Semmelweis - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1957: Looking back in anger - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1957: The Gate of Tears - Director: Günter Bommert
  • 1957: Schirmer's inheritance (based on Eric Ambler ) - directed by Cläre Schimmel
  • 1958: The Flemish freedom song. The story of Till Eulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1958: The Birds - Director: Carl Nagel
  • 1958: Voices in the Ice - Director: Günter BBommert
  • 1958: The Unknown Visitor - Director: Fritz Peter Vary
  • 1958: King Lear (based on William Shakespeare ) - Director: Wilhelm Semmelroth
  • 1958: His first trial - directed by Cläre Schimmel
  • 1958: Kriselei - Director: Edward Rothe
  • 1958: peace for an evening? - Director: Curt Goetz-Pflug
  • 1959: Front report - directed by Heinz von Cramer
  • 1959: Amphitryon - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1959: Beckett - Sudermann - Osborne - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1959: Eduard and Caroline - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1959: The Commanded Concert - Director: Günter Bommert
  • 1959: Richard Wagner - EM Remarque - Bert Brecht - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1959: Horatio Hornblower's Adventure, Deeds and Sorrows - directed by Rolf von Goth and Erich Köhler
  • 1960: The Philosopher's Cave - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1960: The book and the whistle - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1960: Working group: Der Mensch - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1961: The diary of a seducer - Director: Ulrich Lauterbach
  • 1961: Report on apple trees / Report on apple trees - Director: Gustav Burmester
  • 1961: My son, the Minister - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1962: Nadel und Kamm or: Buraimi Oil - Director: Horst Loebe
  • 1962: The Red Arrows - Director: Horst Loebe
  • 1963: Meeting Point Past - Director: Ulrich Gerhardt
  • 1963: City tour - directed by Miklós Konkoly
  • 1963: Rehearsal in Truth - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1963: The Language Course - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1963: Alarm - Director: Wolfgang Spier
  • 1963: Open Doors - Director: Erich Köhler
  • 1965: Man against Man - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1967: Starallüren - Director: Heinz Hostnig
  • 1968: Gradual production of a speech as if half asleep - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1968: The Dead of Spoon River - Director: Wolfgang Schenck
  • 1969: The Stag Beetle - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1970: Authors' talk - Director: Otto Düben
  • 1971: Abductions - Director: Oswald Döpke
  • 1971: Performances during the breakfast break - Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1971: The Subject (six-part after Heinrich Mann ) - Director: Ludwig Cremer
  • 1971: Crescendo of Horror - Director: Raoul Wolfgang Schnell
  • 1972: The devil's name is Jaromir - Director: Oswald Döpke

Web links

Commons : Heinz Drache  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Drache: Actor (1923-2002) , Rheinische Geschichte
  2. ↑ The eternal crook hunter: Heinz Drache is dead , Spiegel Online, April 4, 2002
  3. ↑ Edith Teichmann: Always on the move , BZ , March 20, 2011
  4. ↑ The Berlin actor died of cancer at the age of 79 , BZ , April 5, 2002
  5. ↑ knerger.de: Heinz Drache's grave
personal data
SURNAME Dragon, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2002
Place of death Berlin