Heinz Weiss

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Heinz Weiss (born June 12, 1921 in Stuttgart ; † November 20, 2010 in Grünwald ) was a German actor .

Life

Weiss completed an acting training at the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart at the end of the 1930s and was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1940. After he returned from the war seriously wounded , he returned to acting. At first he played theater in several places and was seen alongside well-known actors such as Rolf Boysen in Augsburg . His career breakthrough came in 1959 when he played the role of the German soldier Clemens Forell in Fritz Umgelter's successful multi-part So Far Feet carry (with Wolfgang Büttner , Hans Epskamp and Hans E. Schons ), a film adaptation of Josef Martin Bauer's hit novel of the same name (the audience rating of the first broadcast was 90 percent). The film described the experiences of a former Wehrmacht soldier after his escape from a Soviet prisoner of war camp in Siberia.

Weiss overcame the soldier image with difficulty and, meanwhile advanced to a well-known screen actor, appeared in more than 140 films alongside stars like Julie Christie and Gert Fröbe . At the side of George Nader , he played the FBI man Phil Decker in the Jerry Cotton films shot between 1965 and 1969 . In the 1960s, he was seen in numerous film adaptations in crime series such as Das Kriminalmuseum or The fifth column . More recently, he has achieved great popularity as a television actor. He played the role of dream ship captain Heinz Hansen from 1983 to 1999. He also took on other television roles, such as the commissioner in the Sat.1 series Cluedo - Das Mörderspiel and also played in several television films. When he suffered blood poisoning in 1999 as a result of a war injury that had never completely healed , his right leg was removed; since then he has been in a wheelchair. In 2003 he published his biography under the title Logbook of my Life .

Heinz Weiss lived in Grünwald near Munich until his death, where he died on the night of November 20-21, 2010 at the age of 89. He was buried in the Grünwald forest cemetery.

Films (selection)

Web links and literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDF "dreamboat" Kapitän Weiss died ( Memento of 27 November 2010 at the Internet Archive ) welt.de at, accessed 24 November 2010
  2. ↑ The “dream ship” captain died at Bunte.de (with obituary ), accessed on November 24, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2010
Place of death Grünwald