Heinz Weiss
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)
- 1958: When Conny with Peter
- 1959: Penal Battalion 999
- 1959: As far as your feet can carry
- 1960: Brandenburg division
- 1960: The big request concert
- 1961: The green archer
- 1961: The journalists
- 1961: just the wind
- 1961: In camera
- 1961: Goodbye
- 1963: The state of siege
- 1963: The accounting
- 1963: The useless thing about Anna Winters
- 1963: special leave
- 1963: friendly game
- 1963: Chains broken
- 1964: The fifth column - meeting point Vienna (episode 7)
- 1964: The crime museum - the mute key witness (episode 7)
- 1964: The man next door
- 1964: Flight in danger
- 1964: Probation Officer Berger - TV series
- 1964: The chest
- 1964: The crime museum - deadly chess (episode 13)
- 1965: Intercontinental Express
- 1965: A parting present
- 1965: Shots from the violin case
- 1965: Case closed - 'End of Conflict'
- 1965: The night of the murder in Manhattan
- 1966: At midnight the trap snaps shut
- 1966: The crime museum - the label (episode 22)
- 1966: The Venetian Door
- 1966: Münchhausen
- 1966: The man who called himself Abel
- 1966: The bill - served ice cold
- 1966: The fall of the generals
- 1966: reasons for a judgment
- 1967: Civil War in Russia (five-part TV series)
- 1967: The Brooklyn Killer Club
- 1968: dynamite in green silk
- 1968: Count Claus Stauffenberg
- 1968: Death in the red jaguar
- 1968: The fifth column - one million on a numbered account (episode 23)
- 1968: Sir Roger Casement (2 parts)
- 1969: Naval mutiny in 1917
- 1969: Call me Alex
- 1969: Fatal shots on Broadway
- 1970: Always with a full moon
- 1971: Graf Luckner ( Les aventures du Capitaine Luckner , TV series BRD / F, title role)
- 1972: youth of a student teacher
- 1972: Max Hölz. A German lesson
- 1973: The strange life story of Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
- 1974: In the forecourt of truth
- 1974: The involuntary travels of Moritz August Benjowski
- 1975: Tatort - The invoice is submitted later
- 1975: The Zupanja Bridge
- 1975: The fatal blow
- 1975: Christoffel von Grimmelshausen's adventurous Simplicissimus
- 1976: the winter that was a summer
- 1977: Tatort - Fire Magic
- 1978: The cure
- 1978: Wallenstein
- 1979: blue sky that I can only imagine
- 1979: Confusion of feelings
- 1979: The minutes of Mr. M. - No answer from Zurich
- 1979: The crime scene: two knots
- 1980: The coast pilots
- 1981: The fox from Övelgönne
- 1981: Berlin, Tunnel 21
- 1982: Les Quarantièmes rugissants
- 1982: Doctor Faustus
- 1983: The firestorm
- 1983: Wagner - The life and work of Richard Wagner
- 1983–1999 The Dream Ship (TV series, episodes 7 to 33)
- 1984: The Little Drummer Girl
- 1985: The city fire
- 1985: Christopher Columbus
- 1985: Le Transfuge
- 1986: Peter the Great
- 1986: It's the birthday of the future (film in the TV show)
- 1988: War and Remembrance
- 1993: Cluedo - The Murderer's Game
- 1994: Immenhof
- 1998: Rosamunde Pilcher - Return to Paradise
Web links and literature
- Heinz Weiss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Heinz Weiss in the catalog of the German National Library
- Heinz Weiss: Logbook of my life Gryphon, ISBN 3-935192-77-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ ZDF "dreamboat" Kapitän Weiss died ( Memento of 27 November 2010 at the Internet Archive ) welt.de at, accessed 24 November 2010
- ↑ The “dream ship” captain died at Bunte.de (with obituary ), accessed on November 24, 2010
personal data | |
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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 |