Hellmut Lange

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Hellmut Lange (born January 19, 1923 in Berlin ; † January 13, 2011 there ) was a German actor , voice actor and television presenter .

Life

Hellmut Lange was born in Berlin as the son of civil servant Wilhelm Lange and his wife Emmy (née Holscher) and grew up there. As early as 1936, as a teenager, he spoke children's roles on Berlin radio, alongside Wolfgang Kieling , among others . At the age of 18 he was drafted into the Navy in World War II and after three years of war he was in command of a minesweeper at the end of the war . “I was drafted into the Navy when I was 18, and when I was 21 I was in command of a mine search boat. So I know what it's like at sea. I was lucky and got away with my life. "

From 1946 to 1948 he completed an acting training in Hanover . In 1948 the first stage engagement followed at the Junge Theater in Munich . In the early 1950s he played as Old Shatterhand together with Sigurd Fitzek , who played the Indian chief Winnetou , on an open-air stage in Stuttgart .

He made his feature film debut in 1958 and quickly became a popular actor in film and television. In 1961 he played the leading role in the Edgar Wallace film adaptation of The Forger of London and in the following year one of the leading roles in Durbridge - Street Sweeper The Scarf . He was often seen as a representative of law and order, as a police officer or private investigator, such as a commissioner in the Stahlnetz series, as private detective John Kling in the television series John Klings Abenteuer and as a lawyer Dr. Simmet in the television series Private Detective Frank Kross or as Inspector Toffer , friend and adversary of Klaus Löwitsch in the ARD evening series Hafendetektiv . In addition, Lange also played in the Oscar- winning Hollywood production Patton - Rebel in Uniform as well as in the family series Rivals of the Racetrack and The Country Doctor .

He achieved a particularly high level of awareness in 1969 through the role of the trapper Nathaniel Bumppo in the four-part television series Die Lederstrumpferzählungen based on James Fenimore Cooper . In this role he became so popular that he also adopted it in numerous radio play adaptations of Cooper's works. Lange himself commented on the four-part TV series and its production as follows:

“'Lederstockpf' was an adventurously beautiful production, the costumes and the setting were made by the Romanian co-producers with great care and attention to detail. But I don't want to do the four months of filming again. We shot some at 15 degrees minus. If the producer had come to visit the set, the actors would have lynched him. "

- Hellmut Lange

In addition, from 1970 to 1980 he hosted the ARD advice program Kennen Sie Kino? , as editor of the film magazine Cinema wrote articles for a column of the same name and conducted telephone quizzing games for the magazine, in which one could win movie books.

Between 1952 and 1960, Lange worked as a speaker and director for radio programs for Radio Bremen . After that he lent his voice - primarily in the adventure genre - to commercial radio plays, e.g. B. in Der Wildtöter (1970 and 1975) by Konrad Halver .

Since 1962, thanks to his distinctive voice, he has often worked as a voice actor for numerous prominent, English-speaking fellow actors, such as Richard Harris ( A Man in the Wilderness ), Charlton Heston ( The Battle of Midway ), Paul Newman ( Mr. & Mrs. Bridge) ), Roy Scheider (for example in The Flying Eye , 2010 - The Year We Make Contact , The Russia House ) and Donald Sutherland in Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic .

He had his last major television appearance in 1995 in the film Ferry to Death . “Now I'm slowly realizing my age and maybe 'Ferry to Death' was my last film. If so, it's a very nice final role ... "

Hellmut Lange's grave in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf

Private

The actor married Ingrid, a teacher from Bremen-Vegesack, in 1958. The family with daughter Katharina and son Tobias - son Jonas drowned fishing in 1965 at the age of three - lived for decades in Leuchtenburg , right on the border with Bremen. In October 2009 it became known that Lange was suffering from dementia . He died shortly before his 88th birthday in January 2011 in Berlin. His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hellmut Lange in the Munzinger archive , accessed on February 11, 2011 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Hellmut Lange . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2011, p. 142 ( online ).
  3. ^ Ingo Löchel: Hellmut Lange (1923-2011). In: Zauberspiegel Online , 2011
  4. ↑ Hellmut Lange died.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Nordwestradio Journal , January 24, 2011, accessed March 12, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radiobremen.de  
  5. ↑ Hellmut Lange has dementia. ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: open-report.de , October 4, 2009, accessed on November 19, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.open-report.de
  6. ↑ Fritz Göttler: When I make a row. In: sueddeutsche.de , January 24, 2011, accessed on January 25, 2011.
  7. ↑ Hellmut Lange's grave. In: knerger.de
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Hellmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Hellmuth; Long Helmuth; Lange Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 2011
Place of death Berlin , Germany