Helmut Wildt

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Helmut Wildt (born April 9, 1922 in Bad Pyrmont , † October 4, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German actor .

Live and act

Wildt began his professional career in the first few years after the establishment of the Federal Republic as a spokesman for the NWDR in Hamburg . In 1956 he took up his first permanent engagement as an actor and worked at the Schauspielhaus Wuppertal until 1958 . During this time he played alongside colleagues such as Horst Frank , Ullrich Haupt , Harald Leipnitz and Gisela von Collande .

In 1958 he moved to Berlin and began an engagement under the artistic direction of Boleslaw Barlogs at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin . During this time he played a. a. in Ernst Schroeder's production of Goethe's Faust. The second part of tragedy has the title role and the village judge Adam in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug . Wildt was a member of the ensemble there for 35 years until the theater was closed in 1993 by the Berlin Senate .

From 1958 on, Wildt also worked in front of the camera in Berlin. In 1960 he made his film debut. In Helmut Käutner's socially critical contemporary play Schwarzer Kies , he embodied the haulage contractor Robert Neidhardt, who sells the eponymous gravel, which was requested for the construction of the runway on the nearby military airfield, to smaller companies. This leading role leads to a series of follow-up offers in which Wildt consistently portrayed powerfully virile and edgy men on both sides of the law: for example the leader of a gang of gangsters, Dr. Caspary, in the Siegfried Lenz film adaptation The Lightship as well as the hardened ex-prisoner Mike Hilton in the Durbridge film Piccadilly zero twelve .

From the mid-1960s onwards, Wildt was less active in film than in television. He played several times under the direction of Fritz Umgelter and Eberhard Itzenplitz . Wildt has also worked sporadically as a voice actor. He was the German voice of Robert Shaw in Der Clou , George C. Scott in Die Hindenburg and Charles Denner in The Man Who Loved Women .

Wildt was married to the actress Bettina Schön , with whom he also worked together at the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin.

Filmography

  • 1958: Poison and dowry (TV)
  • 1961: Black gravel
  • 1962: Life starts at eight
  • 1962: The lightship
  • 1963: Piccadilly zero twelve
  • 1964: Don Gil from the green pants (TV)
  • 1965: spies among themselves
  • 1966: The Million Thing (TV)
  • 1968: The Tukhachevsky case (TV)
  • 1969: Beaumarchais (TV)
  • 1970: Like a tear in the ocean (three-part TV series)
  • 1972: The Piano (TV)
  • 1974: Under One Roof (TV series)
  • 1976: As if it were a piece of me (TV)
  • 1977: Curtain Up, We're Playing Murder
  • 1977: Tatort - Three Snares (TV)
  • 1979: Revolution in Frankfurt (TV)
  • 1983: Fire for the Great Dragon (TV)
  • 1986: Hikes through the Mark Brandenburg (TV)

Synchronous rollers (selection)

actor Film / series role
EVH Emmett Young man from a good family teller
Ferdy Mayne Ben Hur Captain of the rescue ship
George C. Scott The Hindenburg Col. Franz Ritter
Michel Piccoli Atlantic City, USA Joseph
Robert Shaw The highlight Doyle Lonnegan
Sir Ian McKellen Last Action Hero The death
Sydney Chaplin The face in the dark Mr. Brown

Radio plays

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1887.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hgr: A fragile giant: Helmut Wildt died. In: welt.de . October 17, 2007, accessed October 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wildt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Pyrmont
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2007
Place of death Berlin