Helmuth Rudolph

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Helmuth Rudolph (born October 16, 1900 in Bünde-Ennigloh as Helmuth August Wilhelm Rudolf Arthur Heyn ; † March 16, 1971 in Munich ; also performed as Helmut Rudolph or Helmuth Rudolf ) was a German actor .

biography

The son of a railway official began his professional career at the age of twenty in Bremen . Further obligations led him to a. to Hanover , Nuremberg , Leipzig , Dresden , Danzig and finally Berlin , where he had been seen at the comedy and above all at the Renaissance theater .

Between 1934 and 1936 Rudolph, who had already appeared in a silent film in 1928, also took part in a few supporting roles in movies, then (until 1944) the Hamburg-based resident concentrated mainly on his stage work (at the Thalia Theater in the Hanseatic city). Rudolph continued his work at the Hamburg theater until the first post-war years, but from then on he increasingly appeared again with roles in front of the camera. In the early 1950s Rudolph could be seen again at Berlin's Renaissance theater but also at the theater on Kurfürstendamm . In the second half of the 1950s he settled in Munich and worked on theaters there (Kleine Komödie) as well as in other cities in southern Germany (e.g. Stuttgart's Komödie in the Marquardt). Guest performances with famous colleagues such as Lil Dagover and Käthe Dorsch led him a. a. to Switzerland ( Basel ).

Helmuth Rudolph, who had also worked in TV productions since the beginning of the television age in the Federal Republic (1953), including most recently (in the 1960s) the ZDF crime series Das Kriminalmuseum and the ARD pre-evening crime series Hafenpolizei , was the actress' first marriage Inge Meysel married. He helped the daughter of a Jewish father significantly to survive the Third Reich unscathed.

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  1. ^ A b 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. 1445.