Josef Fröhlich (actor)

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Josef Fröhlich (born May 10, 1933 in Mistelbach , Austria ; † mid-1990s) was an Austrian actor .

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In the mid-1950s, Fröhlich received training as an actor from Fred Liewehr and Vilma Degischer at the Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and then, after his debut in Schleswig , in Bregenz , Chur , Berlin (at the theater there on Kurfürstendamm ), Hamburg , Göttingen and Munich (at the local intimate theater) stood on the stage. Since the 1970s, he has been working mainly as a freelancer. Mostly one saw the gaunt, slim artist with the shy, pale face in light-weight pieces of the boulevard theater (comedies and comedies).

In 1958 he made his film debut with a tiny soldier role in the war film Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever . In the following decades, Fröhlich took on countless supporting roles in an abundance of film and television productions. Various of his early TV works are ambitious productions (such as One Day - Report from a German Concentration Camp in 1939 ) or true-to-original adaptations of literary models (such as Ein Wintermärchen or Judith ).

He often embodied inconspicuous types, petty crooks as well as the average citizen who was not used to success. Small town bourgeois, simple clerks, or honest men, Fröhlich also starred in a considerable number of cheap soft sex films from the early 1970s. He was rarely seen with leading roles like the bridegroom in the 1969 television play Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit based on a model by Bertolt Brecht or in the same year as the title hero in grace for Timothy Evans . A year later he got his most famous role: In the scandalous future thriller Das Millionenspiel , Fröhlich, as subordinate of Dieter Hallervorden, was one of several hired killers of the Köhler gang who are murderously hunting down a young man as part of the said game. In 1979 he played the magician Merlin in the television series of the same name.

In 1986 he had a supporting role in Wolfgang Glück's feature film 38 - That was Vienna too , which in 1987 was nominated as an Austrian contribution for the Oscar / Best Foreign Language Film .

Josef Fröhlich has not appeared in front of the camera since the mid-1990s. Only later did it become known through his acting agency ZBF Munich that Josef Fröhlich died a short time later.

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  1. according to the film archive Kay Less