Karl Walter Diess

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Karl Walter Diess (born January 25, 1928 in Salzburg ; † March 30, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main ) was an Austrian actor and voice actor .

biography

Karl Walter Diess completed an acting training at the Salzburg Mozarteum after graduating from high school . After playing for seven years at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen under the direction of Heinz Hilperts , he was engaged by the Residenztheater in Munich , where he was part of the ensemble for eleven years. Numerous tours and guest performances have taken him to the well-known venues in German-speaking countries. His appearances at the Münchner Kammerspiele and the Bad Hersfeld Festival will not be forgotten .

Diess became known to a large audience in many television roles. So he celebrated his first big success in 1955 in the film Bandits of the Autobahn . He subsequently worked in numerous other films and television productions. Until recently he was regularly seen in crime series such as Der Alte , Tatort , Derrick or Der Kommissar .

Karl Walter Diess achieved greater popularity with the role of Dr. Schäfer in the successful series Die Schwarzwaldklinik , through appearances in series such as The Dream Ship and On the Move or in film adaptations of Rosamunde Pilcher novels.

Diess was also a well known voice actor; he lent his voice to Roger Moore and Christopher Plummer, among others . He was also involved in many radio play productions, including several roles in the youth crime series Die Drei ??? and TKKG as well as Man-At-Arms in Masters of the Universe .

Diess, the u. a. was married to the actress Miriam Spoerri , with whom he has a daughter, died in March 2014 at the age of 86 years of complications from severe pneumonia .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ TV actor Karl Walter Diess has died. In: welt.de. March 31, 2014, accessed July 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ "Schwarzwaldklinik" senior physician: Actor Karl Walter Diess has died , Spiegel Online , March 31, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Diess, Karl Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor and voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2014
Place of death Frankfurt am Main