Constantine Delcroix
Konstantin Delcroix (born May 21, 1894 in Munich ; † October 1, 1982 ibid) was a German actor and director .
Life
After graduating from Ludwigsgymnasium in Munich, Delcroix initially studied medicine for eight semesters. Then he switched to theater studies and mainly attended Artur Kutscher's lectures . Eugen Roth was one of his fellow students . He began his stage work as a dramaturge in Stuttgart . Immediately after the First World War, Delcroix decided to switch to acting and took lessons from Albert Steinrück . Soon afterwards he could be seen at the Prinzregententheater in Munich in the summer of 1919 in the play Nordic Heerfahrt ', where he played the farmer Kaare. As early as the beginning of the 1920s he was working at the Bavarian State Theaters and appeared under the direction of Karl Zeiß at the side of respected colleagues such as Friedrich Basil , Eugen Gura , Friedrich Ulmer and Gustav Waldau .
Appointed state actor , Delcroix remained loyal to the Bavarian State Theaters until 1945 (from 1938: Bavarian State Theater) and began to stage plays there under the direction of Alexander Golling . After the Second World War, Delcroix worked on other (and now much smaller) Munich theaters such as the Kleine Komödie, the Münchner Volkstheater, of which he was also a member of the stage director, and the Theater der Jugend.
In the 1960s, Delcroix, who had been in front of the camera since the mid-1950s, concentrated on television work. His role in numerous productions with the character of a folk play was that of the simple, Bavarian local, whom he put on at times stubborn and grumpy, at times gnarled and sullen, but often also originally and funny. Delcroix types were often servants and peasants, servants and low officials.
Konstantin Delcroix also worked as an acting teacher, one of his students was Rudolf Vogel . Delcroix was married and had an also acting son (Michael) and a daughter.
Filmography (as an actor)
TV unless otherwise stated
- 1954: Father Seidl and his son
- 1955: The Medal (Director)
- 1956: The happy pilgrimage (cinema)
- 1956: Midsummer Night (cinema)
- 1958: The woman from Bernau
- 1958: A visit out of the blue (cinema)
- 1961: double suicide
- 1962: The comedy nobility : Graf Schorschi (as a credit bureau employee Meier )
- 1963: The Komödienstadel : Der Geisterbräu (as shoemaker Hirblinger )
- 1963: The knowledge worm
- 1965: The Whitsun Organ
- 1965: The trip to Styria
- 1966: The Borehole or Bavaria is not Texas
- 1967: My wife, the philosopher
- 1968: The pastor of Gillbach
- 1968: The Holledauer mold
- 1968: red murder
- 1969: The petty bourgeois wedding (leading role)
- 1972: The comedy nobility : Josef Filser (as clergyman advice Hefter )
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 277.
Web links
- Konstantin Delcroix in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Konstantin Delcroix at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comedian with Goggs and Lederhose. Konstantin Delcroix 65 old / Member of the Residenztheater for almost three decades. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 26, 1959
- ↑ Theater archive Kay Less, based on entries in stage yearbooks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Delcroix, Constantine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1982 |
| Place of death | Munich |