Manfred Spies (actor)
Manfred Spies , also Manfred Spiess , (born February 23, 1938 in Düsseldorf ) is a German actor .
Live and act
Spies started boxing at a young age and made it to the German youth championship in 1955. As a young adult he attended drama school and began acting in the early 1960s. Spies performed at the Hildesheim City Theater , the Innsbruck State Theater and the Regensburg City Theater ; The good-looking young mime celebrated particular successes with comedies and comedies on Munich theaters (intimate theater, small comedy ).
In movies, the skinny, tall actor was partner of stars like Senta Berger , Curd Juergens and Nadja Tiller ; But he didn't shy away from appearing in sex films either. While Manfred Spies was often given the roles of elegant, smooth lovers and alert, attractive seducers in tabloids at the theater, he often played tougher characters on television: rude hooligans, opaque snobbugs, slippery crooks and hardened thugs. In a number of episodes of the ZDF crime series Der Kommissar , Derrick and Der Alte , Spies regularly embodied unsympathetic, ice-cold and arrogant suspects, often from the demi-world milieu.
He received his most subtle and interesting work in front of the camera at the beginning of the 1970s in two ambitious pieces of time from the Second World War : In the two-parter Operation Walküre he embodied the close confidante of Colonel von Stauffenberg, Werner von Haeften , and in the seven-part Die Rote Kapelle one of the organizers of this anti-Nazi spy ring, Mikhail Makarov .
Spies has not been television active since the early 1990s.
Filmography
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Web links
- Manfred Spies in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manfred Spies at filmportal.de
Remarks
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| SURNAME | Spies, Manfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spiess, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |