Oscar Quitak

Oscar Quitak (born March 10, 1926 in London ) is a British actor .

Quitak has starred in numerous British movies since the 1950s; he also had regular roles in British television series. In 1952 he played the role of Gerard , a staunch Belgian aristocrat who joined the resistance movement in his home country, in the British war drama When the Heart Speaks at the side of John Bailey ; his other partners were Maria Schell and Marius Goring . In the following years , Quitak was often only given secondary roles as a character actor, such as the diamond dealer in the drama Operation Amsterdam (1959) or, in later years, the military doctor in code name: Emerald (1985). Again and again, however, he also received memorable film roles. In 1958 he took on the role of the crippled, hunchbacked prison guard Karl , the assistant of Dr. Stone , in which the British film production company Hammer out brought horror film The Revenge of Frankenstein . In 1982 he played the experienced communications specialist and alleged defector Velatti in the thriller Operation Tanger , who disappeared with secret tape recordings that he apparently wants to sell to the Soviets . In 1983 he played the Soviet People's Commissar Lev Sakharovich Mechlis in the political grotesque The Red Monarch, directed by Jack Gold . In 1985 he had a small role in Terry Gilliam's film satire Brazil .

Quitak's television works often took place during the Nazi era . In the television series Colditz (1972) he played the commander of a German prisoner-of-war camp, in The Death of Adolph Hitler (1973) he played the Nazi demagogue Joseph Goebbels and in the mini-series Kessler (1981) the concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele . In 1978 he took on the role of Mr. Tesch in the US miniseries Holocaust - The Story of the White Family . In 1987 he was in the British comedy series French and Saunders in the role of Dr. To see Fennell .

Quitak also worked as a stage actor. In July 1963 he played the role of Nathaniel Winkle in the world premieres of the musical Pickwick in Manchester and London (libretto: Wolf Mankowitz ; lyrics: Leslie Bricusse ; music: Cyril Ornadel ). In 1965 he also played the role on Broadway in New York City , and later at the Hanna Theater in Cleveland . He also played, together with the British actress Andree Melly , in the world premieres of the two one-act plays If Love Decay ... (1962) and The Last Word? (1967) by Alan Ayckbourn . In 1969 Quitak and Melly played at the Hampstead Theater Club in the two-person play A Man's Best Friend by James Saunders . In 1973, again with Andree Melly as a partner, the world premiere of the Saunders play Poor Old Simon at the Capitol Theater in Horsham , Sussex . In 1986 he played the role of Herr Schul (t) z in the musical Cabaret in London . A CD recording of this production was also released, on which Quitak can be heard. In 1990 he starred at the Royal National Theater in the comedy The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and in Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen .

In May 1961 appeared Quitak together with Mary Wimbush in a production of Saturday Night Theater , one of BBC Radio 4 broadcast series of plays on the radio, with: in The Storm of HLV Fletcher .

Quitak is married to Andree Melly, whom he met in 1952 while filming the film When the Heart speaks - she played the role of Paulette . Quitak and Melly lived in Spain in the 1990s . In 1999 they both attended a reunion at Hammer Studios in the UK .

Filmography

• 1950: Warning! Cairo ... Opium Smugglers (Cairo Road)
• 1951: The Dark Man
• 1952: When the Heart Speaks (So ​​Little Time)
• 1955: The Prisoner
• 1956: Zarak Khan (Zarak)
• 1957: Town on Trial
• 1958: Frankenstein's Revenge (The Revenge of Frankenstein)
• 1959: Operation Amsterdam
• 1969; 1971 Z Cars (TV series)
• 1971: Paul Temple
• 1972: Colditz (TV series)
• 1973: ITV Saturday Night Theater: The Death of Adolph Hitler
• 1976: With umbrella, charm and bowler hat
• 1978: Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family (Holocaust)
• 1978: Five Friends (The Famous Five)
• 1978: Crown Court (TV series)
• 1981: Kessler (miniseries)
• 1982: Operation Tangiers (Tangiers)
• 1983: The Red Monarch
• 1985: Brazil (Brazil)
• 1985: Codename: Emerald (Code Name: Emerald)
• 1986: Yes Minister (Yes, Prime Minister)
• 1986: Lovejoy (TV series)
• 1987: French and Saunders (TV series)
• 1988: A Very British Coup (TV series)
• 1989: Right, Not Revenge (Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story)
• 1989: Screen One (TV series)
• 1989: Saracen (TV series)
• 1991: Outside Time (TV series)
• 1993: Telltale (TV series)
• 1993: Every Silver Lining (TV series)

Web links

• Oscar Quitak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Oscar Quitak in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
• Oscar Quitak role directory of the British Film Institute

Individual evidence

1. ^ So Little Time (1952) THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; A British Film, 'So Little Time,' Tastefully Told and Acted, Opens at Little Carnegie in: New York Times ; July 28, 1953
2. ^ Frankenstein's Revenge Movie Review: Eccentric Cinema
3. ↑ Tangier (1982) ( Memento of the original of June 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rare British Film Reviews 
4. ↑ Brazil Aveleyman.com (with photo by Oscar Quitak)
5. ↑ HOLOCAUST. THE STORY OF THE FAMILY WEISS ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Spoofs: French and Saunders (1987) (with photo by Oscar Quitak)
7. ^ Richard Mills Show Business 1962–1972
8. ↑ Musicals: 1963 ROB WILTON THEATRICALIA
9. ^ Pickwick (Broadway Production, 1965) BroadwayWorld.com
10. ↑ “Pickwick” Pleases Like the Dickens ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mastroianni Theater Reviews 
11. ↑ Countdown: Productions ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Official website of Alan Ayckbourn 
12. ↑ A Man's Best Friend Official website of James Saunders
13. ^ Poor Old Simon Official website of James Saunders
14. ^ Oscar Quitak BroadwayWorld.com
15. ↑ ROYAL NATIONAL THEATER: 1990s ROB WILTON THEATRICALIA
16. ↑ Saturday Night Theater 1960-1970 ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ^ Andree Melly Glamor Girls of the Silver Screen