Otto Collin

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Otto Collin (born January 22, 1904 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 9, 1988 in Vienna ) was a German actor .

Life

Collin attended secondary school and then trained at the drama school in his hometown of Frankfurt. In 1927 he was engaged at the Friedrich Theater in Dessau , followed by engagements in Mainz , Bochum , Breslau , Berlin , Munich , Düsseldorf and, after the war, in Cologne .

His best-known classical stage roles include Don Karlos, Mortimer, Romeo, Torquato Tasso, Hamlet, the Prince of Homburg, Dr. med. Job Praetorius and Prof. Higgins in Pygmalion and Hector in The Trojan War does not take place .

After the Second World War, Collin also worked frequently in the radio and spoke in radio plays for the WDR , HR and SWF . Among other things, he participated in Cotta's radio play stage .

Otto Collin first came into contact with the cinema during a stay in Berlin in 1937. Nevertheless, working in front of the camera remained rather the exception in his acting career. He is best remembered with his gruesome performance as the gibbet, swearing revenge for his upcoming execution murderer Clay Shelton in the Edgar Wallace horror thriller The Gang of Terror . Despite this distinctive, concise key role, Collin was not mentioned in the opening credits. Then Collin only appeared once more in a Wallace crime thriller: In The Forger of London , he played the lawyer Radlow. Collin later only appeared on television.

His main field of activity remained the stage until the end. In the 60s and 70s he was mostly seen in Hanover , and Collin spent his twilight years (80s) in Vienna, where he appeared at the Burgtheater .

Movies

  • 1937: Condottieri
  • 1937: The Warsaw Citadel
  • 1956: Close Encounters (an episode of the TV series)
  • 1957: Montserrat
  • 1959: a dream game
  • 1959: Raskolnikoff
  • 1960: Paris, July 20th
  • 1960: The Gang of Terror
  • 1961: The Forger of London
  • 1972: The Datterich
  • 1978: Mirjam and the Lord from the fairground (TV series)

Radio plays

Web links

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 103.
  • 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. 246.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Life data according to IMDB and 100001 - The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century, confirmed on request by the Vienna Death Register
personal data
SURNAME Collin, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1988
Place of death Vienna