Reggie Nalder

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Reggie Nalder , actually Alfred Reginald Natzler , (born September 4, 1907 in Vienna , † November 19, 1991 in Santa Monica ) was an Austrian film actor .

life and career

The son of the cabaret artist and actor Siegmund Natzler and his wife Ida geb. In the 1920s, Herzog worked as an actor and dancer on various second-class Viennese stages. After his father's death, he settled in Paris , where he also worked in several theaters. During this time he sustained a facial injury with severe burns that made his physiognomy unmistakable.

In Great Britain, Nalder worked after the Second World War as a spokesman for the German-language broadcaster of the BBC , and then came to film. After several small film roles, he became known to a larger audience in the role of the murderer Rien in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much . He gained further attention in Liane, the girl from the jungle as the scheming company heir Schöninck. From now on, Nalder was set on the villain in the film. He also played in many B-films and television productions, including a. as the Andorian ambassador Shras in the episode "Journey to Babel" of the second season of the science fiction series Spaceship Enterprise .

With his unusual, furrowed face, the gaunt Nalder was primarily specialized in depicting negative and threatening characters. He has starred in various horror films since the 1970s , after having been seen alongside Udo Kier in Witches Tormented to the Blood . His role as the vampire Barlow at the side of James Mason in Stephen King 's two-part TV series Burning Must Be Salem was particularly remembered .

Reggie Nalder had lived in California since the early 1960s . He died of bone cancer .

Filmography

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 261.
  • Kay Less: 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 356 f., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
  • Nalder, Reggie , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 691

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Proof of the birth name: Isr. Kultusgemeinde Wien, birth book 2024/1907: Alfred Natzler, geb. September 4, 1907 Vienna IV., Preßgasse 14, son of the actor Simon (also Sigmund) Natzler, b. September 7, 1862 Vienna, son of Ignaz Natzler and Josepha Funk, and Ida geb. Herzog, b. October 25, 1880 Schaffa (Moravia) , daughter of Josef Herzog and Sali Kohn. Alfred Natzler's parents married on March 28, 1905 in Vienna.
personal data
SURNAME Nalder, Reggie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Natzler, Alfred Reginald (full name at birth); Van Berg, Detlef (pseudonym); Berg, Detlef van (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film actor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1991
Place of death Santa Monica