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Reiner Schöne (born January 19, 1942 in Fritzlar ) is a German actor , voice actor , singer , songwriter and author . He had his breakthrough in 1968 as the leading actor Berger in the German premiere of the rock musical Hair . He has acted in over 140 film and television productions to date.
Life
Early Years and Breakthrough
Reiner Schöne grew up in Weimar and studied acting from 1960 to 1963 at the acting studio of the German National Theater in Weimar. He was already successful as an actor and singer-songwriter in the GDR when he fled to West Germany in 1968 after a concert in West Berlin . In April 1968 he took part in the third GDR pop music competition in Magdeburg with the political song "Chansons von der Nahe Ferne" and came third.
In the West he made his breakthrough in the same year as the musical star Berger in the German premiere of Hair . He worked as a songwriter and singer (with the Reiner-Schoene-Band) and further in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar (1972). In 1970, Schöne took part in the German preliminary round for the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson and shared second place with Alone Under Millions – music and text by Günter Sonneborn . Despite this success, the title never appeared on disk. His biggest hit was the single Will I still be young when I'm older , with lyrics by Konstantin Wecker .
Movie and TV
As an actor, Reiner Schöne has worked with Hollywood greats such as Lee Van Cleef ( Sabata Returns ) , Clint Eastwood ( On the Order of the Dragon ) and Kris Kristofferson ( America ) . In Germany he was in 1976 in the successful HR production The winter that was a summer . In 1985 he moved to the United States , where he settled on a ranch near Los Angeles . In Hollywood , he appeared in numerous well-known television series, including Starship Enterprise: The Next Century , MacGyver , Matlock , Murder Is Her Hobby , Babylon 5 and JAG . In 1990 he was presenter of the television show Fort Boyard on Sat.1 . One of his last Hollywood films was Crash Dive with Michael Dudikoff in 1997.
After almost twenty years in the USA, Schöne returned to Germany in 2002 and continued his career here. Through his participation in cinema films such as Zero Clock 12 , Otto - The Catastrophe Film , (T)Spaceship Surprise - Period 1 as well as in television films such as Die Totenfluppe von Köln (Sat.1) and Almost Perfectly Engaged (ProSieben), he quickly became a presence again. German series and series in which he played as a guest actor include Großstadtrevier , Edel & Starck and Das Traumschiff , as well as several Rosamunde Pilcher film adaptations . Schöne also took part in numerous children's and youth productions. In 2009 he appeared as Henry von Humboldt in the KiKA series Mystery Challenge . He played the role of the king in 2010 in the fairytale film The Blue Light of the ARD television series Six at a Prank and in 2015 in The White Snake , which was created as part of the ZDF series Fairytale Pearls .
speaker activities
Reiner Schöne was also known as a voice actor. B. Willem Dafoe in several films his voice, could be heard for Mickey Rourke in Sin City or spoke for Ralf Möller in Gladiator . He also voiced Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars Rebels , Captain Teague in Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End , Eddie Temple in Layer Cake , James Earl Jones in Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory , as well as Optimus Prime in the German version of the Transformers series. For the film Australia he was active as the voice of Bryan Brown . In the movie The Smurfs he spoke the role of Papa Smurf. In Iron Man 2 , he again voiced Mickey Rourke in his role as Ivan Vanko . He lent his voice to Sam Elliott in Hulk and Ghost Rider .
In the radio drama thriller series "The Test" by Wolfy Office, directed by Kim Jens Witzenleiter, he spoke Henry the policeman .
Since 2008 he has been the speaker at the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg. Already in 1996 he could be seen with them as Old Death in Winnetou und der Scout and in 2002 as Old Firehand in Im Tal des Todes .
Schöne has been the advertising spokesman for the DIY chain Toom Baumarkt for several years .
private
Reiner Schöne was married to actress Alexandra Bogojevic for a few years in the early 1980s . In 1996 he met the blues singer Francesca Capasso in the USA, married her and lived with her on a small ranch near Los Angeles. However, he often commuted between the USA and Germany. In 2002, the marriage broke up. Schöne left the United States that same year and returned to Germany.
During rehearsals for the play Jedermann he met (already at the time of his marriage to Francesca Capasso) the make-up artist and current partner Anja Drendel (* 1980). With her he has two daughters (* 2006 and * 2012). In July 2010, the couple married. The family lives in Berlin.
filmography
movie theater
- 1968: We divorce
- 1968: 12 noon the boss arrives
- 1971: Sabata Returns (È tornato Sabata … hai chiuso un'altra volta)
- 1974: Two heavenly stubborn heads
- 1975: Change
- 1975: The Eiger Sanction
- 1976: Anita Drögemöller and the calm on the Ruhr
- 1979: Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand
- 1990: The Handmaid's Tale
- 1997: Crash Dive
- 1997: Mortal Kombat 2 - Annihilation
- 1999: Wasted in Babylon
- 2000: Otto - The catastrophe film
- 2001: Ice Planet
- 2002: midnight 12
- 2002: Detective Lovelorn and the Revenge of the Pharaoh
- 2002: The Wannsee Killer
- 2004: (T)Starship Surprise - Period 1
- 2010: Snowman's Land
- 2010: Devil Kicker
- 2011: War of the Gods (Immortals)
- 2012: The Child
- 2012: The Fourth Power
- 2015: Herbert
- 2018: Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (voice)
- 2020: Jim Button and the Wild 13 (voice)
TV
TV Movies
- 1957: Three Empty Rooms
- 1976: The Winter That Was a Summer (three-part)
- 1980: No money for a dead man
- 1983: Wonderland
- 1994: Land of Lost Children ( Nobody's Children )
- 1998: Babylon 5: The First Step ( Babylon 5: In the Beginning )
- 1999: Götterdämmerung - Tomorrow Berlin dies
- 2003: Almost perfectly engaged
- 2006: Forever and a Day
- 2008: You always love twice
- 2010: The Blue Light
- 2011: Rookie - Almost flat
- 2011: New chance for happiness
- 2012: The founding of the empire
- 2012: The nervous superpower
- 2013: The Minister
- 2015: The White Snake
- 2017: For Emma and forever
- 2017: The Confirmation
- 2018: The Auf-Schneider - rise and fall of a German construction giant
TV series and series
- 1972: Motive Love (Episode 2x01)
- 1973: Local Date (Episode 1x07)
- 1973: Okay SIR (Episode 14: The Love - The Love )
- 1974: The Great Detectives (1 episode)
- 1974: Crime Scene: A Surefire Thing
- 1984: A Case for Two (Episode 4x04)
- 1986: Detective Agency Roth (Episode 1x08)
- 1986: Simon & Simon (Episode 6x05)
- 1986: Agent with a Heart ( Scarecrow and Mrs. King , Episode 4x11)
- 1987: America (6 episodes)
- 1990: Starship Enterprise - The Next Century ( Star Trek: The Next Generation , Episode 3x18 )
- 1990: Jake and McCabe - Through Thick and Thin ( Jake and the Fatman , ep. 4x04)
- 1990–1992: Matlock (episodes 4x19, 6x12–6x13)
- 1990: MacGyver (Episode 6x05)
- 1991: The Best of Years ( thirtysomething , episode 4x19)
- 1992: Matlock (Episode 6x12)
- 1993: Happy Voyage - Canada
- 1993: Eurocops (Episode 6x07)
- 1993: Murder Is Her Hobby ( Murderer, She Wrote , Episode 10x04)
- 1995: Forsthaus Falkenau (Episode 6x11)
- 1996: The Mountain Doctor (Episode 4x11)
- 1997: Babylon 5 (Episode 4x09)
- 1997: Big Easy - Streets of Sin ( The Big Easy , Episode 2x03 )
- 1998: Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
- 1998–1999: Sliders ( Sliders , episodes 4x09, 4x18)
- 2000: The Magnificent Seven ( The Magnificent Seven , Episode 2x11)
- 2000: JAG - On behalf of honor ( JAG , episode 6x08)
- 2001: St. Angela (Episode 7x06)
- 2002: Metropolis (Episode 15x12)
- 2002–2003: Edel & Starck (episodes 1x07, 2x10)
- 2002: Inspector Rolle (Episode 1x01)
- 2004: Inga Lindstrom - Longing for Marielund
- 2004: The Rosenheim Cops (Episode 3x04)
- 2004–2015: In All Friendship (3 episodes)
- 2004: Law & Order (Episode 14x17)
- 2005: The Dream Ship – Vancouver
- 2005–2008: Five Stars (33 episodes)
- 2006: Poor Millionaires (episodes 2x06, 2x08)
- 2006: Rosamunde Pilcher - And suddenly it was love
- 2009: SOKO Leipzig (Episode 12x12)
- 2010: Your Mission, Father Castell (Episode 3x01)
- 2011: SOKO Cologne (Episode 8x11)
- 2011: SOKO Stuttgart (episode 2x20)
- 2011: The Last Cop (Episode 2x11)
- 2012: Rosamunde Pilcher - The Secret of the White Dove
- 2013: Notruf Hafen Kante (episode 7x22: The Secret of the Bride )
- 2014: The Tuesday Women – Seven days without
- 2014: Inga Lindstrom - The Dream of Lake Siljan
- 2016: SOKO Cologne (Episode: Silence )
- 2016: Hotel Heidelberg: coming and going
- 2017–2018: Einstein (7 episodes)
- 2018: The Dream Ship - Los Angeles
- 2018: Family Dr. Kleist (episode: Father Feelings )
- 2018-2020: Ella Beautiful
- 2018: The Island Talent
- 2018: The thing with love
- 2020: Baptism of fire
- 2020: Shipwreck
- 2019: SOKO Munich (Episode: Among Men )
- 2019: Hubert without Staller (Episode: Der Aussteiger )
- 2019: Beck is back! (3 episodes)
- 2019: Crime Scene: Borowski and the House by the Sea
- 2020: Cruise to happiness - honeymoon in Menorca
- 2020: Family Dr. Kleist (Episode: Lovemaking )
- 2021: Catacombs
- 2021: SOKO Cologne (Episode: Two Fathers )
- 2021: Faking Hitler
- 2022: Wilsberg: Genes don't lie
Synchronous roles (selection)
- 2005: as Ed Mosbey in Dominoes
- 2005: as Marv in Sin City
- 2010: as Ivan Vanko in Iron Man 2
- 2010: as a tool in The Expendables
- 2010: as Patrick Jefferson in 13
- 2003: as Gen. Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross in Hulk
- 2007: as Carter Slade / Caretaker in Ghost Rider
- 2011: as Simon Kestral in The Big Bang
- 2015: as Butch in Arlo & Spot
- 2016-2020: as Beau Bennett in The Ranch (TV series)
- 2002: as Norman Osborn / The Green Goblin in Spider-Man
- 2003: as Armando Barillo in Someday in Mexico
- 2004: as Roland Sweet in Aviator
- 2004: as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 2
- 2005: as General George Deckert in XXx 2 - The Next Level
- 2006: as chief of staff in American Dreamz - It's All Just for Show
- 2006: as Captain John Darius in Inside Man
- 2006: as Martin in The Reckoning
- 2007: as Stan Aubray in Anamorphic
- 2007: as Carson Clay in Mr. Bean's Vacation
- 2007: as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 3
- 2009: as Him in Antichrist
- 2009: as Gavner Purl in Midnight Circus
- 2009: as Lionel "Elvis" Cormac in Daybreakers
- 2009: as the rat in Fantastic Mr. Fox
- 2010: as Eddie in Miral
- 2011: as Martin David in The Hunter
- 2012: as Cisco in 4:44 – Last Day on Earth
- 2012: as Tars Tarkas in John Carter: Between Two Worlds
- 2013: as John Petty in Out of the Furnace
- 2013: as L in Nymphomaniac: Vol. 2
- 2013: as Chief Wyatt Porter in Odd Thomas
- 2014: as Bud Carter in Bad Country (2014)
- 2014: as Jopling in Grand Budapest Hotel
- 2014: as Marcus in John Wick
- 2014: as Tommy Brue in A Most Wanted Man
- 2014: as Peter van Houten in Fate is a Wicked Betrayer
- 2016: as Mad Dog in Dog Eat Dog
- 2016: as Ed Blackridge in The Happiness of the Moment
- 2016: as Ballard in The Great Wall
- 2017: as Terrence Settman in What Happened to Monday?
- 2017: as Ryuk in Death Note
- 2017: as Gerhard Hardman in Murder on the Orient Express
- 2018: as Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pasolini
- 2018: as Nuidis Vulko in Aquaman
- 2019: as Thomas Wake in The Lighthouse
- 2021: as Nuidis Vulko in Zack Snyder's Justice League
- 2021: as Norman Osborn / The Green Goblin in Spider-Man: No Way Home
movies
- 2000: Scott Glenn as Montgomery Wick in Vertical Limit
- 2000: Tim Curry as Roger Corwin in Charlie's Angels
- 2001: James Garner as Commander Rourke in Atlantis: The Mystery of the Lost City
- 2005: James Earl Jones as Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- 2007: Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in Transformers
- 2009: Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
- 2011: Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in Transformers 3
- 2011: Scott Glenn as Wise Man in Sucker Punch
- 2014: Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in Transformers: Age of Extinction
- 2017: Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in Transformers: The Last Knight
- 2018: Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime in Bumblebee
series
- 2001: Derek de Lint as Centurion in Outer Limits
- 2002-2008: Clarke Peters as Det. Lester Freamon in The Wire
- 2010: James Earl Jones as James Earl Jones in Two and a Half Men
- 2012-2014: Clarke Peters as Albert Lambreaux in Treme
- 2014: James Earl Jones as James Earl Jones in The Big Bang Theory
- 2014: Peter Fonda as Geoff Pearl in The Blacklist (ep. 2x06)
- 2014-2016: James Earl Jones as Darth Vader in Star Wars Rebels
- 2017, 2020: Rade Šerbedžija in The Blacklist as Dr. Bogdan Krilov (episodes 4x19, 7x10) in The Blacklist
video games
- 2011: as Asleif "Foggwulf" Phileasson in Drakensang: The Secret of Phileasson
- 2014: as Sai Sahan in Elder Scrolls Online
- 2017: Matt Sloan as Darth Vader in Star Wars Battlefront II
- 2019: Scott Lawrence as Darth Vader in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- 2020: as Cassidy in Cyberpunk 2077
publications
Discography (selection)
- Reiner Schöne: Blues Faces – LP (Decca Royal Sound, Hamburg) 1970
- Reiner Schöne: Will I still be young when I'm older? – LP (Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg) 1976
- Reiner Schöne Band: Automatenklacker – LP (EMI Electrola, Cologne) 1979
- Reiner Schöne Band: Schöne Music – LP (Racket) 1981
- Reiner Schöne Band: Schöne Bescherung - Live LP (Lava, Hanover) 1982
- Reiner Schöne Band: Mercilessly in love – CD (Koch International, Munich) 1995
- Reiner Schöne & the Kowboys: Beautiful Chaos: Songs & Stories – CD, Pendragon, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-86532-013-9 .
- Reiner Schöne Band: Right in the heart – CD ( Hypertension Music ) 2012
Books
- Reiner Schöne: Let the sunshine in: memories and stories. Pendragon, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-934872-71-9 .
- Reiner Schöne: Will I still be young when I'm older , 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814740-2-2 .
radio plays
- 1967: Petko Todorow : The Dragon Wedding (Stamen) – Director: Wolfgang Brunecker (radio play – East German radio )
- 1976: Rolf and Alexandra Becker : Dickie Dick Dickens & Co. - Promise Me Nothing - Fifth Season (All Six Episodes) (Donald D. Doberman) - Director: Peter M. Preissler ( Original Radio Play - BR )
- 1977: Rolf und Alexandra Becker: Allow me, my name is Cox (Three part rewrite of the first season) (Paul Cox) - Directed by Peter M. Preissler (Original radio play - BR)
- 1978: Rolf and Alexandra Becker: Allow me, my name is Cox (Second Season Three Part Rewrite) (Paul Cox) - Directed by Peter M. Preissler (Original Radio Play - BR)
- 2006: Ludwig Fels : Hello, I'm Glen Sherley – directed by Christiane Ohaus (radio play – RB )
- 2008: Star Wars : Dark Lord ( based on James Luceno's novel The Rise of Darth Vader ) as Darth Vader – Written and directed by Oliver Döring
- 2011: Karl May : Winnetou I – adaptation: Regine Ahrem – director: Hans Helge Ott (radio play – RBB /RB)
- 2013: Eva Lia Reinegger : Jähnicke tastes it – director: Stefanie Lazai (crime radio play – DKultur )
- 2014: Tom Peukert : Paradise – Director: Annette Kurth (radio play – WDR )
- 2015: Tom Hillenbrand : Red Gold – Director: Martin Engler (Crime Radio Play – DKultur)
- 2015: Oliver Sturm : King of Kings – Director: Oliver Sturm (radio play – HR )
- 2015: Nic Pizzolatto : Galveston – Director: Walter Adler (radio play – WDR )
- 2015: Eva Lia Reinegger: Jähnicke goes swimming – Director: Stefanie Lazai (Crime Radio Play – DKultur)
- 2018: Volker Kutscher : The wet fish - The radio play about Babylon Berlin (8 parts) (Marlow, king of the Berlin underworld) - Editing and direction: Benjamin Quabeck ( RB / WDR / RBB )
- 2018: Robert Weber : The devil's staying power – Director: Annette Kurth WDR
- 2019: The Trial – Fatherly Love – Director: Kim Jens Witzenleiter (Wolfy-Office)
- 2020: The Trial – Justice – Director: Kim Jens Witzenleiter (Wolfy-Office)
- 2021: The Examination – Finale – Director: Kim Jens Witzenleiter (Wolfy-Office)
audio books
- 2008: Oliver Bantle : Yofi, or The Art of Forgiveness, ISBN 978-3-88698-938-6
- 2008: Guillaume Musso : Will you be there?, Steinbach Talking Books , ISBN 978-3869742038
- 2011: Volker Kutscher : The silent death: Gereon Rath's second case, ISBN 978-3-8398-9067-7
- 2016: Jean-Christophe Grange : Purpurne Rache, Lübbe Audio , ISBN 978-3-7857-5336-1 .
- 2016: Jean-Christophe Grangé : Purpurne Rache ( audio book download, unabridged), Lübbe Audio , ISBN 978-3-8387-8128-0
awards
- 1969: Golden Europe
literature
- Hermann J. Huber : Langen Müller's Actor Lexicon of the Present . Germany. Austria. Switzerland . Albert Langen • Georg Müller Verlag GmbH, Munich • Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7844-2058-3 , p. 930.
- Kay less : the great encyclopedia of characters in film . The actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, set designers, costume designers, cutters, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 163.
web links
- Works by and about Reiner Schöne in the catalog of the German National Library
- Reiner Schöne at the Internet Movie Database
- Reiner Schöne at crew united
- Reiner Schöne at filmportal.de
- Reiner Schöne in the German synchronization file
- Reiner Schöne at Discogs
- Reiner Schöne at Wolfy Office
- official homepage
- Reiner Schöne at the agency Sascha Wünsch
itemizations
- ↑ Reiner Schöne at crew united , accessed January 15, 2022
- ↑ PresseBox (c) 2002-2021: Radio play premiere: four phases - maximum tension, Wolfy Office, press release - PresseBox. 17 June 2019, retrieved 23 April 2021 (German).
- ↑ Brand transformation: How the DIY chain Toom wants to stand out from Obi, Hornbach and Co. | MEEDIA. 10 October 2019, retrieved 10 October 2019 (German).
- ↑ "I sometimes fall on my nose" actor Reiner Schöne (Tele 5: 'Sabata Returns', Tuesday, September 11, 10:05 p.m.) in an exclusive Tele 5 interview... In: presseportal.de . 7 September 2007, retrieved 24 January 2021 .
- ↑ Book presentation: Sebastian Fitzek is celebrated like a pop star in the Delphi cinema. In: morgenpost.de . 4 June 2010, retrieved 24 January 2021 .
- ↑ Thomas Röbke: Reiner Schöne about late joys as a father. In: Senior Guide. September 18, 2015, retrieved March 9, 2017 .
- ↑ The Devil's Long Breath (4 parts). Retrieved April 16, 2021 .
- ↑ Title Descriptions @ www.hoerspiele.de | The test - 1 - fatherly love (Wolfy-Office). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; retrieved September 19, 2019 . ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ The Trial - Justice (3) (2020). Retrieved January 24, 2021 (English).
- ↑ Hoerspiele.de. Retrieved April 23, 2021 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Beautiful, Reiner |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter and author |
BIRTH DATE | January 19, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fritzlar , Hesse-Nassau , German Empire |