Robert Hoffmann (actor)

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Robert Hoffmann (born August 30, 1939 in Salzburg ) is a former Austrian actor .

Life

Hoffmann attended high school in his native Salzburg and then the commercial academy. After a stay in Sweden he entered the drama school of Poule Vanneck in Paris . During this time he earned the necessary money by modeling and appearing in commercials.

Hoffmann's film career was characterized by great international variability from the start. For decades the linguistically gifted actor u. a. seen in Italian, French, Spanish, Israeli, English, German and Austrian films. He gained first and very great fame through his leading role in the four-part adventure series The Strange and Unique Adventures of Robinson Crusoe from York, reported by himself , which was broadcast on German television in 1964. Soon afterwards he was imprinted in the memory of German-speaking audiences as Archie Moore in the Edgar Wallace film Neues vom Hexer .

Since then, Hoffmann has rarely returned to the focus of Germany and Austria. In the 1960s and 1970s (similar to Curd Jürgens , Mario Adorf , Senta Berger or Klaus Kinski during this time ) he was almost exclusively active in foreign language productions. His work alternates between expensive prestige work such as Top Job (1967) and cheap horror mass-produced goods such as Die Nacht der Rollenden Köpfe (1973), which, however, now enjoy cult status. The roles shaped by Hoffmann resemble types embodied by Helmut Berger , Mathieu Carrière or Joe Dallesandro : beautiful and mysterious, at the same time cosmopolitan and sometimes malicious adventurers, agents and playboys. He was often accompanied by attractive women like Suzy Kendall , Nathalie Delon , Irina Demick or Luciana Paluzzi as the main actors . World-famous actors with whom Hoffmann also stood in front of the camera include Edward G. Robinson , John Mills , Orson Welles , Claudia Cardinale and Janet Leigh .

The film Die Standarte by Ottokar Runze from 1977 represents one of the last creative climaxes of his work . In the 1980s, Hoffmann did not focus on television appearances that could be assigned to a specific role model, such as those in Kottan (1983) or Der Leihopa (1985). Occasionally, however, he continued to be seen in prestige productions, such as in the multi-part The Secret Drawer (1986) alongside Michèle Morgan and Daniel Gélin or in several episodes of the long-running Dallas . Since around 1990 the number and quality of the roles have continued to decline and have been limited to small guest appearances, for example in Kommissar Rex and Forsthaus Falkenau . In 2004 Robert Hoffmann made his last appearance in front of the camera in the television film 21 Love Letters .

He was seriously injured while filming His Battlefield Was the Bed (1971). The thigh, which was fractured several times and literally split, was treated incorrectly and required reconstructive operations over several years. Due to necrosis, she was threatened with amputation. Special treatment in Switzerland saved the leg, but Hoffmann's film career suffered considerably as a result.

Robert Hoffmann lived in Paris until 1970, then in Rome and Madrid and probably back in his hometown Salzburg since the late 1980s.

Filmography (selection)

Awards and honors

  • 1968 Bravo Otto in bronze
  • 1969 Bravo Otto in silver

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Robert Hoffmann. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg , Austria