Rolf Arndt

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Rolf Arndt (born September 19, 1930 in Cologne ) is a German actor and stage director .

Life

At the beginning of the 1950s, Arndt had received lessons from Gustaf Gründgens at the drama school in Düsseldorf . This was followed by engagements at theaters in Cologne, Bad Godesberg , Bonn , Düsseldorf, Innsbruck , Basel , Saarbrücken and Schwäbisch Hall . Occasionally, as in Saarbrücken, he was also able to stage plays.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the corpulent Arndt began to take part regularly in television games. Appearances in movies, however, remained the exception. His first major TV role was that of Mafia godfather Don Calogero Vizzini in the two-part TV series Mafia - The Honorable Society . In 1970 he became famous for the role of the obese musketeer Porthos in the internationally produced film adaptation of the Dumas classic The Three Musketeers under the title D'Artagnan . The following year he also worked in the three-part Durbridge crime thriller Das Messer . A little later, after just ten years, Arndt largely ended his television presence.

Afterwards, the freelancer Arndt mainly undertook guest tours within the scope of touring stages. In the 1981/82 season, when he had just been engaged at the theater in Lübeck , he returned for a small role in front of the camera. After that, he largely disappeared from the public eye.

Filmography (television)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date and place of birth according to the television archive of Kay Less
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and stage director
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne