Rolf Kanies

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Rolf Kanies at the premiere of the film Saphirblau .

Rolf Kanies (born December 21, 1957 in Bielefeld ) is a German film and theater actor .

Life

Portrait of Rolf Kanies

After training at the Westphalian Drama School in Bochum , he went to the theater. He had engagements in Berlin , Bochum , Neuss , Krefeld , Graz and Basel and played roles such as Hamlet, Faust, Macbeth, Orest, Romeo and Mercutio. His performances on stage earned him the award for Best Actor in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1994.

Rolf Kanies has also been present on the screen since the late 1990s. His television career began with Margarethe von Trotta's Dark Days (1998). Roles in several episodes of the crime scene series and many other films followed. International recognition brought him the lead role of US President Reginald J. Priest in the Canadian-American production Lexx - The Dark Zone (2000–2002), as well as the role of Adolf Hitler in 2002 in the US film Joe & Max ( Director: Steve James) alongside Til Schweiger .

He was in television films such as Störtebeker (director: Miguel Alexandre ), Die Sturmflut (director: Jorgo Papavassiliou ) and in the leading role of the marine biologist Steve in Sky over Australia (director: Thorsten Schmidt ), as well as in the role of bank director Conrad in police call 110 ( Director: Dirk Regel). In 2008 he starred in Der Bibelcode (director: Christoph Schrewe) and Die Hitzewelle (director: Gregor Schnitzler), among others . He is known to the broad cinema audience as the father of Daniel (played by Daniel Brühl) in Nothing Regret (director: Benjamin Quabeck), and as General Hans Krebs in Oliver Hirschbiegel's The Downfall .

At the end of 2008 he was in Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin in the role of the war returnees Friedrich Hoch by Max Färberböck on the screen. In summer 2009 he was seen as Count Krajevo in Julie Delpy's Die Gräfin im Kino. In autumn 2009 he made the Canadian film Blissestrasse , as Anton, (directed by Paul Donovan), which was released in 2012.

In 2010 he shot Family Secrets - Love, Guilt and Death in Berlin and Kenya for ZDF , alongside Hardy Krüger and Dennenesch Zoudé , directed by Carlo Rola and played the head of the secret service in the movie Wunderkinder (director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller ) of the NKVD, Colonel Tapilin.

In 2011 he played alongside Thekla Carola Wied and directed by Thomas Nennstiel a leading role for ARD in the film Herzdamen an der Elbe . In the ARD television film Rommel (director: Niki Stein ) he played Colonel Eberhard Finckh who was involved in the assassination attempt on Hitler .

In 2012 he worked on filming in Tunisia , where he played the caliph, Scheherazade's father , in the film Le mille e una notte ( One thousand and one nights ) for the Italian broadcaster RAI . His wife was played by Bettina Zimmermann ; Marco Pontecorvo directed the film . Then began shooting George , a semi-documentary film about the life of Heinrich George , in which Götz George portrays his father. He played Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur , a colleague of George's; The director was Joachim Lang .

The film adaptation of the second part of Liebe goes through all times , Saphirblau (directors: Felix Fuchssteiner and Katharina Schöde), led him to filming at the Wartburg in 2013 , where he played the role alongside Maria Ehrich , Jannis Niewöhner and Veronica Ferres des William de Villiers played.

In the ZDF film The Last Instance (director: Carlo Rola ), in which Jan Josef Liefers and Stefanie Stappenbeck are on the trail of a mysterious case, he embodied the court reporter Alttay. He also played the astrologer Lorenz Beheim , in three episodes of the series Borgia , who was in the service of Cesare Borgia , played by Mark Ryder , directed by Christoph Schrewe .

In 2015, Rolf Kanies was Hitman: Agent 47 as Dr. Delriego, a Syndicate International employee.

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SURNAME Kanies, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld