Rolf Olsen
Rolf Olsen , birth name Rudolf Knoblich , (born December 26, 1919 in Vienna ; † April 3, 1998 in Starnberg ) was an Austrian actor , director and screenwriter . He also worked under the pen name Emerson Fox .
Life
Rolf Olsen attended the Theresian Academy in Vienna and made his stage debut in 1940 in Bielitz . Further stage stations were Gablonz , Linz and Vienna, where he appeared at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at cabarets. After the war he continued his stage work and made guest appearances in Switzerland and Germany . As a co-writer for Singing Angels , he made his first mark on film.
Olsen was an all-rounder and was one of the most versatile filmmakers in the German-speaking world. As a director , he moved in the most diverse areas of the genre, be it comedy to swank, drama to melodrama or crime to horror film. Olsen worked with film greats such as Heinz Erhardt , Curd Jürgens , Klaus Kinski , Mario Adorf and many others. More than 40 feature films, including several award-winning works, bear testimony to this.
Olsen often wrote the scripts for his own films, but was also the author of other productions, such as for Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , with whom he shot in Africa, Scotland and the Canary Islands.
As an actor, he appeared in over 50 films from 1949 to 1990, and he was also seen in several television productions. He wrote plays and worked as a radio play speaker .
Olsen was married to the Austrian actress Ilse Peternell for 40 years . He died of cancer. His grave is at the Klagenfurt -St. Martin.
Filmography
- 1947: Singing Angels (screenplay)
- 1949: Little vertigo at Wolfgangsee (actor)
- 1950: Affair in the snow (Actor)
- 1950: Shot through the window (screenplay)
- 1951: There is a Hofbräuhaus in Munich (screenplay, actor)
- 1953: The village under the sky (template for the script)
- 1954: The First Kiss (Actor)
- 1954: A girl from Paris (actor)
- 1955: The three from the gas station (actor)
- 1955: Hey, my name is Cox (actor)
- 1956: Red Poppy (Actor)
- 1956: Kaiserball (actor)
- 1956: My Aunt - Your Aunt (1956) (Actor)
- 1956: Bonjour Kathrin (actor)
- 1957: Homesickness ... where the flowers bloom (screenplay)
- 1957: Four girls from the Wachau (screenplay, actor)
- 1957: The Maiden War (screenplay)
- 1957: Happiness is on the Road (screenplay)
- 1958: Love, Girls and Soldiers (Actor)
- 1958: The Magic of Outfit (Actor)
- 1958: Ooh ... These Holidays (Actor)
- 1958: As long as the stars glow (screenplay)
- 1958: Mikosch, the pride of the company (actor)
- 1959: I'm not a Casanova (actor)
- 1959: The Silver Moon Night Club (Actor)
- 1959: Girls for the Mambo Bar (Actor)
- 1959: The Toplitzsee Treasure (screenplay)
- 1960: The big request concert (screenplay, actor)
- 1960: Criminal Tango (Actor)
- 1960: the bell is calling (bells ring everywhere) (script)
- 1961: The Girl on the Front Page (Actor)
- 1961: Our great aunts (script, director, actor)
- 1961: The Adventures of Count Bobby (Actor)
- 1961: A star falls from the sky (Actor)
- 1961: ... and you my darling stay here (screenplay)
- 1962: You don't kiss under water (screenplay, actor)
- 1962: Wild Waters (Actor)
- 1962: Count Bobby's Sweet Life (Actor)
- 1962: The Turkish Gherkins (screenplay, director)
- 1962: Crazy and Sewn up (screenplay, director)
- 1962: Our great nieces (script, director, actor)
- 1963: The Funny Vagabonds (Actor)
- 1963: The Last Ride to Santa Cruz (Director, Actor)
- 1963: Wedding at Lake Neusiedl (idea, direction, actor)
- 1963: In the singing Rößl am Königssee (screenplay, actor)
- 1963: Our great aunts in the South Seas (script, director, actor)
- 1964: The Wind Blowing Hot (Director)
- 1965: Call of the Forests (Actor)
- 1966: The Haunted Castle in the Salzkammergut (screenplay, director, actor)
- 1966: The nights are hot in Frankfurt (screenplay, director)
- 1966: The Greek is looking for a Greek woman (screenplay)
- 1966: 00Sex am Wolfgangsee (Actor)
- 1966: I was happy to kill women (Spie contro il mondo; Le Carnaval des barbouzes; screenplay)
- 1966: Sartana (Mille dollari sul nero) (screenplay)
- 1967: Heubodengeflüster (screenplay, direction, actor)
- 1967: When night falls on the Reeperbahn (screenplay, direction, actor)
- 1967: Midsummer Night (screenplay)
- 1967: The rest house of the cruel dolls (screenplay, director)
- 1968: The Doctor of St. Pauli (screenplay, director, actor)
- 1968: Paradise of brisk sinners (screenplay, director, actor)
- 1969: Charley's Uncle (Actor)
- 1969: The Go-Go-Girl from Blow-Up (Director, Actor)
- 1969: On the Reeperbahn at half past twelve (script, director, actor)
- 1969: The Young Tigers of Hong Kong (screenplay)
- 1970: The hour hotel in St. Pauli (screenplay, director)
- 1970: That can't shake our Willi (script, director, actor)
- 1970: The pastor of St. Pauli (screenplay, director, actor)
- 1970: When You're With Me (screenplay)
- 1971: Twenty girls and the timpanists: Today the penne is upside down (actor)
- 1971: Captain Rauhbein from St. Pauli (screenplay, director, actor)
- 1971: The Knallköppe Company (screenplay, director)
- 1971: Sharks on Board (screenplay)
- 1972: Bloody Friday (screenplay, director)
- 1972: They called him Krambambuli (screenplay)
- 1972: The Secret of Mary Celeste (screenplay)
- 1973: Our aunt is the last (script, director, actor)
- 1974: Black Forest trip out of lovesickness (actor)
- 1974: The Haunted Castle of Baskermore (Director, Actor)
- 1974: Shocking Asia (screenplay, director)
- 1974: Honorary Chief of the Watubas (Director)
- 1974: Ay, ay, Sheriff (Director)
- 1977: Journey into the Beyond - The World of the Supernatural (Journey into the Beyond; Director)
- 1978: The Love Hotel in Tyrol (actor)
- 1978: The Crazy Man (Actor)
- 1979: Oysters with Mustard (Actor)
- 1979: Ecstasy - The Trial of the Satan Girls (screenplay, director)
- 1981: A cactus is not a lolly (screenplay, director, actor)
- 1985: Shocking Asia II - The Last Taboos (screenplay, director)
- 1986: Kir Royal - Episode "Mother's Day" (Actor)
- 1988: Strong Times (Director)
- 1990: The Coffee House Clique (screenplay, actor)
- 1990: The Great Freedom (Series; Director)
Awards
- Golden screen (Germany)
- Academy Award (England)
- Premio Bozzano (Italy)
- Psycho-Film-Festival (USA, final victory)
- Fantastic Film Festival (Spain, bronze medal)
Web links
- Media from and about Rolf Olsen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rolf Olsen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Olsen, Rolf |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knoblich, Rudolf (birth name); Fox, Emerson (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor, film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1998 |
Place of death | Munich |