Rudi Schmitt (actor)

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Rudolf "Rudi" Schmitt (born March 11, 1914 in Darmstadt ; † July 7, 1984 in Berlin ) was a German actor on stage, film and television.

Live and act

Schmitt received acting lessons from Paul Verhoeven in Frankfurt am Main from 1933 to 1935 and appeared at Frankfurt's municipal theaters from 1934 - beginning with Biondello in The Taming of the Shrew . His first permanent engagement led Schmitt to Regensburg that same year; other theater stations were Cologne, Berlin, Munich, Göttingen and again Berlin (Schiller Theater).

During these years he was mainly seen in folk plays and comedies, for example as Eugen Rümpel in Jacoby's Pension Schöller, as Trowbridge in Three Men on a Horse, as Wabschke in Zuckmayer's Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, as light in Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug and as Twist in Nestroy's Lumpazivagabundus and as Linarius in Raimund's The Alpine King and the Misanthrope . But Schmitt also appeared in contemporary dramas such as Borchert's Outside the Door , where he played Beckmann.

However, Schmitt also made numerous radio plays and from the mid-1950s onwards appeared in a plethora of television films and a few cinema productions. There the Darmstadt-based man impressed above all with strict and solemn dignitaries such as the district court counselor Glänzer in The Last Witness , the public prosecutor Rudnew in the two- parter Rasputin, Lieutenant General Botsch in Die Brücke von Remagen, King Gunther in August the Strong and the Commissioner Winkler in kassensturz. But Schmitt also embodied “little people” such as a bookseller in a series of Lokaltermin, an air raid guard in … dead in the Kanapu and a servant in the house of the Kommerzienrat.

Filmography

  • 1956: Mr. Hesselbach and the company
  • 1960: the last witness
  • 1960: We cellar children
  • 1963: The Rohrbach case
  • 1966: Rasputin
  • 1966: The Brooklyn Killer Club
  • 1967: The Remagen Bridge
  • 1967: Till, the boy next door (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1968: what you want
  • 1969: The course of evil
  • 1969:… dead in the Kanapu
  • 1969: Assassination attempt on the mighty
  • 1970: unimportant day
  • 1970: August the Strong
  • 1971: Yester, isn't the name right?
  • 1971: Cash collapse
  • 1972: The Century of Surgeons
  • 1973: local appointment
  • 1975: In the House of the Commerce Council
  • 1975: Mrs. von Bebenburg
  • 1978: A man wants to go up (TV series, two episodes)

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 655.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1519.
  • Who's Who in the Arts, two volumes. 2nd revised edition, Wörthsee 1978. Second volume, p. 179

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personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Rudi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmitt, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor on stage, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 7th July 1984
Place of death Berlin