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Ray Manzarek was born on 12 February 1939 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and composer, known for Army of the Dead (2021), Strange Days (1995) and The X Files (1998). He was married to Dorothy Manzarek. He died on 20 May 2013 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.- Actor
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The tall, expressively-browed, rather stern-looking character actor Walter Rilla was educated at the University of Koenigsberg and first worked as a newspaper journalist, drama critic and story editor for the Berliner Theater. He acted on stage from 1921, making his screen debut the following year. He quickly established himself as a leading player in German and French films, often playing aristocratic roles, which demanded a certain amount of gravitas. Involved with leftist organisations and married to a Jewish wife, Rilla was inevitably forced to flee Nazi Germany for England in 1933.
His breakthrough role in British films came courtesy of Alexander Korda, who was intent on casting him as Merle Oberon's brother Armand in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934). This was followed by roles as Prince Ernest in Herbert Wilcox's period drama Victoria the Great (1937), and as the womanizing banker Roudine in False Rapture (1939). Thereafter came a succession of villainous roles. Though a British citizen from 1940, Rilla was unable to escape typecasting -- much like his compatriots Conrad Veidt and Peter van Eyck -- and his career was henceforth delineated by playing racketeers (Golden Salamander (1950)), Nazi propagandists (The Lisbon Story (1946)) and evil Eastern European potentates (The Great Manhunt (1950)).
In addition to acting, Rilla sidelined as author of several BBC radio shows. Following his return to Germany in 1957, he began a new career behind the camera as writer/director of television plays. He also continued to act in just about anything, from prestige films (like Confessions of Felix Krull (1957) and Scampolo (1958)) to spaghetti westerns (Day of Anger (1967)); from Edgar Wallace potboilers (The Forger of London (1961)) to returning to his villainous ways as the evil genius Dr. Mabuse in several instalments of the popular franchise. In 1966, Rilla was awarded the prestigious Filmband in Gold for his service to the German film industry.- Director
- Actor
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Géza von Bolváry was born on 26 December 1897 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director and actor, known for Opernball (1939), Frühjahrsparade (1934) and Zwischen Strom und Steppe (1939). He was married to Helene von Bolvary. He died on 10 August 1961 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, West Germany.- Actor
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- Director
Ludwig Schmid-Wildy was born in 1896 as son of a sculptor from Schwabing, Germany. As a child, he was the model for the "Munchner Kindl", a famous statue in Munich. He became a confectioner-apprentice. Some of his customers were Liesl Karlstadt and Karl Valentin, German actors. In the 1920s he started acting. To the fans of German film and theatre, especially Bavarian "Volkstheater" he will be remembered as the personification of the ancient, clever Bavarian. In real life he was an clever inventor, too. Some of his inventions were a battery, a turbine engine and a machine for potato-dumplings.- Director
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Hellmuth Matiasek was born on 15 May 1931 in Vienna, Austria. He was a director and writer, known for Der schwarze Graf (1970), Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1963) and Der Bürger als Edelmann (1969). He was married to Cornelia Froboess. He died on 7 April 2022 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.- Heinz Winkler was born on 17 July 1949 in Brixen, South Tyrol, Italy. He was an actor, known for Die glückliche Familie (1987), Una stella - La storia di un cuoco (2010) and Die Abendschau (1954). He was married to Daniela Hain, Evi and Denise. He died on 28 October 2022 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
- Ferdinand Piëch was born on 17 April 1937 in Vienna, Austria. He was married to Ursula Plasser and Corina von Planta. He died on 25 August 2019 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
- Eugen Diesel was born on 3 May 1889 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Diesel (1942). He was married to Anna Luise Gräfin von Waldersee. He died on 22 September 1970 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
- Karl Wolff was born in 1900 to a privileged family in the city of Darmstadt, Germany. During the First World War, Wolff was commissioned an officer in 1918 and served in the Hessian Infantry Regiment. Lieutenant Wolff was one of the youngest officers ever commissioned, having received his rank at the age of 17, and had also been awarded the Iron Cross First Class. In 1920, Wolff left the now demobilized German Army and became a small Time businessman. In 1931, drawn by Nazi ideals of a reborn and again powerful Germany, Wolff joined the Nazi Party and also applied for membership in the SS. He was accepted as a member in July of 1931 and assigned the SS number 14235. Wolff served in an SS mustering formation in Munich, quickly rising through the enlisted ranks and being commissioned an SS-Sturmfüher (Lieutenant) in February 1932. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Wolff was promoted to SS-Captain and briefly served as an SS military liaison officer to the German Army. In June of that year, Wolff was personally recruited by the SS Commander Heinrich Himmler to head the new office of the Reichsführer's Personal Staff. Wolff became Himmler's adjutant on June 15, 1933 and received an unprecedented number of promotions through his new position. By the start of 1937, Wolff had risen to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer (Lieutenant General) and was considered as third in command of the entire SS. During the Second World War, Wolff remained in his job as Himmler's adjutant, but soon began losing authority and power as disagreements developed with Himmler and also Wolff began to fall under the shadow of the number two man in the SS, Reinhard Heydrich. In 1942, Wolff was made a full SS-General (Obergruppenführer) but dismissed by Himmler as Chief of Staff to the Reichsführer. Wolff, however, did manage a comeback as Adolf Hitler personally granted him equivalent General's rank in the Waffen-SS and assigned him as an SS adjutant to the Italian Government in 1943. When Italy surrendered to the Allies later that year, Germany occupied the country and Wolff became the Supreme SS and Police Leader of Italy. At the start of 1945, Wolff (who was now acting military commander of Italy) extended secret negotiation requests to the Allies and thus hastened the end of the war in Italy by surrendering the country to the Allies on May 2, 1945. Wolff was taken into American custody, although was allowed to escape trial as an SS-General and leading Nazi, by providing evidence against his fellow Nazis at Nuremberg, in 1946. In 1947, Karl Wolff retired to private life, however the West German government soon arrested Wolff for war crimes in 1949, sentencing him to four years in prison. Wolff was again arrested in 1964, after evidence presented at the Adolf Eichmann trial, in Israel, had revealed that Wolff had organized the deportation of Italian Jews to the Nazi death camps in 1944. Wolff was sentenced to fifteen years in prison but only served half of this term and was released in 1971. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Karl Wolff became very popular amongst historical and academic groups as Wolff frequently lectured on the internal workings of the SS and his life as a personal associate of Heinrich Himmler. As one of the only surviving top SS-Generals from World War II, Wolff can also be seen on several documentary films, such as the The World at War (1973) miniseries and several 1980s documentaries on the History of the SS. Wolff was also portrayed as 'General Max Helm' in the motion picture The Scarlet and the Black (1983), staring Gregory Peck. Karl Wolff died 1984 in Rosenheim, West Germany.
- Michael Mansfeld was born on 4 February 1922 in Leszno, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was a writer and actor, known for Das unsichtbare Visier (1973), Dr. med. Mark Wedmann - Detektiv inbegriffen (1974) and Glücksritter (1957). He was married to Gerda Corbett. He died on 26 May 1979 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, West Germany.
- Gerlind Ahnert was born on 26 April 1934 in Chemnitz, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das Stacheltier - Rumpelstilzchen (1961), Meine Freundin Sybille (1967) and Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot (1961). She was married to Wolfgang Luderer, Wolfgang Böttner and Detlev Hertelt. She died on 12 September 2007 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
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Artur Rother was born on 12 October 1885 in Szczecin, Poland. He is known for The Marriage of Figaro (1949) and Fidelio (1963). He died on 22 September 1972 in Aschau im Chiemgau, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.- Adolf Laimböck was born on 4 December 1933 in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria. He was an actor, known for Zweikampf (1986), Der Staudamm (1968) and Der Polenweiher (1986). He died on 17 December 2018 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
- Katja Husen was born on 12 June 1976 in Istanbul, Turkey. She died on 28 June 2022 in Hospital near Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
- Norbert Eder was born on 7 November 1955 in Dettelbach, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to ???. He died on 2 November 2019 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.
- Uwe Bertram was born in 1962 in Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic. He was an actor, known for Die Geschichte Mitteldeutschlands (1999), Gespenster (2007) and Tatort (1970). He died on 10 November 2022 in Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany.