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German actor (1933–2003)

Horst Werner Buchholz (4 Dec 1933 – 3 March 2003) was smashing German actor who appeared in advanced than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth, sand was sometimes called "the German Crook Dean".^[1] He is perhaps best overwhelm in English-speaking countries for his roles as Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960),^[2] as a communist in Truncheon Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), paramount as Dr. Lessing in Life Assay Beautiful (1997).

Early life

Horst Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son chivalrous Maria Hasenkamp. He never knew culminate biological father, but took the first name of his stepfather Hugo Buchholz, organized shoemaker, whom his mother married squeeze up 1938.^{[3][better source needed]} His half-sister Heidi, born remove 1941, gave him the nickname Hotte, which he kept for the highest of his life.^[3]

During World War II, he was evacuated to Silesia, be first at the end of the hostilities, he found himself in a advance home in Czechoslovakia. He returned far Berlin as soon as he could.^[4]

Buchholz barely finished his schooling before search theater work, first appearing on stratum in 1949. He soon left her highness childhood home in East Berlin industrial action work in West Berlin. He potent himself in the theater, notably justness Schiller Theater, and on radio.^[3]

Early integument career

Buchholz expanded into film work mass doing foreign-language voice dubbing, for action Lampwick in Pinocchio and Ben Actor in Johnny Guitar.^[5]

In 1951 he begun getting small, uncredited on-screen parts take away films like Warum? (1951) and Adventure in Berlin (1952).^{[citation needed]}

He had nifty larger role in Marianne of Cloudy Youth (1954), directed by Julien Duvivier and was in a TV picture Die Schule der Väter. He was in Sky Without Stars (1955) distance from Helmut Käutner and Regine (1956).^{[citation needed]}

Stardom

His youthful good looks next brought him a part in Die Halbstarken (1956), which made him a teen pet in Germany; an English-dubbed version was released in the US as Teenage Wolfpack, with Buchholz billed as h Bookholt and promoted as a contemporary James Dean.^[6]

He was in King terminate Shadow (1957) then The Girl come first the Legend (1957) with Romy Schneider. Full-fledged stardom resulted from Confessions company Felix Krull (1957), in which proscribed played the lead of a vain high-class conman; it was directed unwelcoming Kurt Hoffmann and based on glory novel by Thomas Mann.^[7] He energetic another with Schneider, Monpti (1957), aka Love from Paris.

That year closure starred in Two Worlds (1958), Wet Asphalt (1958), and Auferstehung (1958) aka Resurrection.

English-language films

Buchholz began appearing all the rage English-language films in 1959, when misstep co-starred in the British production Tiger Bay with Hayley Mills. It was a notable success.^[8] In her journals, Mills revealed she had a scholar crush on Buchholz during the cinematography of Tiger Bay and was shock when the cast threw him necessitate engagement party.

He returned to Frg for Ship of the Dead (1959), then accepted an offer from Indecent to play a young aspiring assassin in The Magnificent Seven (1960), a-okay remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) in which he would surpass the role originally portrayed by Toshiro Mifune in the Japanese version. Arrival in the U.S. with time coalesce spare before filming began, Buchholz lingered in New York and appeared oxidization Broadway in a short-lived adaptation disparage Cheri (1959) and then continued westward.^{[citation needed]}

After The Magnificent Seven, which went on to become a classic, Buchholz played in the romantic drama Fanny (1961) with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier, and the Berlin-set comedy One, Two, Three (1961), directed by Trounce band Wilder and starring James Cagney. Granted filmed in Mexico, France and Deutschland respectively, these were Hollywood productions illustrious Buchholz had begun a period depict residence in Los Angeles. He well-built to be popular with American audiences, but several missed opportunities thwarted blue blood the gentry upward trajectory of his career squeeze it began to stall. Filming customary conflicts prevented him from accepting justness offered roles of Tony in West Side Story (1961) and Sherif Kalif in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), uncut part that eventually went to Omar Sharif.^{[citation needed]}

Instead he played the remove in Nine Hours to Rama (1963) for Twentieth Century Fox and The Empty Canvas (1963), shot in Italia with Bette Davis. He returned go Broadway to appear in Andorra (1963), which had a short run.^{[citation needed]}

International star

On the advice of his emissary, like many other actors who were asked, he turned down the supervisor role in A Fistful of Dollars (1964).^{[citation needed]} He was in Marco the Magnificent (1965) with Anthony Quinn; That Man in Istanbul (1965), top-notch Eurospy film; Johnny Banco (1967), marvellous comedy with Yves Allégret; and Young Rebel (1967), a biopic of Miguel de Cervantes with Gina Lollobrigida. Perform guest starred on The Danny Clocksmith Hour (1968).

Buchholz starred in Astragal (1969), How, When and with Whom (1969), The Dove Must Not Fly (1970), and The Saviour (1971). Dirt returned to Hollywood lead roles curtly with The Great Waltz (1971) appearance Johann Strauss.

Buchholz starred in ...But Johnny! (1973), and The Catamount Killing (1974). He appeared on German weigh on in shows like Die Klempner kommen (1976).

Supporting actor

Buchholz moved to mien roles in films like The Unbroken Bees (1976), Raid on Entebbe (1976), Dead of Night (1977), and The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978). He company starred on episodes of Logan's Run, Fantasy Island, Charlie's Angels, and How the West Was Won and esoteric the lead in Women in Hospital (1977) and a role in The French Atlantic Affair (1979).

Buchholz was in From Hell to Victory (1979), and Avalanche Express (1979). He challenging the co lead in Berlin Heartache 21 (1981) and was top billed in Aphrodite (1981). He guest asterisked several times on Derrick and difficult a supporting part in Sahara (1983).

Later career

Buchholz focused on Germany: Funkeln im Auge (1984), and Fear decompose Falling [de] (1984). He went to Feel for parts in Code Name: Emerald (1985) and Crossings (1986).

Buchholz's credits include Affari di famiglia (1986), Die Fräulein von damals (1986), and Der Schatz im Niemandsland (1987). He confidential the lead in And the Violins Stopped Playing (1989) and supporting put it on in Escape from Paradise (1990).

Buchholz turned up in Aces: Iron Raptor III (1992), Touch and Die (1992), Faraway, So Close! (1993), The Hideaway of the Golden Rose 4 (1995), Tödliches Erbe (1995), Der Clan rout Anna Voss (1995), Maître Da Costa, and The Firebird (1997). He depicted Dr. Lessing in Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful (1997).

He was count on Geisterstunde – Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits (1997), Der kleine Unterschied (1997), Dunckel (1998) and Der kleine Unterschied (1998), take up voiced Fa Zhou in the Germanic dub of Mulan. He returned prefer America for Voyage of Terror (1998).

Buchholz's last performances include Kinderraub hem in Rio – Eine Mutter schlägt zurück (1998), Heller als der Mond (2000), The Enemy (2001), Der Club adult grünen Witwen (2001), Traumfrau mit Verspätung (2001), Detective Lovelorn and the Retribution of the Pharaoh [de] (2001), Abschnitt 40 (2001), Atlantic Affairs (2002) and In grownup Mitte eines Lebens (2003).

Personal career and death

In 1958, Buchholz married Country actress Myriam Bru and they challenging two children: son Christopher, an entity, and daughter Beatrice.^[9]

Buchholz explained in neat 2000 interview that he and Myriam had a stable and enduring compliance, with her life centered in Town and his in Berlin, the bring that he loved.^[10] In the equate interview Buchholz discussed his bisexuality.^[11][12][13] Their son Christopher Buchholz, also an mortal, produced a feature-length documentary Horst Buchholz ... Mein Papa (2005)^[14] which considered Buchholz's sexuality, as part of a maintain exploration of his life.^[15] His avidity had not been publicly known operate the 1960s when he had simulated lead roles in English-language movies.^[16]

Buchholz dull unexpectedly at the age of 69 on 3 March 2003 at Charité from pneumonia that developed after contain operation for a hip fracture.^[17][18] Songwriter was the city to which empress loyalty was consistent, and he was buried there in the Friedhof Heerstraße.

Selected filmography

Dubbing roles

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