Horst Buchholz

Horst Buchholz

Infobox Actor
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name = Horst Buchholz



birthname = Horst Werner Buchholz
birthdate = birth date|1933|12|4|df=yes
location = Berlin, Germany
deathdate = death date and age|2003|3|3|1933|12|4|df=yes
deathplace = Berlin, Germany
spouse = Myriam Bru (1958-2003)

Horst Werner Buchholz (December 4, 1933March 3, 2003) was a German actor, best remembered for his part in "The Magnificent Seven". He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952-2002.

Life and work

Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of a shoemaker. His paternal grandparents were German immigrants from New Jersey and his maternal grandparents were from Denmark. Records show his father's family were originally named Rosenholz when they arrived in Germany 1903. During World War II he was evacuated to Silesia and at the end of the war found himself in a foster home in Czechoslovakia. He returned to Berlin as soon as he could. He barely finished his schooling before seeking theatre work, first appearing on stage in 1949. He soon left his childhood home in East Berlin to work in West Berlin. He established himself in the theatre, notably the Schiller Theatre, and also on radio. He expanded into film after dubbing work accepting small and uncredited parts from 1952. He had a marginally larger role in "Marianne de Ma Jeunesse" (1954) directed by Julien Duvivier. He won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his part as Mischa Bjelkin in Helmut Käutner's "Himmel ohne Sterne". His youthful good looks next brought him a part in "Die Halbstarken" (1956). His breakthrough film was "Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull" (1957) in which he played the lead, it was directed by Kurt Hoffmann and based on the novel by Thomas Mann.

In 1958 Buchholz married Myriam Bru, and they had two children. Their son, Christopher, became an actor and also produced a documentary about his father.

Horst Buchholz began appearing in foreign films from 1959 when he was in the British production "Tiger Bay". He followed that with "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) and the Berlin-set "One, Two, Three" (1961) directed by Billy Wilder. He also starred in the dramatic 1961 romance, "Fanny", with Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron. A versatile actor, he took the parts as they arose and appeared in comedies, horror films, wartime dramas and other genres. His best work was in the 1960s: the critical quality of the films in which he took part diminished from the mid 1970s, with poorly regarded made-for-TV movies and episodic television making up the majority of his appearances. In certain films he was allowed to show his skills such as the bleak "I skrzypce przestaly grac" (1988), and the Oscar-winning "Life Is Beautiful" (1997).

In 2000, he talked about his bisexuality for the first time in the German tabloid "die Bunte".

He died in the Berlin Charité from pneumonia at the age of sixty-nine. This was a city to which his loyalty was constant, and he was buried there in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem.

elected filmography

* "Himmel ohne Sterne" (1955)
* "Die Halbstarken" (1956)
* "Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull" (1957)
* "Nasser Asphalt" (1958)
* "Tiger Bay" (1959)
* "The Magnificent Seven" (1960)
* "Fanny"
* "One, Two, Three" (1961)
* "The Empty Canvas" (1963)
* "Cervantes" (1967) (he played the title role)
* "Sahara" (1983)
* "" (1992)
* "Faraway, So Close!" (1993)
* "Life Is Beautiful" (1997)

External links

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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7231909 Horst Buchholz Gravesite]

Persondata
NAME = Buchholz, Horst
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = German actor
DATE OF BIRTH = December 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH = Berlin, Germany
DATE OF DEATH = March 3, 2003
PLACE OF DEATH = Berlin, Germany


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