Helmut Griem
Known For
Acting
Born
1932-04-06 in Hamburg, Germany
Died
2004-11-19
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helmut Griem (born April 6, 1932 in Hamburg – November 19, 2004 in Munich) was a German actor. Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich. Among his many film and TV appearances (a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), in which he played the rich "Baron Maximilian von Heune" is probably the best-known; other internationally-known performances include his work in The Damned, The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig. Griem starred in the television mini-series "The Devil's Lieutenant" directed by John Goldschmidt, adapted by Jack Rosenthal and based on the novel by M Fagyas, for Channel 4 and ZDF. Despite his success in film, the theatre remained at the heart of Griem's work, and he performed in many classic roles from both the German and English-language repertoire. Later in his career Griem turned to theatre direction, including Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Before his death, Griem had planned to direct the Botho Strauss play Die eine and die andere (This One and The Other). Griem twice won the Bambi Award: in 1961 and in 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helmut Griem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Bambi
as Self
Tales of the Unexpected
as Alois
Das Traumschiff
as Herbert Ernst
Der letzte Zeuge
as Karl Axer
SK Kölsch
as Willi Haller
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Sarug
Anwalt Abel
as Senftleben
Burning Heart
as Gustav Regler
Missus
as Monsignor Kastner
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
as Widukind
The Original Trap
as Benno
Detective Extralarge
Cabaret
as Maximilian von Heune
Peter the Great
as Alexander Menshikov
The Damned
as Aschenbach
Voyage of the Damned
as Otto Schiendick
Landläufiger Tod
Ludwig
as Dürckheim
Die Brüder
as Jean Roland
Zum Geburtstag
as Gabe Darcy