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Thomas Kretschmann is a German actor best known for playing Leutnant Hans von Witzland in the 1993 film Stalingrad, Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The... Pianist, Hermann Fegelein in Der Untergang, Captain Englehorn in the 2005 remake of King Kong, and voicing Professor Z in Cars 2. Kretschmann was born in Dessau, former German Democratic Republic. Before he became an actor, Kretschmann trained to become an Olympic swimmer. At the age of 19, he left East Germany and began a month-long trek to West Germany to escape the East German state. During this trek he lost part of a finger, but it was surgically reattached. Kretschmann crossed four borders with nothing other than his passport and the equivalent of $100 in his possession. At the age of 25, he began acting, starring in numerous European films and television series. In 1991, Kretschmann was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize for best young actor for his role in Der Mitwisser. He went on to star in his first full length feature, the 1993 film Stalingrad. He achieved international recognition for his role as a rapist/murderer in Dario Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome.
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Dieter "Didi" Hallervorden is a German comedian, comic actor, singer and cabaret artist. Dieter Hallervorden's mother was a physician's assistant... and his father a graduate engineer employed by German aircraft maker Junkers. His siblings are called Renate and Margot. Dieter Hallervorden has two children from the marriage to Rotraud Schindler and one child from his current wife Elena Blume. Dieter Hallervorden Jr. appeared in the movies Darf ich Sie zur Mutter machen and Die Hochzeitsreise and had some scenes in Nonstop Nonsens . Nathalie Hallervorden co-starred in the TV series Die Nervensäge and had a brief appearance together with her parents in Nonstop Nonsens. Hallervorden's first wife, Rotraud Schindler, co-starred in several TV shows and some movies. Hallervorden starred as a bumbling, Clouseau-like detective in the German television show Die Didi-Show. The show was dubbed into English, retitled Didi's Comedy Show, and shown in various countries.
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Thomas Kretschmann is a German actor best known for playing Leutnant Hans von Witzland in the 1993 film Stalingrad, Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The... Pianist, Hermann Fegelein in Der Untergang, Captain Englehorn in the 2005 remake of King Kong, and voicing Professor Z in Cars 2. Kretschmann was born in Dessau, former German Democratic Republic. Before he became an actor, Kretschmann trained to become an Olympic swimmer. At the age of 19, he left East Germany and began a month-long trek to West Germany to escape the East German state. During this trek he lost part of a finger, but it was surgically reattached. Kretschmann crossed four borders with nothing other than his passport and the equivalent of $100 in his possession. At the age of 25, he began acting, starring in numerous European films and television series. In 1991, Kretschmann was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize for best young actor for his role in Der Mitwisser. He went on to star in his first full length feature, the 1993 film Stalingrad. He achieved international recognition for his role as a rapist/murderer in Dario Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome.
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Gerhard Stolze was a German tenor. A character tenor best known as a Wagner singer. His most famous roles were Mime , David , Loge , Aegisth and... Herod . He also sang the Captain in Wozzeck and, the roles of Oberon and the Emperor Nero, both of which were originally written for countertenor. He recorded Mozart's high-tenor Singspiel roles, Monostatos and Pedrillo. He portrays Mime on both the studio recordings of Siegfried by Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti. His voice was very high, thin, and piercing, and capable of an extraordinary range of colors. His style sharply divided critics and audiences, especially in the roles of Mime and Herod. It was denigrated as being over-neurotic, glorified Sprechstimme by some, while others praised it for its deep characterisation and astonishing virtuosity.
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Horst Bollmann is a German film and television actor.

Brigitte Grothum is a German film actress. She has appeared in 50 films since 1955. She was born in Dessau, Germany.

Ursula Herking was a German film actress. She appeared in over 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.

Joost Siedhoff is an actor.