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- Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany. She took acting lessons in Munich and worked in the stage in Germany from 1961-1963, then turned to photographic modeling for German nude magazines and later, Playboy. She also modeled for advertising companies, namely Max Factor cosmetics, before she started her movie career.
She was the beautiful mistress of José Ferrer in Ship of Fools (1965), but most people will remember her as the evil wardress in the exploitation women-in-prison film, The Big Doll House (1971), as well as one of the three airline stewardesses in Boeing, Boeing (1965). - George S. Patton III was a highly successful and highly controversial general who held Corps- and Army-level commands during World War II. Because of his great competence as a battlefield commander, Patton might have led the American troops during the invasion of Normandy; however, his impolitic ways and a degree of emotional instability (which manifested itself in the slapping of two soldiers suffering from shell-shock at an Army field hospital) put the kibosh on that. Patton was relieved of his command and put on ice for many months in order to recuperate. Instead, the command of the American forces on D-Day, went to his former deputy in North Africa, Omar N. Bradley.
Patton was known as "Blood & Guts" ("Our blood, his guts"), was a common gripe among his troops for his hard-driving discipline, which paid off in lower casualties and great success on the battlefield. With the exception of Douglas MacArthur, Patton ranks as the greatest general the United States put on the field during the Second World War. Patton achieved four-star rank for his battlefield exploits as one of the best commanders of mechanized forces on either side during the War. He succeeded Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany, when Ike -- a five-star general -- was promoted to Army Chief of Staff.
On December 9, 1945, Patton became seriously injured after his automobile crashed with an American army truck at low speed. He began bleeding from a gash on his head, and complained that he was paralyzed and having trouble breathing. Taken to a hospital in Heidelberg, Patton was discovered to have a compression fracture and dislocation of the cervical third fourth vertebrae, resulting in a broken neck and cervical spinal cord injury that rendered him paralyzed from the neck down. He spent most of the next twelve days in spinal traction to decrease the pressure on his spine. He died at age 60 in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure.
On December 24, 1945, General George S. Patton was buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial alongside some wartime casualties of the Third Army, in accordance with his request to "be buried with his men". He was immortalized in the 1970 eponymous epic film, which won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (George C. Scott). This was President Richard Nixon's favorite film. - The blond, steely-eyed bad guy of European westerns and potboilers was born in Lübeck, Germany, the son of a porcelain painter. Horst Frank financed his acting studies by working part-time as a babysitter and night watchman. He actually failed his final exams at the Musikhochschule Hamburg, but nonetheless managed to secure an acting position in his home town. For some time after, his work was primarily confined to small parts on stage and in radio. His first screen role saw him as a cowardly pilot in Der Stern von Afrika (1957). Frank then won a critic's award for his next role as member of a U-Boat crew in the war drama Haie und kleine Fische (1957).
Of athletic, lithe build and owner of a somewhat cold, hypnotic gaze (with a voice to match), Frank soon found himself typecast to disturbingly good effect as psychotic murderers in German and international productions (The Black Panther of Ratana (1963), Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1958), Der Greifer (1958)). Alternatively, he proved an ideal henchman for spaghetti westerns (Bullets Don't Argue (1964), Johnny Hamlet (1968) and Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)). Frank didn't seem to mind turning out copies of the same negative in a seemingly endless gallery of ruthless killers and impassive assassins. He did so with relish well into the 1980's and 90's, enjoying guest spots on popular TV crime time shows like Tatort (1970) and Derrick (1974). If Horst Frank was in the cast, you knew pretty much from the start 'whodunnit'.
Behind the menacing heavy, there was a family man and author of poems and chansons. In addition to his screen acting, Frank lent his voice to dubbing work (for the likes of fellow tough guys Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine and Chuck Connors); and to radio, where he voiced Captain Nemo in "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island".
Likely because of his lack of work in major American or British productions, Frank never quite achieved the international recognition he undoubtedly deserved. He died quite suddenly in May 1999 of a brain hemorrhage, just short of his 70th birthday. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Karl Obermayr was born on 4 April 1931 in Freising, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die letzten Jahre der Kindheit (1979), Monaco Franze - Der ewige Stenz (1983) and Lautlose Jagd (1965). He died on 3 June 1985 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany.- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Rowland S. Howard was born on 24 October 1959 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor and writer, known for Head-On (2004), Wings of Desire (1987) and Queen of the Damned (2002). He died on 30 December 2009 in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.- Maria Koppenhöfer was born on 11 December 1901 in Stuttgart, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Heart of a Queen (1940), The Rape of the Sabines (1936) and The Living Dead (1932). She was married to Julius Halewicz. She died on 29 November 1948 in Heidelberg, Germany.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Fritz Wunderlich was born on 26 September 1930 in Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was an actor, known for Marathon Man (1976), Der Barbier von Sevilla (1959) and Opernführer (1965). He was married to Eva Wunderlich. He died on 17 September 1966 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Manfred Cierpka was born on 13 April 1950 in Nürtingen, Württemberg-Baden [now Baden-Württemberg], Germany. He died on 14 December 2017 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Sheryl Hackett was born on 4 May 1959 in Bridgetown, Barbados. She died on 29 January 2005 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Karl-Heinz Lather was born on 15 September 1948 in Kehna, Weimar, Hesse, Germany. He was married to Inge. He died on 13 February 2021 in Heidelberg, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany.
- Director
- Writer
Martin Kirchberger was born on 4 April 1960 in Rüsselsheim am Main, Hesse, Germany. Martin was a director and writer, known for Bunkerlow (1993) and Buchholz bleibt (1990). Martin died on 22 December 1991 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Producer
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Alf Teichs was born on 18 December 1904 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. He was a producer and writer, known for Frau Irene Besser (1961), Goal in the Clouds (1939) and Ruf der Wildgänse (1961). He died on 14 January 1992 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Klaus von Beyme was married to Maja von Oertzen. He died on 6 December 2021 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Ursula Wölfel was born on 16 September 1922 in Hamborn, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Ursula was a writer, known for Kinderstunde (1951), Bettkantengeschichten (1983) and Mond Mond Mond (1977). Ursula died on 23 July 2014 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Konstantin Hierl was born on 24 February 1875 in Parsberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to Euphrosine Gloß and Vera Hartegg. He died on 23 September 1955 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Examined Life (1998), Lieb ist mir Platon - aber noch lieber die Wahrheit: Der Philosoph Hans-Georg Gadamer (1988) and Human, All Too Human (1999). He died on 13 March 2002 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Raban von Canstein was born on 15 August 1906 in Naugard, West Pomerania, Germany. He was married to Ursula Brandies and Kitty von Blaese. He died on 31 December 2005 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Erwin W. Palm was born on 27 August 1910 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany. He was married to Hilde Domin. He died on 7 July 1988 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- John Turner was born on 9 September 1908 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. John was married to Kathleen Maud Jones. John died on 9 May 1991 in Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Composer
- Music Department
Wolfgang Fortner was born on 12 October 1907 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. He was a composer, known for Begegnung mit Werther (1949), Corinna (1961) and Bluthochzeit (1964). He died on 5 September 1987 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Franz Nagler was an actor, known for Singles (1988), Stadtklinik (1993) and Hallo Freunde (1970). He died on 28 November 2021 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Thomas Blamey was born in 1884 in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. He was married to Olga Ora Farnsworth and Minnie Caroline Millard. He died on 27 May 1951 in Heidelberg, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Wilhelm Hahn was born on 14 May 1909 in Yuryev, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Tartu, Estonia]. He died on 9 December 1996 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg,.
- Wolfram Esser was born on 8 January 1934 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He died on 18 June 1993 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Hilde Domin was born on 27 July 1909 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was a writer, known for Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003), ICH WILL DICH - Begegnungen mit Hilde Domin (2007) and Alpha Forum (1998). She was married to Erwin W. Palm. She died on 22 February 2006 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.