Name
Helmut Griem
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1932-04-06
Deathday
2004-11-19 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Hamburg, Germany
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.
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- 1973 Ludwig as Dürckheim
- 1978 The Glass Cell as Phillip Braun
- 1982 The Magic Mountain as James Tienappel
- 1972 Cabaret as Maximilian von Heune
- 1979 Breakthrough as Major Stransky
- 1982 The Passerby as Michel Wiener
- 1989 A proposito di quella strana ragazza as Ugo
- 1969 The Damned as Aschenbach
- 1970 The McKenzie Break as Kapitänleutnant Willi Schlueter
- 1983 Elective Affinities as Edouard Otto
- 1976 The Desert of the Tartars as Lieutenant Simeon
- 1978 The Meetings of Anna as Heinrich Schneider
- 1994 Missus as Monsignor Kastner
- 1997 The Lost Daughter as Rolf Sutter
- 1961 Girl from Hong Kong as Glenn Dierks
- 1976 The Clown as Hans Schnier
- 1961 Barbara - Wild wie das Meer as Paul
- 1993 Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann as Pertussini
- 1986 Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich as Carl Gustav Carus
- 1980 Put on Ice as Brasch
- 1988 Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle as Dr. Heinrich Faust
- 1960 Fabrik der Offiziere as Oberleutnant Krafft
- 1979 The Hamburg Syndrome as Sebastian
- 1981 Sting in the Flesh as Hans
- 1982 Versuchung as Ludwig
- 1972 The Morals of Ruth Halbfass as Franz Vogelsang
- 1967 Liebe für Liebe as Valentine
- 1967 Blick von der Brücke as Rodolfo
- 1996 Der gefälschte Sommer as Stefan Hansen
- 2004 Liebe auf Bewährung as Albert Tieck
- 1968 Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
- 1975 Es fängt ganz harmlos an as Dieter Schwarz
- 2000 Der Mörder in dir as Günther Lehmann
- 1962 East Zone, West Zone as Hans
- 1987 The Second Victory as Karl Fischer
- 1990 Hard Days, Hard Nights as Kronschneider
- 1997 Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum as Romulka
- 1994 1945 as Public prosecutor
- 1978 Germany in Autumn as TV-Redakteur
- 1958 Die Brüder as Jean Roland
- 1966 Die Ballade von Peckham Rye as Trevor Lomas
- 1995 Burning Heart as Gustav Regler
- 1995 Die Grube as Helmuth Groscurth
- 1976 Voyage of the Damned as Otto Schiendick
- 1990 The Plot to Kill Hitler as Erwin Rommel
- 2000 Lourdes as Auguste La Fontaine
- 1978 Black Sun as Willi Mohr
- 1975 Children of Rage as Dr. David Shalom
- 1960 Zum Geburtstag as Gabe Darcy
- 1980 Landläufiger Tod
- 1984 The Devil's Lieutenant as Judge Advocate Kunze
- 1963 Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien as Don Carlos
- 1959 Der zerbrochene Krug
- 2001 Amokfahrt zum Pazifik as Oscar
- 1965 Christinas Heimreise as Florindo
- 1990 Shooting Stars as Gutke
- 1999 The Hour of the Lion as Professor Winterfeld
- 1963 Because, Because of a Woman as Johann Muller
- 1981 Malou
- 1965 Antigone as Hämon
- 1979 Tales of the Unexpected ( 1 episode ) as Alois
- 1988 Anwalt Abel ( 1 episode ) as Senftleben
- 1998 Der letzte Zeuge ( 1 episode ) as Karl Axer
- 1999 SK Kölsch ( 1 episode ) as Willi Haller
- 2002 Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften ( 1 episode ) as Maximilian Fox
- 1994 Charlemagne, le prince à cheval ( 3 episodes ) as Widukind
- 1986 Peter the Great ( 4 episodes ) as Alexander Menshikov
- 1981 Ludwig ( 5 episodes ) as Dürckheim
- 1982 The Original Trap ( 2 episodes ) as Benno
- 1948 Bambi ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1991 Detective Extralarge ( 1 episode )
- 1981 Das Traumschiff ( 1 episode ) as Herbert Ernst
- 2001 Tides of Change ( 2 episodes ) as Colonnello Greisberg
- 1980 Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1 episode ) as Sarug
