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| Born | Horst Werner Buchholz 4 December 1933 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 3 March 2003 (aged 69) Berlin, Germany |
| Spouse(s) | Myriam Bru (1958-2003) |
Horst Werner Buchholz (December 4, 1933 – March 3, 2003) was a German actor, best remembered for his part in The Magnificent Seven. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. "December 4th" redirects here For the song by Jay-Z, see December 4th (song. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1284 - Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England 1575 - Indian Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 Western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952-2002. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Etymology One theory claims that the name Silesia is derived from the Silingi, who were most likely a Vandalic (East Germanic people Czechoslovakia may also refer to what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 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. Julien Duvivier ( 8 October 1896 in Lille - 30 October 1967 in Paris) was a French film director He won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his part as Mischa Bjelkin in Helmut Käutner's Himmel ohne Sterne. Helmut Käutner (March 25 1908&ndashApril 20 1980 was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 50s 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. Paul Thomas Mann ( June
He began appearing in foreign films from 1959 when he was in the British production Tiger Bay. Tiger Bay is a 1959 British film starring John Mills, his daughter Hayley Mills in her first important film role and Horst Buchholz He followed that with The Magnificent Seven (1960) and the Berlin-set One, Two, Three (1961) directed by Billy Wilder. The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 Western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen protecting a Mexican village from One Two Three ( 1961) is a comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by I Billy Wilder ( June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian born Jewish - American Journalist He also starred in the dramatic 1961 romance, Fanny, with Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron. Fanny is a 1961 film drama based on the 1954 musical Fanny, about a young man torn between leaving his boring life for adventures at Maurice Auguste Chevalier ( September 12, 1888 &ndash January 1, 1972) was a French Actor, Singer, and Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (lɛsli kaʁɔ̃ (born 1 July 1931 is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French Film actress and Dancer. 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). "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Life Is Beautiful (Italian La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian
He died in the Berlin Charité from pneumonia at the age of sixty-nine. The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the Medical school for the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the Lung. Frequently it is described as lung Parenchyma / alveolar inflammation and abnormal This was a city to which his loyalty was constant, and he was buried there in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem.
He married Myriam Bru in December 1958 and they had two children. His son Christopher is also an actor.
Selected filmography
- Himmel ohne Sterne (1955)
- Die Halbstarken (1956)
- Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957)
- 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)
- Aces: Iron Eagle III (1992)
- Life Is Beautiful (1997)
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| 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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