Helmut Griem
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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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Known for
Tales of the Unexpected
Alois
Das Traumschiff
Herbert Ernst
Bambi-Verleihung
Self
Cabaret
Maximilian von Heune
Detective Extralarge
Der letzte Zeuge
Karl Axer
SK Kölsch
Willi Haller
Because, Because of a Woman
Johann Muller
Breakthrough
Major Stransky
Voyage of the Damned
Otto Schiendick
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Widukind
The Passerby
Michel Wiener
The Damned
Aschenbach
The Magic Mountain
James Tienappel
Die Ballade von Peckham Rye
Trevor Lomas
The Desert of the Tartars
Lieutenant Simeon
Peter the Great
Alexander Menshikov
Ludwig
Dürckheim
Lourdes
Auguste La Fontaine
Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien
Don Carlos
The Plot to Kill Hitler
Erwin Rommel
Anwalt Abel
Senftleben
Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
Paul
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
Maximilian Fox
The McKenzie Break
Kapitänleutnant Willi Schlueter
The Clown
Hans Schnier
The Meetings of Anna
Heinrich Schneider
The Hamburg Syndrome
Sebastian
Ludwig
Dürckheim
The Devil's Lieutenant
Judge Advocate Kunze
1945
Public prosecutor
Shooting Stars
Gutke
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
Carl Gustav Carus
Die Grube
Helmuth Groscurth
Hard Days, Hard Nights
Kronschneider
Versuchung
Ludwig
The Lost Daughter
Rolf Sutter
Malou
Germany in Autumn
TV-Redakteur
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Franz Vogelsang
The Glass Cell
Phillip Braun
Antigone
Hämon
Bel Ami
Georges Duroy
The Original Trap
Benno
Liebe auf Bewährung
Albert Tieck
Piccolo Mondo Antico
Col. Greisberg
Fabrik der Offiziere
Oberleutnant Krafft
Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum
Romulka
Missus
Monsignor Kastner
Put on Ice
Brasch
Elective Affinities
Edouard Otto
Black Sun
Willi Mohr
Blick von der Brücke
Rodolfo
Landläufiger Tod
Die Brüder
Jean Roland
Girl from Hong Kong
Glenn Dierks
The Second Victory
Karl Fischer
Der Mörder in dir
Günther Lehmann
Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle
Dr. Heinrich Faust
Sting in the Flesh
Hans
Zum Geburtstag
Gabe Darcy
Der zerbrochene Krug
Die Stunde des Löwen
Professor Winterfeld
Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann
Pertussini
East Zone, West Zone
Hans
Der gefälschte Sommer
Stefan Hansen
Amokfahrt zum Pazifik
Oscar
Es fängt ganz harmlos an
Dieter Schwarz
Burning Heart
Gustav Regler
Liebe für Liebe
Valentine
Christinas Heimreise
Florindo
Children of Rage
Dr. David Shalom
A proposito di quella strana ragazza
Ugo