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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Acting
Movie
Cabaret
as Maximilian von Heune
1972
Movie
The Damned
as Aschenbach
1969
Movie
Ludwig
as Dürckheim
1973
Movie
The Desert of the Tartars
as Lieutenant Simeon
1976
Movie
Voyage of the Damned
as Otto Schiendick
1976
Movie
The Meetings of Anna
as Heinrich Schneider
1978
TV
Tales of the Unexpected
as Alois
1979
TV
Berlin Alexanderplatz
as Sarug
1980
Movie
The Passerby
as Michel Wiener
1982
Movie
Breakthrough
as Major Stransky
1979
Movie
The McKenzie Break
as Kapitänleutnant Willi Schlueter
1970
Movie
Germany in Autumn
as TV-Redakteur
1978
Movie
The Plot to Kill Hitler
as Erwin Rommel
1990
Movie
The Hamburg Syndrome
as Sebastian
1979
TV
Das Traumschiff
as Herbert Ernst
1981
Movie
Because, Because of a Woman
as Johann Muller
1963
Movie
The Magic Mountain
as James Tienappel
1982
TV
Peter the Great
as Alexander Menshikov
1986
Movie
The Glass Cell
as Phillip Braun
1978
Movie
Malou
1981
TV
Detective Extralarge
1991
Movie
The Clown
as Hans Schnier
1976
TV
Der letzte Zeuge
as Karl Axer
1998
Movie
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
as Carl Gustav Carus
1986