Heinz Rühmann

Biography

Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor. Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heinz Rühmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Faraway, So Close!

as Konrad

The Punch Bowl

as Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer/Hans Pfeiffer

It Happened in Broad Daylight

as Oberleutnant Matthäi

Ship of Fools

as Lowenthal

The Captain from Kopenick

as Wilhelm Voigt

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

as Dr. John H. Watson / Macky McPherson

Hitler's Hollywood

as Various Roles (archive footage)

The Black Sheep

as Pater Brown

The Three from the Filling Station

as Hans

Er kanns nicht lassen

as Father Brown