Horst Janson
Birthday: Born in 1935-10-04 in Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany
Deathday: 2025-01-28
Horst Janson was born on October 4, 1935 in Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. He is known for Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974), Der Bastian (1973) and Härte 10 (1974). He has been married to Helgardt 'Hella' Ruthardt since June 10, 1982. They have two children. He was previously married to Monika Lundi.
TV Credits
Upstairs, Downstairs
Character: Baron Klaus von Rimmer
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War....
Smuggler
Character:
Set during the Napoleonic wars of the early 1800s, Oliver Tobias stars as Jack Vincent, a swashbuckling ex-British naval captain turned smuggler. A strong-willed, independent man who lives by both his wits and the sword, Vincent is ably assisted by Sarah and petty thief Honesty Evans in his struggle to stay one step ahead of the Excise Men......
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Peter Schmelz
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by G...
Der Bastian
Character: Bastian Guthmann
Der Bastian is a German television series written by Barbara Noack, broadcast in 13 episodes between 1972 and 1973 on ZDF....
Tatort
Character: Felix van Meeren
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Unter weißen Segeln
Character: Bernd Jensen
Unter weißen Segeln is a German television series....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Schumacher
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Hamburg Transit
Character: Horst Schanzer
Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970....
Salto Mortale
Character: Sascha Doria
Salto Mortale is a German television series....
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde
Character: König Berthold
Die ProSieben Märchenstunde is a television movie series that has been produced since 2006. It features characters that are exclusively portrayed by German and Austrian comedians and actors. The series is shot in Prague. The screenplays have - amongst others - been written by Tommy Krappweis, Erik Haffner and Norman Cöster who came up with the stories of Bernd das Brot. Additionally, they are directing and have cameo appearances. Many actors use their respective dialect. Die ProSieben Märchens...
Countdown – Die Jagd beginnt
Character: Kuhn
Countdown – Die Jagd beginnt is a German television series....
Inga Lindström
Character: Tore Hasselrot
Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters....
Die Strandclique
Character: Edgar Kimling
Die Strandclique is a German television series....
Der letzte Bulle
Character: Hannes Kampeter
Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police department in Essen....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character:
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....
Küstenwache
Character: Peter de Waal
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea....
Küstenwache
Character: Manfred Kulick
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea....
Friedliche Weihnachten
Character: Tamme Brandt
Johanna (Valerie Huber) and Anton (Timur Bartels) have been in seventh heaven for almost a year when planning their Christmas together at the beginning of November put their young happiness to the test. While the two would prefer to spend the celebration of love, which also coincides with their anniversary, alone, their families exist, especially Johanna's father Prof. Dr. dr Dietrich Hansen (Uwe Ochsenknecht), on old traditions and demand the respective presence of the two. Johanna has the savi...
Die Protokolle des Herrn M
Character: Jürgen Textor
...
Körner und Köter
Character: John
A funny comedy about a various adventures of Körner (Grains) family and their dog....
Forsthaus Falkenau
Character: Herr Vellberg
Forsthaus Falkenau is a German television series....
Das perfekte Promi-Dinner
Character: Self
...
Das Traumhotel
Character: Robert Kaufmann
...
Am laufenden Band
Character: Self - Guest
...
Die Rosenheim-Cops
Character: Dr. Daxenberger
A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer....
Sylvia – Eine Klasse für sich
Character:
...
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee
Character: Fredy Dunka
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee is a German television series....
Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau
Character: Jochen Brettschneider
...
Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
...
Die Pfefferkörner
Character: Hans von der Hagen
Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. ...
Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!
Character: Self
...
SOKO Köln
Character: Heinrich König
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city....
Ein Fall für TKKG
Character: Herr Lattmann
Ein Fall für TKKG is a German television series....
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Peter Mangold
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour....
Landarzt Dr. Brock
Character: Michael Rühling
Landarzt Dr. Brock is a German television series....
In aller Freundschaft
Character: Dr. Ingo Petersen
German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig....
Der Landarzt
Character: Felix Spöri
...
SOKO München
Character: Konrad von Senggen
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
SOKO München
Character: Dr. Jan Rudolph
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
Familie Dr. Kleist
Character:
Examining different species of animals as they grow to adulthood and learn life lessons that are sometimes difficult....
Härte 10
Character: Piet van Straaten
...
Unsere schönsten Jahre
Character: Stefan Fuchs
Unsere schönsten Jahre is a German television series....
Der Staatsanwalt
Character: Roland Denzer
...
Les Grands Détectives
Character: Allan
...
MDR um 4
Character: Self
...
Der Landarzt
Character: Jesper Jensen
...
Dalli Dalli
Character: Self - Candidate
...
Für alle Fälle Stefanie
Character: Vater Söderbrunn
Für alle Fälle Stefanie is an German medical drama television series created by Werner Krämer that aired on Sat.1 from May 15, 2005 to August 29, 2005. It was produced by Novafilm Fernsehproduktion. Für alle Fälle Stefanie follows the professional and personal life of nurse Stefanie Engel, then Stephanie Wilde and for a short time Fanny 'Stephanie' Stephan. The show was a giant success for the network and had around seven, in later years, five million viewers on a weekly basis. It won the Golden...
Die Laubenpieper
Character: Benno Lachmann
...
Die Montagsmaler
Character: Self
...
Die Pyramide
Character: Self
...
Bambi-Verleihung
Character: Self
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods ...
Wer weiß denn sowas?
Character: Self
...
Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
...
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
...
Kölner Treff
Character: Self
...
Nachtcafé
Character: Self
...
maybrit illner
Character: Self
...
DAS!
Character: Self
...
NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
...
Beckmann
Character: Self
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show....
Hart aber fair
Character: Self
...
Ein Herz für Kinder
Character: Self
...
Riverboat
Character: Self
...
SOKO München
Character: Wolfgang Mahler
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
Movie Credits
The McKenzie Break
Character: Leutnant Neuchl
A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland....
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Character: Captain Kronos
When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr. Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness....
The Privilege
Character: Grandpa Bergmann
A wealthy teen and his friends attending an elite private school uncover a dark conspiracy while looking into a series of strange supernatural events....
Twins from Immen Farm
Character: Alexander Arkens
Alexander Arkens lives a happy life as the tenant of the Immenhof. His twin daughters Billy and Bobby also feel good. Then Alexander receives the message that the owner of the farm wants to increase the rent. A little later, Dalli, the farm owner, visits the estate of her youth. There is a huge spark between her and Alexander....
Frühling auf Immenhof
Character: Alexander Arkens
There is a lot of sunshine on the traditional Immenhof: owner Dalli and tenant Alexander Arkens want to give the javascript soon. Even Alexander's twin daughters Billy and Bobby and grandma Arkens have the sympathetic Dalli closed in her heart. But while the witty twins enjoy country life, the Immenhof is once again in financial trouble. A loan, which is due to be repaid, is a big concern for Dalli and Alexander. While Dalli wants to ask for help at her former job, Alexander wants to come to mon...
Der Kapitän
Character: 2. Offizier Jörg Neher
Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his current old barge, the Martin Luther, has to go into the shipyard for an overhaul, the shipping company gives him command of the elegant cruise ship Julia to temporarily replace a colleague who has fallen ill. The rough Ebbs finds his way into his new job only with difficulty and initially puts his foot in his social mouth....
Flaschendrehen
Character: Hansen Senior
Kissing before Customers, that's Gretchen and Sarah's motto. And both are flirting with the enenmy. Literally. Clemens, who with his business partner is after the same assignment as them, is the center of their attention. When it comes to his intentions, though......
Battle of the Godfathers
Character: Erik
Hamburg business man Otto Westermann is also the boss of organized crime in the city. His reign as godfather is in danger, though, as an ambitious Sicilian mafioso enters the fray. His goal is clear and simple: he wants to take over Hamburg. But Westermann isn't as easy to defeat as the Sicilian expects. And soon Hamburg is on the verge of a bloody mob war....
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
Character: Yuma Sheriff Randall
A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a ...
Hijacked to Hell
Character: Martin Forster
Released directly to video, this action film features John Phillip Law as Ted Barner, a low-level employee of a corporation in Indonesia who is charged with testing a new laser weapon. Accompanied by an engineer who works for the corporation and a friend, Barner heads out to the test site with the laser in tow. Before the three can get very far, they must outrun an evil Texas industrialist who intends to grab the laser for himself. They are joined by a female reporter and end up at the site of t...
Winnetou und das Geheimnis der Geisterschlucht
Character: Erzähler
...
Das Riesenrad
Character: Harry
...
Familie ist was Wunderbares
Character: Paul Hieronymus
...
Crazy - Total verrückt
Character: Alex Ross
A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb...
To Catch a King
Character: General Schellenberg
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the time (1942) in Portugal....
Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen
Character: Helmut
...
Böseckendorf - Die Nacht, in der ein Dorf verschwand
Character: Pfarrer
...
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Character: Morten Schwarzkopf
First part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in mid 19th century Germany....
That Guy Loves Me, Am I Supposed to Believe That?
Character: Rainer Forst
A woman moves back and forth between two men and two cities....
Fliegen lernen
Character: Dr. Steinberg
Apothecary Eva had after the painful separation of her husband Christian life and emotions rearranged. A new relationship is out of the question for the 42-year-old, she just wants to be there for her two almost grown-up sons and one day to take over the pharmacy of her still-mother-in-law. Out of the blue, however, the more than ten years younger doctor Hendrik burst into her life and makes no secret that he has fallen in love with her. Eva suddenly struggles with feelings she never wanted to a...
Schlaflos
Character: Herr Sagmeister
...
Das Nürnberger Bett
Character:
A successful writer of crime stories, is missing and searching a special, antique bed which used to be his source of inspiration....
A Glass of Water
Character: Arthur Masham
Intrigue and scheming at the court of Queen Anne of England between liberal Lord Bolingbroke and Lady Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. German comedy after the play of Eugène Scribe....
Deadly Jaws
Character: Hans Färber
Two divers find a treasure map, which apparently points to a sunken treasure below the ocean. They hire a professional to help them get the gold but this guy turns out to have a few secrets of his own....
Escape from East Berlin
Character: Günther Jürgens
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom....
Die Wittelsbacher
Character: Dr. Schneider
...
Shout at the Devil
Character: Kyller
During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915....
The Cry of the Wild Geese
Character: Sven Sandbo
...
Murphy's War
Character: Lauchs
Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing days of World War II. He is rescued, and ends up at a forgotten mission station near the mouth of the Orinoco, and begins to plot his vengeance. He wishes to sink the U-Boat by means of any method imaginable to him, and sets about to make the courageous attempt, assisted by Louis, the administrator of the local oil company....
The Devil May Well Laugh
Character: Jürgen Lüdecke
Three bums get played by the devil....
Les mystères de Sadjurah
Character: Schwartz
A cabaret singer is dragged into a crazy adventure after being mistaken for an archaeologist who is her look-alike....
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
Character: Thomas Ungermann
...
Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung
Character: Thomas Nemes
A vet has successfully taken over her father's practice. Now the already smouldering marital crisis comes to a head when anonymous letters accuse her husband of having an affair. Meanwhile, the doctor is being courted by the local mayor....
Tierärztin Christine
Character: Thomas Nemes
When her father suffers a heart attack, Christine, a qualified vet, travels with her two children from Munich to Carinthia to take over his veterinary practice while he recovers. However, this puts her marriage to architect Thomas, which is already in crisis, to the test. While the jealous Thomas is on a business trip to Salzburg, the attractive Christine is being courted in Carinthia by the charming farmer Georg Reiser....
…und noch frech dazu!
Character: Fred
...
Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
Character: Leo Knauf
...
The Sword and the Balance
Character: Mac
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle....
The Broken Crown
Character: Detective Gruber
A crime drama directed by Ruben Maria Soriquez....
Liebe, Tod & viele Kalorien
Character: Kurt Markmann
...
Da wo es noch Treue gibt
Character:
...
The Sword and the Balance
Character:
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle....
Breakthrough
Character: Captain Berger
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy....
A Woman Needs Loving
Character: George
All could have gone smoothly if George, the man Jane, a beautiful library assistant, met in a park, had not been bitten by a dog. But the sight of blood spilling from the body of a man who attracts plunges the young woman into the vortex of a neurosis upsetting her sex life, leading her to a short encounter with lesbian love....
You Can't Win 'Em All
Character: Wollen
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport....
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
Character: Self - Actor
The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic monsters populated oppressive scenarios in provocative productions that shocked censorship and disgusted critics but fascinated the public. Movies in which horror was shown in offensive colors: dreadful stories, told without prejudices, that offered fear, blood, sex and stunning performances....
Destruction of Silence
Character: Philipp Schmidt (old)
...
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?
Character: Sheriff Villaggio
An eccentric bounty hunter named Providence captures and sets free a criminal in order to collect the same bounty over and over again in different states, until they discover that a local sheriff is up to something crooked....
The Last Days of Patton
Character: Baron von Wangenheim
Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice; his childhood; and his days on the WWI battlefields....
The Purloined Letter
Character: Allan
Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives....