Otto Tausig
Birthday: Born in 1922-02-13 in Vienna, Austria
Deathday: 2011-10-10
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Otto Tausig (13 February 1922 – 10 October 2011) was an Austrian writer, director and actor. Although he usually appeared in German language films, he also played in films in English such as Love Comes Lately, and in French in such as La Reine Margot and Place Vendôme. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otto Tausig, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Kommissar Rex
Character: Herr Watzek
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger....
Schimanski
Character: Rabbi Moishe Ginsburg
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Tatort
Character: Sammy Klein
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....
Tatort
Character: Oberinspektor Klein
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....
Tatort
Character: Samy Klein
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....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Fiete
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Die Alpensaga
Character: Gendarm
A six-part film series addressing the problems of rural Austria from 1900 to 1945. Contrary to the traditional "Heimatfilm", the Alpensaga detaches itself from typical clichés and tries to depict a critical view of societal structures of the time. World history is shown from the view of a peasant family living in a small village in Upper Austria....
Ein Heim für Tiere
Character: Herr Plischke
Ein Heim für Tiere is a German television series....
Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Hans Lahnsteiner
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Kommissar Rex
Character: Pfarrer Hannes Auer
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger....
Trautmann
Character: Oberst a.D. Geyer
Trautmann is an Austrian television series....
Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten
Character: Prof. Moritz Sonnenblum
Telerop 2009 – Es ist noch was zu retten is a German television series....
The Wanderer
Character: Mathias
The Wanderer is a television series of British origin, first transmitted in 1994 and comprising 13 episodes. Every episode brings a new adventure, and the story of long-ago brothers Adam and Zachary, Princess Beatrice, and Lady Clare slowly unfolds as the present-day Adam searches for the original Zachary's grave, a magic stone, and a lost book of power. The show was created by Tom Gabbay, who also served as Executive Producer of the series, which was filmed on locations in Austria, Germany, S...
SOKO Donau
Character: Peter Hallbach
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series....
Locker vom Hocker
Character: Dr. Seelenfeind
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Kronprinz Rudolf
Character: Mönch
Drama about the last ten years of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria....
Movie Credits
Roots
Character:
Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover tha...
Love Comes Lately
Character: Max Kohn
Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a film about real and imagined longings, the never ending dream of love and the power of fiction....
The Port of Last Resort
Character: Adolf Stopfer (voice)
Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII....
Nocturne Indien
Character: Peter Schlemihl
The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemihl (Otto Tausig) is a concentration camp survivor, who went to India after being captivated by a photograph he saw there. When the prostitute writes to him in Europe asking that he rescue his friend from a mysterious malaise, he flies into India...
Der Nikolaus im Haus
Character: Opa Meier
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Berlin '36
Character: Leo Löwenstein
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on September 10, 2009. Reporters at Der Spiegel challenged the historical basis for many of the events in the film, pointing to arrest records and medical examinations indicating German authorities did not learn Dora Ratjen was male until 1938....
Kurzer Prozeß
Character: Brenner
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Bomber & Paganini
Character: Simulant
The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup....
Gebürtig
Character:
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past....
Place Vendôme
Character: Samy
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life....
Kill Daddy Good Night
Character: Großvater
The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itself miserably in today's Vienna. The condemnation of the last century bundled in these three families showing clearly that one could never escape from its own past. Written by themoth-1...
Is was, Kanzler?
Character:
October 1982: The entire German political scene is corrupt, the German government a puppet of the USA. To play it safe, the CIA replaces German politicians with compliant doubles. When the chancellor's doppelganger, of all people, is to be taken out of circulation, the secret service accidentally kills the real chancellor, who is floating dead in the swimming pool. Agent Erwin of the Federal Criminal Police Office is assigned to solve the case......
Epsteins Nacht
Character: Karl Rose
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Hofrat Geiger
Character: Großvater Mühlhuber
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Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne
Character: Padre Umberto
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Attempted Flight
Character: Maurer
The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own....
Queen Margot
Character: Mendès
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre....
Everyman's Feast
Character: Vater
Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann ("John Everyman") deals with a rich man on his deathbed coming to terms with his life's failures. Not following much of a plot, the modernized version involves famous fashion designer Jedermann (Klaus Maria Brandauer) imagining his last bi...
Egon Schiele
Character:
Biographical TV movie about controversial Austrian artist Egon Schiele....
Debt of Love
Character: Auracher
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. However, she quickly realizes that in fact, she hardly knew her father, and tries to trace the various stages and encounters that made up his life. Much later, she realizes that the search for the identity of her father has actually become a sear...
Glücksbringer
Character: Viktor Wagner
Agnes, the proud managing director of a renowned Viennese jewelery business, has been happily married to the jeweler Leo Wieland for 17 years. He designs for her the exclusive collections and proves her despite the obvious age difference - Leo is a lot younger than his wife - every day his great love. But everything changes when Agnes receives a devastating diagnosis from her doctor: lung cancer. By chance, the couple will one day get to know little Max and his attractive mother Vera. In the ter...
The Uppercrust
Character: Kramml
This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt"....
Black Flamingos - Sie lieben euch zu Tode
Character:
An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of wifes murdering their husbands to get an early widowers pension....