Amadeus August
Birthday: Born in 1942-05-06 in Wrocław, Poland
Deathday: 1992-07-06
TV Credits
Dallas
Character: Frederik Ober
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's....
Tatort
Character: Kurt Sander
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....
Der Kommissar
Character: Rolf Bergmann
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein....
Quentin Durward
Character: Quentin Durward
Quentin Durward is a French-German swashbuckler TV series. It was produced in 1970, directed by Gilles Grangier and broadcast in 1971. The series starred the German actor Amadeus August as the protagonist and the French actress Marie-France Boyer as Isabelle de Croye. The series was based on Sir Walter Scott's in 1823 published novel Quentin Durward. It concerns a Scottish soldier who serves French King Louis XI while the King has to overcome the schemes of his rival Charles the Bold and Jean Ba...
Sándor Mátyás
Character: Báthory István
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Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Character: Count von Haugwitz-Reventlow
The true story of Barbara Hutton, who had inherited $40 million by the age of 6. This insight explores the effects that money can have on one's life, loves, and careers....
Derrick
Character: Gregor
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Ein Heim für Tiere
Character: Jürgen Graeter
Ein Heim für Tiere is a German television series....
Der Alte
Character: Martin Ackermann
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Derrick
Character: Dr. Klemm
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Der Alte
Character: Daniel Grevenau
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Gerhard Becker
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Torsten Horstmann
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Philip Belum
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Disco
Character: Self
Disco was a pop music program that aired in Germany on the ZDF network from 1971 to 1982. It generally aired on the first Saturday of each month at 7:30PM, each show running 45 minutes. 133 shows were produced. The show was hosted by German actor and comedian Ilja Richter. Its lesser known predecessor on ZDF, 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet was aired between 1966 and 1970, presenters included Ilja Richter and Suzanne Doucet. Disco generally served a younger pop-oriented audience compared to ZDF's Hitparade,...
Der Alte
Character: Albert Pfeiffer
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Manfred Triberg
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs
Character: Maurice Bernard
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs is a German television series....
Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
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Die Pyramide
Character: Self
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La Conquête du ciel
Character: Lutz
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Movie Credits
Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
Character: Anführer der Spione
In this wacky comedy, teen-aged Tony (Bentley C. Mitchum) has never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks down the clues he has as well as he can....
Lenin: The Train
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March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair ...
Bloody Friday
Character: Christian Hofbauer
Womanizing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorat...
Der Schwan
Character:
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The Wild Goose Chase
Character: Gunther
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?...
Night of the Fox
Character: Muller
This classic war mini-series stars George Peppard and Michael York in a gripping tale of danger, intrigue, and a deadly secret that could determine the fate of millions. U.S. Officer Colonel Hugh Kelso has inside knowledge about the imminent and highly secretive D-Day Invasion. When he washes ashore behind enemy lines, special agents Harry Martineau and Sara Drayton of the Allied Forces must stage a covert rescue to save his life – or end it – before the Germans acquire the valuable information...
Bite Me, Darling
Character: Peter Busch
A descendant of Count Dracula returns to his ancestral village to take revenge on the people who destroyed his ancestor....
The Outsider
Character: Le bagarreur du club « Le Carré d'as »
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal....
Die keusche Susanne
Character: Paul
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Sie liebten sich einen Sommer
Character: Stefan
The young medical student Claudia falls in love with the unknown but talented painter Stefan, whom she helps to get an assignment in Rome. They both get married before Stefan travels to Rome. When Claudia visits him there, they both spend the most wonderful days. The two's happiness doesn't last long......
Seventeen and Anxious
Character: Robert
Zbynek Brynych's forgotten masterpiece "Oh Happy Day" is best described as coming-of-age-psychedelia....
Heiße Kartoffeln
Character: Dr. Johannes Kniefel
Thanks to some misunderstandings, an art student gets into the role of a gynecologist. And as a gynecologist he makes the ladies happy....
The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
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The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted singer Klare Hell. Klare shows no gratitude however....
The Assault
Character: Hauptsturmfuhrer
At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who witnessed the killing runs into the members of the resistance who committed the killing....