Adrian Hoven
Birthday: Born in 1922-05-18 in Wöllersdorf, Austria
Deathday: 1981-04-28
TV Credits
Tatort
Character: Schriller-Lautenbach
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....
Hamburg Transit
Character: Paul Alban
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....
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Björnsson
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....
Bitte keine Polizei
Character: Nolte
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Alarm für Dora X
Character: Hans Brenner
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Das Ding
Character: Jossi
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Welt am Draht
Character: Professor Henry Vollmer
Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual reality computer project....
Abendschau
Character: Self
The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin....
Movie Credits
Shadow of Angels
Character: Herr Müller
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical ...
Martha
Character: Father Heyer
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her....
Secret of the Red Orchid
Character: Insp. Weston
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons....
The White Horse Inn
Character: Dr. Siedler
Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention....
Waldrausch
Character: Angelo
In order to stop the annual flooding, a dam is to be built in the mountain valley; a life-threatening undertaking for the inhabitants....
Cave of the Living Dead
Character: Insp. Frank Dorin
The German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local villagers. They call in Inspector Doren of Interpol, and the only clue the Chief Constable can give the detective is the fact that, each time a murder was committed, the electric lights in the whole neighborhood went out. The locals believe that the killings of the young girls are linked to the vague shadows in the caves under the local castle and to the mysterious Curse of the Green Eyes....
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
Character: Georg v. Kassell (voice)
In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle....
Succubus
Character: Ralf Drawes
Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotically charged sadomasochistic murders. As she begins to suffer violent, surreal nightmares, she starts to believe that she may be under mind control by a man who may be Satan incarnate....
Fox and His Friends
Character: Wolf Thiess, Eugen's Father
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness....
Epilogue
Character:
The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical problems. Out of personal curiosity, Zabel starts researching. Could the sinking of Orplid have political reasons? A German political thriller and film noir inspired by Carol Reed's "The Third Man"....
The Story of Vickie
Character: Prince Albert of Sachsen-Coburg
Vickie, short for Victoria, is crowned Queen of England and as such needs to learn the responsibilities of her new post....
Fear of Fear
Character: Dr. Merck
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives....
Mark of the Devil
Character: Nobleman
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job....
To Skin a Spy
Character: Kern
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French....
Ach Egon!
Character: Dr. Kurt Wehling
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Die Post geht ab
Character: Willy
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Inside Out
Character: Dr. Maar
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden....
Seven Hours of Gunfire
Character: Wild Bill Hickok
When he was 12 years old, Bill Cody, later knew as Buffalo Bill, is rider for "pony express" carrying the mail through the wilds of America. It becomes later caravans guide. When driving one of them meets Luisa, the niece of a priest who tried to evangelize the savage tribes accompanied by a converted Indian. It is a dangerous time because, before the advancing white man, the Sioux tribes are buying weapons from unscrupulous dealers......
Sünde mit Rabatt
Character: Doctor
Three murdered prostitutes, a perplexed commissioner, a trap for the killer and good atmosphere in the Apollo nightclub....
Jesse James' Kid
Character: Allen
Bill James is still a child when his father, Jesse James, is killed by his cousin Bob. Twenty years later, now with his father's image, his face causes him much trouble, because nobody can forgive him for looking like the man who, for so many years, had been the terror of the whole countryside....
Tim Frazer Hunts the Mysterious Mr. X
Character: Tim Frazer
British detective Tim Frazer hunts a myserious murderer who kills smugglers in the city of Antwerpen....
Canaris
Character: Oberleutnant Althoff
Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as they want him and is known to criticize their ideology....
Herzkönig
Character:
After drinking too much alcohol, King Michael XXXVII promptly forgets his own wedding date! To avoid a scandal, his police minister asks the writer Peter Petroni, who looks deceptively like the king, to stand in for the alcoholic Michael at the ceremony. The only trouble is that the game quickly turns serious - because when Peter catches sight of "his" bride at the altar, it's love at first sight......
So liebt und küsst man in Tirol
Character: Paul Kramer
A music comedy by Franz Marischka....
Kaiserjäger
Character: Oberleutnant Pacher
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Jungle Girl and the Slaver
Character: Frank
The sequel to 1956's "Liane, Jungle Goddess" finds the title character still a jungle goddess, but captured by slave traders....
Allotria in Zell am See
Character: Mark Fürberg
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Rommel ruft Kairo
Character: Johannes Eppler
In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British....
Ja, so ist das mit der Liebe
Character: Stefan Seidlitz
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Große Starparade
Character: Peter Hofer
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Three from the Gasoline Station
Character: Peter
Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends ... and hopelessly broke. But they don't let that stop them and in short order, they end up renting a deserted gas station. With just a little bit of wit and some elan, they'll bring the old girl back to life and all will look rosy ... until all three of them fall in love with the same dame: Gabi, the daughter of the director of a large gasoline firm. Thanks to her, their eternal friendship is really going to be put to the test....
Am Sonntag will mein Süßer mit mir segeln gehn
Character: Horst, der Scheidungsanwalt
Albert and Corinna begin a camping site in their backyard and soon welcome a bunch of eccentric, love lost holiday goers....
Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold
Character: Benninger
When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting....
Despair
Character: Inspector Schelling
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates....
Dr. Holl
Character: Tonio, Gärtner
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White King
Character: Finkenbauer
The daughter of a poor mountain farmer becomes pregnant by a young nobleman. Because he does not want to marry her, she commits suicide. Her brother Ferdl then wants to confront the count. A brawl ensues. Ferdl has to flee into the mountains, where he falls into a ravine and is presumed dead....
Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand
Character: Hunter Lerse
During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he defends the Bishop of Bamberg. He is declared an enemy of the empire and ostracized as a robber. Insurgent peasants, of whom he becomes the leader, also betray him by attacking a town against the condition that no violence be used....
Ihr erstes Rendezvous
Character: Rolf
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My Sister and I
Character: Rudi Becker
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The Murderer with the Silk Scarf
Character: Waldemar Fürst
The Murderer with the Silk Scarf...
Pulverschnee nach Übersee
Character: Bertl Unteraigner
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Satan’s Brew
Character: Arzt
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation....
I Aim at the Stars
Character: Mischke
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites....
Liane, Daughter of the Jungle
Character: Frank
A German expedition is in the African jungles on an unidentified misson. During this mission one of the German explorers, Thoren, is attacked and captured by the local natives called the Botos....
Maria Theresia
Character: Cordona, Leutnant
A biography of the eighteenth century Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa....
Heimatland
Character: Hans Bachinger
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Die unentschuldigte Stunde
Character: Dr. Hans Weiringk
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Opernball
Character: Richard Stelzer
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Der Dorfmonarch
Character: Stefan Wimpflinger - der Sohn
Alois Wimpflinger is the mayor of a village located in the Bavarian Alps. This grumpy but kind-hearted man is happily married to Wally and the happy father of Stefan, himself happily engaged to a charming village girl. All this sounds too idyllic to last and it doesn't! Put the blame on Christine, an unexpected visitor, who happens to be both a beautiful young woman and a talented dancer. All the men go off their heads and all the women lose their temper as soon as they see her. A cute pink litt...
Passionate Doctor
Character: Dr. Manfred Wiegand
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Saison in Salzburg
Character: Heinz Doll
The actors Heinz Doll, Hans Stiegler and Werner Mack have failed to look after the end of the last season in time for a new commitment and are now unemployed. Since they are just right that the Salzburg mountain hotel "Zum Blaue Enzian" staff looking for....
The Black Cobra
Character: Peter Karner
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence....
Lilli, a Girl from the Big City
Character: Bill Morton
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: she shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with just one look from her! Now she is to attend a missionary convention in Sicily. Nothing special? The apparently routine job develops into a murder case....
Vienna, City of My Dreams
Character: Peter Lehnert, Musikprofessor
In the made-up country of Alanien, King Alexander I has been overthrown while abroad. Now, he's in Vienna with his daughter, the city of his fondest memories since studying there as a boy. It doesn't take long for the charm of Vienna to work its magic on the former king: he quickly comes to terms with the new situation and is able to enjoy the Austrian capital sans all the ceremony and trappings which would otherwise accompany him on a state visit. The princess is content with preparing herself ...
Heimat, deine Sterne
Character: Jagerloisl
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Circus Girl
Character: Gowaran
Sequel to “Stars above Columbo”: Yrida, a circus rider who has been abducted to India, wakes up in the maharajah's palace, where the court physician convinces her that she has only dreamed all the terrible events. The maharaja tries to win her love. At the same time, assassins are planning to overthrow the maharaja. The maharaja's son, Gowaran, falls under suspicion. His innocence is only proven when the temple dancer and lover of the maharaja chooses suicide. The maharaja abdicates and appoints...
Stars Over Colombo
Character: Gowaran
Adventure film in an exotic setting based on the “Indian Tomb”: While visiting a circus in Germany, the Indian maharajah Gowan sees the rider Yrida, who comes from Swedish nobility. The maharajah falls in love with the circus rider and quickly sends the entire circus to Ceylon, where he courts Yrida. But Yrida loves someone else: the student Gowaran, who she does not know is the maharajah's son. In order to get Yrida completely under his control, the maharaja has her drugged and abducted to his ...
The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
Character: Mario Martino
Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijin...
Hannerl: Ich tanze mit Dir in den Himmel hinein
Character: Peter Bergmeister
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Gefangene Seele
Character:
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Ehe für eine Nacht
Character: Komma
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Karneval in Weiß
Character: Hans Brugger
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Wer bist Du, den ich liebe?
Character: Franz
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Das Rätsel der grünen Spinne
Character: Ted Wagner
At the cabaret "The Green Spider", a stranger shoot the singer. Since the murder happens during a trumpet solo nobody hears the shot....
Der Bagnosträfling
Character: Victor
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Two Undercover Angels
Character: Mr. Radeck
"Red Lips" are two female detectives trying to find missing models and dancers. A pop artist called Klaus Thriller and his werewolf-like assistant, Morpho, are the main suspects for the murderers....
50/50
Character: Bettler
Two men lose their jobs and have to start from scratch. They go their separate ways about it, but their paths sometimes cross....
Tromba
Character: Rudy Walheim, Sportstudent
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Secrets of the City
Character: Gerhard Scholz
An industrial plant gets into difficulties. The factory owner then decides to sell the company and makes all the employees redundant. How do the dismissed employees deal with the new situation?...
Like Once Lili Marleen
Character: Franz Brugger
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Sing, aber spiel nicht mit mir
Character: Raul Thorsten
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Foxhole in Cairo
Character: John Eppler
A German spy in Cairo must report back to Rommel with information on British positions....
Kiss Me Monster
Character: Eric Vicas
On an island somewhere in the Caribbean a professor is experimenting with mankind. Meanwhile, The Red Lips are moonlighting on a striptease world tour, but as soon as they hit the stage, the girls are up to their pasties in stiffs, Satanists and Sapphic sadists, all after the professor's secret formula for human clones!...
La pente douce
Character:
A married woman visits an old house with a real estate agent. This event sends her into a world of obsession, and she ends up losing her mind....
Lili Marleen
Character: Ginsberg
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”....
Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren
Character: Tony de Boers
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Die blonde Frau des Maharadscha
Character: Gowaran
Maharaj Gowan is in love with the blonde circus rider Yrida. However, the son of the Maharaj also have strong feelings for her....
Doddy und die Musketiere
Character: Athos
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Island of the Amazons
Character: Manuel
Seven women take off on a cargo boat for a cruise, after graduating from an exclusive boarding school in Switzerland. They party with the ship's crew, but in port they meet up with Manuel, who runs a meteorological station with his father on a remote Amazon island. While out there, Manuel's father has found a crashed airplane carrying gold ingots. Manuel goes to the mainland to tell of his father's finding and is overheard by a gangster. The gangsters head over to the island and shoot Manuel's f...
Hurra - ein Junge!
Character: Dr. Kurt Wehling
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Looping
Character: Capone
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival....
Schattenboxer
Character:
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Mark of the Devil Part II
Character: Count Alexander von Salmenau (uncredited)
A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition....
Death on a Rainy Day
Character: Paul Riviere
Two French agents fight a Chinese sect that aims to control the American Secretary of Defence via high-tech medicine, so that he would start a world war....
The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried
Character: Blonde and Bearded Showman with the Eggs (uncredited)
An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Siegfried....
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Character: Redacteur - in - chief Linke (uncredited)
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life....
Good Evening Paris
Character: Paul Freitag
A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one....