Benno Hoffmann
Birthday: Born in 1919-05-30 in Süderbrarup, Germany
Deathday: 2005-03-09
TV Credits
Auf Achse
Character: Taxiunternehmer
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world....
Butler Parker
Character: Carpenters Schläger
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Kommissar Brahm
Character: Alfredo Gonzales
Kommissar Brahm is a German television series....
Polizeifunk ruft
Character: Anton Bremer
Polizeifunk ruft is a German television series....
Polizeifunk ruft
Character: Älterer Kohlenträger
Polizeifunk ruft is a German television series....
Derrick
Character: Herr Mangold, 'Objektschutz'
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....
Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
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Der Fahnder
Character: Plaschke
Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985....
Gewagtes Spiel
Character: Igor Dimitrow
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Lokaltermin
Character: Bauunternehmer Kopp
Lokaltermin is a German television series....
Polizeistation
Character: Kapitän Klindt
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Im Auftrag von Madame
Character: Mijnherr Toggenbrug
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Stewardessen
Character: Schwieriger Fluggast
Dagmar Croner is a dedicated stewardess, who takes care of her passengers. She passes the exam to become a purser. She meets business travelers and tourists experiencing amusing and sometimes dramatic events on board....
Ein Herz und eine Seele
Character: Dr. Winterstein
Ein Herz und eine Seele is a German cult sitcom based on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part by Johnny Speight. The show premiered on January 15, 1973 and lasted for about twenty episodes, airing its last on November 4, 1974. In 1976, the show had a short-lived revival with another four episodes. Ein Herz und eine Seele was written by Wolfgang Menge. The show was extremely successful during its initial run and it still proves very popular in reruns. Two episodes in particular, Silvesterpun...
Percy Stuart
Character: George
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Großstadtrevier
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Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Eichholz & Söhne
Character: Paul Funke
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Locker vom Hocker
Character: Spezialagent Oberst Kusnovsk
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Verstehen Sie Spaß?
Character: Self
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Die Schlüssel
Character: Cliff Fletcher
The London fashion photographer Eric Martin expects his brother Philip Martin to return from Germany after a longer period of military service. When he arrives, Philip Martin reports an accident in Hamburg. He should bring items from the victim's wife to Dublin. However, Philip Martin behaves strangely, so that Eric Martin doubts the story. In fact, his brother travels to the Royal Falkon Hotel in Maidenhead and rents a room there....
Movie Credits
Die Halbzarte
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Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex....
Teenage Wolfpack
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The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juvenile delinquency in post-war West Germany....
The Canterville Ghost
Character: Mr. J.P. Otis
The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares....
Room 13
Character: Blackstone-Edward
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again......
No Pawing, Darling
Character: Gefangener
A man is thrown out by his girlfriend and moves in with a friend who is part of a group of terrorists plotting an assault on a department store....
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
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Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy......
Lina Braake
Character: Jawlonski
After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves ...
Die Entführung der Mainzelmännchen
Character: Senderchef
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The Fair
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In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a steel helmet, and a machine gun. The skeleton belongs to Robert Mertens, a plain soldier, who deserted in 1944 und flew to his home village. But when he arrived, no one wanted to help him, neither his former friends nor the minister, or even his own parents....
The Castle
Character: Schwarzer
A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an attendant at the castle....
Berlinger
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A fictional, non-chronological account of the life of the scientist, adventurer and industrialist Lukas Berlinger. The key dates and central events include Berlinger's birth in 1914, his friendship with Johannes Roeder, who was the same age, his marriage to Marlit in the early 1930s and Roeder's joining the NSDAP in 1936. As a chemist and "scientist important to the war effort", Berlinger was not required to go to the front during the Second World War, but it was slowly discovered that he was he...
Drei Männer im Schnee
Character: Leo Plotte
This film adaptation of Erich Kästner's book is about a millionaire who wants to travel to a hotel under a false name and test how "normal people" are treated. The hotel staff receive a warning, but mistake another man for the fake millionaire and treat him like God in France, while he doesn't feel the slightest bit of even luxurious treatment...
Der Lord von Barmbeck
Character: Pferdehändler
The film is based on the memoirs of Hamburg burglar Julius Adolf Petersen (1882-1933), who became famous as "Lord of Barmbeck". Petersen owed his status as a folk hero to the fact that he did not use any physical violence during his raids and only stole from rich people. After several times escaping, Petersen was finally sentenced to a long prison term. With no prospect of release, he took his own life in 1933....
The Foggy Night Murderer
Character: Komarek
A killer terrorizes the small German town of Hainsburg. The police moves in to investigate the crimes and finds a suspect among a small group of teenagers....
Der Transport
Character: Ketten-Charly
March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision....
Tragödie in einer Wohnwagenstadt
Character: Sankey
Superba is a trailer park surrounded by forest somewhere in the USA, twelve miles from the nearest town. The inhabitants are simple-minded, some of them primitive. When fifteen-year-old Dotty Fisher comes home distraught one day and says she was molested by a man in the woods, a committee of inquiry is formed made up of residents of the settlement. It is made up of three men who think nothing of the police and want to play judge at all costs. Because justice must remain justice. A manhunt for th...
Robin Hood, der edle Räuber
Character: Sir Douglas, Sheriff von Nottingham
Robin Hood, the noble robber with a gentle soul and hard fists, lives with his band of robbers in the forest of Sherwood. While he helps the poor, the perfidious Sheriff of Nottingham exploits the peasants, tyrannizes them and pockets their taxes. Because, in his opinion, no one is too poor to hand over money. Naturally, the folk hero cannot accept this......
Die Barrings
Character: Gutsinspektor Barbknecht
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Labyrinth
Character: Dr. Beckmeyer
Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure....
Beyond Control
Character: reicher Mann
Germany 1934. In the middle of a southern German forest, a number of mannequins are placed on the two men, Waldemar Velte and Kurt Sandweg from Wuppertal, with their repeating rifles organize shooting practice....
Das Glück läuft hinterher
Character: Theo Schallbecher
Follows the life of several different people in 1960s in Germany for a few days. The story begins, when a juvenile criminal steals an old woman's handbag in a post office and throws it into a parking car, when he feels observed. But there was a lot of money in that bag, and thereby a dozen fortunes become entwined....
2 x Adam, 1 x Eva
Character: Lehtinen
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Tomorrow Is My Turn
Character: Otto
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers....
Die keusche Susanne
Character: Krause
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Last Stop Love
Character: Fabrikarbeiter
Young factory worker Mecky Berger doesn't believe in "true love." For him, his female acquaintances are just a pastime. In his eyes and those of his friends, romance is something a man should be ashamed of. But then he meets Christa, who is so different from the women he has had affairs with in the past. His feelings for her are also of a previously unknown, confusing intensity—Mecky has fallen in love. But he first has to learn how to deal with this feeling......
Münchhausen in Afrika
Character: Wildhüter
The adventures of Baron Münchhausen jr. in Africa....
Der Opernball
Character: Jean
It's carnival in Paris and lawyer Paul is with his wife Angèle from London to visit his journalist friend Georges and his wife Marguèrite. At the upcoming opera ball, the two women want to put their husbands to the test....
Stefanie
Character: Herr 'Großer Bär'
Stefanie is flirting with an architect from Rio who could be her dad....
Wehe, wenn Schwarzenbeck kommt
Character: Schwarzenbeck
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Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas
Character: Medizinmann
Christopher Columbus's crazy idea of traveling to India can only be realized because the Spanish treasury is empty and Queen Isabella, who rules the country, is charmed by the charming, profit-seeking son of a poor weaver. With the ulterior motive of becoming the ruler of new lands and at the same time being able to polish up the ailing finances a little, Isabella commissions the navigator Columbus to set sail for the Spanish crown....
Werner: Eat My Dust!!!
Character: Bruno (voice)
Because of a bet, Werner and his friend have to construct the fastest vehicle to win a race, because life depends on it....
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
Character: Bruno (voice)
Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resulting animated films show episodes of the life of Werner, a plumber apprentice and motorbike enthusiast and his friends. They are interspersed with the live-action portions....
Werner - Volles Rooäää!!!
Character: Bruno (voice)
A wicked investor wants Werner's residential area razed to the ground in order to build a shopping center. However, building tycoon Günzelsen has not reckoned with Werner. Together with his master Röhrich he's planning to blow away the plumbings with a gigantic obstruction......
Annie Get Your Gun
Character: Sitting Bull
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The Cow and I
Character: un Garde
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way....
Professor Sound und die Pille
Character: Lehrer
Great excitement in the Principality of Allegretto. Professor Sound, owner of a sanatorium for musical instruments, has come up with a sensational invention: the music pill. Once swallowed, it transforms the worst sourpuss into a cheerful singing and dancing contemporary. The success is astounding, as is the response in the international media. The pill produces satisfied tax officials, happy drivers, cheerful police officers and smiling burglars. Tourism flourishes, as a trip to Allegretto soon...
Escape from East Berlin
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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....
Es begann bei Tiffany
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Mary & Gordy - Frau'n, Frau'n, Frau'n
Character: Self
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