Dietmar Schönherr
Birthday: Born in 1926-05-17 in Innsbruck, Austria
Deathday: 2014-07-18
TV Credits
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Character:
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district....
Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion
Character: Major Cliff Allister McLane
Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966 six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany. Being a huge success with several reruns audience ratings went up to 56%. Over the years, the series acquired a distinct cult status in Germany....
By Way of the Stars
Character: Friedrich Brunneck
A young boy's search for his father takes him from 19th century Prussia to the wilds of the American West....
Tatort
Character: Siegmar Frick
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....
Berliner Weiße mit Schuß
Character: Dr. Maisch
Berliner Weiße mit Schuß is a German television series....
Tatort
Character: Lunik van Deeling
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: Alois Egger
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....
Polizeifunk ruft
Character: Eric Oswald
Polizeifunk ruft is a German television series....
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Prof. Dr. Rolf Diehl
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Zwei Brüder
Character: Julius Herzfeld
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Beckmann
Character: Self
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Claus Brinkstedt
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....
Der Bergdoktor
Character: Jack Harrison
Der Bergdoktor is a German-Austrian medical drama television series, broadcast in 96 episodes between 1992 and 1997....
Am laufenden Band
Character: Self - Guest
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Stars in der Manege
Character: Self
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Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Opa Messmer
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Auf eigene Gefahr
Character: Richard Korting
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SOKO Kitzbühel
Character: Martin Bergmann
SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties....
Klimbim
Character: Self
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Es geschah an der Grenze
Character: Karl 'Charly' Binder
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Familie Dr. Kleist
Character: Friedrich Ewersbusch
Examining different species of animals as they grow to adulthood and learn life lessons that are sometimes difficult....
Reporter
Character: Herbst, Chefredakteur
Reporter Azade Celik and top photographer Pit Wilkens work for a magazine. A plane crash puts the unequal pair on the trail of the news dealer Nielsen. Nielsen offers highly explosive material about planned terrorist actions....
Tatort
Character: Willy Tindle
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....
Luftsprünge
Character: Ulli Wallner
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Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
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Nachtcafé
Character: Self
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Die Pyramide
Character: Self
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Die Rudi Carrell Show
Character:
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Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
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alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
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Boulevard Bio
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Musik & Gäste
Character: Self
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Die Arbeitersaga
Character: Rafft
This sociocritical film series in 4 parts is a follow-up to the Alpensaga and depicts the economic and cultural development in Austria after the war. Individual films focus on the themes of individualization and the rise of consume culture as well as the political shift of the dominating social democratic forces from a blue-collar party to more market oriented policies....
Heut' abend
Character: Self
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Angelique - Das unbezähmbare Herz
Character: Gustave
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Movie Credits
Utta Danella - Der blaue Vogel
Character: Jon Kamphoven
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Kill Me Gently
Character: Allan and George Hood
One of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film's best action occurs....
Go Trabi Go 2: Those Were the Days of the Wild East
Character: Gustav Hohenstein
Elated by the Italian attitude to life, family Struutz returns to Bitterfeld and experiences a shock: In the turmoil of the reunification her house must give way to a golf course. Hope Udo teacher, his wife Rita and daughter Jacqueline through the surprising inheritance of a factory near Dresden. But of market economy, the staid Saxons unfortunately have no idea. Help comes in the guise of adventurer and condoms dealer Charlie, who works as a "business consultant" and gives Udo a Rock & Roll cra...
Otto ist auf Frauen scharf
Character: Christian Bongert
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Code 7, Victim 5
Character: Paul
The first victim is the butler of South African millionaire Wexler, who hires hard-hitting private eye Steve Martin for protection. Once at Wexler’s palatial Cape Town estate, Martin meets the patriarch’s family, close associates – and possible suspects. When it’s discovered that the key to the killing may lie in an old war photograph, Martin sets out on a mission to unravel the identities of the men in the picture before they become target two through VICTIM 5....
Am I Beautiful?
Character: Juan
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, without knowing it, at a pivotal moment in their lives......
Handyman
Character: Dr. Meyer
Mike Duerst gets dumped by his girlfriend, because she is pregnant by her former boyfriend. In his despair Mike gets in contact with Gregor Frank, a psychologist, who, in his radio show, claims to know all about women.Gregor promises Mike to find the perfect woman, if he agrees to be the subject for his upcoming psychological advisory book. Mike accepts. So Gregor explains Mike the typical patterns of women's behavior....
Les amours de Blanche Neige
Character:
A young girl nicknamed Snow White is part of the French ski team. She is courted by four international champions who challenge each other on the snow to win her heart. But everything gets complicated with the arrival of an Austrian champion....
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Character: Günter Krüger
Landlord Kohlhiesl has two twin daughters that nevertheless couldn't be more different: Liesel is beautiful, feminine, sophisticated, educated and in love with a fellow, Toni, from back home. The other daughter, Susi, is clumsy, masculine, never left home and wants nothing to do with men. Liesel would dearly love to marry Tony, but her father refuses to allow the wedding until her sister Susi has found a husband first......
Mozambique
Character: Henderson
An American pilot assists the Portuguese colonial police who are battling a gang of criminals involved in drug smuggling from Lisbon to Mozambique to Zanzibar....
Coast of Skeletons
Character: Piet van Houten
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion....
Ferien mit Piroschka
Character: Alfi Trattenbach
The young heartbreaker Thomas Laurends, son of a wealthy Hamburg family, is sent to Hungary to buy horses for his father's stud farm. This comes in very handy for Thomas. It allows him to escape his clingy girlfriend Karin for a while. However, his stay is complicated when Karin follows him to the Puszta, but Thomas has fallen in love with the passionate Tery in the meantime....
Hello Kathrin
Character: Duval
German musical with Caterina Valente and Peter Alexander....
Secret of the Chinese Carnation
Character: Dr. Cecil Wilkens
Professor Wilkens has invented a formula for a new type of fuel and puts it on a microfiche that he sends to his daughter and her bodyguard, but multiple different mysterious groups, including the "Chinese Carnation", would kill to get their hands on it....
Die Story
Character: Showmaster
The young Munich sensational reporter Raoul Miller has attacked a lot of people in his cocaine report, who now take terrible revenge: they kill his girlfriend Raphaela and his parents. The drug mafia also ensures that Raoul loses his good reputation and becomes an outsider. But Raoul does not give up......
Tanner
Character: Steiner
During the WW2, a Swiss mountain farmer, refuses to follow the government policy to increase self-sufficiency with produce. In his opinion, the steep mountain pastures are not suited for agriculture. Most of the villagers agree. However some begin to cultivate. Even after all his fellow farmers have given in and have started to plant cops, Tanner continues his opposition and ignores all letters and instructions. This leads to a series of reprimands, for instance, some of his hay is seized and h...
Du bist wunderbar
Character: Willi Schultz
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Das unbezähmbare Herz
Character: Gustave
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Operation Hong Kong
Character: Ted Barnekow
A suave gangster tries to get away from his boss with a suitcase full of heroin. Two pilots and lots of beautiful women get involved in the affair. Soon blood begins to flow....
Snow White
Character: Re
A queen is so vain she needs the magical mirror the Black Knight forged to tell her daily she's the belle of the realm. When it adds Snowwhite, the king's heiress, has grown even more beautiful, the queen orders him and the shivering jester Andreas, who secretly loves the girl, to murder her step-daughter. However the knight fakes her death and seven dwarfs take her in at their magical mine. The dwarfs tell her various secrets, including true identities, and plot to save her, the disguised queen...
Everyday's not Sunday
Character: Mitja Burganoff
While Eva is in the hospital after an accident, her son, Peter, goes in search of his long-missing father. Learning he has died, Peter then prepares himself for the new man in his mother's life....
Kleines Zelt und große Liebe
Character: Ferry Singer
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Geliebte Hochstaplerin
Character: David Ogden
Roberto Bolle smuggles himself as a stowaway on an ocean liner that of Hamburg gen New York sets sail. On board is also his lover Barbara Shadwell, whom he wants to marry, but who, at the request of her mother, the syrup millionaire Ceila Shadwell, should marry the oatmeal millionaire David....
Junge Adler
Character: Theo Brakke
Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandard. In the end, Brakke sees no other way than to pull Theo from school and install him as an apprentice in his airplane manufacturing plant. Although Theo is received by the other 150 apprentices in a friendly fashion, he behaves in an arrogan...
Komm mit zur blauen Adria
Character: Walter Thomas
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Leo & Claire
Character: Rechtsanwalt Herz
In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a good relationship with his loving wife Claire. As the climate in Germany grows increasingly dangerous, bombshell Irene moves to the neighborhood. After forming an unlikely friendship, his relationship with Irene is immediately regarded with suspicion....
Glück auf halber Treppe
Character: Werner Kleist
Fraudulent machinations of her dental spouse, from whom she lives apart, overthrow the housewife Cleo Berger into ruin. Cleo has to vacate her house and suddenly stands with her three children Tim, Emma and Sophie without housing and money in front of nothing. But Cleo can not be beaten and moves now to her father, a retired archaeologist, to which she has a difficult relationship. While she works as a waitress and has her hands full smoothing the waves between her annoyed father and the lively ...
Das Mädchen Marion
Character: Günther Legler
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Killer
Character: Ralph
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Nylon Noose
Character: Inspektor Harvey
A company's stockholders hold their meeting at a lonely mansion. A mad doctor conducting experiments in the mansion starts to strangle them one at a time with a nylon noose. The survivors must figure out a way to stop him....
Space Patrol
Character: Cliff Allister McLane (archive footage)
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Brainwashed
Character: Rabbi
Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess....
Der schwarze Blitz
Character: Herbert Thanner
Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team....
Schwarzwälder Kirsch
Character: Peter Benrath
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The Death of the White Stallion
Character: Ritter von Schenkenstein
This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions imposed by the clergy and nobility and then committed many acts (including atrocities) that did not morally set them far apart from the people they were fighting. It was a time of upheaval: Martin Luther (1483-1556) had broken away from the Catholic Church, calling for reform, and Anabaptists in Germany, like Thomas Munzer fought on the side of the p...
The Monster of London City
Character: Dr. Michael Greely
Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about the famous murderer is about to become a major West End hit... and the leading man is rapidly becoming the prime suspect!...
Der Mann, der den Eiffelturm verkaufte
Character: Bredford King
They are a true crook quartet, the kind you don't meet every day: Eliza, the old lady with the kind eyes. Bred, the charming boy. Jane, who loves Bred. And Larry, who is not afraid to do the filthier jobs. At the moment, the four musketeers of the underworld are targeting the jeweller Stockwell in London's posh Bond Street......
The Puzzle of the Red Tassel
Character: Richard
Secret agent Richard Warren poses as a journalist in Caracas to sell a secret uranium formula. A dancer named Sylvia approaches him and warns him of danger. A short time later, the young woman is dead. Richard finds her body, with a red tassel lying next to it. The secret agent is suspected of murder and flees. He finds shelter with the attractive Regina, but she apparently harbors a secret ......
Ski Fever
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Martin Milner competes on skis and for a girl (Claudia Martin)...
Der Tod zu Basel
Character: Jean-Jacques Zinstag
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Friederike von Barring
Character: Müller-Staen jr.
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Einmal eine große Dame sein
Character: Stefan Riehl
Being a leading lady is just what young Jeanette has always dreamed. To reach her goal she takes part in a film company's talent competition. When things don't go as planned, Jeanette and her feisty Aunt Elly resort to drastic measures....
Rosenmontag
Character: Leutnant Hans Rudloff
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Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram
Character:
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Die verpfuschte Hochzeitsnacht
Character: Alessandro Schulze
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Die unvollkommene Ehe
Character: Rolf Beckmayer - Schriftsteller
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Sabine und die hundert Männer
Character: Michael Böhm
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Frauensee
Character: Ferry Graf Chur
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Der Spinnenmörder
Character: Chief Inspector Anderson
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Frühling in Berlin
Character: Hannes Delk
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Drive on a Life
Character: Georg Holst, Gerichtsarzt
A young doctor saves head secretary from a group of hired murderers and frees her from suspicion....
Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas
Character: Dr. Gussenbauer
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Ingeborg
Character: Peter
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Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Character: Gaston
The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacuated by ships. Gotenhafen was the last open port and ships left the town almost by the minute, overloaded by refugees. One of the last ships to leave Gotenhafen was the 'Wilhelm Gustloff', a former 'Kraft durch Freude' pleasure cruiser designed...
Die Rosenkrieger
Character: Dr. Friedrich Maertens
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Brücke zum Herzen
Character: Professor Paul Hermes
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Liebe auf den zweiten Blick
Character: Friedrich Mertens
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Night on Fire
Character: Joshua Jordi
Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more entangled Keller gets in the treads of the apparently clearcut case of sex murder, the more obvious the flaws in the village idyll become. Keller's quest turns into a deadly mission....
The Little Teahouse
Character: Captain Fisby
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Eine fast perfekte Scheidung
Character: Dr. Hofbauer
The comedy “Ein fast perfekter Seitensprung” was not only successful, it was really well-done. The first sequel is, as most sequels, less attractive. As the charming mix of Germans and Austrians itself wasn't new and interesting any more, Schwabenitzky had to concentrate more on the less terrific elements. He emphasised the character-clichés and made up a more complex story, in order to bring down as many of the characters from the first film as possible. This sequel is only worth watching if y...
Back in Trouble
Character: Dinkelmann
Unsuccessful Luxembourg bank robber Johnny Chicago is released from prison and immediately and incompetently attempts to resume his life of crime. In a few days he manages to get his old partner fired and thrown out of the house, his girlfriend arrested and jailed, all the while scheming to rob a bunch of German pensioners, stop a train and make some quick money to make a name for himself....
The Longest Day
Character: Luftwaffe Major (uncredited)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"...
Journey of Hope
Character: Massimo
In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe, as economic insurance. The three set off for Istanbul, Milan, and Switzerland, stowing away on a ship. At Lake Como, they pa...
Es war doch Liebe
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Jan, a freelance journalist, and Sabine, the mother of his two children and a textile designer, have no money. Sabine is abandoned by her husband and then gets caught up in the bureaucracy. A sober psychogram of a woman who is fighting and hoping for her life and everyday life....
Raffl
Character: Pfarrer
On February 20th, 1810, French and Bavarian forces killed the Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer in Mantua, at that time a part of Austria. Hofer had led the Tyroleans in their fight for independence from Bavaria and was betrayed by an insignificant farmer, the betrayal and its effect on the farmer is the subject of this historically-based drama. Director Christian Berger has shot the story emphasizing visual poetics, as well as close-ups to reveal the nuances of subtle emotions as they play ac...
Rosen aus Jericho
Character: Dr. Zimmer
In the worst crisis of his life, widower Franz Schuster finds out he has cancer and definitively gives up. Neither is his daughter able to get through to him. In hospital, he gets to know retired doctor Peter Arndt, who tries to show him the right way. At the lowest point of his life, Schuster gets to know and love Erika Frecher. Together they attempt to master their lives, and it is not the length of time, but the manner in which they will live, which opens up their avenue of hope....
Torquemada
Character: Carlo de Sigura
Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas...
Mirakel
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Andreas, who is ten, has been brought up by his grandmother. When she dies, he removes a putto from the crucifix placed upon her, puts it in his mouth and does not speak again. The attempts by adults to make a normal child out of him only cause him to flee deeper into his fantasy world - a village of snow. At its center is a snowman with whom Andreas converses....
Commando
Character: Petit Prince
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out....