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Hardy Krüger is a Actor Allemand born on 12 april 1928

Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger
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Birth name Franz Eberhard August Krüger
Nationality German
Birth 12 april 1928
Death 19 january 2022 (at 93 years)
Awards Grand Merit Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Hardy Krüger (born Franz Eberhard August Krüger; 12 April 1928) is a German actor.

Biography

Hardy Krüger est le fils d’un ingénieur et passe son enfance dans le quartier de Biesdorf à Berlin.

En 1941, à l’âge de 13 ans, il intègre une Adolf-Hitler-Schule (école créée par le parti national-socialiste allemand en 1937 pour former les futurs cadres administratifs et dirigeants de l’État) à Sonthofen en Bavière. Il est incorporé, en mars 1945, dans la 38e division SS de grenadiers Nibelungen, alors engagée dans de terribles combats, puis est fait prisonnier par l’armée américaine au Tyrol.

Après la guerre, il entame une carrière nationale d'acteur sous la direction de réalisateurs tels qu'Alfred Weidenmann, Helmut Weiss ou encore Rudolf Jugert. C’est Otto Preminger, en 1953, dans La Lune était bleue (The Moon Is Blue), qui lui offre son premier rôle à l’étranger et lance sa carrière internationale. Avec son physique proche de l’archétype aryen, il est très souvent cantonné à jouer des personnages caricaturaux adeptes du nazisme ou des soldats allemands.

En France, il apparaît à l’écran dans de nombreux films comme, notamment, Un taxi pour Tobrouk, Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray et La Grande sauterelle. Mais son rôle le plus marquant demeure sans conteste celui qu’il tient dans Le Franciscain de Bourges réalisé en 1967 par Claude Autant-Lara.

Il est le père de l'acteur Hardy Krüger Jr.

Best films

Hatari! (1962)
(Actor)
The Wild Geese (1978)
(Actor)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
(Actor)
Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
(Actor)
Sundays and Cybele (1962)
(Actor)
Le Franciscain de Bourges (1968)
(Actor)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Hardy Krüger (45 films)

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Actor

Wrong Is Right, 1h57
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Monde imaginaire, Films about television, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Sean Connery, Katharine Ross, Robert Conrad, John Saxon, Henry Silva, Leslie Nielsen
Roles Helmut Unger
Rating56% 2.8488052.8488052.8488052.8488052.848805
In the near future, violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths. Patrick Hale (Sean Connery), a globe-trotting reporter with access to a staggering array of world leaders, has ventured to the Arab country of Hegreb to interview his old acquaintance, King Ibn Awad (Ron Moody).
The Wild Geese, 2h10
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, John Glen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire, Films about racism
Actors Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Stewart Granger, Frank Finlay
Roles Lt. Pieter Coetze
Rating67% 3.3999453.3999453.3999453.3999453.399945
Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), a British mercenary and former army colonel, arrives in London to meet the rich and ruthless merchant banker Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger). The latter proposes a risky operation to rescue Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona), the imprisoned leader of a central African nation who is due to be executed by General Ndofa, the man who deposed him. Limbani is currently being held in a remote prison in Zembala, guarded by a unit of Ndofa's personal troops known as the "Simbas".
Blue Fin
Blue Fin (1978)
, 1h35
Directed by Bruce Beresford, Carl Schultz
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe, Elspeth Ballantyne, John Jarratt, Hugh Keays-Byrne, George Spartels
Roles Bill Pascoe
Rating60% 3.0018653.0018653.0018653.0018653.001865
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele', this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
A Bridge Too Far, 2h50
Directed by Richard Attenborough, Sidney Hayers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Pont, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Michael Byrne, Edward Fox
Roles Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Karl Ludwig
Rating73% 3.698743.698743.698743.698743.69874
The film begins with a montage of archival film footage narrated by a Dutch woman, Kate ter Horst, describing the state of affairs in September 1944. The Allied advance is being slowed by overextended supply lines.
To Each His Hell, 1h40
Directed by André Cayatte, Marc Rivière
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Hardy Krüger, Stéphane Hillel, Fernand Ledoux, Édith Scob
Roles Commissaire Bolar
Rating70% 3.5168453.5168453.5168453.5168453.516845
La petite Laurence a été enlevée. Sa mère, Madeleine, affronte sa famille, la presse, la police, rassemble la rançon, mais en vain. Cayatte nous présente le calvaire et la douleur de cette mère.
Paper Tiger, 1h39
Directed by Ken Annakin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors David Niven, Toshiro Mifune, Hardy Krüger, Irene Tsu, Ivan Desny, Miiko Taka
Roles Müller
Rating59% 2.9511552.9511552.9511552.9511552.951155
Mr Bradbury (David Niven), an apparently well-educated, ex-military Englishman is hired as tutor to Koichi Kagoyama (played by Kazuhito Ando), the son of a Japanese ambassador. Bradbury becomes a trusted friend, who boasts about himself during his British Army service being a hero telling him "war stories", but some painful truths are revealed after he and the boy are kidnapped by political terrorists. It comes to the point when Mr Bradbury has to live up to the "action man" he makes himself out to be.
The Battle of Sutjeska, 2h8
Directed by Stipe Delić
Genres War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Richard Burton, Irène Papas, Günter Meisner, Ljuba Tadić, Bata Živojinović, Miroljub Lešo
Rating67% 3.3953453.3953453.3953453.3953453.395345
German-occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1943; under the faithful leadership of Marshal Tito, the Yugoslav Partisans have, for a number of years, put up a staunch fight against the occupying Axis powers. Despite being out-gunned, outmaneuvered and vastly outnumbered, they managed to recuperate in a harsh mountainous region called Durmitor in northern Montenegro. However, their respite is short-lived as the combined foreign and domestic Axis powers begin an encirclement offensive, outnumbering them 6:1. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement, then head towards eastern Bosnia. They finally clash with the Axis on the plains of Sutjeska in south-eastern Bosnia.
Le Solitaire
Directed by Philippe Triboit, Alain Brunet
Genres Crime
Actors Hardy Krüger, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean Lefebvre, Georges Géret, Francis Blanche, Michel Duplaix
Roles Eric Lambrecht
Rating60% 3.0085153.0085153.0085153.0085153.008515
Condamné à 12 ans de réclusion pour vol qualifié, Eric Lambrecht a purgé les six premières années de prison sans se lier à quiconque. En butte aux vexations et aux brimades du gardien-chef Isnard, il effectue de fréquents séjours au " mitard " afin qu'il devienne plus sociable, mais sa volonté demeure inébranlable. Au cours d'une nouvelle incarcération, Isnard lui propose contre son évasion, de fracturer le coffre directorial contenant une importante somme d'argent...
What the Peeper Saw, 1h35
Directed by Andrea Bianchi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Mark Lester, Britt Ekland, Hardy Krüger, Lilli Palmer, Harry Andrews, Conchita Montes
Roles Paul
Rating58% 2.901512.901512.901512.901512.90151
Marcus is a twelve-year-old schoolboy whose mother recently died, leaving it up to his wealthy father Paul to look after him. He takes a sexual interest in his stepmother Elise. She notices his abnormal behaviour and investigates by visiting his school after discovering a torn-up letter from his headmaster. Elise is shocked by her findings. She becomes increasingly disturbed and wonders if Marcus is to blame for his mother's death. She enlists the help of psychiatrist, Dr Viorne to find answers.
The Secret of Santa Vittoria, 2h19
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Musical films, Political films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger, Sergio Franchi, Renato Rascel
Roles Capt. von Prum
Rating72% 3.6447853.6447853.6447853.6447853.644785
During World War II in the summer of 1943, in the aftermath of the fall of the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini, the German army uses the ensuing political vacuum to occupy most of the peninsula of Italy.
The Battle of Neretva, 2h55
Directed by Veljko Bulajić
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Serge Bondartchouk, Yul Brynner, Curd Jürgens, Anthony Dawson, Hardy Krüger, Milena Dravić
Roles Oberst Krenzer
Rating69% 3.4962153.4962153.4962153.4962153.496215
Début 1943, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en Yougoslavie occupée, les Partisans sont confrontés à l'offensive Weiss menée par les Allemands et les Italiens. Afin de leur échapper, les résistants communistes doivent traverser la rivière Neretva, mais les Tchetniks, en cheville avec les occupants, leur barrent la route...
The Red Tent, 2h1
Directed by Mikhaïl Kalatozov
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Peter Finch, Nikita Mikhalkov, Yuri Vizbor, Donatas Banionis
Roles Einar Lundborg
Rating68% 3.4389953.4389953.4389953.4389953.438995
The film begins in Rome many years after the expedition. Nobile has endured years of scorn for his actions during the disaster and its aftermath. He imagines his apartment turned into a court of inquiry against him, where witnesses and judges are his former crewmen – including Captain Zappi, his navigator and his meteorologist Finn Malmgren. Also arrayed against him are Valeria, Malmgren's lover, Captain Romagna, one of the expedition's would-be recuers, famed aviator Lundborg, professor Samoilovich, chief of the Soviet rescue mission, his pilot Boris Chukhnovski, and Roald Amundsen who lost his life in the search for survivors of Nobile's expedition.
Le Franciscain de Bourges, 1h50
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Hardy Krüger, Jean Desailly, Jean-Pierre Dorat, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Gérard Berner, Christian Barbier
Roles Alfred Stanke
Rating66% 3.3018053.3018053.3018053.3018053.301805
En 1943, deux résistants, les frères Toledano, sont arrêtés, emprisonnés et torturés à la prison de Bourges. Aloïs Stanke, frère Alfred, infirmier militaire allemand et frère franciscain, vient les soigner et les réconforter. Luttant contre la Gestapo, il tente de les faire évader...