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Martin Kosleck is a Actor Allemand born on 24 march 1904 at Kołczygłowy (Pologne)

Martin Kosleck

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Birth name Nicolaie Yoshkin
Nationality German
Birth 24 march 1904 at Kołczygłowy (Pologne)
Death 15 january 1994 (at 89 years) at Santa Monica (USA)

Martin Kosleck (March 24, 1904 – January 15, 1994) was a German film actor. Like many other German actors, he fled when the Nazis came to power. Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Kosleck would make a career in Hollywood playing villainous Nazis in films. While in the United States, he would appear in more than 80 films and television shows in a 46-year span. His icy demeanor and piercing stare on screen made him a popular choice to play Nazi villains. He portrayed Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, five times, and also appeared as an SS trooper and a concentration camp officer.

Biography

D'ascendance russe, né dans l'Empire allemand, il débute au théâtre à Berlin (où il se forme à l'école du Deutsches Theater de Max Reinhardt) au cours des années 1920, dans des pièces et revues, sous le nom de scène de Martin Kosleck.

Au cinéma, il apparaît d'abord dans quatre films allemands, le premier (muet) sorti en 1927. Le deuxième — également muet — est Sainte-Hélène de Lupu Pick (1929, avec Werner Krauss et Albert Bassermann). Ses deux films suivants (premiers parlants) sortent en 1930.

En 1931, opposé au nazisme naissant, il quitte l'Allemagne pour les États-Unis et s'y installe définitivement. Son premier film américain (dans un petit rôle non crédité) est Les Pirates de la mode de William Dieterle (1934, avec William Powell et Bette Davis). Le deuxième est Les Aveux d'un espion nazi d'Anatole Litvak (1939, avec Edward G. Robinson et Francis Lederer), où il personnifie Joseph Goebbels.

Au sein de sa filmographie des années 1940, il tient d'autres rôles de nazis (ex. : L'Étoile du Nord de Lewis Milestone en 1943, avec Anne Baxter et Dana Andrews) et apparaît dans quelques films d'horreur de série B (ex. : She-Wolf of London de Jean Yarbrough en 1946, avec June Lockhart et Sara Haden). Citons également Correspondant 17 d'Alfred Hitchcock (1940, avec Joel McCrea et Laraine Day), où il retrouve Albert Bassermann, ainsi que Mission à Alger de Roy William Neill (1945, avec Basil Rathbone et Nigel Bruce).

Après trois films sortis en 1948 (dont Assigned to Danger d'Oscar Boetticher, avec Gene Raymond et Robert Bice), il tourne un cinquième et dernier film allemand sorti en 1956, L'Espion de la dernière chance de Werner Klingler (avec Martin Held et Nadja Tiller). Suivent six autres films américains disséminés de 1961 à 1966, dont 36 heures avant le débarquement de George Seaton (avec James Garner et Eva Marie Saint) et Morituri de Bernhard Wicki (avec Marlon Brando et Yul Brynner), tous deux sortis en 1965.

Notons qu'après Hitler et sa clique de John Farrow (1944, avec Roman Bohnen et Victor Varconi) et un épisode d'une série télévisée en 1954, il reprend une quatrième fois le rôle de Joseph Goebbels dans La Vie privée d'Hitler de Stuart Heisler (1962, avec Richard Basehart et Cordula Trantow).

Ses deux derniers films sont Ya, ya, mon général ! de Jerry Lewis (1970, avec le réalisateur et Jan Murray), et enfin Détective comme Bogart de Robert Day (1980, avec Victor Buono et Yvonne De Carlo).

À la télévision américaine, hormis un téléfilm diffusé en 1969, Martin Kosleck contribue surtout à trente-sept séries entre 1951 et 1977, dont Des agents très spéciaux (trois épisodes, 1967) et Les Mystères de l'Ouest (deux épisodes, 1968-1969).

Dans son pays d'adoption, il continue à se produire au théâtre et joue notamment à Broadway (unique prestation) dans une adaptation de La Folle de Chaillot de Jean Giraudoux, représentée 368 fois de décembre 1948 à janvier 1950 (avant une brève reprise en juin 1950), avec Martita Hunt dans le rôle-titre, John Carradine et Vladimir Sokoloff.

En marge de sa carrière d'acteur, Martin Kosleck se consacre à la peinture (dans le style impressionniste) et en particulier, portraiture quelques actrices, dont Marlène Dietrich.

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Filmography of Martin Kosleck (48 films)

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The Man with Bogart's Face, 1h46
Directed by Robert Day
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Franco Nero, Victor Buono, Yvonne De Carlo, Herbert Lom, Olivia Hussey, Mike Mazurki
Roles Horst Borsht
Rating61% 3.0992053.0992053.0992053.0992053.099205
A man calling himself Sam Marlowe (Robert Sacchi) has his face altered to resemble that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, and then opens a detective agency. At first he and his secretary Duchess (Misty Rowe) have meager business, but things pick up after a shooting puts Sam's picture in the paper. Some ruthless people, who are coincidentally also similar to characters in Bogart films (and played by Victor Buono, Herbert Lom, and Michelle Phillips), are after a priceless set of stones called the Eyes of Alexander (from a statue of Alexander the Great), and Marlowe and Duchess are caught in the middle of it all.
The Man with Bogart's Face
Directed by Robert Day
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Noir, Crime
Actors Victor Buono, Franco Nero, Yvonne De Carlo, Herbert Lom, Mike Mazurki, Olivia Hussey
Roles Horst Borsht
Rating61% 3.0992053.0992053.0992053.0992053.099205
Un passionné de cinéma (Robert Sacchi ) se fait refaire le visage pour ressembler à Humphrey Bogart et ouvre un cabinet de détective privé sous le pseudonyme de Sam Marlow.
Wake Me When the War Is Over, 1h14
Directed by Gene Nelson
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Ken Berry, Eva Gabor, Werner Klemperer, Danielle De Metz, Hans Conried, Jim Backus
Roles Butler
Rating53% 2.6704652.6704652.6704652.6704652.670465
The film tells the story of Lieutenant Roger Carrington (Berry), a soldier fighting for the United States Army Air Forces during the closing days of World War II. After accidentally falling out of a plane and landing in German territory, he is hidden by a local baroness named Marlene (Gabor). Luckily, Marlene is against the Nazis, and sympathizes with Carrington, taking him under her wing to recover, and eventually falling in love with him.
Agent for H.A.R.M., 1h24
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Peter Mark Richman, Carl Esmond, Barbara Bouchet, Wendell Corey, Martin Kosleck, Robert Quarry
Roles Basil Malko
Rating24% 1.2197651.2197651.2197651.2197651.219765
Adam Chance (Peter Mark Richman), works for an American agency, H.A.R.M. (Human Aetiological Relations Machine). He is assigned to protect Dr. Jan Steffanic (Carl Esmond), a recent Soviet defector who has developed a new weapon which fires spores that upon contact with skin slowly eat the body away.
Morituri
Morituri (1965)
, 2h8
Directed by Bernhard Wicki
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, William Redfield, Martin Benrath
Roles Wilke
Rating69% 3.49643.49643.49643.49643.4964
Robert Crain (Marlon Brando) is a German pacifist living in India during the Second World War. He is blackmailed by the Allies into using his demolition expertise to cripple a Nazi ship carrying rubber from Japan. The Allies hope to recover the ship before it is scuttled by the captain because rubber was in short supply and essential for various uses in the war effort.
The Flesh Eaters, 1h27
Directed by Jack Curtis, Jack Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Martin Kosleck, Ira Lewis, Jack Curtis
Roles Prof. Peter Bartell
Rating57% 2.8531252.8531252.8531252.8531252.853125
A wealthy, over-the-hill actress named Laura Winters (Rita Morely) hires pilot Grant Murdoch (Byron Sanders) to fly her and her assistant Jan Letterman (Barbara Wilkin) to Provincetown, but a storm forces them to land on a small island. They soon meet Prof. Peter Bartell (Martin Kosleck) a marine biologist with a German accent who is living in seclusion on the isle.
36 Hours
36 Hours (1964)
, 1h55
Directed by George Seaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors James Garner, Rod Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Werner Peters, John Banner, Russell Thorson
Roles Kraatz
Rating72% 3.6455653.6455653.6455653.6455653.645565
Having attended General Eisenhower's final briefing on the Normandy landings (D-Day), U.S. Army Major Jeff Pike (James Garner) is sent to Lisbon to confirm with an informant that the Nazis still expect the invasion in the wrong place (Pas de Calais). However, Pike falls into a trap; he is drugged into unconsciousness and transported to Germany.
Hitler
Hitler (1962)
, 1h47
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres War, Biography, Historical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hitler, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Richard Basehart, John Banner, Cordula Trantow, Maria Emo, Martin Kosleck, Narda Onyx
Roles Joseph Goebbels
Rating57% 2.8543852.8543852.8543852.8543852.854385
Le film raconte la vie d'Hitler, qui commence avec le Putsch de la brasserie de novembre 1923, et qui se concentre principalement sur sa vie privée, particulièrement sur ses relations avec sa nièce Geli et sa compagne et épouse, Eva Braun.
Something Wild, 1h52
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Romance
Actors Carroll Baker, Ralph Meeker, Mildred Dunnock, Jean Stapleton, Martin Kosleck, Clifton James
Roles Landlord
Rating66% 3.343373.343373.343373.343373.34337
Mary Ann Robinson, a teenage girl attending college in New York City, is brutally raped while walking in a park.
Spy for Germany, 1h42
Directed by Werner Klingler
Genres Drama
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Martin Held, Nadja Tiller, Viktor Staal, Walter Giller, Claude Farell, Gustav Knuth
Roles Griffins
Rating61% 3.0908853.0908853.0908853.0908853.090885
L’histoire vraie d’un agent allemand envoyé aux États-Unis en 1944 pour empêcher la mise au point de la bombe atomique. Inversant la perspective du film d’espionnage sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un thriller au suspense prenant.
Assigned to Danger, 1h6
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Gene Raymond, Robert Bice, Noreen Nash, Martin Kosleck, Ralf Harolde, Gene Evans
Roles Louie Volkes
Rating57% 2.8623852.8623852.8623852.8623852.862385
Frankie Mantell's gang pulls an $80,000 payroll stickup in Los Angeles. But getaway driver Nip Powers is killed and Frankie shot and wounded.
Half Past Midnight, 1h9
Directed by William F. Claxton
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Kent Taylor, Peggy Knudsen, Joe Sawyer, Walter Sande, Martin Kosleck, Mabel Paige
Roles Cortez
Rating58% 2.931452.931452.931452.931452.93145
Kent Taylor plays a man who meets a dancer in a nightclub. She's implicated in a killing, and he's drawn into escaping from the police with her through Chinatown as they seek the real murderer.
Smuggler's Cove, 1h6
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Paul Harvey
Roles Count Boris Petrov
Rating62% 3.144463.144463.144463.144463.14446
Young amateur sleuth Terence "Slip" Mahoney works cleaning offices in a New York highrise building when he comes across a letter addressed to Terence Mahoney, Esquire. Believing the letter is meant for him, he opens and reads it. The letter tells of an inheritance waiting for him. A wealthy uncle living in a large house on Long Island has left him a fortune. He is expected at Mahoney Manor immediately.
The Beginning or the End, 1h52
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Documentary, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Brian Donlevy, Hume Cronyn, Robert Walker, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake, Hurd Hatfield
Roles Dr O. E. Frisch
Rating65% 3.294433.294433.294433.294433.29443
In 1945, physicist and atomic scientist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Hume Cronyn) praises the discovery of atomic energy, but also warns of its dangers. American scientists such as Matt Cochran (Tom Drake), working under the guidance of Dr. Enrico Fermi (Joseph Calleia) and Dr. Marré (Victor Francen), have split the atom, and essentially beaten the Germans in the race to create an atomic bomb. With the assistance of Albert Einstein (Ludwig Stössel), they inform President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Godfrey Tearle) that a monumental discovery has been made.