
Born in Bochum, Germany. Soviet German actor. Graduated from the Polytechnic in Germany in 1939. As a lieutenant, he served in General Rommel's army in Africa during World War II, where he was wounded by an anti-personnel mine. After treatment in hospital, he continued to serve on the Eastern Front. After Soviet captivity, he lived and worked in the USSR from the 1950s. He worked as an announcer for foreign broadcasts to West Germany and in the Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting, and acted in films.

Seventeen Moments of Spring
TV • 1973

The Shield and the Sword
TV • 1968

Call Fire for Ourselves
TV • 1965

The Red Tent
MOVIE • 1969

Humiliated and Insulted
MOVIE • 1990

Reckoning
MOVIE • 1970

The Memory of the Heart
MOVIE • 1958

One True Love
MOVIE • 1983

Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait
MOVIE • 1967

The Fifteenth Spring
MOVIE • 1971

The Strategy of Victory
TV • 1984

Forest Ballad
MOVIE • 1972

My Destiny
MOVIE • 1974

The Day the War Ended
MOVIE • 1959

Hello, Children!
MOVIE • 1962

Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
MOVIE • 1973

The Golden Echelon
MOVIE • 1959