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.
One True Love
1983
The Fifteenth Spring
1971
The Golden Echelon
1959
The Red Tent
1969
Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
1973
My Destiny
1974
Touches on the V. I. Lenin's Portrait
1967
Humiliated and Insulted
1990
Reckoning
1970
The Memory of the Heart
1958
The Day the War Ended
1959
Hello, Children!
1962
Forest Ballad
1972