Horst Buchholz
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Horst Werner Buchholz 4 December 1933 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 3 March 2003 (aged 69) Berlin, Germany |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Years active | 1951–2003 |
| Spouse(s) | Myriam Bru (m. 1958–2003) (his death) (2 children) |
| Children | Christopher Buchholz Beatrice Buchholz |
Horst Werner Buchholz (December 4, 1933 – March 3, 2003) was a German actor, best known in English-speaking countries for his roles in The Magnificent Seven, in which he played Chico,Fanny, and the Billy Wilder comedy One, Two, Three. Worldwide, from 1951 to 2002, he appeared in more than sixty feature films. During his youth he was sometimes called "the German James Dean".
Horst Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of Maria Hasenkamp. He never knew his biological father, but took the surname of his stepfather Hugo Buchholz, a shoemaker, whom his mother married in 1938. His half-sister Heidi, born in 1941, gave him the nickname "Hotte", which he kept for the rest of his life. During World War II he was evacuated to Silesia and at the end of the war found himself in a foster home in Czechoslovakia. He returned to Berlin as soon as he could. He barely finished his schooling before seeking theater work, first appearing on stage in 1949. He soon left his childhood home in East Berlin to work in West Berlin. He established himself in the theater, notably the Schiller Theater, and also on radio.
Able to speak several languages, Buchholz expanded into film work by doing foreign-language voice dubbing. In 1951 he started getting small uncredited on-screen parts. He had a marginally larger role in Marianne (1954), directed by Julien Duvivier, then won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his part as Mischa Bjelkin in Helmut Käutner's Himmel ohne Sterne (1955). His youthful good looks next brought him a part in Die Halbstarken (1956), which made him a teen favorite in Germany; an English-dubbed version was released in the US as Teenage Wolfpack, with Buchholz billed as "Henry Bookholt" and promoted as a new James Dean. Full-fledged stardom resulted from Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957), in which he played the lead; it was directed by Kurt Hoffmann and based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
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