German actor
Hartmut Reck (17 November 1932 – 30 January 2001) was a German television and film actor. He also appeared in the American-produced
epic film,
The Longest Day. He also acted in the
German film
dubbing industry, dubbing into German the voices of
Anthony Hopkins,
John Hurt,
Robert Duvall,
Michael Caine,
Donald Sutherland,
Peter Graves,
Patrick Stewart,
Franco Nero,
Terence Hill and others.
Life and career
Reck was born in Berlin. He made his debut working in theater with the
Berliner Ensemble, working under
Bertolt Brecht. In 1956, he began working in film and with
DEFA in the former
German Democratic Republic. He moved to
West Germany in 1959, where he played the title role in a
television film, Raskolhikoff alongside
Paul Verhoeven,
Uwe Friedrichsen and
Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. The film was based on the novel
Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
In 1962, he played in
Jeder stirbt für sich allein,
Falk Harnack's 1962 television film adaptation of the novel
Every Man Dies Alone by
Hans Fallada, appearing with
Edith Schultze-Westrum,
Alfred Schieske and
Wolfgang Kieling.
Reck's best known
feature film was
The Longest Day (1962), an American
war film about "
D-Day", produced by
Darryl F. Zanuck. The film's German and French cast members spoke their lines in their own languages, and in separately filmed sequences, spoke their parts in English. In 1965, he played alongside
Karin Dor and
Harald Leipnitz in a
crime film by
Edgar Wallace,
The Sinister Monk. In 1968, he played
Georges Picquart in a
television film version of the
Dreyfus Affair on German broadcaster
ZDF.
[1]
Reck appeared in several guest roles on long-running German
television series,
Der Kommissar and
Tatort. In 1988, he became well known to the German public as "Kommissar Ecki Schöller" in the television series
Die Männer vom K3.
In addition to his film and television roles, Reck worked as a
voice actor in the German film dubbing industry, dubbing the voices of numerous English-speaking actors into German, including Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Peter Graves, Patrick Stewart, Franco Nero, Terence Hill and others.
[2]
Personal
Hartmut Reck was the father of one son (from a relationship with
Vera Tschechowa) and two daughters. He died in
Nienburg, Lower Saxony.
Filmography (selected)
- Film
- Television films and series
- Raskolnikoff (1959) - Raskolnikoff
- Der Prozeß Mary Dugan (1960) - Jimmy Dugan
- Die Dame ist nicht fürs Feuer (1960) - Humphrey Devize
- Der Groß-Cophta (1960) - The Knight
- Ruf zur Leidenschaft (1961) - Tony Burgess
- Spielsalon (1962) - Junger Mann
- Anfrage (1962) - Klaus Köhler
-
Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962) - Karl Hergesell
- Die Glocken von London (1962) - Richard Johnson
- Schlachtvieh (1963) - Engel, Journalist
- Mauern (1963) - Walter Koslowski
- Das Ende vom Lied (1963) - Unteroffizier Mitchem
-
Tim Frazer: Der Fall Salinger [
de] (1964), (
Francis Durbridge miniseries) - Lewis Richards
- Bericht von den Inseln (1964) - Reporter
-
Die fünfte Kolonne [
de]: Zwei Pistolen (1964) - Klaus Bilek
- Das Duell (1964) - Lajewski
- Ein Sommer – ein Herbst (1964) - Dymow
- Keine Angst vor der Hölle? (1965) - Juge Maloine
-
Ein Tag – Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939 [
de] (1965) - Ernst Springer
- Glück in Frankreich (1965) - Ernst
- Yerma (1965) - Victor
- An einem ganz gewöhnlichen Tag (1966) - Er
- Ein Mädchen von heute (1966)
- Die gelehrten Frauen (1966) - Clitandre
- Fliegender Sand (1967) - Henry Wellington
- Der Vater und sein Sohn (1968) - Vater Sedlmair
- König Richard II (1968) - Bolingbroke
- Affaire Dreyfuss (1968) -
Major Picquart
- Alarm (1969) - Prosecutor
-
Der Kommissar (1969–1972) - Lehrer Rossmann / Möricke
- Die Hupe – Eine Schülerzeitung (1969)
- Wir 13 sind 17 (1972)
- Doppelspiel in Paris (1972) -
Roman Czerniawski
-
Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben [
de] (1973), (miniseries based on Hans Fallada novel) - Redakteur Padberg
- Gemeinderätin Schumann (1974) - Kurt Schumann
- Partner gesucht (1976) - Wolf Brinkmann
- Im schönsten Bilsengrunde (1980) - Classen
- Der Aufsteiger (1981) - Eisenlauer
- Betti, die Tochter (1982) - Hans Wedemeier
- Wie es geschah (1983) - Harro Bergmann
- Lauter Glückspilze (1986)
- Quadrille (1986) - Axel Diensen
- Deadly Nightcap (1986) - Dr. Maurice Young
- Maria Stuart (1986) - Paulet
- Die Sterne schwindeln nicht (1986)
-
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987)
-
Die Männer vom K3 (1988–2001, 38 episodes) - Ecki Schöller (final television appearance)
- Radiofieber (1989, TV miniseries) - Dr. Vock
- Der Fotograf oder Das Auge Gottes (1992)
- Nervenkrieg (1993) - Dr. Andre
- Cornelius hilft (1994)
- Mona M. – Mit den Waffen einer Frau (1996)
- Voice acting (dubbing), selected
- Die Rechte und die Linke Hand des Teufels
- (
My Name Is Trinity, 1971)
- Vier Fäuste für ein Halleluja
- (
Trinity Is Still My Name, 1972)
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