Hellmut Lange (19 January 1923 – 13 January 2011) was an actor and journalist who became famous as an action hero on TV and eventually succeeded as presenter on popular TV show Kennen Sie Kino? or Do You Know Film?
Acting career
Hellmut Lange started his acting career on radio drama shows for the West German Radio Station
Sender Freies Berlin also known as Radio Free Berlin. After finishing his schooling he studied acting for two years in Hanover and then he worked as a stage actor in Munich. In the early fifties he played
Old Shatterhand on an open air stage.
After starring in several made for television films, he was the principal actor in The Forger of London a German
Edgar Wallace adaption for cinema. The next year he had one of the main roles in a TV mini series based on a story by
Francis Durbridge. He also acted as the secret agent protagonist the TV series John Kling.
Lederstrumpf and John Kling's Abenteuer had just been digitally remastered and released on DVD.
Career as a journalist
Due to his accomplished expertise in regards to all aspects in acting and filming Lange, was also much in demand as an author for articles about the cinema. German television took advantage of this well known fact by employing him as presenter on a quiz programme Kennen Sie Kino? which ran from 1971 till 1981.
Retirement
Lange worked successfully as an actor on TV until he was over seventy years old. In 2009 it was published that serious health issues would hinder him continuing.
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