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Heinz Rühmann
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Actor Born: March 7, 1902 Death: October 4, 1994 Biography:Diminutive German character actor "Heinz Rühmann" performed in over 100 films and, during his seven-decade career, was designated his country's most popular actor 12 times. A versatile performer, Rühmann was particularly adept at comedy and specialized in playing an idealized sort of average man, the so-called Good German, a man who inwardly thumbs his nose at the authority he outwardly tries to respect and who gets through even the stickiest situations on the strength of his cleverness.
Rühmann originally played leading men with the Munich Kammerspiele theater company in 1925 (he would continue to work occasionally on stage throughout his career). He made his feature film debut in "The German Mother Heart" (1926), but he didn't become a star until he appeared in his first talkie, Three From the Gas Station (1930). He made his directorial debut in 1938 with Lauter Lügen and, over the next two... Full Biography
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