Happy 91st Birthday Hardy Krüger!!!
Apr 12, 2018 12:35:58 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Apr 12, 2018 12:35:58 GMT
Since this was written, sadly Hardy Krüger has left us.
Happy 91st Birthday Hardy Krüger!!!
Born on April 12, 1928 in Wedding, Berlin, Germany
Thanks for everything, retired since 2011
German-born actor in international movies. a teen idol in Britain in the late 1950s, He was also once a Hitler Jugend, but please read more about that further down this side.
Hardy Krüger was born as the son of confirmed Nazis, "I was raised to love Hitler", he stated in a 2016 interview. From 1941, he went to an elitist Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. At age 15, Hardy made his film début in a German picture, Junge Adler (The Young Eagles) but his acting career was interrupted when he was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht in 1944 at age 16.
In March 1945, Krüger was conscripted into the 38th SS Division Nibelungen where he was drawn into heavy fighting before being captured by American forces. The 16-year-old Krüger was ordered to eliminate a group of American soldiers. When he refused, he was sentenced to death for cowardice but another SS officer stopped the order. Krüger described this experience as his break with Nazism. He later served as a messenger for the SS but he escaped and hid out in Tyrol until the end of the war. He is today a member of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and frequently speaks out against right-wing extremism, also citing his own experiences.
Because of his stereotypical Teutonic look (blond hair and blue eyes), Krüger often performed in roles portraying German soldiers.
He first came to the attention of English language audiences in the 1957 British war film The One That Got Away, the story of Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to successfully escape from Allied custody and return to Germany.
Fluent in German, English and French, he has worked in numerous European and American films.
Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach 1953, with Johanna Matz, directed simultaneously by Otto Preminger as a German version of The Moon is Blue.
The One That Got Away 1957
Blind Date 1959, with Micheline Presle.
Hatari 1962, with John Wayne
Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (Sundays and Cybelle) 1962, with Patricia Gozzi.
The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
The Secret of Santa Vittoria 1969, with Anthony Quinn.
Barry Lyndon 1975
The Wild Geese 1978, with Richard Harris, Roger Moore and Richard Burton.
Familiengeheimnisse – Liebe, Schuld und Tod 2011, with Dennenesch Zoudé, a German TV movie, after this Hardy retired.
Hardy Krüger has acted in 68 movie and television productions.
Happy 91st Birthday Hardy Krüger!!!
Born on April 12, 1928 in Wedding, Berlin, Germany
Thanks for everything, retired since 2011
German-born actor in international movies. a teen idol in Britain in the late 1950s, He was also once a Hitler Jugend, but please read more about that further down this side.
Hardy Krüger was born as the son of confirmed Nazis, "I was raised to love Hitler", he stated in a 2016 interview. From 1941, he went to an elitist Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. At age 15, Hardy made his film début in a German picture, Junge Adler (The Young Eagles) but his acting career was interrupted when he was conscripted into the German Wehrmacht in 1944 at age 16.
In March 1945, Krüger was conscripted into the 38th SS Division Nibelungen where he was drawn into heavy fighting before being captured by American forces. The 16-year-old Krüger was ordered to eliminate a group of American soldiers. When he refused, he was sentenced to death for cowardice but another SS officer stopped the order. Krüger described this experience as his break with Nazism. He later served as a messenger for the SS but he escaped and hid out in Tyrol until the end of the war. He is today a member of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and frequently speaks out against right-wing extremism, also citing his own experiences.
Because of his stereotypical Teutonic look (blond hair and blue eyes), Krüger often performed in roles portraying German soldiers.
He first came to the attention of English language audiences in the 1957 British war film The One That Got Away, the story of Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to successfully escape from Allied custody and return to Germany.
Fluent in German, English and French, he has worked in numerous European and American films.
Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach 1953, with Johanna Matz, directed simultaneously by Otto Preminger as a German version of The Moon is Blue.
The One That Got Away 1957
Blind Date 1959, with Micheline Presle.
Hatari 1962, with John Wayne
Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray (Sundays and Cybelle) 1962, with Patricia Gozzi.
The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
The Secret of Santa Vittoria 1969, with Anthony Quinn.
Barry Lyndon 1975
The Wild Geese 1978, with Richard Harris, Roger Moore and Richard Burton.
Familiengeheimnisse – Liebe, Schuld und Tod 2011, with Dennenesch Zoudé, a German TV movie, after this Hardy retired.
Hardy Krüger has acted in 68 movie and television productions.
Cheers for the appreciation.
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