Herbert Wilk
German actor

Herbert Wilk

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German actor
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10 May 1905(Gnoien, Rostock District, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
Death:
2 November 1977(Berlin, Germany)
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Herbert Wilk (1905–1977) was a German stage, television and film actor. He emerged as a screen actor during the Nazi era, appearing in war films such as U-Boote westwärts (1941). However the bulk of his career came after the Second World War. After initially appearing in films made by the East German studio DEFA, he largely worked in West German television for the remainder of his career.

Selected filmography

  • The Desert Song (1939)
  • Kriminalkommissar Eyck (1940)
  • The Rothschilds (1940)
  • U-Boote westwärts (1941)
  • Stukas (1941)
  • Free Land (1946)
  • The Beaver Coat (1949)
  • Canaris (1954)
  • Stresemann (1957)
  • The Black Chapel (1959)