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German actor
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Male
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Birth:
4 May 1921(Liberec)
Death:
8 November 1999(Berlin)
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Biography
Introduction
Harry Riebauer (4 July 1921 – 8 November 1999) was a German film and television actor.
Riebauer was born in Reichenberg (Liberec, Czechoslovakia) in a Sudetengerman family.
Active in acting from 1950 through 1990, one of his many roles was appearing as Sgt. Strachwitz in the film The Great Escape (1963). He was noted for his tall stature, standing 1.94 metres (6 ft 4 ins).
He died in Berlin, Germany, at age 78.
Selected filmography
- The Benthin Family (1950)
- Der Untertan (1951) - (uncredited)
- The Condemned Village (1952) - Amerikanischer Militärpolizist
- Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953) - Laeufer Murad
- Stärker als die Nacht (1954)
- Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse (1955) - Leutnant Meyer
- The Captain from Cologne (1956) - Oberleutnant Kilian
- Les arrivistes (1961) - Max Gillet
- The Dress (1961) - Der Tünne
- Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962) - Ministerialrat Dr. Sommer
- The Great Escape (1963) - Sgt. Strachwitz
- de (1963) - Inspector Jeff Mitchell
- Der Henker von London (1963) - Dr. Philip Trooper
- Es war mir ein Vergnügen (1963)
- Ein Frauenarzt klagt an (1964) - Dr. Niemeyer, Oberstaatsanwalt
- Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas (1964) - Sheriff
- Das siebente Opfer (1964) - Dr. Howard Trent
- Mädchen hinter Gittern (1965) - Frank Albin
- Soleil noir (1966) - Herman
- Die blaue Hand (1967) - Mr. Snobbits (uncredited)
- Der Mönch mit der Peitsche (1967) - Mark Denver
- Death in the Red Jaguar (1968) - Steve Dilaggio
- Der Mann mit dem Glasauge (1969) - Bob
- Rat' mal, wer heut bei uns schläft...? (1969) - Conte di Casagrande
- Die liebestollen Baronessen (1970) - Dr. Oscar Fummler
- Die Tote aus der Themse (1971) - Milton S. Farnborough
- Possession (1981) - Man at the conference (uncredited)
- Morenga (1985) - v. Estorff
- Bei mir liegen Sie richtig (1990) - Herr Keil (final film role)