Hans Christian Blech

Hans Christian Blech with Lotte Berger.

Hans Christian Blech (20 February 1915, Darmstadt, Germany - 5 March 1993, Munich, Germany) was a German film, stage and television character actor who found success both in his native land and in Hollywood.

He made his English film debut in the 1951 Decision Before Dawn. In this and many of his other Hollywood films, he played a German soldier. Indeed, he actually fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, where he acquired his facial scars.

Partial filmography

• Blum Affair (1948)
• Decision Before Dawn (1951)
• Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben (1954)
• Children, Mother, and the General (1955)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• The Visit (1964)
• Morituri (1965)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965)
• The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
• The Customer of the Off Season (1970)
• The Scarlet Letter (Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe) (1973)
• The Wrong Move (1975)
• Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
• Knife in the Head (Messer im Kopf) (1978)
• Victoria (1979)
• See You in the Next War (1980)
• Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) (1982)

External links

• Hans Christian Blech at the Internet Movie Database
• Hans Christian Blech at AllRovi