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1957 Hurst relocated in the United States to [[California]]. The cause are the artistic capability there. The most time he lives in California but often he plays [[Broadway theatre|On Broadway]]. He plays also at Off-Broadway-Onstage and in movies. The mentality of Americans is other than in Europe. The time for rehearse a play is short, and the play is shorter, and the season is shorter, but the actor says any evening the same. The economy is in foreground. Once evenening the stage director is before the premiere is passes away and Hirst makes herself. He plays film, television and theatre in the fifties and sixties. 1964 he obtains from the Village Voice the Obie-Award for OFF-Brodway-Play in „A Month in the Country“. 1959 he get the [[Clarence Derwent Award]]. |
1957 Hurst relocated in the United States to [[California]]. The cause are the artistic capability there. The most time he lives in California but often he plays [[Broadway theatre|On Broadway]]. He plays also at Off-Broadway-Onstage and in movies. The mentality of Americans is other than in Europe. The time for rehearse a play is short, and the play is shorter, and the season is shorter, but the actor says any evening the same. The economy is in foreground. Once evenening the stage director is before the premiere is passes away and Hirst makes herself. He plays film, television and theatre in the fifties and sixties. 1964 he obtains from the Village Voice the [[Obie Award|Obie-Award]] for OFF-Brodway-Play in „A Month in the Country“. 1959 he get the [[Clarence Derwent Award]]. |
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As actor he has about twenty leading parts in television- and cine-films. He plays dramatic, classic, comic and he is the lover. |
As actor he has about twenty leading parts in television- and cine-films. He plays dramatic, classic, comic and he is the lover. |
Revision as of 10:41, 23 July 2009
David Hurst | |
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Born | Heinrich Theodor Hirsch |
Occupation(s) | actor, theatre producer |
Years active | 1948-2000 |
David Hurst (born 6 May 1926 in Berlin as Heinrich Theodor Hirsch) is a British-German actor.
Biography
Germany
Hurst grows up at a family of actors, his father was a participant of the Austrian theatre and film director Max Reinhardt in the Deutsches Theater ("German Theatre") in Berlin. By reason of the Jewish parentage he must left his parents in the time of Nazi regimen. After the pogroms of the Kristallnacht British-Jewish citizens offer their government to bear the expenses for rescue the Jewish children from Germany and Austria. So he comes 1938 in security with Kindertransport in the United Kingdom. He was 12 years old and his mother he has never seen.
United Kingdom
He pass his childhood now in a manor in Northern Ireland. He lives with other young emigrants in care of a family of estate manager. Here he get the chance for an artistical qualification. The first stage experience he gains in Belfast at a repertory theatre. His German name was Heinrich Hirsch. It is a complicated name for the English lingua. And he changes the name to David Hurst, which is nearly the same as Hirsch, and David is a Jewish prename. During the World War II when he was the age he does the military service by the Northern Irish Fusiliers. But he must no take a gun. As a German he was during and after the war in the „entertainment of the soldiers“. He can so play theatre and he was a comedian and comic actor.
Artistic career
1948 the first engagement after release from army was in London West End the role of Wolfgang Winkel in „A Perfect Woman“. As «perfect woman» is a female robot wanted, but the constructor-woman will be this robot. The play was just after the war successfully, and the play was 1949 with Hurst as Wolfgang Winkel filmed.[1][2]. This was the begin as screen actor. But he keep doing play at theatres.
1952 he shoot a film in Venice and this town was free of bulks of tourists. And Venice is the town of Love. At the begin of 1950 years he also get invitations to movieplaying in teh United States. But he keep doing play at theatres in London, classic and comic roles.
United States
1957 Hurst relocated in the United States to California. The cause are the artistic capability there. The most time he lives in California but often he plays On Broadway. He plays also at Off-Broadway-Onstage and in movies. The mentality of Americans is other than in Europe. The time for rehearse a play is short, and the play is shorter, and the season is shorter, but the actor says any evening the same. The economy is in foreground. Once evenening the stage director is before the premiere is passes away and Hirst makes herself. He plays film, television and theatre in the fifties and sixties. 1964 he obtains from the Village Voice the Obie-Award for OFF-Brodway-Play in „A Month in the Country“. 1959 he get the Clarence Derwent Award.
As actor he has about twenty leading parts in television- and cine-films. He plays dramatic, classic, comic and he is the lover. He works in Yale, at Boston University and by Carnegie Mellon. By day of shooting he meets famous American stars, among others with Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in “Hello Dolly“. With Maria Schell plays in 1952 in the lovefilm „So Little Time“.
By means of TV-series how „Mission: Impossible“ (Kobra, übernehmen Sie), „Serpico“ and also „Star Trek“ he is seen in Germany on TV. So he comes also to the play to Europe. He plays often in English-speaking movies a German role. And he is faithful to his German language. Hurst see his jewishness tolerant, he is an actor, but he lives as Jew. In the English-American utopic cine-film „The Boys From Brazil“ he plays a nazist officer. „Skokie“ is a true story of a neo-fascist episode in Illinois about a concentration camp prisoner and holocaust survivor, of course Hurst plays a role in this scenic dokumentation.
Comeback to Germany
In 1980er Years he plays in Germany on German-American co-productions. And he visited half-brother Wolfgang Heinz and he takes a decision "return to Berlin". But the communistic regime in East Berlin do not know what an American want in the GDR. Hurst must wait. So he works with George Tabori, which managed in Wien and Berlin. 1991 transferred Hurst to Wien and plays at Burgtheater under stage direction of Tabori in classic and in German language, the native tongue. But Tabori goes in 2000 to Berlin. And Hurst comes back to Berlin. He reside in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Now he lives in Berlin-Mitte. But in Berlin he doesn't no longer play. The healthiness makes trouble, he is 74 years old.
He was three times married and his children live in Italy, United Kingdom and the United States. And he lives now in the home city.
On-/Off-Broadway
Stage Play | Character | Theatre | Year[3] |
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Die getreuen Brüder von der Pittstraße | Joseph Knaitsch | Orpheum Theatre | 5. November 1988 - 20. November 1988, 20 performances |
Dracula (Drama) | Abraham Van Helsing | OnBroadway | 20. Octobre 1977 - 6. January 1980 |
Imperator Henry IV | Dr. Dionysius Genoni | OnBroadway | 28. April 1973 - 28. May 1973 |
Electra | Educator | Delacorte Theatre | 5. August 1964 - 29. August 1964, 22 Vorstellungen (New York Shakespeare Festival) |
A Month in the Country | Ignaty Ilyitch Shpigelsky | Maidman Playhouse | 1963 - 1964, 48 performances |
Camelot (Musical) | Merlyn | OnBroadway | 3. Decembre 1960 - 5. January 1963 |
The Lunatic View (Der Wahnsinnige) | Young Man | Lucille Lortel Theatre | November 1962 (Matinee) |
Unterm Maulbeerfeigenbaum | The Scientist | Cricket Theatre | 7. March 1960 - 10. April 1960, 41 performances |
Look After Lulu (Comedy) | The Policeman | OnBroadway | 3. March 1959 - 4. April 1959 |
A summernight dream (Comedy) | in Ensemble | OnBroadway | 21. September 1954 - 17. Octobre 1954 |
Filmography
Title | Character/ Role | Year | Type of Movie |
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The Perfect Woman | Wolfgang Winkel | 1949 | Film after Play „The Perfect Woman“ |
Tony Draws a Horse | Ivan | 1950 | cine-film about Freudianism |
The Smart Aleck | Poppi | 1951 | cine-film |
Top Secret (Die Verblendeten) | Professor Deutsch | 1952 | cine-film |
Venetian Bird | Minelli | 1952 | cine-film |
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire[4] | Mugsy | 1952 | cine-film |
So Little Time | Blumel/Baumann | 1952 | Lovemovie[5] |
Always a Bride | Beckstein | 1953 | motion picture |
Rough Shoot (Schuß im Dunkel) | Lex | 1953 | motion picture |
Mad About Men | Signor Mantalini | 1954 | motion picture |
River Beat (Die Jagd begann im Hafen)[6] | Paddy McClure | 1954 | Policemovie |
Look Up and Live | 1954 | Two Episodes | |
One Good Turn (Verliebt, verrückt und nicht verheiratet) | Professor Dofee | 1954 | Lovemovie |
All for Mary (Aber lieb sind sie doch) | Mr. Victor | 1955 | motion picture |
As Long as They're Happy (Existentialisten) | Dr. Hermann Schneider/ Dr. Ferenczy | 1955 | motion picture |
The Adventures of Aggie | Lazareff | 1956 | Episode - Snap Judgment |
Armstrong Circle Theatre | Regierungsoffizieller | 1957 | Episode - The Shepherd of Paris |
After the Ball | Perelli | 1957 | motion picture |
Kraft Television Theatre | 1958 | Episode - Riddle of a Lady | |
The DuPont Show of the Month | Mr. Stryver | 1958 | Episode - A Tale of Two Cities |
Play of the Week | mehrere Episoden | 1959 | television series |
Dow Hour of Great Mysteries | Der Baron | 1960 | Episode - The Dachet Diamonds |
Play of the Week | Propagandist | 1960 | Episodes - Tiger at the Gates / - The Emperor's Clothes |
Car 54, Where Are You? (Wagen 54, bitte melden) | Robin Stuart, playwright | 1962 | Episode - That's Show Business |
The Defenders (Preston & Preston) | Dr. Schaeffer | 1964 | Episode - Drink Like a Lady |
The Confession (Heirate mich, Gauner)[7] | Gustave | 1964 | TV |
The Patty Duke Show | Dennis LaTouche | 1965 | Episode - It Takes a Heap of Livin' |
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Solo für O.N.K.E.L.) | Dr. Jan Vanovech | 1965/ 1968 | In different Episodes |
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Matthew Brecker | 1966 | Episode- The Mata Hari Affair |
Hawk | Louis Anselmi | 1966 | Episode - The Longleat Chronicles |
Mannix | Vladek | 1967 | Episode - The Many Deaths of Saint Christopher |
Hallmark Hall of Fame | Petrovini | 1967 | Episode - Anastasia |
Mission: Impossible (Kobra, übernehmen Sie) | Dr. Oswald Beck / Victor Grigov | 1967/ 1969 | TV-Criminal in different Episodes |
Run for Your Life (Wettlauf mit dem Tod) | Heinrich Kleist | 1968 | Episode - The Exchange |
The Monkees (Monkees Race Again) | Der Baron | 1968 | Science-Fiction-Serie |
It Takes a Thief (Ihr Auftritt, Al Mundy!) | Captain Kovich | 1968 | Episode - When Boy Meets Girl |
To Die in Paris | Pirot | 1968 | TV-Film |
How to Steal the World (Wie stehle ich die Welt?) | Dr. Jan Vanovech | 1968 | Actionkomödy to TV-Serie Man of U.N.C.L.E. |
The Flying Nun | Benito Gomez / Gus Mendoza | 1968/ 1969 | Episodes - A Fish Story and The Lottery |
Hello, Dolly! | Rudolph Reisenweber | 1969 | cine film |
The Maltese Bippy | Dr. Charles Strauss | 1969 | cine film |
Star Trek | Ambassador Hodin[8][9] | 1969 | Episode 72 - The Mark of Gideon (Fast unsterblich) |
F.B.I. | Alex Keeler | 1970 | Episode - The Traitor |
Kelly's Heroes (Stoßtrupp Gold) | Colonel Dunkhepf | 1970 | Telefilm (Yugoslawia) |
The Mod Squad (Twen-Police) | 1970 | Episode - The Exile | |
NET Playhouse | Chanute | 1971 | Episode: The Wright Brothers |
Dark Shadows | Justin Collins | 1971 | Three Episodes |
Paradise Lost | Schnable | 1974 | Telefim |
Serpico[10] | Ducek | 1976 | Episode - The Indian |
Insight | 1977 | Episode | |
McCloud (Ein Sheriff in New York) | Hauptmann Andrei Krasnavian | 1977 | Episode - The Moscow Connection |
Quincy M.E. (Quincey) | Dr. Fred Webber | 1978 | Episode - Dead and Alive |
The Boys from Brazil[11] (Geheimakte Viertes Reich) | Strasser | 1978 | Actionfilm |
Child of Glass (Gläserne Puppe) | Jacques Dumaine | 1978 | Telefilm |
Nero Wolfe | Fritz | 1979 | Telefilm |
Eight Is Enough | 1979 | Episode - The Hipbone's Connected to the Thighbone | |
Charlie's Angels (Drei Engel für Charly) | Stovich | 1980 | Episode - Arnsteins Wunder |
Skokie (Kteuz der Gewalt)[12] | Sol Goldstein | 1981 | Telefilm |
The Handmaid's Tale (Geschichte der Dienerin)[13] | Der Onkel | 1989 | Science-Fiction-Film |
Hey, hey we're the Monkeys | Baron von Klutz | 1997 | |
The Boy Who Had Everything | 1984 | Cine-Drama | |
Leo Tolstoy: God Sees the Truth but Waits | 1999 | Cinetale |
External links
- ^ Playbill
- ^ Movieoverview
- ^ Off-Broadway-Datenbank
- ^ IMDB 403588
- ^ Über die gemeinsame Zuneigung zur Musik überwinden Nicole und der Oberst alle Vorurteile und zeitbedingte Feindschaft. Schließlich zerbricht ihre Liebe aber doch an der Grausamkeit des Krieges.
- ^ Filmlexikon
- ^ Filmdatenbank
- ^ In The Mark of Gideon (72 - 1969)
- ^ 16.htm Startrek Index
- ^ Episoden und Darsteller
- ^ Filminfos
- ^ Inhaltsangabe Skokie
- ^ Filmlexikon
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