HORST BUCHHOLZ BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Horst Buchholz was born on December 4th, 1933 in Berlin, Germany with the birth name Horst Werner Buchholz.  During World War II, his parents placed him in foster care with a family in Czechoslovakia, and when the war came to an end, he returned back to his family in Berlin.  He soon dropped out of school when he realized he had a love for performing and wanted to pursue a career in entertainment.  
 
He made the move to West Berlin and began finding work as a stage actor and radio performer.  After gaining some experience as an actor he broke into the film industry taking on some small roles before he got his first big break in the film, "Marianne of My Youth" (1955) followed by a Best Actor Award at the Cannes festival for his role in the film, "Sky Without Stars" (1955).  He was soon given the lead in his next big film, "Confessions of Felix Krull" and finally he had begun to reach star status.
 
He had his Broadway debut in 1959 in a production of, "Cherrie" and soon more prominent film roles followed such as, "Two Worlds" (1958), "Wet Asphalt" (1958), "Tiger Bay" (1959) and "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), first distributed in Europe but later it came to the United States and became a huge hit and he starred along other notable actors, Yul Brenner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach and Brad Dexter.
 
The next couple roles he added to his resume were even more successful starring in the films, "Fanny" (1961), "One, Two, Three" (1961), "The Empty Canvas" (1963), "That Man in Instanbul" (1965), "Johnny Banco" (1967) and "The Savior" (1971).
 
As his career progressed he began to turn his efforts towards television movies and series.  He was seen in such television movies as, "Dead of Night" (1977), "Return to Fantasy Island" (1978), "Derrick" (1976-1983) and "Fantasy Island" (1978) among a number of other German television shows.
 
Over the course of his career other big screen feature roles he added to his credits include, "Code Name: Emerald" (1985), "And the Violins Stopped Playing" (1988), "Faraway, So Close!" (1993) and "Life is Beautiful" (1997)

He married only once to Myrium Bru in 1958 and they had two children and remained married until he passed away at the age of sixty eight from pneumonia on March 3rd, 2003.  His remains are buried in the Heerstraße Cemetery in Berlin.

Filmography

2003   In der Mitte eines Lebens

2002   Abschnitt 40 

2002   Detective Lovelorn und die Rache des Pharao

2002   Atlantic Affairs 

2001   Traumfrau mit Verspätung

2001   Der Club der grünen Witwen

2001   The Enemy 

2000   Klinikum Berlin Mitte - Leben in Bereitschaft

2000   Geisterjäger John Sinclair

2000   Heller als der Mond

2000   Kinderraub in Rio - Eine Mutter schlägt zurück 

1999   Minefield 

1998   Dunckel

1998   Voyage of Terror

1997   Life Is Beautiful

1997   The Firebird 

1997   Maître Da Costa 

1997   Geisterstunde - Fahrstuhl ins Jenseits 

1997   Der kleine Unterschied

1995   Der Clan der Anna Voss

1994   The Cave of the Golden Rose 4 

1994   Tödliches Erbe

1993   Faraway, So Close!

1993   Sylter Geschichten 

1993   Geschichten aus dem Leben 

1992   Touch and Die

1992   Aces: Iron Eagle III 

1991   Réquiem por Granada 

1990   Flight from Paradise 

1988   And the Violins Stopped Playing

1987   Der Schatz im Niemandsland

1986   Die Fräulein von damals

1986   Crossings 

1986   Affari di famiglia 

1985   Code Name: Emerald 

1984   Wenn ich mich fürchte 

1983   Sahara

1983   Der Alte

1976-1983  Derrick

1982   Aphrodite 

1981   Astro-Show Ein Spiel mit den Sternen

1981   Berlin Tunnel 21

1979   The French Atlantic Affair

1979   Avalanche Express 

1979   From Hell to Victory

1978   Charlie's Angels 

1978   The Return of Captain Nemo 

1978   Fantasy Island

1978   How the West Was Won

1977   Logan's Run 

1977   Women in Hospital 

1977   Dead of Night

1976   Raid on Entebbe

1976   The Savage Bees

1976   Klimbim 

1975   The Catamount Killing

1973   ...But Johnny! 

1972   The Great Waltz 

1972   Dalli Dalli

1971   The Savior 

1970   The Dove Must Not Fly 

1969   Come, quando, perché 

1968   Astragal

1968   The Danny Thomas Hour

1967   Young Rebel 

1967   Johnny Banco

1965   That Man in Istanbul 

1965   Marco the Magnificent

1963   The Empty Canvas

1963   Nine Hours to Rama 

1961   One, Two, Three 

1961   Fanny 

1960   The Magnificent Seven 

1959   Ship of the Dead 

1959   Tiger Bay 

1958   Auferstehung 

1958   Wet Asphalt 

1958   Two Worlds 

1958   Ein Stück vom Himmel 

1957   Monpti 

1957   Confessions of Felix Krull 

1957   The Girl and the Legend 

1957   King in Shadow

1956   Teenage Wolfpack 

1956   Regine 

1955   Sky Without Stars

1955   Marianne, meine Jugendliebe 

1952   Adventure in Berlin