Heinz Rühmann

Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor. Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heinz Rühmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acted Movies

Faraway, So Close! (1993)

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Ulrich Zieger,

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Heinz Rühmann, Horst Buchholz, Martin Olbertz, Nastassja Kinski, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Rüdiger Vogler, Solveig Dommartin, Willem Dafoe,

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

Director: Ladislao Vajda

Writers: Friedrich Dürrenmatt,

Cast: Anita von Ow, Berta Drews, Ewald Balser, Gert Fröbe, Heinrich Gretler, Heinz Rühmann, María Rosa Salgado, Michel Simon, Siegfried Lowitz, Sigfrit Steiner,

The Punch Bowl (1944)

Director: Helmut Weiss

Writers: Heinrich Spoerl,

Cast: Clemens Hasse, Erich Ponto, Hans Leibelt, Hans Richter, Heinz Rühmann, Hilde Sessak, Karin Himboldt, Lutz Götz, Paul Henckels, Rudi Schippel,