Personal Info
Birth date
1932-04-06 (93 Years)
Day of death
2004-11-19
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Hamburg, Germany
Also known as
Хельмут Грим
Helmut Griem
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helmut Griem (born April 6, 1932 in Hamburg – November 19, 2004 in Munich) was a German actor. Griem was primarily a German-speaking stage actor, appearing at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatliches Schauspielbühnen in Berlin, in the Munich Kammerspiele, and finally in the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, also in Munich. Among his many film and TV appearances (a quite memorable one being NBC's mini-series Peter the Great, portraying the formidable Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell), the Oscar-winning film Cabaret (1972), in which he played the rich "Baron Maximilian von Heune" is probably the best-known; other internationally-known performances include his work in The Damned, The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig. Griem starred in the television mini-series "The Devil's Lieutenant" directed by John Goldschmidt, adapted by Jack Rosenthal and based on the novel by M Fagyas, for Channel 4 and ZDF. Despite his success in film, the theatre remained at the heart of Griem's work, and he performed in many classic roles from both the German and English-language repertoire. Later in his career Griem turned to theatre direction, including Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Before his death, Griem had planned to direct the Botho Strauss play Die eine and die andere (This One and The Other). Griem twice won the Bambi Award: in 1961 and in 1976. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helmut Griem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.Das Traumschiff
4.3
Overview:
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.Bambi-Verleihung
9
Overview:
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.Anwalt Abel
NYR
Overview:
Anwalt Abel is a German television film series, broadcast on ZDF between 1988 and 2002. 20 television films were produced, based on the detective novels of Fred Breinersdorfer.Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
8.5
Overview:
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.Peter the Great
8
Overview:
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
3
Overview:
The renowned Viennese fashion designer Franz Steiniger learns that he has a fatal illness and then retires to Italy with his lover Barbara Landau. During the absence of the CEO, his unsuspecting wife Elisabeth and son Albert and daughter-in-law Alpha fight against the hostile takeover by a solvent American cheap-fashion empire.Ludwig
9.4
Overview:
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness. [This so-called "TV version" is the reconstructions of Visconti's original 238 minute cut.]Detective Extralarge
6.4
Overview:
Jack Costello (Bud Spencer) is a retired cop and now private detective who lives in Miami, who handles a myriad of cases for unusual clients. At his side are old police buddy Sam Bosley (Lou Bedford) and cartoonist-turned-amateur sleuth Jean Philippe Dumas (Philip Michael Thomas), who is using Costello as an influence and has nicknamed the burly detective "Extralarge." In the second series, Costello faces other dangerous cases, again with Bosley and Archibald (Michael Winslow), the son of an old friend, who Costello amusingly nicknames "Dumas."The Original Trap
NYR
Overview:
A man wakes up in the hospital without remembering anything. He does not know who he is. But evidently, his identity is known by two killer of color who seek out without respite.Cabaret
7.415
Overview:
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.The Damned
7.305
Overview:
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.The Desert of the Tartars
6.8
Overview:
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.Voyage of the Damned
5.9
Overview:
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.The Passerby
6.098
Overview:
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...Ludwig
7.5
Overview:
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.Breakthrough
5.8
Overview:
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.Germany in Autumn
6.2
Overview:
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.The Meetings of Anna
7.2
Overview:
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.The Plot to Kill Hitler
6.042
Overview:
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.The Magic Mountain
6.1
Overview:
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.The McKenzie Break
6.056
Overview:
A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.Lourdes
6.8
Overview:
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.Malou
5.8
Overview:
Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern woman, seeking after freedom and her own identity, and trying in present-day Berlin to save her shaky marriage.The Hamburg Syndrome
5.65
Overview:
When a plague breaks out in Hamburg, several people break out of quarantine and make their way out of the city... only to find that the plague is more widespread.Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
6.6
Overview:
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
5.5
Overview:
Ruth is the wife of Erich Halbfass, a well-heeled corsetry manufacturer. Business is booming, Erich splashes around in the house swimming pool and daughter Aglaia attends school well. The bored middle-class wife begins a secret affair with Aglaia's drawing teacher Franz Vogelsang, setting murder and manslaughter in motion.Acting
2004Liebe auf Bewährung as Albert Tieck
2002Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften (1 Episode) as Maximilian Fox
2001Piccolo Mondo Antico as Col. Greisberg
2001Amokfahrt zum Pazifik as Oscar
2000Der Mörder in dir as Günther Lehmann
2000Lourdes as Auguste La Fontaine
1999Die Stunde des Löwen as Professor Winterfeld
1999SK Kölsch (1 Episode) as Willi Haller
1998Der letzte Zeuge (1 Episode) as Karl Axer
1997Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum as Romulka
1997The Lost Daughter as Rolf Sutter
1996Der gefälschte Sommer as Stefan Hansen
1995Die Grube as Helmuth Groscurth
1995Burning Heart as Gustav Regler
1994Missus as Monsignor Kastner
19941945 as Public prosecutor
1994Charlemagne, le prince à cheval (3 Episodes) as Widukind
1993Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann as Pertussini
1991Detective Extralarge (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Hard Days, Hard Nights as Kronschneider
1990Shooting Stars as Gutke
1990The Plot to Kill Hitler as Erwin Rommel
1989A proposito di quella strana ragazza as Ugo
1988Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle as Dr. Heinrich Faust
1988Anwalt Abel (1 Episode) as Senftleben
1987The Second Victory as Karl Fischer
1986Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich as Carl Gustav Carus
1986Peter the Great (4 Episodes) as Alexander Menshikov
1984The Devil's Lieutenant as Judge Advocate Kunze
1983Elective Affinities as Edouard Otto
1982The Passerby as Michel Wiener
1982The Original Trap (2 Episodes) as Benno
1982The Magic Mountain as James Tienappel
1982Versuchung as Ludwig
1981Das Traumschiff (1 Episode) as Herbert Ernst
1981Sting in the Flesh as Hans
1981Malou as Unknown
1981Ludwig (5 Episodes) as Dürckheim
1980Put on Ice as Brasch
1980Landläufiger Tod as Unknown
1979The Hamburg Syndrome as Sebastian
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Alois
1979Breakthrough as Major Stransky
1978The Meetings of Anna as Heinrich Schneider
1978Black Sun as Willi Mohr
1978The Glass Cell as Phillip Braun
1978Germany in Autumn as TV-Redakteur
1976Voyage of the Damned as Otto Schiendick
1976The Desert of the Tartars as Lieutenant Simeon
1976The Clown as Hans Schnier
1975Es fängt ganz harmlos an as Dieter Schwarz
1975Children of Rage as Dr. David Shalom
1973Ludwig as Dürckheim
1972The Morals of Ruth Halbfass as Franz Vogelsang
1972Cabaret as Maximilian von Heune
1970The McKenzie Break as Kapitänleutnant Willi Schlueter
1969The Damned as Aschenbach
1968Bel Ami as Georges Duroy
1967Blick von der Brücke as Rodolfo
1967Liebe für Liebe as Valentine
1966Die Ballade von Peckham Rye as Trevor Lomas
1965Antigone as Hämon
1965Christinas Heimreise as Florindo
1963Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien as Don Carlos
1963Because, Because of a Woman as Johann Muller
1962East Zone, West Zone as Hans
1961Barbara - Wild wie das Meer as Paul
1961Girl from Hong Kong as Glenn Dierks
1960Fabrik der Offiziere as Oberleutnant Krafft
1960Zum Geburtstag as Gabe Darcy
1959Der zerbrochene Krug as Unknown
1958Die Brüder as Jean Roland
1948Bambi-Verleihung (2 Episodes) as Self