The Best Austrian German Actor of All Time?

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Gert Frobe should have been added.

Max Schreck

Gottfried John

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Anton Walbrook

Christopher Plummer, obviously.

Bruno Ganz, but he is Swiss

Christopher Plummer was Canadian

I didn't vote 'cos Jurgen is there twice.

Marika Rökk

Gee, really, R4?

[quote] Best Austrian German Actor of All Time?

Is this a trick?

Why have you combined two different nations?

Is a German actor different or better than an Austrian-German Actor? And vice versa?

OP, you forgot to include you favourite, Sir Donald Wolfit, in your list.

R9 It is SIR DONALD WOLFIT

and he's not my favorite, stalker.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The very hot Ken Dukin.

Hardy Kruger

I don't know if he's "the best", but I was always fond of Fassinder regular and pocket daddy Klaus Löwitsch.

HORST BUCHOLZ!!!

How can he not be on the list?

Gotz George

Was Peter Lorre German?

R17 Hungarian.

R4 I agree! BIG honorable mention to Swiss Bruno Ganz!

I always had a thing for Jurgen Prochnow. Always thought he was sexy as hell. And a very underrated actor. He's been typecast as a villain but he was just as good in more sympathetic roles. He played Jesus Christ (and very well, too) in a horror movie called "The Seventh Sign." I heard he was originally supposed have played the lead in "The Terminator" which made a star of Arnold Schwarzenegger. God, I wish he had played the role. He would have SO much better than Arnold.

I nominate Herr Frederick Valk.

He was very good at slapping.

Conrad Veidt supplies the evil.

John Justin provides the eye-candy.

Miklos Rosa the music.

Cuddles Szakall

Conrad Veidr was mesmerizing in many respects. He left Germany and later England because of his love for his Jewish wife which lead him to play Nazii's. He's best known for "Casablajce" (and The Thief of Baghdad), but was a lot of fun in "All Through the Night", supported by Judith Anderson.

Veidt starred in the horror classics "Dr Caligari" and "The Man Who Laughs" (whose look Heath Ledger stole for his "Joker" movie.

He wasn't handsome enough to be a leading man but he almost is in this well-made, taut, Hitchcockian espionage thriller.

Jew Suss another Veidr classic.

^ Conrad Veidt made 'Jew Süss' one year after making 'The Wandering Jew' (with Peggy Ashcroft).

I've never been able to see 'Jew Süss' which also stars Cedric Hardwicke, Daphne du Maurier's father Gerald and James Mason's wife Pamela.

I'm "süsspicious" about the name 'Jew Suss'.

Viennese born Joseph Schildkraut

He won an Oscar and an Emmy and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He appeared in everything from "The King of Kings" to "Show Boat" to "Marie Antoinette" to "The Diary of Anne Frank" and was in two episodes of "The Twilight Zone".

No David Hasselhoff?

Tobias Moretti, although I think he's from Tyrol.

Josef Meinrad, one of the best Don Quixote to ever to grace a stage.

Klaus Maria Brandauer (Austrian) was phenomenal in two 80's films: Mephisto and Colonel Redl.

I loved Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds but a second Oscar for what was the same performance in Django Unchained??? I like him but think he's a one-note actor.

Adolf Schicklegrubber?

R28 Josef Schildkraut was married three times but made a convincing queen—

R31 Brandauer was also good in Never Say Never Again, Out of Africa, The Russia House, Hanussen, White Fang, and Tetro.

There is a new film out called Zárójelentés with him that I want to see.

He did not get along with Faye Dunaway in the Burning Secret. That is why it tanked.

^The movie is called The Final Report in English.

What, no Rudolf Prack? Such a manly, handsome actor.

Luis Trenker - another man's man.

Hans Berlin

We have no idea who of these are German. And who are Austrian.

[quote] Conrad Veidr … Nazii's… "Casablajce"…

Your spelling, R24, makes me think you might be Austrian. Or German.

Horst Buchholz and Hardy Kruger were just German, not Austrian

Lars Eidinger and his 10-inch dong, of course.

Maximilian Schell says he was Swiss.

It's a crime Schwarzenegger doesn't have an Oscar.

Oskar Werner

Helmut Berger

Romy Schneider

Oskar Homolka

Romy Schneider was not an actor.

Paul Hubschmid

Paul Henreid

Austrian bear Jürgen Maurer is totally my type. Pic is from his younger days.

A more recent pic of Jürgen Maurer.

Daniel Brühl

Sir Donald Wolfit

Maximillian was one hot looking mother fucker back in the day.

Are you guys kidding me? 53 responses in and nobody advocates for Oscar Werner? ???

^ See r45

There was something epicene about Oskar Werner. And didn't he commit suicide?

No he just drank himself to death, R56. He could have had a much larger career if he’d been more disciplined. He was a genius.

I've only seen Werner in his American films plus Jules et Jim. What are his best German language films?

Sadly there are not many. Angel with a trumpet. Eroica. He was a great stage actor, a legendary Hamlet. He appeared in one of the weaker Columbo episodes.

He was good in Ship of Fools

Ken Dukin is gorgeous and a fine actor as well. I heartily recommend "The Sinking Of The Laconia". On Amazon and a few other sites.

[quote] Angel with a trumpet

Wiki says 'To reduce costs, this British film re-used much of the earlier Austrian film, especially for distance shots and for scenes with minor characters who were dubbed. In this way, Maria Schell and Oskar Werner launched their international careers in this film.

So Oskar Werner may not have actually met the star of the film.

Peter Lorre

Klaus Kinski was a complete freak who fucked his daughter.

I vote for those two proud sons of Prussia and The Rheinland.

Herr Schutler and Herr Jaeger.

Helmut Griem was hot

I haven't a clue but this man scared the pie outta me.

R67 Ronald Lacy . He was English.

What the hell is an "Austrian German"????