Veteran German actor Mario Adorf dies aged 95
Key takeaways
- He played legendary Hollywood villains, wrote German TV history and still had film roles at age 90.
- On screen, he beat people up, shot and killed them.
- Who else can look back on a cinematic vita that includes Italian Spaghetti Westerns as well as classic mafia films, working with Hollywood directors as well as with leading European filmmakers?
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Few actors had a career as rich as Mario Adorf. He played legendary Hollywood villains, wrote German TV history and still had film roles at age 90.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Bu1FMario Adorf, seen here in 2020, was considered one of the great character actors of German and European cinema Image: Frank Hoermann/Sven Simon/picture alliance Advertisement German actor Mario Adorf was a phenomenon. On screen, he beat people up, shot and killed them. He was loud, he was rude and used foul language. And yet, in the end, he was beloved by all.
Many other actors have been around for a long time, too, but who else can claim to have been as much a part of post-war German cinema as he was of the inspiring works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff's New German Cinema movement?