Benno Sterzenbach

Actor

March 3, 1916 (69 years)

† September 13, 1985

Osnabrück, Germany

Biography

Benno Sterzenbach (born 3 March 1916 Osnabrück - died 13 September 1985 Feldafing) was a German cinema and theatre actor and director. His first major role on stage was Götz von Berlichingen at which he played next to Ellen Schwiers as Adelheid at the Jagsthausen festival. On television, he is mostly known for his roles in filmed theatrical adaptations: Der Richter und sein Henker (1957) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Der Schlaf der Gerechten (1962) by Albrecht Goes and Mirandolina (1963) by Carlo Go…

Filmography

6.3

The Old Fox

Herr Färber

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

6.1

Derrick

Siegfried Horre

Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.

9.3

Dalli Dalli

Self

No description available

8.0

Die fünfte Kolonne

Dickmann

Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.

7.9

Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

Major Achbach

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.

8.0

Space Patrol

General Winston W. Wamsler

Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first German science fiction television series. Its seven episodes were broadcast by ARD beginning September 17, 1966 six years before Star Trek first aired in West Germany. Being a huge success with several reruns audience ratings went up to 56%. Over the years, the series acquired a distinct cult status in Germany.

7.1

Ace of Aces

Major Aschbach, Gestapo officer

In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.

9.5

PS

Karl Brensberger

PS is a German television series.

6.7

Pippi on the Run

Policeman

Fed up with their strict parents, Tommy and Annika run away from home, with their friend Pippi Longstocking to look after them in their long trek.

8.0

On the Road to Atlantis

Kelley/Dr. Graf

Unterwegs nach Atlantis is an Austrian-German-Swiss-Czechoslovakian science fiction television series from 1981.

9.0

Es ist soweit

Lomax

Janet Freeman, the daughter of the English nuclear researcher Clive and his wife Lucy, is kidnapped.

N/A

Der seidene Schuh

Dona Proeza loves the Spanish nobleman Don Rodrigo, the long-standing viceroy of the West Indies, at the end of the 16th century, but is first married to the old judge Don Pelayo and then to Don Camillo, and in between goes on a journey with Don Baltasar.

4.5

Hostage

Mr. Maresch

Set in 1980's Australia, this is the true story of a woman whose husband eventually reveals to her that he is an active member of the Nazi party. A real nightmare begins for her.

6.7

The Avenger

Sir Gregory Penn

A maniac is loose in London, decapitating his victims and sending the heads to Scotland Yard.

10.0

Unternehmen Schlafsack

Offizier des SS

During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front to Berlin and a new non-existent unit.

9.0

Der Cornet

Rittmeister Reningen

The romantic love and heroic death of a young cornet who rode into battle against the Turks in the mid-17th century. Based on Rainer Maria Rilke’s "The Ballad of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke".

7.0

Freddy unter fremden Sternen

Miller

Freddy can hardly believe his good fortune: His uncle has left him some land in the Rocky Mountains, and, together with orphan Stefan, he's taking off for Canada. However, the great inheritance turns out to be a decrepit, old log cabin in the middle of nowhere. Nevertheless, an unusual number of people seem to be way too interested in the rundown ranch.

5.6

Space Patrol

General Wamsler (archive footage)

Orion commander Cliff Allister McLane, galactic war hero and unconventional daredevil in the service of the world government, is transferred with his crew to the space patrol. On top of that, Colonel Villa, head of the Galactic Security Service, provides him with the attractive agent Tamara Jagellovsk as a chaperone. From the very first patrol flight, the two Orion officers get into heated arguments. Tamara drives Cliff to despair with her Alpha Orders. When unknown beings from outer space, known as Frogs, attack Earth and the world government becomes bogged down in wrangling over jurisdiction, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of Cliff and Tamara. A supernova directed by exoterrists on Earth's course is destroyed at the last minute when Orion is abandoned. However, the next wave of attacks by the Frogs comes with the support of terrestrial revolutionaries.

7.1

Titanic

Duncan Fletcher

No description available

6.5

Der Richter und sein Henker

Zweiter Leibwächter

The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle of the country road.