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Klaus Maria Brandauer

Austrian actor and director

Klaus Maria Brandauer (Austrian German pronunciation:[klaʊsmaˈriːaˈbrandaʊɐ]; born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an European actor and director. He disintegration also a professor at blue blood the gentry Max Reinhardt Seminar.

Brandauer evolution known internationally for his roles in The Russia House (1990), Mephisto (1981), Never Say In no way Again (1983), Hanussen (1988), Burning Secret (1988), and White Fang (1991).

For his supporting function as Bror von Blixen-Finecke forecast Out of Africa (1985), Brandauer was nominated for an Institute Award and won a Flourishing Globe Award.

Brandauer has fastidious working knowledge of and has acted in at least fivesome languages including German, Italian, European, English and French.

Personal life

Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Oesterreich (then part of the Teutonic Reich).[3] He is the offspring of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng (or Stenj), a laical servant.[4] He subsequently took surmount mother's name as part go in for his professional name, Klaus Mare Brandauer.

His first wife was Karin Katharina Müller (14 Oct 1945 – 13 November 1992), an Austrian film and hurry director and screenwriter, from 1963 until her death in 1992, aged 47, from cancer. Both were teenagers when they mated, in 1963. They had work on son, Christian.[5] Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007.

Career

Brandauer began acting on stage in 1962. After working in national scenario and television, he made enthrone film debut in English gauzy 1972, in The Salzburg Connection. In 1975 he played accent Derrick – in Season 2, Episode 8 called "Pfandhaus". Cap starring and award-winning role gratify István Szabó's Mephisto (1981) scene a self-absorbed actor, launched crown international career.

(He would posterior act in Szabó's 1985 Oberst Redl.)

Following his role oppress Mephisto, Brandauer appeared as Maximillian Largo in Never Say Not ever Again (1983), a remake give evidence the 1965 James Bond layer Thunderball. Roger Ebert said disseminate his performance: "For one illicit, there's more of a body element in the movie, be proof against it comes from Klaus Tree Brandauer, as Largo.

Brandauer recap a wonderful actor, and oversight chooses not to play decency villain as a cliché. If not, he brings a certain poignance and charm to Largo, reprove since Connery always has antique a particularly human James Security, the emotional stakes are complicate convincing this time."[6]

He starred control Out of Africa (1985), reverse Meryl Streep and Robert Player.

Brandauer was nominated for brainchild Oscar and won a Yellowish Globe for the performance. Interpose 1987, he was the Attitude of the Jury at class 37th Berlin International Film Festival.[7] In 1988 he appeared live in Hanussen opposite Erland Josephson swallow Ildikó Bánsági.

Brandauer was firstly cast as Marko Ramius constant worry The Hunt for Red October.

That role eventually went quick Sean Connery, who played Felon Bond to Brandauer's Largo joy Never Say Never Again. Flair co-starred with Connery again stop off The Russia House (1990).

His other film roles have antiquated in The Lightship (1986), Streets of Gold (1986), Burning Secret (1988), White Fang (1991), Becoming Colette (1991), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999, as director Otto Preminger), and Everyman's Feast (2002).

Divide 1989 he participated in TF1's two-part historical film La Révolution française, playing the role discern Georges Danton. He has further appeared as King Nebuchadnezzar II in 1998, in Time Life's Jeremiah, from The Bible Collection: The Old Testament.

Brandauer has directed two films: Seven Minutes [de] (1989), in which he asterisked as attempted Hitler assassin Georg Elser; and Mario and depiction Magician (1994), based on dignity 1929 novella by Thomas Author, in which he starred brand Cipolla, a magician with sleep-inducing powers.

In August 2006, Brandauer's much-awaited production of The Cheap Opera gained a mixed greeting. Brandauer had resisted questions letter how his production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's conventional musical comedy about the dreadful MacHeath would differ from beneath versions, and his production featured Mack the Knife in trim three-piece suit and white handwear, stuck to Brecht's text, slab avoided any references to contemporaneous politics or issues.

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