1. Eric Pohlmann was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in the United Kingdom.
14 Facts About Eric Pohlmann
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Eric Pohlmann is known for voicing Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the primary antagonist of the James Bond series, in the films From Russia with Love and Thunderball.
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Eric Pohlmann appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar.
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Eric Pohlmann was frequently cast in "foreign" roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Asians; he played King George II in Disney's Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue and King George III twice.
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Eric Pohlmann played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare, Chance of a Lifetime, Reach for the Sky, and Expresso Bongo.
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Eric Pohlmann appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge, Mogambo, Lust For Life and 55 Days at Peking.
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Eric Pohlmann displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St Trinian's, as "The Fat Man" in Carry On Spying and in The Return of the Pink Panther.
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Eric Pohlmann provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love and Thunderball.
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Eric Pohlmann had guest roles in the popular crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick, and appeared in television plays for ORF and Bayerischer Rundfunk, often under the direction of Franz Josef Wild.
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In 1962, Eric Pohlmann appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel.
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Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Eric Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun and Helmut Kautner.
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In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Eric Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall.
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Eric Pohlmann was survived by his children and his second wife, Lili Stern-Pohlman, a Polish-born Holocaust survivor.
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Eric Pohlmann appeared on stage in, amongst other productions, Henry Cecil's Settled Out of Court and Jean Anouilh's 'Point of Departure'.