Horst Werner Buchholz was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002.
36 Facts About Horst Buchholz
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Horst Buchholz is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his role as Chico in The Magnificent Seven, as a communist in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, and as Dr Lessing in Life Is Beautiful.
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Horst Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of Maria Hasenkamp.
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Horst Buchholz never knew his biological father, but took the surname of his stepfather Hugo Buchholz, a shoemaker, whom his mother married in 1938.
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Horst Buchholz's half-sister Heidi, born in 1941, gave him the nickname Hotte, which he kept for the rest of his life.
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Horst Buchholz returned to Berlin as soon as he could.
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Horst Buchholz soon left his childhood home in East Berlin to work in West Berlin.
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Horst Buchholz established himself in the theater, notably the Schiller Theater, and on radio.
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Horst Buchholz expanded into film work by doing foreign-language voice dubbing, for example Lampwick in Pinocchio and Ben Cooper in Johnny Guitar.
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Horst Buchholz had a larger role in Marianne of My Youth, directed by Julien Duvivier and was in a TV movie Die Schule der Vater.
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Horst Buchholz was in Sky Without Stars from Helmut Kautner and Regine.
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Horst Buchholz was in King in Shadow then The Girl and the Legend with Romy Schneider.
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Horst Buchholz made another with Schneider, Monpti, aka Love from Paris.
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Horst Buchholz began appearing in English-language films in 1959, when he co-starred in the British production Tiger Bay with Hayley Mills.
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Horst Buchholz returned to Germany for Ship of the Dead, then accepted an offer from Hollywood to play a young aspiring gunslinger in The Magnificent Seven, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai in which he would play the role originally portrayed by Toshiro Mifune in the Japanese version.
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Horst Buchholz proved to be popular with American audiences, but several missed opportunities thwarted the upward trajectory of his career and it began to stall.
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Horst Buchholz returned to Broadway to appear in Andorra, which had a short run.
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Horst Buchholz was in Marco the Magnificent with Anthony Quinn; That Man in Istanbul, a Eurosopy film; Johnny Banco, a comedy with Yves Allegret; and Young Rebel, a biopic of Miguel de Cervantes with Gina Lollobrigida.
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Horst Buchholz guest starred on The Danny Thomas Hour.
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Horst Buchholz starred in Astragal, How, When and with Whom, The Dove Must Not Fly, and The Saviour.
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Horst Buchholz returned to Hollywood lead roles briefly with The Great Waltz playing Johann Strauss.
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Horst Buchholz appeared on German television in shows like Die Klempner kommen.
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Horst Buchholz moved to supporting roles in films like The Savage Bees, Raid on Entebbe, Dead of Night, and The Amazing Captain Nemo.
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Horst Buchholz guest starred on episodes of Logan's Run, Fantasy Island, Charlie's Angels, and How the West Was Won and had the lead in Women in Hospital and a role in The French Atlantic Affair.
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Horst Buchholz was in From Hell to Victory, and Avalanche Express.
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Horst Buchholz had the co lead in Berlin Tunnel 21 and was top billed in Aphrodite.
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Horst Buchholz guest starred on Derrick and had a supporting part in Sahara.
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Horst Buchholz focused on Germany: Funkeln im Auge, and Fear of Falling.
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Horst Buchholz went to Hollywood for parts in Code Name: Emerald and Crossings.
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Horst Buchholz's credits include Affari di famiglia, Die Fraulein von damals, and Der Schatz im Niemandsland.
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Horst Buchholz had the lead in And the Violins Stopped Playing and supporting role in Escape from Paradise.
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Horst Buchholz portrayed Dr Lessing in Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful.
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Horst Buchholz returned to America for Voyage of Terror.
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In 1958, Horst Buchholz married French actress Myriam Bru and they had two children: Christopher, an actor, and daughter Beatrice.
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Horst Buchholz explained in a 2000 interview that he and Myriam had a stable and enduring arrangement, with her life centered in Paris and his in Berlin, the city that he loved.
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Horst Buchholz died unexpectedly at the age of 69 on March 3,2003 at Charite from pneumonia that developed after an operation for a hip fracture.