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Helmut Griem
Griem (left) in Berlin, 1968
Born
(1932-04-06)6 April 1932
Hamburg, Germany
Died
19 November 2004(2004-11-19) (aged 72)
Munich, Germany
Occupation
Actor, theatre director
Years active
1956–2002
Helmut Griem (6 April 1932 – 19 November 2004) was a German film, television and stage actor, and director.
Griem became well known to international audiences as the diabolic SS-officer Aschenbach in The Damned. His role in the Academy Award-winning film Cabaret (1972) as the wealthy Baron Maximilian von Heune is probably his best-known international performance. Other performances include his work in The McKenzie Break, and Ludwig and Breakthrough. Among his many film and TV appearances was one in NBC's Peter the Great as the Tsar's lifelong friend and "right hand" Alexander Menshikov, alongside Maximilian Schell. He starred in the television mini-series The Devil's Lieutenant directed by John Goldschmidt, adapted by Jack Rosenthal and based on the novel by the Hungarian-American playwright and author Maria Fagyas (1905–1985), for Channel 4 and ZDF.[citation needed]
Griem performed in many classic roles from both the German and English-language repertoire. Later in his career Griem turned to theatre direction, including Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Before his death, he had planned to direct the Botho Strauss play, Die eine und die andere (This One and The Other). Griem twice won the Bambi Award: in 1961 and in 1976.[1] He died in Munich in 2004, aged 72.