Horst Werner Buchholz (December 4, 1933 – March 3, 2003) was a German actor, best remembered for his part in The Magnificent Seven. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952-2002. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 515 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (815 × 949 pixel, file size: 133 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) http://www. ... December 4th redirects here. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Berlin (disambiguation). ... December 4th redirects here. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... is the 62nd day of the year (63rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 2003 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen tasked with protecting a Mexican village from bandits. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

Life and work

Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of a shoemaker. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from New Jersey and his maternal grandparents were from Denmark. Records show his father's family were originally named Rosenholz when they arrived in Germany 1903. During World War II he was evacuated to Silesia and at the end of the war found himself in a foster home in Czechoslovakia. He returned to Berlin as soon as he could. He barely finished his schooling before seeking theatre work, first appearing on stage in 1949. He soon left his childhood home in East Berlin to work in West Berlin. He established himself in the theatre, notably the Schiller Theatre, and also on radio. He expanded into film after dubbing work accepting small and uncredited parts from 1952. He had a marginally larger role in Marianne de Ma Jeunesse (1954) directed by Julien Duvivier. He won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his part as Mischa Bjelkin in Helmut Käutner's Himmel ohne Sterne. His youthful good looks next brought him a part in Die Halbstarken (1956). His breakthrough film was Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957) in which he played the lead, it was directed by Kurt Hoffmann and based on the novel by Thomas Mann. This article is about the capital of Germany. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Silesia (Czech: ; German: ; Latin: ; Polish: ; Silesian: Åšlónsk) is a historical region in central Europe. ... Julien Duvivier (October 8, 1896 in Lille - October 30, 1967 in Paris) was a French film director. ... Helmut Käutner (March 25, 1908 – April 20, 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 50s. ... Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual. ...

He began appearing in foreign films from 1959 when he was in the British production Tiger Bay. He followed that with The Magnificent Seven (1960) and the Berlin-set One, Two, Three (1961) directed by Billy Wilder. A versatile actor, he took the parts as they arose and appeared in comedies, horror films, wartime dramas and other genres. His best work was in the 1960s: the critical quality of the films in which he took part diminished from the mid 1970s, with poorly regarded television films making up the majority of his appearances. In certain films he was allowed to show his skills such as the bleak I skrzypce przestaly grac (1988), and the Oscar-winning Life Is Beautiful (1997). Tiger Bay is a 1959 British film, starring John Mills, his daughter Hayley Mills in her first important film role, and Horst Buchholz. ... The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 western film directed by John Sturges about a group of hired gunmen tasked with protecting a Mexican village from bandits. ... This article is about the movie. ... Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella) is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice (played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film), who lives in his own romantic fairy tale world, but must learn how to use...

He died in the Berlin Charité from pneumonia at the age of sixty-nine. This was a city to which his loyalty was constant, and he was buried there in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem. This article is about the capital of Germany. ... The Charité is the largest university hospital in Europe. ... Pneumonia is an illness of the lungs and respiratory system in which the alveoli (microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere) become inflamed and flooded with fluid. ...

He married Myriam Bru in December 1958 and they had two children. His son Christopher is also an actor.

Selected filmography

• Tiger Bay (1959)
• The Magnificent Seven (1960)
• One, Two, Three (1961)
• Cervantes (1967) (he played the title role)
• Life Is Beautiful (1997)

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External link

• Horst Buchholz at the Internet Movie Database