Rudolf Platte
| Rudolf Platte | |
|---|---|
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Platte (r.) performing at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin 1945 | |
| Born |
Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte 12 February 1904 Hörde, Westphalia German Empire |
| Died |
18 December 1984 (aged 80) Berlin (West Berlin) |
| Occupation | Theatre and film actor |
| Years active | 1925–1984 |
Rudolf Platte (12 February 1904 – 18 December 1984) was a German actor.[1]
Biography
Born in Hörde, Westphalia (today part of Dortmund) the son of a merchant, his family moved to Hildesheim three years later. Rudolf left school at the age of 16 to take acting lessons, making his debut in 1925 as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in Düsseldorf. Two years later he moved to Berlin, where he together with Werner Finck and Hans Deppe founded the cabaret Die Katakombe.
From 1929 onwards, Platte performed in more than 200 film roles, embodying the shy and underestimated, likeable "Little Man". In 1940 he succeeded Ralph Arthur Roberts as director of the Theater in der Behrenstraße in Berlin (right beside the present-day Komische Oper) until its final closure in 1944. From 1945 to 1947 he directed the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, which in 1954 became home of the Berliner Ensemble theatre company.
After World War II, Platte could continue his film career in West Germany, performing in numerous comedies as well as in literary film adaptions, later also on television, and still successfully appeared on stage in Berlin.
In 1942 he had married the actress Georgia Lind (his second wife). The couple divorced shortly afterwards, but remarried in 1954. Both are buried in an ehrengrab in the Berlin Wilmersdorf cemetery.
Selected filmography
- Revolt in the Reformatory (1929)
- Three Days of Love (1931)
- The Pride of Company Three (1932)
- F.P.1 Doesn't Respond (1932)
- I by Day, You by Night (1932)
- Hitlerjunge Quex (1933)
- Gold (1934)
- So ein Flegel (1934)
- Pappi (1934)
- Charley's Aunt (1934)
- Bashful Felix (1934)
- Heinz in the Moon (1934)
- The Cousin from Nowhere (1934)
- The Court Concert (1936)
- Donogoo Tonka (1936)
- Autobus S (1937)
- Gasparone (1937)
- Monika (1938)
- The Girl of Last Night (1938)
- So You Don't Know Korff Yet? (1938)
- The Blue Fox (1938)
- Woman at the Wheel (1939)
- The Girl at the Reception (1940)
- The Master Detective (1944)
- Third from the Right (1950)
- You Have to be Beautiful (1951)
- Maya of the Seven Veils (1951)
- When the Evening Bells Ring (1951)
- Pension Schöller (1952)
- The Flower of Hawaii (1953)
- Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel (1954)
- The Bath in the Barn (1956)
- Tired Theodore (1957)
- Das einfache Mädchen (1957)
- The Zurich Engagement (1957)
- Der Haus-Tyrann (1957)
- Aunt Wanda from Uganda (1957)
- The Muzzle (1958)
- La Paloma (1959)
- Ihr schönster Tag (1962)
- Stahlnetz (TV series) – Das Haus an der Stör (1963)
- Homesick for St. Pauli (1963)
- Destination Death (1964)
- Professor Columbus (1968)
- Die Herren mit der weißen Weste (1969)
- Der Kommissar (TV series) – Der Tennisplatz (1972)
- Derrick (TV series) – Mitternachtsbus (1973)
- Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler (1974)
- Der Kommissar – Der Mord an Dr. Winter (1975)
- Derrick – Offene Rechnung (1977)
- The Old Fox (TV series) – Marholms Erben (1978)
- The Old Fox – Die Lüge (1979)
- Veronika Voss (1982)
- Jakob und Adele (TV series) – Eine Altersliebe (1984)