Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger Born Franz Eberhard August Krüger 12 April 1928 - 19 January 2022 Was A German Actor. Krüger Was Born In Wedding Berlin In 1928. From 1941 He Went To An Adolf Hitler School At The Ordensburg Sonthofen. At Age 15 Hardy Made His Film Début In A German Picture The Young Eagles But His Acting Career Was Interrupted When He Was Conscripted Into The German Wehrmacht In 1944 At Age 16. In March 1945 Krüger Was Conscripted Into The 38th SS Division Nibelungen Where He Was Drawn Into Heavy Fighting Before Being Captured By American Forces. Because Of His Archetypal Germanic Look Blond Hair And Blue Eyes Hardy Krüger Often Performed In Roles Portraying German Soldiers. He First Came To The Attention Of English Language Audiences In The 1957 British War Film The One That Got Away The Story Of Franz Von Werra The Only German Prisoner Of War To Successfully Escape From Allied Custody And Return To Germany. In 1960 Krüger Bought Ngorongoro Farm In The Then Tanganyika Territory Which He Owned For 13 Years. Ngorongoro Served As The Setting For The 1962 Film Hatari! A Howard Hawks Film In Which Krüger Appeared With John Wayne. Fluent In German English And French He Worked In Numerous European And American Films Such As The Oscar-Winning Les Dimanches De Ville D'Avray 1962 The Original 1965 Version Of The Flight Of The Phoenix And The German Version Of The Moon Is Blue. Other Films Include The Wild Geese 1978 With Richard Burton Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon With Ryan O'Neal The Comedy-Drama The Secret Of Santa Vittoria 1969 Where He Played A German Officer During The Second World War Trying To Find Hidden Wine In A Small Italian Town And Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far Sharing A Scene With Laurence Olivier . read less