Hartmut Reck

Hartmut Reck (17 November 1932 – 30 January 2001) was a German television and film actor. He also appeared in the American-produced epic film, The Longest Day. He also acted in the German film dubbing industry, dubbing into German the voices of Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Peter Graves, Patrick Stewart, Franco Nero, Terence Hill and others.
Life and career
Reck was born in Berlin. He made his debut working in theater with the Berliner Ensemble, working under Bertolt Brecht. In 1956, he began working in film and with DEFA in the former German Democratic Republic. He moved to West Germany in 1959, where he played the title role in a television film, Raskolhikoff alongside Paul Verhoeven, Uwe Friedrichsen and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. The film was based on the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
In 1962, he played in Jeder stirbt für sich allein, Falk Harnack's 1962 television film adaptation of the novel Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada, appearing with Edith Schultze-Westrum, Alfred Schieske and Wolfgang Kieling.
Reck's best known feature film was The Longest Day (1962), an American war film about "D-Day", produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film's German and French cast members spoke their lines in their own languages, and in separately filmed sequences, spoke their parts in English. In 1965, he played alongside Karin Dor and Harald Leipnitz in a crime film by Edgar Wallace, The Sinister Monk. In 1968, he played Georges Picquart in a television film version of the Dreyfus Affair on German broadcaster ZDF.
Reck appeared in several guest roles on long-running German television series, Der Kommissar and Tatort. In 1988, he became well known to the German public as "Kommissar Ecki Schöller" in the television series Die Männer vom K3.
In addition to his film and television roles, Reck worked as a voice actor in the German film dubbing industry, dubbing the voices of numerous English-speaking actors into German, including Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Peter Graves, Patrick Stewart, Franco Nero, Terence Hill and others.
Personal
Hartmut Reck was the father of one son (from a relationship with Vera Tschechowa) and two daughters. He died in Nienburg, Lower Saxony.
Filmography (selected)
Film
A Berlin Romance (1956) - Harald
Zwischenfall in Benderath (1956) - Hans Hellmann
Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner (1957) - FDJler
Polonia-Express (1957) - 1. Arbeiter
Sheriff Teddy (1957) - Robbi
Tatort Berlin (1957) - Rudi Prange
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ (1958) - Rolf
Tilman Riemenschneider (1958) - Gotthold
Ware für Katalonien (1959) - Unterleutnant Schellenberg
Musterknaben (1960) - Bassi
(1960) - Werner
Der Schleier fiel… (1960) - Robbi Freitag
Heaven, Love and Twine (1960) - Friedrich Himmel
Riviera-Story (1960) - Roy Benter
The Longest Day (1962) - Sgt. Bernhard Bergsdorf (uncredited)
The Sinister Monk (1965) - Ronny
Television films and series
Raskolnikoff (1959) - Raskolnikoff
Der Prozeß Mary Dugan (1960) - Jimmy Dugan
Die Dame ist nicht fürs Feuer (1960) - Humphrey Devize
Der Groß-Cophta (1960) - The Knight
Ruf zur Leidenschaft (1961) - Tony Burgess
Spielsalon (1962) - Junger Mann
Anfrage (1962) - Klaus Köhler
Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962) - Karl Hergesell
Die Glocken von London (1962) - Richard Johnson
Schlachtvieh (1963) - Engel, Journalist
Mauern (1963) - Walter Koslowski
Das Ende vom Lied (1963) - Unteroffizier Mitchem
(1964), (Francis Durbridge miniseries) - Lewis Richards
Bericht von den Inseln (1964) - Reporter
: Zwei Pistolen (1964) - Klaus Bilek
Das Duell (1964) - Lajewski
Ein Sommer – ein Herbst (1964) - Dymow
Keine Angst vor der Hölle? (1965) - Juge Maloine
(1965) - Ernst Springer
Glück in Frankreich (1965) - Ernst
Yerma (1965) - Victor
An einem ganz gewöhnlichen Tag (1966) - Er
Ein Mädchen von heute (1966)
Die gelehrten Frauen (1966) - Clitandre
Fliegender Sand (1967) - Henry Wellington
Der Vater und sein Sohn (1968) - Vater Sedlmair
König Richard II (1968) - Bolingbroke
Affaire Dreyfuss (1968) - Major Picquart
Alarm (1969) - Prosecutor
Der Kommissar (1969–1972) - Lehrer Rossmann / Möricke
Die Hupe – Eine Schülerzeitung (1969)
Wir 13 sind 17 (1972)
Doppelspiel in Paris (1972) - Roman Czerniawski
(1973), (miniseries based on Hans Fallada novel) - Redakteur Padberg
Gemeinderätin Schumann (1974) - Kurt Schumann
Partner gesucht (1976) - Wolf Brinkmann
Im schönsten Bilsengrunde (1980) - Classen
Der Aufsteiger (1981) - Eisenlauer
Betti, die Tochter (1982) - Hans Wedemeier
Wie es geschah (1983) - Harro Bergmann
Lauter Glückspilze (1986)
Quadrille (1986) - Axel Diensen
Mord am Pool (1986) - Dr. Maurice Young
Maria Stuart (1986) - Paulet
Die Sterne schwindeln nicht (1986)
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs (1987)
Die Männer vom K3 (1988–2001, 38 episodes) - Ecki Schöller (final television appearance)
Radiofieber (1989, TV miniseries) - Dr. Vock
Der Fotograf oder Das Auge Gottes (1992)
Nervenkrieg (1993) - Dr. Andre
Cornelius hilft (1994)
Mona M. – Mit den Waffen einer Frau (1996)
Voice acting (dubbing), selected
Die Rechte und die Linke Hand des Teufels
(My Name Is Trinity, 1971)
Vier Fäuste für ein Halleluja
(Trinity Is Still My Name, 1972)
References
External links
Filmography filmportal.de
1932 births
2001 deaths
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors
Male actors from Berlin
East German actors