Michael Ande

Michael Ande (born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee) is a German actor, best-known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the West German crime-drama television series The Old Fox which he played between 1977 and 2016.
He was a well-known German film child star during the 1950s. A German reader reports, "Michael played in mostly melodramas--those films with nice people, love and mountains, etc (sentimental film in an idealized setting). Some would consider these rather schmaltz tear-jerkers. Two words come to mind in German. The first is "Heimatfilm". Heimat is home, where I came from This kind of film stands for: very sentimental, lots of love (and some ache but with Happy End), idealistic setting, Lederhosen, Mountains, Conservative ideals, etc. The second is "Heile-Welt-Film" meaning "intact-world-film" They were, however very popular films in Germany."
He played a variety of roles in these films, including choir boys. One of these films was Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957) in which he played a chorister in the Vienna Boys' Choir. There is an image of him, for example, on the HBC choir-film pages. Michael also played in two German films about the Trapp family: The Trapp Family (1956) and The Trapp Family in America (1958). These films were made some years before the 1965 U.S. film musical version of the Trapp films, The Sound of Music, was made. (The Broadway version appeared in 1959.) Michael played the role of Werner in the Trapp-films. (In The Sound of Music the boy's name is Kurt.) Ande like many child actors had difficulty continuing his career as an adult actor. He had problems being accepted as adult actor as he had such a youthful-looking face.
Much attention he found in the role of Jim Hawkins on Television in Treasure Island, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was broadcast on Christmas 1966 for the first time.
Ande is still acting and occasionally appears on German television.
Selected filmography
Marianne of My Youth (1955) - Klein-Felix
I Know What I'm Living For (1955) - Pit
Reaching for the Stars (1955) - Peppino
Holiday in Tyrol (1956) - Rosmarin von Stetten / Thymian Retzer
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht (1956) - Ein Fischerjunge
The Trapp Family (1956) - Werner von Trapp
Das Hirtenlied vom Kaisertal (1956) - Hansl, Hüterbub
Die Prinzessin von St. Wolfgang (1957) - Franzl, Josis Bruder
Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957) - Toni
Scandal in Bad Ischl (1957) - Prinz Franz
El Hakim (1957) - Ibrahim als Kind
The Doctor of Stalingrad (1958) - Sergej, Worotilows Sohn
The Trapp Family in America (1958) - Werner von Trapp
Don Vesuvio und das Haus der Strolche (1958)
Majestät auf Abwegen (1958) - Maximilian III
When the Bells Sound Clearly (1959) - Michael
(1962, TV Movie) - Dick Tipton
Peter Pan (1962, TV Movie)
Die Grotte (1963, TV Movie) - Alexis - Küchenjunge
Condemned to Sin (1964) - Albert, Starostas Sohn
Hava, der Igel (1966, TV Movie) - Mendel Mandelblüth
Die Schatzinsel (Treasure Island) (1966-1967, TV Mini-Series) - Jim Hawkins
Der Paradiesgarten (1970)
Der schwarze Graf (1970, TV Series) - Jonathan
Das provisorische Leben (1971, TV Movie) - Andreas Ott
Die Utopie des Damenschneiders Wilhelm Weitling (1971)
Fuchs und Co (1972, TV Series) - Richard Fuchs
Fußballtrainer Wulff (1972-1973, TV Series) - Heinz Kudrowski
Scheibenschießen (1973, TV Movie) - Bert
Die Powenzbande (1974, TV Mini-Series) - Kaspar Powenz
Derrick (1975-1198, TV Series) - Gerd Heymann / Heinz Lissner / Richard Kern
Der Alte (1977-2016, TV Series, 401 episodes) - Polizeiinspektor Gerd Heymann
Polizeiinspektion 1 (1981–1986, TV Series)
Liebe Melanie (1983, TV Movie) - Martin Reich
Eichbergers besondere Fälle (1987), TV
Zur Freiheit (1988, TV Series) - Penner
Café Meineid - Herzliches Beileid (1994)
Zurück auf Los! (2000) - Pkw-Fahrer
External links
Alexander Agency Munich
1944 births
German male film actors
German male child actors
German male television actors
Living people
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors