- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 28, 1901
- Place of Birth
- Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
- Died
- October 19, 1979
Fritz Diez
Fritz Diez was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager. Grew up in a poor family, started earning a living as a boy. He was a newspaper salesman, moonlighted on tennis courts, then learned to be an electrician. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Meiningen. Upon graduation, he was an actor in provincial theaters in Eisenach, Hanau, Flensburg, Eger, Baden-Baden. Fritz Dietz adhered to leftist views, so he emigrated with his wife to Switzerland in 1935. Played in theaters in Switzerland. In 1946 he returned to Germany. He worked as a general manager, actor and theater director in Dresden. Since the early 1960s at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin. In the cinema since 1952 - "Shadow over the Islands" (Arne Roge, 1952). In 1955, for the first time, he played the role of Adolf Hitler in the famous film "Ernst Thalmann - the leader of his class". In 1967, he played the…
Filmography
movieThe Great Commander Georgy Zhukov
1995
movieBackhouse Bliss
1980
tvSoldiers of Freedom
1977 · Adolf Hitler
movieChoice of Purpose
1975 · Hitler
movieNeues aus der Florentiner 73
1974
movieDer wunderbare Schatz
1973
tvSeventeen Moments of Spring
1973 · Adolf Hitler
movieHooray! We Have a Vacation!
1972
movieLiberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
1971 · Hitler
movieLiberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
1971 · Hitler
movieLiberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
1971 · Hitler
movieTscheljuskin
1970
movieLiberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970 · Hitler
movieLiberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970 · Hitler
Rote Bergsteiger
tvRote Bergsteiger
1968 · Kurt Kunst
movieI, Justice
1968 · Hitler
movieMarketa Lazarová
1967 · Armiger (voice)
movieFrozen Flashes
1967 · Adolf Hitler
movieFlucht ins Schweigen
1966
tvDer Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
1965 · Nölle, Hannemann
movieCarbide and Sorrel
1963
movieCarl von Ossietzky
1963 · Hellmut von Gerlach
movieDer Teufelstaler
1963
Ein Mann und sein Schatten
movieEin Mann und sein Schatten
1963
movieDie Nacht an der Autobahn
1962
Zwei Ziegen
movieZwei Ziegen
1961 · (voice)
Da helfen keine Pillen
movieDa helfen keine Pillen
1961 · Narrator (voice)
movieFive Cartridges
1960 · Major Balanos
movieDie Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
1960
movieZu jeder Stunde
1960
movieThe Punch Bowl
1959
movieMusterknaben
1959
movieSAS 181 antwortet nicht
1959
movieWare für Katalonien
1959 · Captain Gerner
movieIm Sonderauftrag
1959 · Lieutenant Wegner
movieThomas Müntzer
1956 · Feldhauptmann Hoffmann
movieErnst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1955 · Hitler
movieJacke wie Hose
1953
movieSchatten über den Inseln
1952