Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger
Born	Franz Eberhard August Krüger 12 April 1928 (1928-04-12) (age 81) Wedding, Berlin, Germany
Years active	1944–1997
Spouse(s)	Anita (1978-present) Francesca Marazzi (1965-?) (divorced) Renate Densow (1950-?) (divorced)

Hardy Krüger (born Franz Eberhard August Krüger 12 April 1928, Wedding, Berlin) is a German actor.

Life and work

From 1941 on Eberhard Krüger went to an Adolf-Hitler-School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. As a young man in March, 1945, Hardy Krüger was drafted into the 38th SS Division Nibelungen, where he was drawn into heavy fighting before being captured by American forces.

He first came to the attention of English language audiences in the 1957 British war film The One That Got Away, the story of the only German prisoner of war to escape from Allied custody.

Attracted to Africa, Krüger bought Ngongongare Farm in what is now northern Tanzania in 1960, which he owned for 13 years. Ngongongare served as the setting for the 1962 film Hatari!, in which Krüger appeared with John Wayne.

He has worked in numerous European and American films such as 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 and Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (sharing a scene with Laurence Olivier). His daughter Christiane Krüger and his son, Hardy Krüger, Jr. are also actors.

Awards

• 1959 Bravo Otto (bronze)
• 1960 Bravo Otto (silver)
• 1983 Deutscher Filmpreis
• 1986 Goldene Kamera
• 2001 Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award[1]
• 2001 Officier de la Légion d’Honneur
• 2008 Bambi: Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2009 Great Cross of Merit, neck cross

Filmography

• War and Remembrance (TV) (1988)
• Slagskämpen (1984)
• Wrong Is Right (1982)
• Feine Gesellschaft - beschränkte Haftung (1981)
• Blue Fin (1978)
• The Wild Geese (1978)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• À chacun son enfer (1977)
• Potato Fritz (1976)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Paper Tiger (1975)
• Le Solitaire (1973)
• Tod eines Fremden (1973)
• Diabólica malicia (1972)
• Das Messer (1971)
• The Red Tent (1971)
• The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
• Osvobozhdenie (1969)
• The Battle of Neretva (1969)
• La Monaca di Monza (1969)
• Le Franciscain de Bourges (1968)
• La Grande sauterelle (1967)
• The Defector (1966)
• The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
• Le Chant du monde (1965)
• The Uninhibited (1965)
• Le Gros coup (1964}
• Sundays and Cybele (Les dimanches de ville d'Avray) (1962)
• Hatari! (1962)
• Taxi to Tobruk (1960)
• Blind Date (1959)
• Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
• The One That Got Away (1957)
• Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1954)
• As Long as You're Near Me (1953)
• Junge Adler (Young Eagles) (1944)

External links

• Hardy Krüger at the Internet Movie Database
• Hardy Krüger at the Internet Broadway Database