This video is dedicated to Austrian actor Oskar Werner. I love him and think he was a brilliant actor! Oskar Werner (November 13, 1922 ? October 23, 1984) was an Austrian actor. Born Oskar Josef Bs...
This video is dedicated to Austrian actor Oskar Werner. I love him and think he was a brilliant actor! Oskar Werner (November 13, 1922 ? October 23, 1984) was an Austrian actor. Born Oskar Josef Bschlie?mayer in Vienna, he started off his career as a stage actor for the famous Burgtheater until making his film debut in Der Engel mit der Posaune in 1948. Universally regarded as one of Western Europe's foremost stage actors, Oskar Werner was 18 years old when he made his stage bow at the Burgtheater in his native Vienna. A lifelong pacifist, Werner did everything he could to avoid conscription in the Axis army during World War II; when he finally was forced into a uniform, he deserted at the earliest opportunity After the war, Werner resumed his theatrical career, only reluctantly making his first film in 1948; "I am married to the theatre, and the films are only my mistress" he would later declare. In 1951, he made his English-language film debut as "Happy," an enigmatic German prisoner of war, in 20th Century-Fox's Decision Before Dawn. When Fox reneged on its promise to develop Werner into a Hollywood star, he went back to his true love, the theatre, vowing to only appear in films that intrigued him. In 1955, he essayed the title role in Mozart, and also played a smaller but no less significant part as the student with the scarf in Max Oph?ls' Lola Montes. Then it was back to the stage, culminating with his formation of Theatre Ensemble Oskar Werner in 1959. One of Werner's most notable screen performances was the romantic intellectual Jules in Fran?ois Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962), and he became an international star as a result ? although it was his portrayal of the philosophical Dr. Schumann in Ship of Fools (1965) that earned the actor his only Oscar nomination, and a Golden Globe nomination as well. As a supporting actor, Werner received a Golden Globe award for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), and a nomination for Voyage of the Damned (1976). In the 1970s and 1980s, Werner returned to the stage ? among other things, starring in and directing "Hamlet" with his Theater Ensemble at the Salzburg Festival. During the 1970s he also spent much time travelling internationally. In an uncharacteristic television appearance, Werner played the murderer opposite Peter Falk in a made-for-TV-movie off-shoot of the Columbo television series entitled Columbo: Playback (1975), prior to his Golden Globe nominated final film appearance in Voyage of the Damned (1976). His alcoholism apparently having resulted in the decline of his acting career, Werner died of a heart attack in 1984, at the age of 62, just before he was scheduled to deliver a lecture at a German drama club.
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I fell in love with him too, when my mother took me to see 'Ship of Fools', after school. I was living abroad with my late husband, and moving into a new place, when I read in Time that he died. Oh, I cried!! Part of me died then. Now, I have lost my husband, and nothing is fine anymore.
Simone and Oskar are my favorite all-time movie couple:
"You're my one innocent love"
He was brilliant in English, French and German. Most can't even be great in one. I want to perfect my German just so I can read his biography. Ok, maybe not just but I'm not gonna whine about material on him not being written in English.
of course he wasn't gay, quit trying to steal all the sexy, sensitive hetro men! he was married twice and also had a son with an american model. I know gays sometimes marry women, but twice? and having affairs and children with models.
Whether these actors are gay or straight is not important in the end! What's important is whether they are true to themselves and true to us because, they are tools of influencing the society!
Of course he was Gay, all the best looking and talented men are. Ask any woman and she'll tell you they all have to settle for second best. (naff straights)
It was impressive to learn that you knew Mr. Werner well enough to have such intimate knowledge of his personal life. Until I discovered you were born six years after his death.
Opinions are nice but they're much more impressive when a person actually has some knowledge to give them credence.
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I was living abroad with my late husband, and moving into a new place, when I read in Time that he died. Oh, I cried!! Part of me died then.
Now, I have lost my husband, and nothing is fine anymore.
"You're my one innocent love"
He was brilliant in English, French and German. Most can't even be great in one. I want to perfect my German just so I can read his biography. Ok, maybe not just but I'm not gonna whine about material on him not being written in English.
Opinions are nice but they're much more impressive when a person actually has some knowledge to give them credence.