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Marthe Keller was born on January 28, 1945 in Basel, Switzerland. She studied ballet as a child but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble.
Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966) (uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1972), La raison du plus fou (1973) and And Now My Love (1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Marathon Man (1976) and her performance as an Arab terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday (1977). Keller also acted with William Holden in Billy Wilder's romance drama Fedora (1978). She appeared alongside Al Pacino in the auto racing film Bobby Deerfield (1977). Her later films included Oci ciornie (1987), with Marcello Mastroianni.
Keller has appeared in Europe and America in plays, directed opera and as a speaker on classical music in the last twenty years. For example, in 2001, Keller appeared in a Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play "Judgment at Nuremberg" as Mrs. Bertholt (the role played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1961 Stanley Kramer film version). She was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance.
In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in classical music as a speaker and opera director. She has performed the speaking role of Joan of Arc in the oratorio "Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher of Arthur Honegger" on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa (DG 429 412-2). Keller has also recited the spoken role in Igor Stravinsky's "Perséphone". She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital. The Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama "Cassandre", after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994.
Keller's first production as an opera director was "Dialogues des Carmélites", for Opéra National du Rhin, in 1999. This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year. She has also directed "Lucia di Lammermoor" for the Washington National Opera and for the Los Angeles Opera. Her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of "Don Giovanni". Keller has one son, Alexandre de Broca, from her relationship with director Philippe de Broca.- Federer is the former #1 ranked tennis player in the world, having held the number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks.
He won the Indesit ATP 2004 Race on September 14. The ATP confirmed that his lead was insurmountable, marking what is believed to be the earliest a player has locked up the year-end No. 1 position since the ATP Rankings were established in 1973.
He won his third Grand Slam title of the year at the U.S. Open. That was his 9th title of the year, his 16th since the beginning of 2003, his 19th career title. No other male player had ever won his first four Grand Slam finals.
He is considered to have the talent to be the best tennis player of all time. His fellow players have nicknamed him "The Natural."
He is the favorite tennis player of Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue. She sometimes can be seen at his matches. He's frequently featured in American Vogue and once graced the cover of Men's Vogue.
He has appointed former American tennis player Paul Annacone as his coach. - Christian Kohlund was born on 17 August 1950 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for Anna Maria - Eine Frau geht ihren Weg (1994), L'homme de Suez (1983) and La nouvelle malle des Indes (1981). He has been married to Elke Best since 1982. They have two children. He was previously married to Christine Buchegger and Sylvana Henriques.
- Naomi Krauss was born in 1967 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for The International (2009), 8 Uhr 28 (2010) and Faraway (2023).
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Simon Stone was born on 19 August 1984 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for The Daughter (2015), The Dig (2021) and The Turning (2013).- Director
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Marc Allégret was born on 22 December 1900 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a director and writer, known for The Curtain Rises (1938), Avec André Gide (1951) and Julietta (1953). He was married to Nadine Vogel. He died on 3 November 1973 in Paris, France.- Director
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Tim Fehlbaum was born in 1982 in Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for The Colony (2021), Hell (2011) and September 5 (2024).- Cinematographer
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Lukas Ettlin is a director and cinematographer, most well-known for his work on Black Sails, Lincoln Lawyer and Battle Los Angeles. He was born in Luzern, Switzerland and started his career as a teenager, remaking Back to the Future in German, shot for shot, VCR to VCR. After graduating from NYU film school, he won the ASC heritage award and started working as a cinematographer in music videos and commercials. After acclaimed short films like Rings, Genesis and Catastrophe and Fast Forward, he had his break through shooting Michael Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and additional photography for Transformers. Following a successful career as a cinematographer, Lukas has become a prolific TV director, with shows like Power, Counterpart, Daredevil, Jack Ryan and Barkskins to his credit. He has also stepped up to the role of producing director on multiple seasons of Black Sails, See and 2020's The Old Man.- Stunts
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Petra grew up in Switzerland. When she was seven years old, she started to train and perform with the local youth Circus.
At age thirteen, the troupe was invited to Istanbul, Turkey, to unveil its annual representation. The engagement was a success and after this experience, Petra's interest in traveling and meeting different cultures was set in stone.
She focused on studying languages; French, English and Italian, followed by a two-year professional Movement & Theatre education at "Com-Art", a private school located in Zürich, Switzerland, which is modeled after Jacques Lecoq; Europe's Best- loved and most influential theatre teacher. Petra learned how to "package" her skills with diverse forms of visual expression, which proved to be key, when she continued her formation in Montréal, Canada, at the internationally renowned "L'Écôle Nationale de Cirque" - A Pioneer School for Circus Artists!
She specialized in "Cloudswing." With the assistance of her Russian coach she created an astounding and fearless act and was chosen to compete at the "International Acrobatic Festival of Wuqiao", in China, where she won the Bronze Lion.
Soon thereafter she was approached by talent scouts of "Cirque du Soleil" and was then signed for the three-year North American tour of "Quidam." Petra performed over one thousand shows.
Looking for a new challenge, Petra decided to move to Los Angeles and become a stuntwoman. Her debut in stunts was in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report (2002) starring Tom Cruise, when she's received a call from Stunt Coordinator and Second Unit Director Brian Smrz and was hired to perform in all scenes involving the giant flying truss; a 400-feet-long hydraulic traveling rig, set up on the Warner Brothers back lot.
Her stunt gear not yet unloaded from the trunk of her car, she interviewed for The Time Machine (2002) and booked her first role as a stunt actor; succeeding with embodying further parts requiring special skills, featured on a variety of television series and on the big screen.
Petra is equally enthusiastic when she is assigned to a stunt doubling undertaking! On Æon Flux (2005), for instance, Petra's regular "Day at the Office" consisted of being thrown through ladders onto walls or jumping from balconies and the likes, representing the character "Freya", portrayed by actress Caroline Chikezie. Additionally, before filming in Berlin began, Petra was hand- picked as a trainings partner for Charlize Theron to work on flexibility and Cirque-style fight choreography.
In 2009, Petra was honored by the "Taurus World Stunt Awards" with two nominations; "Best High Work" and "Best Overall Stunt By a Woman", stunt doubling for Rosario Dawson on Eagle Eye (2008).
Subsequently, The Celebrity and Stuntwomen's Awards "Diamond in the Raw" also simply known as "Action Icon Awards", selected her as a finalist in the "Stuntwoman of the Year" category!
In between working for Film and Television, Petra's passion for the Circus is still alive! Shows on the Cloudswing include the Spiderman Movie Premiere, Detroit's Auto Show headlining for Chrysler/ Jeep/ Dodge and at the Microsoft Global Sales Meeting at the Super-Dome in New Orleans, Petra soars above the crowd at a height of approximately 200 feet.
In 2019, a whole new type of position arises where all past job and life experience are put together: Petra accepts to be an international expert judge representing her native country Switzerland on Mark Burnett and Mike Darnell's first-of-its-kind global talent competition reality TV series The World's Best (2019), which was hosted by James Corden. The American judges were Drew Barrymore, Faith Hill and RuPaul.
Petra is an independent stuntwoman, actor and freelance performance artist. Based in Los Angeles, she's on a quest to pursue new forms of visual and emotional expression.- Cinematographer
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Gabriel Lobos was born in 1975 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland. Gabriel is a cinematographer, known for Blue My Mind (2017), Servant (2019) and The Shameless (2024).- Elisabeth Müller was born on 18 July 1926 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for The Power and the Prize (1956), Viktoria (1957) and Alle Tage ist kein Sonntag (1959). She was married to Kurt Grigoleit. She died on 11 December 2006 in Sempach, Kanton Luzern, Switzerland.
- Sarah Spale was born on 7 December 1980 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Needle Park Baby (2020), Wilder (2017) and Die Nachbarn von oben (2023). She has been married to Philip Spale since 2010. They have two children.
- Annemarie Düringer was born on 26 November 1925 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Veronika Voss (1982), The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) and Vor Sonnenuntergang (1956). She died on 26 November 2014 in Baden, Lower Austria, Austria.
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Arthur Cohn is an independent film producer and has won six Academy Awards, more than any other independent producer in film history. Cohn was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father was Dr. Marcus Cohn, a lawyer and leader of the Swiss Zionist movement who saved many Jews in WWII from within Switzerland. He moved to Israel in 1949 where he helped to write many of the basic laws of the new state and served as Israel's assistant attorney-general. Cohn's mother was Rose Galewski, a German-Jewish poet from Berlin. After high school Arthur Cohn became a journalist and a reporter for Swiss Radio, covering soccer and ice hockey games, as well as the Middle East, which he wrote three books about. He shifted from journalist writing to script writing very early on, but soon found his passion in supervising other scripts and producing movies. His first film production, The Sky Above, the Mud Below (1961), about an expedition through unmapped territory in West Papua, earned him his first Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. From 1967 to 1973 he worked closely with his friend and mentor Vittorio De Sica and produced six of the latter's last films, among them The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), an epic about the fate of a Jewish family in fascist Italy, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Other Cohn- de Sica collaborations include: Woman Times Seven (1967), starring Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Alan Arkin, Michael Caine and Anita Ekberg; A Place for Lovers (1968), with Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni; Sunflower (1970), with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni; We'll Call Him Andrea (1972) and A Brief Vacation (1973). After the de Sica era, Cohn preferred working with young and inexperienced directors, always maintaining his right for the final cut. Two collaborations with then-unknown French directors Jean-Jacques Annaud and Richard Dembo got him two other Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film: Black and White in Color (1976), a satire on French Colonialists, and Dangerous Moves (1984), a psychological thriller between two Chess champions in the communist era. Cohn has always kept his passion for documentary film-making. His account on the holocaust The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 (1981) earned him an Academy Award nomination. Ten years later he would win his fifth Academy Award, his second in the category of Best Documentary Feature, for American Dream (1990), an account of a six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota. In the Nineties he produced Two Bits (1995), with Al Pacino in the lead, and White Lies (1997), starring Rosanna Arquette and Harvey Fierstein. In 1998 he began his collaboration with Brazilian director Walter Salles, with whom he made two critically acclaimed films: Central Station (1998), which earned Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Fernanda Montenegro), as well as Behind the Sun (2001). In between he received an Academy Award for the sixth time, his third in the category of Best Documentary Feature, for One Day in September (1999), a shocking account of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In 2004 Cohn reunited with his colleague Jacques Perrin, with whom he had already collaborated in L'adoption (1979), to co-produce the French box-office hit The Chorus (2004), which got Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Achievement in Music (Original Song). In 2008 he produced the road-movie The Yellow Handkerchief (2008), set in post-Katrina Louisiana, starring William Hurt, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne and Maria Bello. In the same year he produced the war epic The Children of Huang Shi (2008), set in occupied China of 1937 and based on the true life story of British journalist George Hogg, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2012 he produced the German comedy Russendisko (2012), based on the bestseller of Wladimir Kaminer. In 2018 his newest production The Etruscan Smile (2018), based on the bestseller of José Luis Sampedro, premiered in Berlin, Germany, to wide acclaim and went on to win top prizes of both jury and audience at several film festivals in the USA and Canada. The film stars Brian Cox in the lead, along impressive performances by JJ Feild, Thora Birch, Rosanna Arquette, Treat Williams, Tim Matheson, Peter Coyote and Emanuel Cohn. Cohn divides his time between Basel and Los Angeles and is regarded as a hands-on producer who is strongly involved with the development of the script until the final touches of the editing process. Besides the cinematic prizes of his film productions, Arthur Cohn was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 1995, the Humanitarian Award by the National Board of Review in 2001, the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004 as well as the UNESCO Award in 2005. Cohn is recipient of multiple honorary degrees, from Boston University (1998), Yeshiva University (2001) and the University of Basel (2006). He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Film Festivals in Chicago (1992), Jerusalem (1995), Shanghai (1999) and Haifa (2016). In February 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cinema for Peace-Foundation in Berlin and in November 2019 from the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles. Arthur Cohn's films have been shown in many retrospectives around the world.- Paolo Macchiarini is a Swiss-Italian thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. He has been convicted of research-related crimes in Italy (2020) and Sweden (2022, 2023). Macchiarini obtained his medical degree (equivalent to MD) at the Medical School of the University of Pisa (UniPi) in 1986 and a Master of Surgery in 1991. He performed three transplantations of synthetic tracheas coated with stem cells in 2011-12 at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. In November 2012, Macchiarini published an article in The Lancet describing the operation on the first patient.
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László I. Kish was born on 24 March 1957 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for The Seventh Scroll (1999), Tatort (1970) and Freunde wie wir (1997). He has been married to Ulrike Bliefert since 1990. They have one child.- Director
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Dani Levy was born on 17 November 1957 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Go for Zucker (2004), Silent Night (1996) and Tatort (1970). He is married to Sabine Liedl. They have two children.- Emanuela von Frankenberg was born on 20 February 1961 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Die Wolke (2006), Tatort (1970) and Ku'damm 56 (2016).
- Sabrina Amali was born in 1992 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Himmel, Herrgott, Sakrament (2023) and 4 Blocks (2017).
- Patrick Jeltsch was born in 1976 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a producer, known for The Last Kumite (2024) and House of Ashes.
- Sandra Speichert was born on 22 January 1971 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Rote Rosen (2006), Low Profile (1993) and No Taboo (2000).
- Noémi Besedes was born on 14 March 1980 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Homeland (2011), Men Do What They Can (2012) and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
- Verena Peter was born on 24 September 1954 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Liebling Kreuzberg (1986) and Heinrich Penthesilea von Kleist (1983).
- Agnes Dünneisen was born on 17 September 1955 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Wann heiraten Sie meine Frau? (1978), Die Nacht mit Chandler (1979) and Black Money - Verfilzung... Macht... Korruption (1990).
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Helmut Förnbacher was born on 26 January 1936 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for The Amorous Adventures of a Young Postman (1970), Youth (2015) and Tatort (1970). He has been married to Kristina Nel since 1975.- Charlotte Schwab was born on 17 December 1952 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress and publicist, known for Alarm für Cobra 11 - Einsatz für Team 2 (2003), Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996) and Kreuzfahrt ins Glück (2007). She is married to Sven-Eric Bechtolf. They have one child. She was previously married to Peter Simonischek.
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Andreas Senn was born on 6 January 1965 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and production manager, known for Tatort (1970), A Long Way Home (2008) and Verschollen am Kap (2011).- Regine Lutz was born on 22 December 1928 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Buddenbrooks (1979), Zwischen den Zügen (1961) and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975). She was married to Hans Joachim Paulus. She died on 17 December 2023 in Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Lukas Ammann was born on 29 September 1912 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor and director, known for Hast noch der Söhne ja...? (1959), Bel-Ami Der Frauenheld von Paris (1955) and Bel Ami (1955). He was married to Liselotte Ebnet, Hedda Ippen and Hertha Heger. He died on 3 May 2017 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Actress
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Since her graduation from the Drama Academy in Bern, Isabelle Stoffel has made a stunning international acting career. Born and raised in Switzerland, with German and Spanish as mother tongues, she has played with companies in Lucerne, Zurich, Basel and Bern, in Leuven (Belgium), Hamburg, Berlin, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. She was one of the founders of Bern's Pantastica Productions group and is a long-standing member of Nico and the Navigators, a mime troupe based in Berlin. Apart from the stage, Isabelle can be seen in German and Spanish TV and cinema features more and more often, e.g. in Berlin Is in Germany (cinema, 2001), Aerzteteam Nord (TV, 2001), Sobre El Arco Iris (cinema, 2003), Hinter Gittern (TV, 2003/4), 1 Franco, 14 Pesetas (cinema, 2006), Invisibles (cinema, 2007). In January 2009 Isabelle is playing the main role in the the Spanish cinema feature El Consul De Sodoma, while performing the play Los Hermoso Viaje De Los Osos Panda at the theater La Cuarta Pared in Madrid.- Writer
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Jonni Remmler was born on 15 February 1991 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a writer and actor, known for Ash, Das Quartett (2019) and Fabrixx (2000).- Actress
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Birthe Wingren was born in 1967 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Gränsfall (2007), Venny (2003) and Apinajuttu (2000). She is married to Ville Virtanen.- Ursula Andermatt was born on 25 November 1957 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Artists (2011) and Kommissar Rex (1994). She was married to Michael Kind. She died on 28 July 2022 in Berlin, Germany.
- Marc Benjamin was born on 15 April 1986 in Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Eddie the Eagle (2015), The Team (2015) and The Island (2020).
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Theodor Boder was born on 18 May 1952 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Linn Wyler, The Quiet of a new Day and Morceaux choisis - Episoden aus dem Leben des Julius Schönfeld (2013).- Composer
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Vincent Gross was born on 23 August 1996 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a composer, known for Plooien (2015), Jullermorgen señorita (2014) and Die Verräter (2023).- Hans Wyprächtiger was born on 29 September 1929 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Wie gut, daß es Maria gibt (1990), Floris von Rosemund (1975) and The Odessa File (1974). He was married to Helga Ziegler. He died on 6 May 2006 in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany.
- Arnold Böcklin was born on 16 October 1827 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for The Isle of the Dead (1913). He was married to Angela Pascucci. He died on 16 January 1901 in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy.
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Born in Switzerland to a Dutch father and a Danish mother, Ian moved to the UK at a young age and has lived there ever since.
With the 2020 Covid lockdown giving him time to think about his future, Ian decided to join a local acting class, first taking online lessons via zoom and then in person when quarantine restrictions were lifted.
In July of that same year, Ian decided he was going to start looking for acting opportunities, and has been building his portfolio ever since.- Eléonore Hirt was born on 19 December 1919 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for A Witch's Way of Love (1997), Comédie (1966) and Le journal (1979). She was married to Michel Piccoli and André Rouyer. She died on 27 January 2017 in Longjumeau, Essonne, France.
- Mathis Künzler was born on 13 June 1978 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Verliebt in Berlin (2005), R.I.S (2007) and Geld.Macht.Liebe (2009).
- Sabine Berg was born on 13 January 1958 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for A Wopbobaloobop a Lopbamboom (1989), The Door (2009) and Tatort (1970).
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Patricia Regan was born in Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland. She is known for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Carol (2015) and Shutter Island (2010).- Micheline Swift was born on 1 February 1932 in Basel, Switzerland. Micheline is a writer, known for The Love Boat (1977). Micheline was previously married to David Swift and James Fritzell.
- Heidy Forster was born on 6 September 1931 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Before I Go (2005), Dällebach Kari (1970) and Der 42. Himmel (1962). She died on 2 May 2023 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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George Gebhardt was born on 21 September 1879 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor and director, known for The Puppet Crown (1915), A Woman's Way (1908) and The Chosen Prince, or the Friendship of David and Jonathan (1917). He was married to Mrs. George Gebhardt. He died on 2 May 1919 in Edendale, California, USA.- Actor
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Sigfrit Steiner was born on 31 October 1906 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor and director, known for Stop Train 349 (1963), Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel (1981) and Brass Target (1978). He was married to Anne-Rose Katz, Irene Mahler and Franca Erika Thoma. He died on 21 March 1988 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Actor
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Max Haufler (1910-1965), who was not only one of the most famous Swiss actors, but also the first Swiss actor to be engaged in Hollywood, was born in Basel and originally trained as a painter. From 1936, he performed as an actor on stage and in film and gave already in 1938 his directorial debut with "L'or dans la montagne", based on the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, with Jean-Louis Barrault in the main role. Unlike most Swiss actors of his generation who exclusively appeared in Swiss German dialect movies and heimat films, Haufler acted, e.g., together with Heinz Rühmann, Gert Fröbe and Michel Simon in Ladislao Vajda's "Es geschah am hellichten Tage/It happened on broad daylight" (1958), one of the most gruesome Swiss child murder stories. For Kurt Früh, the director of classical Swiss movies, he acted in "Hinter den sieben Gleisen" (1959), where Haufler's performance as the bum Barbarossa stayed in the memory of generations of Swiss people. In 1962, Orson Welles casted Haufler for "Le proces/The Trial", and in 1965, he appeared in Bernhard Wicki's "Morituri" at the side of Marlon Brando and Yul Brynner. Haufler's last acting appearance was in Peter Lilienthal's "Abschied". Haufler, who directed 9 feature-length movies between 1937 and 1950, tried for almost ten years in vain to bring up the money for his autobiographical movie "Der Stumme", based on the novel by Swiss author Otto F. Walter. Under the overwhelming impression of having failed and after having been left by his second wife, Haufler hung himself up in his small apartment at Neptunstrasse in Zurich.- Patrick Elias was born on 9 April 1966 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Die Schule am See (1997) and Tatort (1970).
- Margrit Winter was born on 13 November 1917 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958), Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe (1941) and Die Käserei in der Vehfreude (1958). She was married to Erwin Kohlund. She died on 18 June 2001 in Stäfa, Zurich, Switzerland.