Hans Christian Blech

Hans Christian Blech
File:Hans Christian Blech (1937).jpg Blech with Lotte Berger in Twelfth Night
Born	(1915-02-20)February 20, 1915 Darmstadt, German Empire
Died	Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Resting place	Old Cemetery, Darmstadt
Occupation	character actor
Years active	1948-1992
Spouse(s)	Erni Wilhelmi (m. 1952)

Hans Christian Blech (born 20 February 1915 – 5 March 1993) was a German film, stage and television character actor who found success in both Germany and Hollywood.

He made his English film debut in the 1951 picture Decision Before Dawn. In this and many of his other Hollywood films, he played a German soldier. He had fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, where he acquired his facial scars.

(German entry differs here:"Die markanten Narben in seinem Gesicht stammen nicht, wie vielfach zu lesen ist, aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, sondern von einem Autounfall auf dem Darmstädter Luisenplatz, in den der damals 14-Jährige verwickelt war."

Translation: "The distinctive scars on his face does not come, as we read often, from the Second World War, but from a car accident on the Darmstadt Luisenplatz, in which the then 14-year-old was involved.")

Partial filmography

• Blum Affair (Affaire Blum) (1948)
• The Orplid Mystery (1950)
• Decision Before Dawn (1951)
• Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben (1954)
• Phantom des großen Zeltes (1954)
• Children, Mother, and the General (Kinder, Mütter und ein General) (1955)
• Banditen der Autobahn (1955)
• The Inheritance of Bjorndal (1960)
• Enclosure (L'enclos) (1961)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• The Visit (1964)
• Morituri (1965)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965)
• The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
• Cardillac (1969)
• The Customer of the Off Season (Ore'ach B'Onah Metah) (1970)
• The Scarlet Letter (Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe) (1973)
• Giordano Bruno (1973)
• La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
• The Wrong Move (Falsche Bewegung) (1975)
• Innocents with Dirty Hands (Les Innocents aux mains sales) (1975)
• fr (1975)
• The Clown (Ansichten eines Clowns) (1976)
• Grete Minde (1977)
• de (1977)
• Knife in the Head (Messer im Kopf) (1978)
• Winterspelt (1979)
• Victoria (1979)
• Theodor Chindler (TV miniseries) (1979)
• See You in the Next War (Nasvidenje v naslednji vojni) (1980)
• Looping (1981)
• The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) (1982)
• Colonel Redl (1985)
• Via Mala (TV miniseries) (1985)
• Der achte Tag (1990)

External links

• Hans Christian Blech at the Internet Movie Database
• Hans Christian Blech at AllMovie