Jan Hendriks

Acting

Jan Hendriks

Born 1928-12-06 · Berlin, Germany

Jan Hendriks (born Heinz Joachim Hinz, December 6, 1928, Berlin – died likely December 13, 1991, Berlin) was a German actor and voice actor. After studying acting at the Hebbel Theatre school in Berlin, he began his career on stage before making his film debut in Robert A. Stemmle’s Sündige Grenze (1951), for which he became the first winner of the German Film Award for Best New Actor. He went on to appear in more than 90 film and television productions, including several Edgar Wallace films. Hendriks was widely known to television audiences for his role as Inspector Martin Brenner in the crime series Der Alte (1977–1986). He also worked as a voice actor, dubbing performers such as Humphrey Bogart and Anthony Quinn. He died in Berlin in December 1991.

Acting credits

Mal drunter – mal drüber poster
10.0

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Mal drunter – mal drüber

1960

Brainwashed poster
7.1

Werner von Basil, a Austrian intellectual, was captured by the Nazis in 1938. They want to break him to confess smuggling. Without any mental sustenance, the only thing left to keep his mind busy is an old tactics book for chess.

Brainwashed

1960

The Inn on the River poster
6.8

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

The Inn on the River

1962

Arms and the Man poster
6.6

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.

Arms and the Man

1958

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8.0

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Der große Zapfenstreich

1952

Alcaptar poster
NR

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Alcaptar

1978

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NR

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Tolles Geld

1964

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7.0

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Colombe

1958

The College Girl Murders poster
6.8

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.

The College Girl Murders

1967

The Man with the Glass Eye poster
5.7

A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.

The Man with the Glass Eye

1969

The Squeaker poster
6.5

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

The Squeaker

1963

The Devil's Daffodil poster
5.8

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.

The Devil's Daffodil

1961

Castle of the Creeping Flesh poster
4.5

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but there are certain body parts he needs that he can't get. His problem is solved when a group of drunken party-goers stumble into his castle.

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

1968

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7.0

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Hochzeitsglocken

1954

The Door with Seven Locks poster
6.5

A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.

The Door with Seven Locks

1962

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10.0

Celebrated conservatory graduates Anna and Joachim marry, but since Joachim doesn't seem able to compose anything of value he grows so jealous of pianist Anna's successful cooperation with conductor Westberg that he leaves her.

Soloist Anna Alt

1945

Der Bauerndoktor von Bayrischzell poster
7.5

In spite of his blustering manner and his refusal to listen to what the patients have to say, Dr. Doppelsieder is highly respected in the Upper Bavarian town of Bayrischzell, because he (almost) always has the right remedy and effective advice ready for the sick. The only person he can't help is Pfundtner, the rich Guldenhof farmer. He wants a remedy that, after seven daughters, will finally help him and his wife to the longed-for farm inheritance.

Der Bauerndoktor von Bayrischzell

1957

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4.7

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Paradies der Matrosen

1959

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7.0

Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, constantly deluding herself about the intentions of her lovers.

The High Life

1960

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10.0

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Königin der Arena

1952

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West poster
5.4

Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

1964

Hotel Royal poster
8.3

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Hotel Royal

1969

Mark of the Tortoise poster
6.6

English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“…

Mark of the Tortoise

1964

Duel at Sundown poster
5.8

During a cattle drive, Don McGow leaves the herd in charge of his younger brother and rides off. When the herd is reported stolen he blames himself and goes in search of the thieves.

Duel at Sundown

1965