Herbert Fux

Acting

Herbert Fux

Born 1927-03-25 · Hallein, Austria

Herbert Fux (25 March 1927 – 13 March 2007) was an Austrian film actor and politician. He appeared in more than 140 films between 1960 and 2007. Fux was born in Hallein, at the age of five he moved with his family to the city of Salzburg, where his stepfather worked as a board member of the Landestheater. Having passed his matura exams under the circumstances of late World War II in 1944, he studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum University and began a career as a theatre actor. From the 1960s, Fux appeared on the screen, later also on television, often performing as villain in numerous B movies and crime films but also Spaghetti Westerns and even Bavarian sex films. The huge number of Fux' appearances in about 120 film and 300 TV productions, also under the direction of renowned filmmakers, included a wide range of secondary parts, often distinctive, quirky characters. During his long career, he worked with directors like Michael Anderson, Christian-Jaque, Wolfgang Staudte, Volker Schlöndorff, Ingmar Bergman, and Werner Herzog as well as with famous actors such as Klaus Kinski, Udo Kier, Vincent Price, and Ulrich Matthes. Fux died at the age of 79 with the help of the Swiss euthanasia association Dignitas in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1977 Fux was among the founders of a citizens' initiative against commercialization and uglification of Salzburg's historic townscape and became an elected member of the city council. In 1982 he and others established the Austrian United Greens party (Vereinte Grüne Österreichs, VGÖ), which in 1986 merged into the Green Alternative (Grüne Alternative). Fux was elected MP of the Austrian National Council in the 1986 legislative election, he retained his seat until December 1988 and again entered into parliament in November 1989. In November 1990 he retired and later served as culture committee chairman in his hometown Salzburg.

Acting credits

The Three Musketeers poster
6.4

D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbanded by conniving Cardinal Richelieu, who secretly hopes to usurp the throne. Fortunately, Athos, Porthos and Aramis have refused to lay down their weapons and continue to protect their king. D'Artagnan joins with the rogues to expose Richelieu's plot against the crown.

The Three Musketeers

1993

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar poster
6.0

Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.

Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar

1999

Beyond the Law poster
5.8

A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.

Beyond the Law

1968

The Odessa File poster
6.6

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.

The Odessa File

1974

No artwork available
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sixty Nine Games of Love

1968

Cola, Candy, Chocolate poster
3.7

After a nasty argument with her boyfriend Carl, young Gaby spontaneously accepts her girlfriend invitation to join her on a vacation to Manila. Her plans to forget about Carl succeed very rapidly as she meets Dr. Andreas Witzig, a young scholar who plans to marry his fiancee on the island. During the following days, Gaby tries her best to convince the man of her dreams to change his mind.

Cola, Candy, Chocolate

1979

Eugenie poster
4.9

A young woman is lured to an island paradise, where she is drawn into a dark world of pleasure, pain, and murder under the control of a sinister figure.

Eugenie

1970

Condemned to Sin poster
6.8

After World War II, a lot of people, who lived in the eastern parts of the Third Reich had to be relocated. One of them is Hugo Starosta (Martin Held) with his family. They live in a fortress. Hugo is unemployed, his children don't seem to like school, but somehow they managa to get through.

Condemned to Sin

1964

Mark of the Devil poster
6.1

In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.

Mark of the Devil

1970

Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident poster
3.3

An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.

Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident

1979

Funeral in Berlin poster
6.4

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.

Funeral in Berlin

1966

No artwork available
7.0

A young Swedish girl is looking for the murderer of her uncle.

The Girl with the Sixth Sense

1966

The Serpent poster
6.1

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.

The Serpent

1973

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum poster
7.0

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

1975

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das schöne irre Judenmädchen

1984

Ein Paradies für Tiere poster
6.2

Thomas Donnhofer has worked for many years as a director of the best hotels to earn enough money for his dream: his own horse farm in Austria. As his divorced wife sends her fourteen-year-old daughter Stefanie to him during the holidays, it comes first to conflicts with the father. Stefanie hates the country life. But when Thomas the vet Dr. Meeting Lisa Kern and now thinking about creating a hoard for tortured, unloved animals, Thomas's unruly daughter is finally reconciled. And between Thomas and Lisa develops a delicate romance.

Ein Paradies für Tiere

2005

Happy Weekend poster
4.2

To save an old hotel in Tyrol from demolition, three lively girls and their friends come up with the idea of converting it into a disco. However, the conservative mayor forbids such an "immoral noise hall" in his town. With unusual ideas and the use of "feminine" arguments, the young people try to convince the mayor and police chief to allow such an establishment. A gang of rockers and two sheikhs with their harem, who are searching for new oil wells, also cause quite a stir in the sleepy little town.

Happy Weekend

1983

No artwork available
NR

A fantasy movie directed by Ernst Wolfram Marboe.

Der Diamant des Geisterkönigs

1992

The Black Cobra poster
7.5

After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.

The Black Cobra

1963

The Quiller Memorandum poster
5.9

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

The Quiller Memorandum

1966

The Young Seducers 2 poster
4.4

Pretty young girls get involved in humorous sexual situations.

The Young Seducers 2

1972

Und ewig knallen die Räuber poster
4.5

A meek tailor named Nickolaus decides to form a band of robbers to proof his manliness. Unfortunately he soon draws the attention of an actual gang-leader, Der Rote Rollo.

Und ewig knallen die Räuber

1962

21 Hours at Munich poster
6.3

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

21 Hours at Munich

1976

Jack the Ripper poster
5.9

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Jack the Ripper

1976