Harry Riebauer

Acting

Harry Riebauer

Born — Died

1921-07-04 — 1999-11-08

Place of birth

Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Harry Riebauer (4 July 1921 – 8 November 1999) was a German film and television actor. Riebauer was born in Reichenberg (Liberec, Czechoslovakia) in a Sudetengerman family. Active in acting from 1950 through 1990, one of his many roles was appearing as Sgt. Strachwitz in the film The Great Escape (1963).[ He was noted for his tall stature, standing 1.94 metres (6 ft 4 in). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 23 titles

The Great Escape poster
7.9

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

The Great Escape

1963

The Man with the Glass Eye poster
5.5

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 Strangler of Blackmoor Castle poster
6.4

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

1963

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 Mad Executioners poster
6.3

A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.

The Mad Executioners

1963

Jerry Cotton: Death in the Red Jaguar poster
6.0

Part Seven in Jerry Cotton Series. The FBI agent tackles an organisation of assassins who kill to order.

Jerry Cotton: Death in the Red Jaguar

1968

Creature with the Blue Hand poster
6.3

Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.

Creature with the Blue Hand

1967

The Racetrack Murders poster
6.3

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.

The Racetrack Murders

1964

Lost Treasure of the Incas poster
6.7

A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, where they come up against an outlaw gang that is searching for a buried Inca treasure, which is guarded by a lot Inca tribe.

Lost Treasure of the Incas

1964

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Spleen des George Riley

1965

The Swingin' Pussycats poster
3.4

An eighteen year-old girls wants to preserve her virginity, living in a family that manages the erotic arts.

The Swingin' Pussycats

1969

Ein Frauenarzt klagt an poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Frauenarzt klagt an

1964

No artwork available
7.0

In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their grief, the couple decide to take action against the Nazi regime. They create their own form of resistance, writing postcards urging people to resist Hitler and the Nazis and quietly distributing the postcards around Berlin. Various people enter the picture, showing the fear and distrust of the times. People, such as the actor Harteisen, find the cards and race to turn them in, lest they be found with them and come under suspicion. The police and the Gestapo are baffled for over a year, but finally find the source of the cards. The Volksgerichtshof sentences the Quangels to death.

Everyone Dies Alone

1962

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fall Tuchatschewskij

1968

The Opportunists poster
6.7

The machinations of an ex-officer and a servant who want to get their hands on a fortune.

The Opportunists

1960

Es war mir ein Vergnügen poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Es war mir ein Vergnügen

1963

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte

1966

Black Sun poster
4.8

A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from every nook and cranny.

Black Sun

1966

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Golden Boy

1962

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fall Rohrbach

1963

No artwork available
8.0

They live among doilies and all kinds of bric-a-brac, the two prissy old ladies Carter, and try to make the best of their pensioner's existence. For example, in a shopping game where they keep a whole army of sales clerks in suspense, only to end up buying nothing. A computer error provides the two with membership cards for the international service club, enabling them to make cashless payments. They end up with multi-digit dollar debts and a turbulent court case.

Zwei ahnungslose Engel

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die achte Runde

1963

Mädchen hinter Gittern poster
8.0

The inmates of a reformatory for underage girls have had turbulent pasts: prostitution, crime, violence, and drugs dominated their lives. One of these young women is the rebellious Karin, who lets no one get close to her. Only the young pastor Johannes manages to reach her, bringing Karin's mysterious and sad past to light.

Mädchen hinter Gittern

1965

1950s · 6 titles

The Sonnenbrucks poster
7.0

Professor Sonnenbruck is a scientist who is not particularly interested in politics. Even the meeting in 1943 with his former assistant Peters does not change him. He does not betray Peters, who has escaped from a concentration camp, but that is already enough for him. But after the war Sonnenrbruck gets into a conflict of conscience. He thought that science was finally free of politics again only to find the opposite happening at his university in Göttingen. A medical congress in the GDR brings him together with Peters, who is working on a major research contract there. Sonnenbruck decides to visit Peters.

The Sonnenbrucks

1951

The Story of Little Mook poster
6.5

An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much like them, but with better manners and a heap of problems. Having lost his father at early age, little Muck is expelled from home by his greedy relatives. He wanders off into the desert hoping to find the merchant who sells good fortune. Amidst the dunes of sand he comes across a small house owned by a wicked woman and her many cats. She wants to make Little Muck her servant, but he manages to escape by stealing a pair of magic shoes which enable him to run faster than any man in the country. From there he heads right into the next set of challenges...

The Story of Little Mook

1953

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Loch in der Mauer

1958

The Condemned Village poster
8.0

East German propaganda film about an American army base trying to take away land from a West German village.

The Condemned Village

1952

The Captain from Cologne poster
7.1

Albert Hauptmann is an out of work waiter in Cologne who is often confused with a former Captain of the Nazi Army. Albert uses this to his advantage and becomes the Director of the Montan Corporation, and a member of the West German Parliament. Herr Karjanke, the real Captain, learns of Albert’s ruse, and wants to claim his "rightful" position in Parliament. But Karjanke cannot come forward until his politicking "Doppelganger" succeeds in passing an amnesty law for war criminals. When Albert is finally brought before a judge on charges of fraud, he learns that this own amnesty law does not apply to him.

The Captain from Cologne

1956

No artwork available
9.0

A woman meets a blind man who helped her during the war and has fallen on hard times since.

Die Dame und der Blinde

1959

Series credits

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Polizeifunk ruft poster
5.0

Polizeifunk ruft is a German television series.

Polizeifunk ruft

1966

Hafenpolizei poster
7.5

Hafenpolizei is a German television series.

Hafenpolizei

1963

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kommissariat 9

1975

Kintopp-Kintopp poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kintopp-Kintopp

1981

Morenga poster
8.0

Gottschalk and Wenstrup are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers. When a rebellion by a local dissident named Morenga is brutally crushed by the Germans, the two vets get involved, at great risk to themselves, and offer help to the native revolutionaries.

Morenga

1985

Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum poster
NR

In the 23rd century, it is no longer necessary to work thanks to the latest technology. Convicts do the work that still needs to be done. The World Leisure Center uses a computer system to decide how people spend their free time. World citizen number DARK 7035 7201 is called Prun. Although an examination shows that his IQ is too low for him to have a child of his own, he becomes the father of Botho. Because it is a "black birth", he has to keep Botho hidden from now on. Prun comes into contact with the so-called "semi-intelligentsia", who oppose the government.

Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum

1971