Harry Riebauer

Acting

Harry Riebauer

Born 1921-07-04 · Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]

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

Acting credits

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

Possession poster
7.3

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Possession

1981

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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

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

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 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

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

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

Angels of Terror poster
5.9

An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.

Angels of Terror

1971

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

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NR

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Das Loch in der Mauer

1958

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NR

Crew and cast members talk about the making of the 1962 film 'Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer'.

Making of: Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Koffer

2005

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fall Rohrbach

1963

The Love Mad Baroness poster
3.7

A sexologist gets involved with the lovely and love crazy young baroness of Gluecksburg. Originally hindered by an occupational accident, he recovers completely after a blood transfusion. Hilarious and sexy!

The Love Mad Baroness

1970

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

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

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte

1966

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

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

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

Ein Frauenarzt klagt an poster
9.0

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Ein Frauenarzt klagt an

1964

The Robe poster
8.0

Poor weavers Hans und Kumpan try to enter a town surrounded by a tall, impenetrable wall, where everyone is apparently very happy. When they finally make it inside, the tyrannical Emperor Max demands they make him new clothes that would "bring all creatures to their knees." Hans and Kumpan claim only intelligent people can see the robe, and in order to prove himself clever, the emperor haughtily displays himself before his subjects wearing his new invisible regalia.

The Robe

1991