Heinrich Wilhelm “Heinz” Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor.
Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers.
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Heinz Rühmann Biography / Wiki
| Name | Heinz Rühmann |
| Also Know | Хайнц Рюман, Хайнц Рюманн |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Essen, Germany |
| Date of Birth | 1902-03-07 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
| Deathday | 1994-10-03 |
Heinz Rühmann Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| It Happened in Broad Daylight | Oberleutnant Matthäi | 1958-06-09 | The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession…. |
| The Punch Bowl | Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer/Hans Pfeiffer | 1944-01-28 | Die Feuerzangenbowle from Director Helmut Weiss is based on the novel by the same name from Heinrich Spoerl and Hans Reimann that has turned into a cu… |
| The Captain from Kopenick | Wilhelm Voigt | 1956-08-15 | The 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military office… |
| Charley’s Aunt | Dr. Otto Dernburg | 1956-01-19 | Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman…. |
| Max der Taschendieb | Max Schilling | 1962-03-01 | Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the ‘big’ crimes. But then he must find the murderer of Fred, his wife’s brother…. |
| Der Eiserne Gustav | Gustav Hartmann | 1958-12-05 | … |
| If the Father and the Son | Teddy Lemke | 1955-08-01 | After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since… |
| Quax, der Bruchpilot | Otto Groschenbügel | 1941-12-16 | No overview found…. |
| Er kanns nicht lassen | Father Brown | 1962-10-19 | Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal cases, usually with resounding success. That’s why … |
| Der brave Soldat Schwejk | Schwejk | 1960-09-21 | No overview found…. |
| Clothes Make the Man | Schneidergeselle Wenzel | 1940-09-16 | The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is … |
| Mailman Mueller | Titus Müller | 1953-10-01 | Postman Titus Müller returns from his daily rounds with a letter that will change the course of his modest provincial existence…. |
| The Liar | Sebastian Schumann | 1961-12-20 | When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has died, because he thought that this was the easies… |
| The Black Sheep | Pater Brown | 1960-12-19 | Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest play… |
| The Leghorn Hat | Theo Farina | 1939-04-04 | Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner… |
| Wer zuletzt küßt… | Franz Angerer | 1936-02-27 | On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned. Misunderstandings between the manager of the film star, a … |
| The Man Who is Talked About | Toni Mathis | 1937-02-05 | The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitutionally incapable of saying the word “no” (or “nein,”… |
| 13 Chairs | Friseur Felix Rabe | 1938-09-16 | A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of a… |
| Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius | Dr. Hiob Prätorius | 1965-01-14 | … |
| Der Kapitän | Kapitän Wilhelm Ebbs | 1971-10-28 | Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his current old barge, the Martin Luther, has to go in… |
| Scrounged Meals | Alfred Eisenhardt | 1977-03-03 | … |
| Vater sein dagegen sehr | Lutz Ventura | 1957-09-12 | Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister’s deat… |
| Die Ente klingelt um halb acht | Dr. Alexander | 1968-09-13 | … |
| Once a Greek | Archilochos | 1966-09-16 | An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann…. |
| Meine Tochter und ich | Dr. Robert Stegemann | 1963-08-16 | … |
| Das Sonntagskind | Anton Wibbel | 1956-09-11 | … |
| Kein Abend wie jeder andere | Roeder, Antiquitätenhändler | 1976-12-23 | … |
| The Judge and the Sinner | Dr. Ferdinand Bluhme | 1960-02-11 | A drama directed by Paul Verhoeven…. |
| Laughing Heirs | Peter Frank | 1933-06-08 | After the death of his uncle, the owner of Bockelmann Champagne, Peter turns up for the reading of the will. Justus Bockelmann, a producer of mineral … |
| Heinz im Mond | Aristides Nessel | 1934-09-04 | … |
| Ich vertraue Dir meine Frau an | Peter Trost | 1943-04-02 | … |
| Das Geheimnis der roten Katze | André | 1949-04-13 | … |
| Hocuspocus | Peer Bille | 1966-03-03 | Kurt Hoffmann’s remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz…. |
| So ein Flegel | Dr. Hans Pfeiffer/ Erich Pfeiffer | 1934-02-13 | First adaptation of Heinrich Spoerl’s novel…. |
| Quax in Afrika | Otto ‘Quax’ Groschenbügel | 1947-05-16 | … |
| Schäm’ dich, Brigitte! | Dr. Felix Schneider | 1952-09-04 | … |
| Der Stolz der 3. Kompanie | Gustav Diestelbeck | 1932-07-18 | … |
| Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte | Thomas Träumer | 1958-09-03 | A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls…. |
| Looking for His Murderer | Hans Herfort | 1931-02-04 | Robert Siodmak’s second solo directorial effort was the breathless comedy-melodrama Der Mann, Der Seinen Moerder Sucht (Looking For His Murderer) In t… |
| Der Mustergatte | Billy Bartlett | 1937-10-12 | Heinz Rühmann plays the “model husband” who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night…. |
| Vorsicht Mister Dodd | Dr. Lancelot Dodd / Dr. Ivor Marmion | 1964-02-13 | … |
| Mein Schulfreund | Ludwig Fuchs | 1960-07-21 | … |
| Enter Inspector Maigret | Kommissar Maigret | 1966-11-25 | … |
| Die Umwege des schönen Karl | Karl Kramer – Kellner | 1938-01-30 | … |
| Hauptsache glücklich! | Axel Roth | 1941-04-02 | … |
| The House in Montevideo | Prof. Dr. Traugott Hermann Nägler | 1963-10-16 | A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way…. |
| Pipin, der Kurze | August Pipin | 1934-03-30 | … |
| Ein Mann geht durch die Wand | Herr Buchsbaum | 1959-10-14 | Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps c… |
| Five Millions Seek an Heir | Peter Pett / Patrick Pett | 1938-03-31 | According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married … |
| Nanu, Sie kennen Korff noch nicht? | Niels Korff | 1938-12-21 | … |
| Der Gasmann | Hermann Knittel | 1941-08-01 | A man comes into money unexpectatly. That’s when the trouble starts…. |
| Der Herr vom andern Stern | Der Herr vom andern Stern | 1948-07-13 | … |
| Hurra, ich bin Papa | Peter Ohlsen, Student | 1939-11-16 | … |
| Mein Freund Harvey | Elwood Dowd | 1970-02-22 | … |
| Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan! | Konsul Jonathan Reynold | 1973-05-09 | … |
| Paradies der Junggesellen | Hugo Bartels | 1939-07-31 | … |
| Der Pauker | Dr. Hermann Seidel | 1958-10-03 | … |
| Strich durch die Rechnung | Willy Streblow – Rennfahrer | 1932-10-24 | … |
| Der Außenseiter | Peter Bang | 1935-11-14 | … |
| If We All Were Angels | Christian Kempenich | 1936-10-08 | … |
| Das chinesische Wunder | Poliakoff | 1977-01-21 | … |
| Kleiner Mann ganz groß | 1994-11-11 | Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994…. | |
| Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher | Perret-Latour | 1983-01-01 | … |
| Keine Angst vor großen Tieren | Emil Keller | 1953-07-30 | … |
| Ein Zug nach Manhattan | Kantor Leon Sternberger | 1981-03-08 | … |
| Der Pfandleiher | Hilary | 1971-11-14 | … |
| Es gibt nur eine Liebe | Ballettmeister Eddy Blattner | 1933-11-16 | … |
| Das kann jedem passieren | Hugo Brinkmeyer | 1952-05-29 | … |
| Balthasar im Stau | Taxifahrer | 1979-03-04 | … |
| Max und Moritz | Narrator | 1978-01-01 | … |
| Aller guten Dinge sind drei. Serenade für Spieldose, Cello und Orgel | Friebe, Eberts, Weber | 1980-03-30 | … |
| Sag’s dem Weihnachtsmann | Leslie Darwin | 1969-12-21 | … |
| Diener und andere Herren | Kirchendiener / Butler / Edward / Ehemann | 1978-02-05 | … |
| Der Tod eines Handlungsreisenden | Willy Loman | 1968-05-15 | Televised version of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman…. |
| Der Hausmeister | Davies | 1973-02-14 | … |
| Endspurt | Sam Kinsale mit 80 Jahren | 1970-11-15 | … |
| Die schönsten Geschichten mit Heinz Rühmann | Varius Characters | 1994-09-03 | … |
| Heinz Rühmann – Schauspieler, Flieger, Mensch | himself | 1982-03-07 | … |
| Ich mach Dich glücklich | Peter Krüger | 1949-12-02 | … |
| The Three from the Filling Station | Hans | 1930-09-15 | Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cas… |
| The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes | Dr. John H. Watson / Macky McPherson | 1937-07-14 | Two out-of-work private detectives disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps…. |
| On the Reeperbahn at half past midnight | Pittes Breuer | 1954-12-15 | After many years on the oceans, sailor Hannes Wedderkamp has finally returned to Hamburg. On St. Pauli, Hannes sings songs from the sea in the hippodr… |
| Man braucht kein Geld | Heinz Schmidt | 1931-12-24 | In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even thou… |
| Eva, the Factory Girl | Willibald Riegele | 1935-07-25 | A famous racing driver must give up his sport and take over the management of the porcelain factory on incentive of the vigorous grandmother as the la… |
| Your Money or Your Life | Henry Schmidt | 1966-04-26 | Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank…. |
| A Waltz for You | Benjamin Cortes | 1934-08-11 | Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing…. |
| Drei blaue Jungs, ein blondes Mädel | Kadett Heini Jäger | 1933-10-01 | … |
| Lumpacivagabundus | Schneidergeselle Zwirn | 1936-12-22 | … |
| Meine Frau, die Hochstaplerin | Peter Bergmann | 1931-09-17 | … |
| Es wird schon wieder besser | Fred Holmes | 1932-02-06 | … |
| Wer wagt – gewinnt | Paul Normann | 1935-07-08 | … |
| The Upright Sinner | Wittek | 1931-10-21 | Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urge… |
| Summa Summarum – Sondersendung zu Heinz Rühmanns 75. Geburtstag | 1977-09-18 | … | |
| Frasquita | Hippolit | 1934-08-09 | Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotna plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest Frasquita. Based on a Franz Lehar operetta, the story is the … |
| Heaven on Earth | Peter Hilpert | 1935-01-01 | A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, nevertheless, an opera. Together with his friend wh… |
| Operation San Pietro | Erik Braun | 1967-12-29 | Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Nap… |
| Bombs Over Monte Carlo | Erster Offizier Peter | 1931-08-31 | The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country’s queen…. |
| Menschen im Hotel | Carl Kringelein | 1959-09-23 | … |
| Allotria | David | 1936-06-11 | Best friends David and Philip have to end their love affair with their mistress Aimée which they – not knowing of each other – share, because they ar… |
| Heimkehr ins Glück | Amadori | 1933-05-08 | … |
| Burglars | Sérigny | 1930-12-15 | The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her…. |
| Die Finanzen des Großherzogs | Pelotard | 1934-01-10 | … |
| Humor ist eine ernste Sache – Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann | Self | 1985-11-12 | … |
| Escale à Orly | Albert Petit | 1955-03-16 | … |
| The Only Girl | Didier | 1933-02-22 | A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdre… |
| Das deutsche Mutterherz | 1926-08-28 | … | |
| Faraway, So Close! | Konrad | 1993-09-01 | Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo†and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more d… |
| Request Concert | Himself | 1940-12-30 | German propaganda film spinning a story around the popular radio broadcast “Wunschkonzert”…. |
| Das Mädchen mit den fünf Nullen | 1927-12-02 | … | |
| Das Liebeskarussell | Professor Hellberg | 1965-09-30 | An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn’t sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor acro… |
| Ship of Fools | Lowenthal | 1965-07-29 | Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship’s Dr…. |
| Hitler’s Hollywood | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2017-02-23 | Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich colla… |
| Treffpunkt Herz | Gast | 1975-10-04 | … |
| Noch ‘ne Oper | Golfer | 1979-02-21 | A musical comedy written by Heinz Erhardt and his son Gero Erhardt…. |
Heinz Rühmann Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Mailman Mueller | Director | 1953-10-01 | Postman Titus Müller returns from his daily rounds with a letter that will change the course of his modest provincial existence…. |
| The Angel and the Lyre | Director | 1944-12-19 | Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life …. that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should … |
| Lauter Liebe | Director | 1940-02-16 | … |
| Sophienlund | Director | 1943-02-26 | The successful writer Erich Eckberg lives with his wife Sigrid and their three children — the twins, Knut and Michael and the daughter Gabriel — on … |
| Many Lies | Director | 1938-12-23 | The stories’ setup: a bunch of passive weaklings being dominated by two strong and ambitious women who fight for the same man…. |
| Die kupferne Hochzeit | Director | 1948-12-15 | … |
Heinz Rühmann Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Punch Bowl | Producer | 1944-01-28 | Die Feuerzangenbowle from Director Helmut Weiss is based on the novel by the same name from Heinrich Spoerl and Hans Reimann that has turned into a cu… |
| The Berliner | Producer | 1948-12-31 | Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen… |
| Das Geheimnis der roten Katze | Producer | 1949-04-13 | … |
| The Leghorn Hat | Executive Producer | 1939-04-04 | Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner… |
| Der Herr vom andern Stern | Producer | 1948-07-13 | … |
| Martina | Producer | 1949-07-08 | A wayward young woman running from her past is reunited with her sister after they became separated during the war. While she worked on the streets, t… |
| Clothes Make the Man | Producer | 1940-09-16 | The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is … |
| City of Violence | Producer | 1951-04-05 | Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as “City of Violence”), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as “John Wolff”) West German/Italian romantic action adv… |
| Die kupferne Hochzeit | Producer | 1948-12-15 | … |
| Ich mach Dich glücklich | Producer | 1949-12-02 | … |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Der Mustergatte | Writer | 1937-10-12 | Heinz Rühmann plays the “model husband” who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night…. |
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