Bernhard Wicki

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BIRTHDAY

October 28, 1919

St. Polten, Austria

DIED

January 05, 2000

RECENT CREDITS

Spring Symphony (FILM) Apr. 25, 1986

Paris, Texas (FILM) Nov. 1, 1984

Eine Liebe in Deutschland (FILM) Jan. 1, 1983

Die Linkshändige Frau (FILM) Apr. 2, 1980

La Mort En Direct (FILM) Jan. 1, 1980

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BIOGRAPHY

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Trained in Vienna and Berlin, Bernhard Wicki began acting in films in the 1950s. Once he was firmly established as a performer, Wicki turned director with the highly acclaimed "defeatist" drama The Bridge. His later directorial efforts ran hot (Saboteur: Code Name Morituri) and cold (The Visit); among his more worthwhile assignments were a brace of films based on the works of Joseph Roth (False Weight, Spider's Web) and the German-language sequences in Darryl F. Zanuck's mammoth The Longest Day (1962). He returned to acting on a sporadic basis in the mid-1970s, most memorably in Wim Wenders' Paris Texas (1984) and in the European TV miniseries Kidnapped (1978) and The Betrothed (1988). Bernhard Wicki was married to actress Agnes Fink.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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NEWSMAKERS: Disney Honcho's Austerity Program

Jan. 6, 2000

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 5, 2000 - Michael Eisner's stocking felt a little lighter last year. That's because the Disney chief missed out on his Christmas bonus (which was $5 million in 1998), in the wake of unmagical financial days at the Magic Kingdom. Despite the entertainment giant's boffo year at the box office (Disney was No. 1 among the Hollywood studios), its flagging ...

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