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Wilfried Baasner
Mohrungen, Germany
Wilfried Baasner (born May 28, 1940, in Mohrungen; died March 28, 2006, in Athens) was a German actor. Baasner grew up in Lauenburg and Hamburg. At the age of 17, he left seconda…
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Wilfried Baasner (born May 28, 1940, in Mohrungen; died March 28, 2006, in Athens) was a German actor. Baasner grew up in Lauenburg and Hamburg. At the age of 17, he left secondary school and began his acting training at the Hamburger Kammerspiele under Ida Ehre. This was followed by theater engagements at various venues, including the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, the Wiener Volkstheater, the Wiener Schauspielhaus, the Hamburger Kammerspiele, the Landesbühne Hannover, and the Renaissance-Theater in Berlin. In 1982, Baasner received the prestigious Kainz Medal for his portrayal of John Merrick in Bernard Pomerance's *The Elephant Man* at the Schauspielhaus Wien. He also garnered significant acclaim for his role in the television drama *Hautnah* (1985), which was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize. Baasner achieved nationwide fame through his role as the unscrupulous Achim Lauritzen in the ZDF television series *Das Erbe der Guldenburgs*. His bald head—originally shaved for a production of Bertolt Brecht's *The Threepenny Opera*, in which he played Mackie Messer—later became his trademark. During the final years of his life, Baasner lived primarily in Greece. He died in 2006 in a hospital in Athens.
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2002
Edel & Starck
TV show Markus Borell
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2000
Klinikum Berlin Mitte – Leben in Bereitschaft
TV show Manfred Dittrich
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1999
The Peppercorns
TV show Herr Raffmann
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1999
The Seventh Scroll
TV show Lord Intef
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1997
Operation Phoenix - Jäger zwischen den Welten
TV show Jochen Schütter
- 1997
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1996
Klinik unter Palmen
TV show Kaminsky
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1995
Unser Charly
TV show Manfred Völkel
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1995
Mit verbundenen Augen
Movie Albert Steiner
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1995
Die Straßen von Berlin
TV show Hansi Prybilla
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1995
Der schwarze Fluch
Movie Attorney General Winston
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1994
Im Namen des Gesetzes
TV show Lutz Gerlach
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1994
Die Wache
TV show Cornetti
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1993
Die Trotzkis
TV show
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1993
Der blaue Diamant
Movie Boris Ottinski (Otto)
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1993
Hecht & Haie
TV show Voss
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1992
Wolffs Revier
TV show Walter Keilhoff
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1992
Four Junior Detectives
Movie Hirnvogel
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1991
Novak
TV show Karl Kammerlocher
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1991
Die Frosch-Intrige
Movie Bürgermeister Wutte
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1988
Die Männer vom K3
TV show Leo Biehl
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1987
The Legacy of Guldenburgs
TV show Achim Lauritzen
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1986
Lenz oder die Freiheit
TV show Glaubnitz
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1986
The Lenz Papers
Movie Glaubnitz
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1985
Hautnah
Movie Meilick
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1985
Coconuts
Movie Kern
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1984
Tod eines Schaustellers
Movie Schuster
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1984
Der Fahnder
TV show Jöckle
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1983
Karambolage
Movie King
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1980
I.O.B. Spezialauftrag
TV show Staatsanwalt
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1974
Derrick
TV show Rotter
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1974
Die Montagsmaler
TV show Self
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1970
Scene of the Crime
TV show Jelenak
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1964
Bezaubernde Mama
Movie Yve Lemonnier
