Close up photo of German actor Horst W. Buchholz with his wife French actress Myriam Bru, Bru hold Horst's arms - Vintage Photograph

Close up photo of German actor Horst W. Buchholz with his wife French actress Myriam Bru, Bru hold Horst's arms Horst Werner Buchholz (December 4, 1933 – March 3, 2003) was a German actor, best known in English-speaking countries for his roles in The Magnificent Seven, in which he played Chico, Fanny, and the Billy Wilder comedy One, Two, Three. Worldwide, from 1951 to 2002, he appeared in more than sixty feature films. During his youth he was sometimes called "the German James Dean". Horst Buchholz was born in Berlin. Able to speak several languages, Buchholz expanded into film work by doing foreign-language voice dubbing. In 1951 he started getting small uncredited on-screen parts. He had a marginally larger role in Marianne (1954), directed by Julien Duvivier, then won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his part as Mischa Bjelkin in Helmut Käutner's Himmel ohne Sterne (de) (1955). His youthful good looks next brought him a part in Die Halbstarken (1956), which made him a teen favorite in Germany; an English-dubbed version was released in the US as Teenage Wolfpack, with Buchholz billed as "Henry Bookholt" and promoted as a new James Dean. Buchholz began appearing in English-language films in 1959, when he co-starred in the British production Tiger Bay with Hayley Mills. He followed that with The Magnificent Seven (1960), the romantic drama Fanny (1961) with Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier, and the Berlin-set comedy One, Two, Three (1961), directed by Billy Wilder. Though filmed in Mexico, France and Germany respectively, these were Hollywood productions and Buchholz had begun a period of residence in Los Angeles. He proved to be popular with American audiences, but several missed opportunities thwarted the upward trajectory of his career and it began to stall. Filming schedule conflicts prevented him from accepting the offered roles of Tony in West Side Story (1961) and Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Later, on the advice of his agent, like many others who were asked he turned down the starring role in A Fistful of Dollars (1964). Buchholz died unexpectedly at the age of sixty-nine in the Berlin Charité from pneumonia that developed after an operation for a hip fracture. ************************************************** Myriam Bru (born 20 April 1932 in Paris, France) is a former French actress and the wife of German actor Horst Buchholz, to whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 2003. She made 16 films between 1952 and her marriage, when she retired from acting to raise the family. She and Buchholz had two children, whereof one is the German actor Christopher Buchholz. She was born in Paris in 1932. After a small uncredited role in Jacques Becker's Rendezvous in July (1949), she had her first credited role in Richard Pottier's crime story Ouvert contre X (The Case Against X) (1952). Later the same year, she made her first Italian film, Gian Paolo Callegari's debut film as director: Eran trecento… (They Were 300). The following years, she appeared in a number of Italian films, including two of Carmine Gallone's films about famous composers, Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954), and Mario Camerini's Vacanze a Ischia (1957), where she played opposite director Vittorio De Sica. Later in life, after her children were grown up, she became a theatrical agent in Paris. Photo Taken - 1965 people, man, woman, Horst Werner Buchholz, German, actor, standing, facing camera, togetherness, actress, looking, smiling

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