Richard Münch
Acting
Biography
Richard Heinrich Ludwig Münch (10 January 1916 – 6 June 1987) was a German actor, best known for portraying Alfred Jodl in Patton (1970). He also portrayed General Erich Marcks in The Longest Day (1962).
Born: January 10, 1916
Place of Birth: Gießen, Germany
Known For
Sommer in Lesmona
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.
Manhattan Night of Murder
Second Jerry Cotton movie. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Special agent Jerry Cotton is summoned by the FBI to help crack down on the Criminals and put them out of business. He doesnt pull any punches either.
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget that he has unfinished business with them.
Der Kommissar
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
The Train
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Patton
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight
Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high.
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
Filmography
as Shri Bahanba
as Konsul Lürmann
as Konsul Lürmann
as Dr. Bamberg
as Prof. Dr. Theo Krakauer
as Tyge Enslev
as Colonel
as Prof. Sager
as Oberst
as Verleger
as Prof. Markus Ebenböck
as Karl-August Thebald
as Hubert Gruyten
as Dr. Kargus
as Dr. Dannhaus
as Richard Haber
as Konsistorialrat
as Colonel General Alfred Jodl
as General von Stürmer
as Dr. Bibeina
as Georges Clemenceau
as Dr. Rolf Stauffer
as Mr. John High
as Lord Edward Grayton
as Mr. John High
as Dr. Freytag
as Professor Alden (Frame story)
as Mr. John High
as Chief Justice
as Mr. John High
as Walter Morten
as Mr. John High
as General von Libitz
as Teacher
as Mario Orlandi di Alsconi
as Kapitän Hellmann
as Dr. Collins
as Gen. Erich Marcks
as Joachim
as Dr. Erwin Glass
as Herr König, Oberst a. D.
as Oberstleutnant Kesselbach
as Kriegsgerichtsrat
as Dr. Wolf
as Reverend Bennet
as 1. Kriminalbeamter