Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is an Academy Award-nominated German film actor.
Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast), the son of Editta and Alfred Mueller-Stahl, a bank teller. He was a noted concert violinist while he was a teenager. He turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950.
Mueller-Stahl was a successful film and stage actor in East Germany where he was declared the country's most ...
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Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is an Academy Award-nominated German film actor.
Mueller-Stahl was born in Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast), the son of Editta and Alfred Mueller-Stahl, a bank teller. He was a noted concert violinist while he was a teenager. He turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950.
Mueller-Stahl was a successful film and stage actor in East Germany where he was declared the country's most popular actor five times in a row, starring in films such The Third and Jacob, the Liar. On East-German TV, he played the main character of the popular series Das unsichtbare Visier (see German Wikipedia) from 1973-1979, a spy thriller program designed, in co-operation with the Stasi, as an East Bloc counterpart to the James Bond franchise. After protesting against Wolf Biermann's denaturalisation in 1976 he was blacklisted by the government and emigrated to West Germany in 1980. Mueller-Stahl's talent found ample work in the West German film...
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