Hans Meyer is a South African actor born to German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 parents. In Britain, he is probably best known for his portrayal of Hauptmann

Hauptmann

Hauptmann is a German word usually translated as captain when it is used as an officer's rank in the German, Austrian and Swiss armies. While "haupt" in contemporary German means "main", it also has the dated meaning of "head", i.e...

 Franz Ulmann in the television series Colditz

Colditz (TV series)

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to...

 (1972–74).

His family were German farmers in Natal

Natal Province

Natal, meaning "Christmas" in Portuguese, was a province of South Africa from 1910 until 1994. Its capital was Pietermaritzburg. The Natal Province included the bantustan of KwaZulu...

 and Zululand

Zulu Kingdom

The Zulu Kingdom, sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or, rather imprecisely, Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in the south to Pongola River in the north....

. Originally a farmer, Meyer decided to move to Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 in the early 1960s. He worked initially as a model where he posed for book covers until a friend in Germany working for an advertising agency lined up his first work as an actor, a television advert for Puschkin Vodka

Vodka

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. The brand became Germany's best selling vodka

Vodka

Vodka , is a distilled beverage. It is composed primarily of water and ethanol with traces of impurities and flavorings. Vodka is made by the distillation of fermented substances such as grains, potatoes, or sometimes fruits....

 and Meyer became known as The Puschkin Man and a familiar face. His acting career took off and he appeared in many television series and movies including Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...

's Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period romantic war film produced, written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray which recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer...

 (1975).

Since then he has appeared in Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

's and George Lucas

George Lucas

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...

's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 4, 1992, to July 24, 1993. The series explores the childhood and youth of the fictional character Indiana Jones and primarily stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Corey Carrier as the title character, with...

 as well as the cult French movie Le Pacte Des Loups aka Brotherhood Of The Wolf.

Films and television

• 1965 - Pierrot le fou
  Pierrot le fou
  Pierrot le fou is a 1965 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo. The film is based on Obsession, a novel by Lionel White. It was Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature film, released between Alphaville and Masculin, féminin...
  
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• 1966 - Culpable para un delito
• 1966 - Don't Look Now - We're Being Shot At
• 1967 - Salut les copines
• 1967 - Réseau secret
• 1967 - Un épais manteau de sang
• 1967 - The Crime of David Levinstein
• 1967 - The Night of the Generals
  The Night of the Generals
  The Night of the Generals is a 1967 suspense thriller film directed by Anatole Litvak. Set during World War II, the story was adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret.The...
  
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• 1967 - The Last Adventure
• 1968 - Coplan Saves His Skin
  Coplan Saves His Skin
  Coplan Saves His Skin is a 1968 French Francis Coplan spy film directed by Yves Boisset and starring Claudio Brook.-Cast:* Claudio Brook - Francis Coplan* Margaret Lee - Mara / Eva* Jean Servais - Saroghu* Bernard Blier - Marscar...
  
  
• 1968 - Koenigsmark (TV movie)
• 1969 - Erotic Trap
• 1969 - The Troubleshooters (TV series)
• 1969 - S.O.S. fréquence 17 (TV series)
• 1969 - Les étrangers
• 1969 - Department S
  Department S
  Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King , Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst...
  
   (TV series)
• 1970 - Les enfants de Caïn
• 1970 - Wie kurz ist die Zeit zu lieben
• 1970 - Codename (TV series)
• 1970 - The Great White Hope
  The Great White Hope
  The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name. The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on October 3, 1968 for a run of 546 performances, directed by Edwin Sherin...
  
   (uncredited)
• 1970 - Cannon for Cordoba
  Cannon for Cordoba
  Cannon for Cordoba was a western film that was released in 1970. Filmed in Spain, the large part of the movie takes place in Mexico in 1912...
  
  
• 1971 - Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe
• 1971 - Paul Temple
  Paul Temple
  Paul Temple is a fictional character created by British writer Francis Durbridge for the BBC radio serial Send for Paul Temple in 1938. Temple is an amateur private detective and author of crime fiction...
  
   (TV series)
• 1971 - Perched on a Tree
  Perched on a Tree
  Perched on a Tree is a French comedy movie from 1971, directed by Serge Korber, written by Pierre Roustang, and starring Louis de Funès.- Cast :* Louis de Funès : Henri Roubier* Olivier de Funès : auto-stopper...
  
  
• 1971 - Kate
  Kate (TV series)
  Kate is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 38 episodes between 6 January 1970 and 29 November 1972. It starred Phyllis Calvert in the role of an agony aunt who becomes personally drawn into the problems of the people who send letters to her...
  
   (TV series)
• 1971 - Valparaiso, Valparaiso
• 1971 - Jason King
  Jason King (TV series)
  Jason King was a British television series produced from 1971 to 1972. Each episode was one hour in duration , and the series had a run of one season of 26 episodes. As well as its native UK, the series was also screened in countries as far afield as Australia, Norway, Argentina and Peru...
  
   (TV series)
• 1973 - La folie Almayer (TV movie)
• 1973 - Le Magnifique
  Le Magnifique
  Le Magnifique is a French movie released in 1973, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Paul Belmondo.Le Magnifique is a slapstick spoof of B-series espionage movies and novels.-Synopsis:...
  
   aka How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent
  Le Magnifique
  Le Magnifique is a French movie released in 1973, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Paul Belmondo.Le Magnifique is a slapstick spoof of B-series espionage movies and novels.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• 1972 - 1974 Colditz
  Colditz (TV series)
  Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to...
  
   (TV series)
• 1974 - Thriller
  Thriller (UK TV series)
  Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast...
  
   (TV series)
• 1974 - Heidi
  Heidi
  Heidi is a Swiss work of fiction, published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel and Heidi makes use of what she has learned.It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps...
  
   (TV mini-series)
• 1975 - Quiller
  Quiller
  Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor and featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall".The series focuses on a solitary, highly capable spy...
  
   (TV series)
• 1975 - Barry Lyndon
  Barry Lyndon
  Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period romantic war film produced, written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray which recounts the exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer...
  
  
• 1976 - Blondy
• 1976 - Les Monte en l'air (TV movie)
• 1976 - The Howerd Confessions
  The Howerd Confessions
  The Howerd Confessions was a British comedy television series which originally aired on ITV in 1976. It featured comedian Frankie Howerd in "confessing" various adventures during his life....
  
   (TV series)
• 1977 - Fachoda (TV mini-series)
• 1977 - Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes
• 1978 - Holocaust (TV mini-series)
• 1978 - Les grandes conjurations: Le connétable de Bourbon (TV movie)
• 1979 - La nuit claire
• 1979 - The Riddle of the Sands
  The Riddle of the Sands (film)
  The Riddle of the Sands is a 1979 British spy thriller based on the novel of the same name by Erskine Childers. Set in 1901, and starring Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale, it concerns the efforts of two British yachtsmen to avert a German plot to invade England.It was filmed on the North Sea...
  
  
• 1979 - The Other One's Mug
• 1979 - Quest of Eagles (TV series)
• 1980 - Strangulations blues (short)
• 1980 - Achtung Zoll! (TV series)
• 1981 - BBC2 Playhouse (TV series)
• 1981 - Commissaire Moulin
  Commissaire Moulin
  Commissaire Moulin is a French television series on the air since 1976.-Synopsis:The show was created in 1976 and suspended in 1982, only to be resumed in 1989.-Actors:*Yves Rénier: Commissioner Jean-Paul Moulin...
  
   (TV series)
• 1981 - Sans famille
  Sans Famille
  Sans Famille is an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot. Most recent English translation is "Alone in the World" by AJ de Bruyn, 2007.-First Volume:...
  
   (TV series)
• 1982 - Les amours des années grises (TV series)
• 1982 - Inside the Third Reich
  Inside the Third Reich
  Inside the Third Reich is a memoir written by Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments from 1942 to 1945, serving as Hitler's main architect before this period...
  
   (TV movie)
• 1983 - Les poneys sauvages (TV mini-series)
• 1984 - Tueur maison (short)
• 1984 - Boy Meets Girl
  Boy Meets Girl (1984 film)
  Boy Meets Girl is a 1984 French drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Mireille Perrier. It was Carax' first feature film...
  
  
• 1985 - Ça n'arrive qu'à moi
• 1985 - Red Sonja
  Red Sonja (1985 film)
  Red Sonja is a 1985 sword and sorcery/action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in a supporting role and introducing Brigitte Nielsen as the title character...
  
  
• 1979 - 1985 - Minder
  Minder (TV series)
  Minder is a British comedy-drama about the London criminal underworld. Initially produced by Verity Lambert, it was made by Euston Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television and shown on ITV...
  
   (TV series)
• 1986 - Adventures of William Tell
  Adventures of William Tell
  Adventures of William Tell is a 1898 French short black-and-white silent trick film, directed by Georges Méliès, featuring a clown trying to shoot fruit of the head of a dummy which comes to life...
  
   (TV movie)
• 1986 - The Night Is Young
• 1988 - M'as-tu-vu? (TV series)
• 1988 - Foreign City
• 1989 - Céleri remoulade (short)
• 1987 - 1989 - William Tell
  William Tell
  William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. His legend is recorded in a late 15th century Swiss chronicle....
  
   (TV series)
• 1989 - Roselyne and the Lions
• 1989 - La révolution française
• 1989 - Bunker Palace Hôtel
  Bunker Palace Hôtel
  Bunker Palace Hôtel is a 1989 French post-apocalyptic film by comics artist Enki Bilal.In the imaginary dictatorship of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the 'Bunker Palace Hotel', a bunker built long ago for this contingency. A rebel spy sneaks in and...
  
  
• 1989 - L'orchestre rouge
• 1990 - Cantara (TV mini-series)
• 1990 - Artcore oder Der Neger
• 1990 - Counterstrike (TV series)
• 1991 - Navarro (TV series)
• 1991 - Un privé au soleil (TV series)
• 1991 - Renseignements généraux (TV series)
• 1991 - Dingo
  Dingo
  The Australian Dingo or Warrigal is a free-roaming wild dog unique to the continent of Australia, mainly found in the outback. Its original ancestors are thought to have arrived with humans from southeast Asia thousands of years ago, when dogs were still relatively undomesticated and closer to...
  
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• 1992 - John (short)
• 1992 - Une cuillerée pour papa (short)
• 1992 - The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally published in 1927, it contains stories published between 1921 and 1927....
  
   (TV series)
• 1983 - 1992 - Les cinq dernières minutes
  Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
  Les Cinq Dernières Minutes is a French television series starring Lily Fayol....
  
   (TV series)
• 1992 - The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
  The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
  The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is an American television series that aired on ABC from March 4, 1992, to July 24, 1993. The series explores the childhood and youth of the fictional character Indiana Jones and primarily stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Corey Carrier as the title character, with...
  
   (TV series)
• 1992 - Sniper 2: L'affaire Petracci (TV movie)
• 1992 - Lycée alpin (TV series)
• 1992 - The New Statesman
  The New Statesman
  The New Statesman is an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time...
  
   (TV series)
• 1993 - Senso (TV movie)
• 1993 - Le JAP, juge d'application des peines (TV series)
• 1994 - Le terminus de Rita
• 1995 - L'entretien (short)
• 1995 - Machinations (TV movie)
• 1995 - La Rivière Espérance
  La Rivière Espérance
  La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2.-Synopsis:...
  
   (TV mini-series)
• 1997 - Entre les vagues (short)
• 1997 - Inspecteur Moretti (TV series)
• 1997 - Double Team
• 1997 - K
• 2000 - Le birdwatcher
• 2001 - Le pacte des loups
• 2002 - Morteterre (short)
• 2003 - The Dope
• 2003 - Baptiste
  Baptiste
  Baptiste is a French given name or surname, and may be a shortened form of Jean-Baptiste .-Surname:*Alex Baptiste , an English football player*Alva Baptiste, a Saint Lucian politician...
  
   (short)
• 2003 - Ripoux 3
• 2004 - Albert est méchant
• 2005 - Sauf le respect que je vous dois
• 2006 - Final Sentence (short)
• 2007 - La piscine de maman (short)
• 2007 - How Much We Hated Each Other (TV movie)
• 2008 - Collection Fred Vargas (TV series)
• 2010 - Hitler à Hollywood

External links

• Hans Meyer IMDb profile
• Hans Meyer The official Hans Meyer website
• Colditz
• Colditz at Television Heaven
• Brotherhood Of The Wolf official site