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Actor • Born 1933

Karl-Otto Alberty

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Karl-Otto Alberty (also Karl Otto Alberty, 13 November 1933 – 25 April 2015) was a German actor. Alberty was born as Karl-Otto Poensgen in Berlin on 13 November 1933. He started out as an amateur boxer before discovering a talent for acting, making his début at the City Theatre in Konstanz in 1959. He then began to take supporting roles in films. He made his first appearance in English language films as an SD officer (who captures Richard Attenborough) in The Great Escape (1963). With his broad face, broken nose and distinctive white-blond hair, he would go on to play variations of the role of German officers in a series of films, notably Battle of the Bulge (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen's The Devil's Brigade (1968), Luchino Visconti's The Damned (1969), and as a Waffen-SS tank commander of a Tiger I tank from the 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH in Kelly's Heroes (1970). He played a...

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War and Remembrance posterWar and RemembranceSeries • 1988The Great Escape posterThe Great EscapeMovie • 1963Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre posterGraf Yoster gibt sich die EhreSeries • 1967The Odyssey posterThe OdysseySeries • 1968Kelly's Heroes posterKelly's HeroesMovie • 1970Is Paris Burning? posterIs Paris Burning?Movie • 1966The Damned posterThe DamnedMovie • 1969The Devil's Brigade posterThe Devil's BrigadeMovie • 1968Battle of the Bulge posterBattle of the BulgeMovie • 1965Battle of Britain posterBattle of BritainMovie • 1969The Secret of Santa Vittoria posterThe Secret of Santa VittoriaMovie • 1970The Assassination posterThe AssassinationMovie • 1972Slaughterhouse-Five posterSlaughterhouse-FiveMovie • 1972Day of Anger posterDay of AngerMovie • 1967Bluebeard posterBluebeardMovie • 1972Raid on Rommel posterRaid on RommelMovie • 1971Flatfoot in Egypt posterFlatfoot in EgyptMovie • 1980Help Me, My Love posterHelp Me, My LoveMovie • 1969The Lickerish Quartet posterThe Lickerish QuartetMovie • 1970The Odyssey posterThe OdysseyMovie • 1969