Hardy KrugerFilmography

Born:: April 12, 1928 in Berlin, Germany
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Tall, blonde, handsome German actor Hardy Kruger was 16 when he appeared in his first film, Junge Adler (1943). His early ascendency to stardom planted the seed of the widespread belief that Kruger had "favored" status with Goebbels as a member of the Hitler Youth. Whatever the case, his film...Read More

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Von Werra

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Marthe Rey-Von Werra, Therese Wildhaber-Von Werra, Hans Von Werra, James Leasor

Synopsis: Von Werra is an offbeat documentary which, while investigating the life of a historical figure, also explores the fine line between fact and fiction. Franz Von Werra was an aviator from one of Switzerland's most provincial regions, Canton Valais. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he Read More

2002
The Spy Who Never Was

1986
The Inside Man

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Hardy Kruger, Gösta Ekman, Jr., Cory Molder, David Wilson

Synopsis: The internationally produced The Inside Man was inspired by a true story. In 1981, a Soviet submarine ran aground on the coast of Sweden. The sub was carrying a hush-hush laser search device, which promptly vanished. In this 1984 recreation of the incident, Dennis Hopper is cast as the CIA agent Read More

1984
Feine Gesellschaft, Beschraenkte Haftung

Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Lilli Palmer, Heinz Schubert, Hardy Kruger, Wolf Roth

Synopsis: The action in this comedy is set within a 24-hour period, as unusual events unfold in the lives of two elderly sisters, Else (Elisabeth Bergner) and Hilde (Lilli Palmer). The sisters were living together in the family mansion in Hamburg when Else got tired of that life and hit the streets to make Read More

1982
Wrong Is Right

Actors: Sean Connery, George Grizzard, Robert Conrad, Katharine Ross, G.D. Spradlin, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on Charles McCarry's 1979 novel The Better Angels, Wrong is Right is set in a near future in which violence has become something of a national sport and television news has fallen to tabloid depths (a significantly bigger stretch in 1982, when the film was released.) Star Sean Connery plays Read More

1982
The Wild Geese

Actors: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger

Synopsis: The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of extended Sam Peckinpah-inspired action sequences, deals with a collection of mercenary toughguys -- Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), Lieutenant Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore), Rafer Janders (Richard Harris Read More

1978
Blue Fin

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Greg Rowe, Elspeth Ballantyne, Liddy Clark, John Jarratt

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Colin Theile, the Australian Blue Fin stars Hardy Kruger as a taciturn tuna boat captain. Kruger's son, played by Greg Rowe, can't do anything to please his demanding dad. Hoping to prove his worth, Rowe puts his life-and sometimes other lives-on the line. A big box-office hit Read More

1978
A Bridge Too Far

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox

Synopsis: It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Read More

1977
À Chacun Son Enfer

Actors: Annie Girardot, Stéphane Hillel, Hardy Kruger, Bernard Fresson, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: When her 10-year-old daughter is killed by kidnappers, Madeleine (Annie Girardot) goes a little nuts. However, she is fully able to continue investigating what went wrong, despite badgering by news reporters and curious neighbors. Her 19-year-old son has behaved strangely throughout the whole Read More

1977
Potato Fritz

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Stephen Boyd, Anton Diffring, Arthur Brauss, Friedrich von Ledebur

Synopsis: Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This Read More

1976
Death of a Stranger

1976
The Death Merchants

1975
Barry Lyndon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger, Gay Hamilton

Synopsis: With ornate imagery reminiscent of paintings from the story's 18th century period, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel depicts the rise and fall of a sensitive rogue in the British aristocracy. Young Irishman Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal) leaves home to seek his Read More

1975
Paper Tiger

Actors: David Niven, Toshiro Mifune, Hardy Kruger, Ando, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: David Niven is an English tutor for the son of the Japanese ambassador to a Southeast Asian country. The two are used as pawns in a politically motivated kidnapping. Niven entertains the boy with fantastic fabrications of his exciting past. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Le Solitaire

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Raymond Pellegrin, Georges Géret, Jean Lefebvre

Synopsis: While in prison, aloof and stand-offish loner Eric (Hardy Kruger) longs to see his daughter, whom he remembers as a young girl. His manner brings him abuse from the other inmates and also from a guard (Raymond Pellegrin) who appears to enjoy the abusive side of his job. Eric is indeed The Loner. Read More

1973
What the Peeper Saw

Synopsis: Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died a mysterious death. Marcus simultaneously resents his Read More

1971
The Red Tent

Actors: Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger, Peter Finch, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: The true story of a tragic 1928 arctic expedition provides the basis for this adventure drama that was a joint Italian and Russian co-production. Peter Finch stars as General Umberto Nobile, who is visited in Rome by the ghosts of those whose lives were taken in his ill-fated mission forty years Read More

12/23/69
Bitka na Neretvi

Actors: Yul Brynner, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Originally released as The Battle of the Neretva, this sprawling epic is a tribute to the Yugoslav partisan fighters of World War II. Yul Brynner stars as a guerilla leader whose mission in life is to eradicate all Nazis from his homeland (recently revealed instances of Yugoslav collaboration are Read More

12/3/69
La Monaca di Monza: Una storia lombarda

Synopsis: In this nasty drama, a 17th-century Italian nun's long repressed sexual passion is awakened when a handsome nobleman rapes her. Confused by her unholy emotions, the nun sees that the aristocrat is arrested. Unfortunately, the louse impregnated her and shortly after bearing his child, she helps him Read More

2/26/69
The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Kruger, Sergio Franchi

Synopsis: Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a pro-Mussolini slogan when he hears of the fascist being killed and hanged from a meathook. His wife Rosa (Anna Magnani) throws him out of their wine shop when he and his Read More

1969
Femmina

Synopsis: In this crime drama, filmed in Paris and Lebanon, a petty thief visits Beirut and gets involved with an old pal's plan to rob a high-stakes gambler. He also encounters a beautiful woman. He and she head for the mountains after he discovers that his enemy is out to get him. He later phones his pal Read More

1968
La Franciscain De Bourges

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Christian Barbier, Suzanne Flon

Synopsis: Albert (Hardy Kruger) is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members and gives medical treatment to anyone who needs it. Albert helps two Frenchmen who escape from a Nazi prison, and he tries to Read More

1968
La Grande Sauterelle

Actors: Mireille Darc, Hardy Kruger, Maurice Biraud, Francis Blanche

Synopsis: Salene (Mireille Darc) is a free-spirited female who tries to reform the petty thief Carl (Hardy Kruger) when she falls in love in this light romantic drama. She spends the majority of the film bedding down with men she chooses or are chosen for her by close personal friends. Salene and Carl run Read More

1/11/67
Lautlose Waffen

Actors: Montgomery Clift, Hardy Kruger, Macha Meril, Roddy McDowall, David Opatoshu

Synopsis: Montgomery Clift made his last screen appearance in this French-produced Cold War thriller, completed shortly before his death. American scientist James Bower (Clift) is approached by CIA agent Adam (Roddy McDowall) who wants him to perform an official mission while visiting East Germany. A Read More

1966
Le Chant du Monde

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Charles Vanel, Catherine Deneuve, Marilù Tolo, André Lawrence

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Jean Giono, this French drama was written for the screen and directed by filmmaker Marcel Camus and stars Hardy Kruger. Kruger plays Antonio, a father who embarks on a desperate search for his son, who has gone missing after killing a man who tormented and attacked him Read More

10/7/65
Los Pianos Mecanicos

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Hardy Kruger, James Mason, Didier Haudepin, Renaud Verley

Synopsis: French novelist Henri-Francois Rey adapted his novel Les Pianos Mecaniques with director Juan Antonio Bardem for this French/Italian/Spanish co-production, set in Spain. Vincent (Hardy Kruger) is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair Read More

8/26/65
The Flight of the Phoenix

Actors: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Kruger, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for Read More

1965
Le Gros Coup

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Hardy Kruger, Francisco Rabal, Jean-Louis Maury

6/24/64
Hatari!

Actors: John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, Gérard Blain, Red Buttons

Synopsis: Hatari! is Swahili for "danger"--and also the word for action, adventure and broad comedy in this two-fisted Howard Hawks effort. John Wayne stars as the head of a daring Tanganyka-based group which captures wild animals on behalf of the world's zoos. Hardy Kruger, Gérard Blain and Red Buttons are Read More

1962
Die Gans Von Sedan

Synopsis: The friendship between two rival soldiers provides the basis of this comedy. The tale is set during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The soldiers meet while swimming in the same place. They become friends. When they get out of the water, they accidentally trade uniforms. Together they go to a Read More

1962
Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Nicole Courcel, Patricia Gozzi, Daniel Ivernel, André Oumansky

Synopsis: Sundays and Cybele (original French title: Les Dimanches de Ville D'Avray) stars Hardy Kruger as a former bomber pilot. Emotionally shattered by a tragic wartime incident, Kruger goes into semi-seclusion in a small Parisian suburb. He is drawn out of his shell by 12-year-old orphan girl Patricia Gozzi Read More

1962
Last Summer

1960
Un Taxi pour Tobruk

Actors: Lino Ventura, Hardy Kruger, Charles Aznavour, Maurice Biraud, German Cobos

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, a band of French soldiers must escort a group of high-ranking German officers across the North African desert. Along the way a strange bond develops between the men, one of whom is Jewish. Just before they reach their destination, they are attacked by their own troops who Read More

1960
Sans Tambour Ni Trompette

Actors: Jean Richard, Hardy Kruger, Françoise Rosay, Dany Carrel

Synopsis: Effective in its message that war itself is idiotic, this slowly, slowly evolving, conventional comedy drama by director Helmut Kautner takes place during the Franco-Prussian hostilities of 1870. Jumping into its main point early on, the story has two soldiers, one French and one German Read More

1959
Der Rest ist Schweigen

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Peter Van Eyck, Ingrid Andree, Adelheid Seeck

Synopsis: The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by the title, the film's script is a "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Kruger trying to prove that his uncle (Peter van Eyck) has killed his Read More

1959
Bumerang

Actors: Mario Adorf, Horst Frank, Martin Held, Ingrid van Bergen

Synopsis: In a routine, unexceptional drama by Alfred Weidenmann, Robert (Hardy Krueger), Georg (Mario Adorf), and Willy (Horst Frank) are a trio of would-be safecrackers out to pull off a heist. The trio do not live in perfect equanimity, and eventually one of them lets jealousy get the best of him and he Read More

1959
Blind Date

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Stanley Baker, Micheline Presle, Robert Flemyng, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty Dutch artist, Jan Van Rooyen (Hardy Kruger), caught in an upscale cottage where a woman lies murdered. Hard-nosed, irritable Inspector Morgan (Stanley Baker) is certain Van Read More

1959
Liane, Jungle Goddess

Actors: Marion Michael

Synopsis: In this variation of the Tarzan legend, a beautiful white woman is found living with a tribe in the jungles of Africa. Thought to be the granddaughter of a rich Englishman, she is brought back to London. However, she finds that she is in as much danger in the city as she would be in the jungle. Read More

4/2/58
Bachelor of Hearts

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Sylvia Syms, Ronald Lewis, Jeremy Burnham, Miles Malleson, Peter Myers, Eric Barker

Synopsis: Bachelor of Hearts stars Hardy Kruger as Wolf, a German exchange student attending Cambridge University. Initially arousing the distrust and disdain of his classmates (WWII was, after all, only thirteen years in the past), the affable Wolf slowly wins them over. He also finds romance in the lovely Read More

1958
Gestehen Sie, Dr. Corda

Synopsis: In this drama, a doctor must clear his name after his mistress is murdered. Of course, the married M.D. is the prime suspect in the case as the woman's body was found at the site of their frequent trysts. The media soon sensationalizes the case and the police decide that the doctor will take the Read More

1958
Bank Vault 713

1957
The One That Got Away

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, Michael Goodliffe, Terry Alexander, Jack Gwillim

Synopsis: The title character in this fact-based POW drama is Franz von Werra, played by Hardy Kruger. Shot down early in the war, Luftwaffe pilot von Werra is incarcerated in an English prison camp. He refuses to submit to camp routine, insisting that he's on the brink of escaping. After two failed Read More

1957
The Fox in Paris

1957
Der Fuchs von Paris

Actors: Marianne Koch, Hardy Kruger, Martin Held, Jean Murat

Synopsis: Der Fuchs von Paris (The Fox of Paris) is set in Paris, not long after the Allied invasion of the continent in 1944. Hardy Kruger stars as Captain Eustenwerth, a German officer who turns his back on the losing Nazi cause and joins the Resistance. In a similar vein, General Quade (Martin Held) Read More

1957
Banktresor 713

1956
Alibi

1955
As Long As You're Near Me

Synopsis: In this German drama, a mediocre actress is quite happy to have a steady stream of bit movie roles. Unfortunately, an egocentric director sees her and vows to make her a star whether she wants to be one or not. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1954
Solange Du Da Bist

1953
The Moon Is Blue

Actors: William Holden, David Niven, Maggie McNamara, Tom Tully, Dawn Addams

Synopsis: This is the story of a chaste young TV-commercial actress (Maggie McNamara) who is romanced by a playboy architect (William Holden). Despite all sorts of temptations, the girl refuses the architect's invitation to become his mistress, holding out for marriage or nothing. Meanwhile, middle-aged Read More

1953
Ich und Du

Actors: Liselotte Pulver, Doris Kirchner, Peer Schmidt

Synopsis: Ich und Du (I and You) is totally reliant upon the charms of its stars. Hardy Krueger (later Kruger) and Liselotte (later Lilo) Pulver star as young marrieds Peter and Brigette. After a silly spat, the couple divorces, each refusing to admit that he/she was wrong. The film is predicated upon the Read More

1953
Muss Man Sich Gleich Scheiden Lassen?

1953
Alle Kann Ich Nicht Heiraten

1952
Ich Heisse Niki

1952
Illusion in Moll

Actors: Hardy Kruger, Maurice Teynac, Albrecht Schoenhals

Synopsis: This minor 1952 drama resurfaced during the 1989 Berlin Film Festival, and was found to have previously unsuspected historical and artistic merit. At the time it was made, Sybille Schmitz, one of the great movie stars and beauties of the Nazi era, was fading into her final dissipation and Read More

1952
Mein Freund, Der Dieb

1951
Diese Nacht Vergess Ich Nie

1949
Junge Adler

1943
Die Christel Von Der Post

Synopsis: This entertaining video looks at the story of a postal worker who gets to play the part of Christel von de Post, the famous operetta, and all this to celebrate the occasion of a postal anniversary. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

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