Heinz Weiss (12 June 192120 November 2010) was a German

film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), ...

. Weiss is best known for playing the role of Phil Decker in the

Jerry Cotton Jerry Cotton is the fictional character in a series of pulp magazine-type crime novels. The novels have been written by many different writers in German-speaking countries and in Finland over the course of several decades. Overview The novel ...

series of films and the role of Captain Heinz Hansen in ''

Das Traumschiff ' ("The Dream Ship") is a German television drama series by ZDF. The series, about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world, debuted in 1981 and became one of the most-watched television shows in Germany. A total of 83 episodes hav ...

''. He also played the character "Kramer" in the iconic

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film '' The Great Escape'' (1963). He himself had served in German military, the ''

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'', during WWII. He died on 20 November 2010 in Grünwald near

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Filmography

Film

Television

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* 1921 births 2010 deaths German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors Male actors from Stuttgart {{Germany-screen-actor-stub