Werner Abrolat (15 August 1924 – 24 August 1997) was a German

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

who was active in both Germany and in several international co-productions. After a long career at provincial theatres in West-Germany, Abrolat appeared in a number of

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s in the mid-1960s (notably the 1965

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film ''

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'' where he played a member of Indio's gang). Work on German TV included guest roles on the West German crime drama series ''

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''. In the early 1970s he contributed to a number of films as a

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, e.g providing the voice for the character of Tjure in

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. He played the police commissioner in '' 00 Schneider – Jagd auf Nihil Baxter'' (1994). From the mid-1970s, he mostly appeared in German films and on German television until his death in 1997.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Abrolat, Werner 1924 births 1997 deaths 20th-century German male actors German male film actors German male television actors German male voice actors Male Spaghetti Western actors Actors from East Prussia People from Tilsit