Buddy Elias
| Height | 167 cm |
| Hair | Grey |
| Eyes | Brown |
| Languages | French perfect, English perfect, Italian fair |
| Accents | Swiss-german and Hessian |
| Training | Konservatorium Basel, Ernst Ginsberg, Zürich |
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Buddy Elias was born 1925 in Frankfurt am Main. He took acting lessons at the conservatory in Basel and completed his training with Ernst Ginsberg in Zürich. At the beginning of his career he played at various stages in Switzerland. He was the star comedian in HOLIDAY ON ICE from 1947 until 1961.Since 1962 Buddy Elias had permanent engagements at German and Swiss theatres, but also in England and France. At the Landestheater Tübingen he played Mephisto in URFAUST (1962) and the title part in MUSTERGATTE (1962). At the Comedy Basel he played from 1964-1968, e.g. the ballad singer in GALILEO GALILEI , Truffaldino in DIENER ZWEIER HERREN/ IL SERVITORE DI DUE PADRONI , the title part in DIE VENEZIANISCHEN ZWILLINGE/ I DUE GEMELLI VENEZIANI , Lorenzo in ROMEO AND JULIET , the title part in ARTURO UI , and Mosca in VOLPONE . Countless engagements followed at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, the Stadttheater Zürich, the Atelier-Theater Bern, the Hanse-Theater, the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen, the Nationaltheater Mannheim, the Freie Volksbühne Berlin, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, the Theater des Westens, the Hansa Theater and the Renaissance-Theater in Berlin, the Deutsches Theater in Munich and the Deutschen Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. He last played the role of Calchas in Herbert Wernicke's LA BELLE HELENE in Aix-en-Provence and at the Salzburg Festival, in DER STARKE STAMM (Marieluise Fleißer/director: Thomas Ostermeier) in Munich and in his home town Basel at the Theater Fauteuil.
Since 1972 Buddy Elias has participated in almost 80 film and television productions, e.g.:
1972 GUN BEFORE BUTTER , director Peter Zadek
1975 VRANEK IST AN ALLEM SCHULD , director Ulrich Stark
1976 THE MAGICIAN ,director Menachem Golan
1977 MULLIGANS RÜCKKEHR , director Helmut Käutner
1978 DAVID , director Peter Lilienthal
1980 WIE DER MOND ÜBER FEUER UND BLUT , director Axel
Corti
1981 DER ZAUBERBERG/ THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN , director Hans
Geissendörfer
1983 DER FALL OPPENHEIMER , director Rainer Wolffhardt
1983 DAS TRAUMSCHIFF , director Alfred Vohrer
1984 EMIGRANTEN/ EMMIGRANTS , director Axel Corti
1986 LA VISITE CHEZ LE PRINCE , director Serge Korber
1987 DIE SCHWARZWALDKLINIK/ THE BLACK FORREST CLINIC ,
director Hans-Jürgen Tögel
1990 BRONSTEINS KINDER/ BRONSTEIN'S CHILDREN , director
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
1991/92 MIT LEIB UND SEELE , director Peter Deutsch
1992 GLÜCKLICHE REISE , director Hermann Leitner
1992 SOKO 5113 , director Kai Borsche
1993 DIE BOTSCHAFTERIN , director Peter Deutsch
1993 WOLFFS REVIER/ WOLFF'S TURF , director Michael Lähn
1994 MUTTER COURAGE/ MY MOTHERS COURAGE , director
Michael Verhoeven
1997 SHALOM DEUTSCHLAND , director Josef Rödel
1997 TOTALSCHADEN (CRASH) , director Thorsten
Näter
1998 SUNSHINE / SONNENSCHEIN , director Istvan Szabo
1998 STAN BECKER - ECHTE FREUNDE , director Kaspar
Heidelbach
1999 ST ANGELA , director Egon Monk
2000 NOBEL , director Fabio Carpi
2001 DER VERLEGER/ THE PUBLISHER, director Bernd Böhlich
2002 DIE LIEBE IN GEDANKEN/ THE LOVE IN THOUGHTS ,
director Achim von Bories.
2003 BELLA BLOCK - HINTER DEN SPIEGELN , director:
Thorsten Näter
2003 MIT DEINEN AUGEN , director: Karl Kasis
2004 DIE WAHRHEIT DES DIETER D. , director: Barbara Politsch
2004 TOD EINER ÄRZTIN , director: Markus Fischer
2004 PROPAGANDA , director: Horst Königstein
2004 JETZT ERST RECHT , director: Andi Niessner
2005 GG 19 - EPISODENFILM ZUM GRUNDGESETZ, ART. 8 ,
director: Mira Thiel
2006 SAMI , director: Mehdi Benhadji-Djilali
Buddy Elias lives in Basel. A cousin of Anne Frank, he is her last living relative and presides the "Anne Frank-Foundation".