Gerard Heinz

Gerard Heinz (born Gerhard Hinze; 2 January 1904 – 20 November 1972) was a German actor.

Gerard Heinz
Heinz in an episode of One Step Beyond (1961)
Born	(1904-01-02)2 January 1904 Hamburg, German Empire
Died	20 November 1972(1972-11-20) (aged 68) London, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1942–1972 (film & TV)

Heinz was born in Hamburg, Germany and later moved to Britain, where he changed his name and became a British citizen. He appeared in almost 60 films (including Caravan), and a number of stage productions. In the original 1942 production of Terence Rattigan's Flare Path, he played Count Skriczevinsky, a Polish pilot serving with the RAF in World War II.^[1]

A relationship with Joan Rodker, daughter of the modernist poet John Rodker, resulted in the birth of a son, Ernest, in Odessa in 1937.^[2] After their separation, Heinz married the actress Mary Kenton. They played respectively Mr. and Mrs. Serafin in the 1961 episode "Washday S.O.S." of the TV series The Cheaters.^[3] They also performed together in the TV series The Sullavan Brothers,^[4] and in the ITC crime drama series The Four Just Men,^[5] and a number of other films.

Filmography

• Thunder Rock (1942) – Hans Harma (uncredited)
• Went the Day Well? (1942) – Schmidt (uncredited)
• English Without Tears (1944) – Polish Officer
• Caravan (1946) – Don Carlos
• Frieda (1947) – Polish Priest
• The First Gentleman (1948) – Dr. Stockmar
• Broken Journey (1948) – Joseph Romer
• The Fallen Idol (1948) – Ambassador
• Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) – Ambassador
• Portrait from Life (1948) – Heine
• That Dangerous Age (1949) – Dr. Thorvald
• The Bad Lord Byron (1949) – Austrian Officer
• The Lost People (1949) – Professor
• State Secret (1950) – Tomasi Bendel
• The Clouded Yellow (1950) – Dr. Karl Cesare
• Traveller's Joy (1950) – Helstrom
• White Corridors (1951) – Dr. Macuzek
• His Excellency (1952) – Prime Minister
• Private Information (1952) – Alex Hartmann
• Top Secret (1952) – Russian Director of Plant
• Desperate Moment (1953) – German Prison Doctor
• The Cruel Sea (1953) – Polish Captain
• The Prisoner (1955) – The Doctor
• You Pay Your Money (1957) – Dr. Burger
• Seven Thunders (1957) – Von Kronitz
• The Mark of the Hawk (1957) – Governor General
• The Man Inside (1958) – Robert Stone
• The House of the Seven Hawks (1959) – Inspector Sluiter
• I Aim at the Stars (1960) – Professor Oberth
• Offbeat (1961) – Jake
• Highway to Battle (1961) – Constantin
• The Guns of Navarone (1961) – German Surgeon (uncredited)
• Operation Snatch (1962) – Col. Waldock
• Mystery Submarine (1963) – German Admiral
• Boy with a Flute (1964)
• Operation Crossbow (1965) – German Officer (uncredited)
• Devils of Darkness (1965) – Bouvier
• The Heroes of Telemark (1965) – Enhardt
• The Projected Man (1966) – Prof. Lembach
• Where the Bullets Fly (1966) – Venstram
• The Dirty Dozen (1967) – Card-Playing German Officer (uncredited)
• Venom (aka The Legend of Spider Forest) (1971) – Huber