Harry Riebauer

Harry Riebauer (4 July 1921 – 8 November 1999) was a German film and television actor.^[1]

Harry Riebauer
Born	(1921-07-04)4 July 1921 Liberec, Czechoslovakia
Died	8 November 1999(1999-11-08) (aged 78) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1950–1990

Riebauer was born in Reichenberg (Liberec, Czechoslovakia) in a Sudetengerman family.

Active in acting from 1950 through 1990, one of his many roles was appearing as Sgt. Strachwitz in the film The Great Escape (1963).^[2] He was noted for his tall stature, standing 1.94 metres (6 ft 4 in).

He died in Berlin, Germany, at age 78.^[1]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1950	The Benthin Family
1951	Der Untertan		Uncredited
1952	The Condemned Village	Amerikanischer Militärpolizist
1953	Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck	Laeufer Murad
1954	Stärker als die Nacht
1955	Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse [de]	Leutnant Meyer
1956	The Captain from Cologne	Oberleutnant Kilian
1961	Les arrivistes	Max Gillet
1961	The Dress	Der Tünne
1962	Jeder stirbt für sich allein	Ministerialrat Dr. Sommer
1963	The Great Escape	Sgt. Strachwitz
1963	The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle	Inspector Jeff Mitchell
1963	The Mad Executioners [de]	Dr. Philip Trooper
1963	Es war mir ein Vergnügen [de]
1964	Ein Frauenarzt klagt an [de]	Dr. Niemeyer, Prosecutor
1964	Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas	Sheriff
1964	The Seventh Victim	Dr. Howard Trent
1965	Mädchen hinter Gittern	Frank Albin
1966	Soleil noir	Herman
1967	Die blaue Hand	Mr. Snobbits	Uncredited
1967	The Monk with the Whip	Mark Denver
1968	Death in the Red Jaguar	Steve Dilaggio
1969	The Man with the Glass Eye	Bob
1969	The Swingin' Pussycats [de]	Conte di Casagrande
1970	Die liebestollen Baronessen	Dr. Oscar Fummler
1971	The Body in the Thames	Milton S. Farnborough
1981	Possession	Man at the conference	Uncredited
1985	Morenga	v. Estorff
1990	Non-Stop Trouble in the Hospital [de]	Herr Keil	(final film role)