For a long time Sieghardt Rupp as the epitome of a great villain. As grumpy “Tatort” -Ermittler and hoodlum in two Karl May movies of the Austrians in the sixties and seventies became famous.
Also internationally he could make a name with performances as a gangster in the famous Western ” For a few dollars”. After decades before the TV camera and on theater stages to Rupp pulled completely back from the public. Not even his death should reach the outside.
Sieghardt Rupp died already in July 2015
Almost a year remained his passing now secret. Already on July 20, 2015 died of native Bregenz in a hospital in Vienna. It was his last wish that no one should learn of his death. Only the research of the Austrian Film Archives for a retrospective on the 85th anniversary of the mime brought the truth to light.
Rupp, who had begun his career by training at the famous Max Reinhardt Seminar at the theater, was 84 years old. On the side of Horst Tappert and Fritz Wepper he finally became the TV icon. His distinctive voice and the angular face remained many today in memory.
“The organ builder of St. Mary”, “The Ranger Christl”, “girl for the Mambo Bar”
Women over he gave in front of the camera than most seductive charmer and daredevil: in his first film, “girl of the Mambo bar” (1959), he kissed his flame surprisingly at the zoo between parrot and stables. In his stripes it was ever for a romantic getaway in the straw. . The shirt happily far unbuttoned so that the chest hair and gold chain were seen around the neck well
Prior to joining the trade of crooks, he had many appearances in home movies: In “The organ builder of St. Marien “to Rupp presented as pastor and folk musician. Equipped with the guitar, he sang there once in idyllic countryside children a Königsjodler ago. Under the name Tommy Rupp he tried in the early sixties, first as a heartthrob, as in “The Ranger Christl”. He was also in “Heintje – A Heart’s journey” to see. In gender stereotypes but he did not press it.
In 1964, he moved to the strip “Among Vultures” finally in the western genre. International highlight of his career was the appearance as a villain under Sergio Leone in “A Fistful of Dollars” on the side of Clint Eastwood.
Besides Knef and Adorf in “Lulu”
successes he but about “the Last Temptation” with Louis de Funes, and war movies as well as in comedies, “Steiner – the Iron cross” won. In the literature “Lulu” he excelled alongside Hildegard Knef and Mario Adorf.
The final breakthrough in the German speaking he made in the early seventies with his own interpretation of the “crime scene”. ‘Customs investigators Kressin “he beat to talk with suspects, smoked, drove fast sports cars and seduced many good-looking women. Superiors he showed no respect, teamwork loner attached no importance. On his desk was the restless customs investigators, whose first name is unknown to this day, rarely. Viewers designated Rupp happy times as a “James Bond” of the “Tatort” series. His performance at that time to a true application wave that triggered the customs office.
After his “Tatort” Exit points followed further appearances in thrillers such as “Derrick”. Mainly, however, played Rupp then on Austrian stages, such as the Theater in der Josefstadt. On Reinhardt Seminar he taught students. For his portrayal of conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, he was awarded the Kainz Medal. The late nineties he withdrew completely from public life and lived deposited in Vienna
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