Mario Adorf, the German-Italian actor who achieved legendary status in Europe by playing charismatic baddies in crime thrillers, spaghetti Westerns and dramas like the Oscar winner The Tin Drum, has died. He was 95.
Adorf, whose decades-long career stretched across genres and cinematic eras, died Wednesday at his home in Paris after a short illness, his agent announced.
His breakthrough came with a turn as a Nazi-era serial killer in Robert Siodmak’s Oscar-nominated thriller The Devil Strikes at Night (1957), and he would become a favorite of the directors of the New German Cinema movement of the 1960s and ’70s.
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He portrayed the father of Oscar Matzerath in Volker Schlöndorff‘s The Tin Drum (1979) and had supporting roles in Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder‘s Lola (1981).
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