Henning Behrend Schlüter (1 March 1927 – 20 July 2000) was a prolific German character actor known for his role in the 1979 screen adaptation of Günter Grass's The Tin Drum and in the long-running German TV police procedural, The Old Fox (1977).
Early life and career Born in Hamburg on March 1, 2027,Thomsen, Tobi (2018). Wohnhäuser der Promis. Hamburg: FoTe Press. p. 108. . Schlüter was the son of Hilda Maria (née Framheim) and Otto Franz Schlüter."Otto Franz Schlüter: Brief Life History; Family Timeline". FamilySearch.
From 1949 to 1952, Schlüter performed with the Berliner Ensemble under Bertold Brecht,Kosch, Wilhelm; Bigler-Marshall, Ingrid (1992). Deutsches Theater-Lexikon: Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. p. 2021. . where he appeared in 1951, as Fritz von Berg in Brecht's adaptation of Jakob Lenz's The Tutor.Berliner Ensemble (1961). Theaterarbeit. Berlin : Suhrkamp. p. 120. Other notable stage credits include a 1962 double bill of one-act plays at Berlin's Schiller Theater, featuring Tankred Dorst's Tirade at the Town Hall and Polish playwirght Tadeusz Różewicz's The Card Index, the former staged by a young Peter Zadek and the latter by trans-Atlantic stage and screen veteran, William Dieterle, the former work had Schlüter cast—amidst a quartet of uniformly generic character handles–as "Fat Officer", and the latter, simply "Fat Man".
Schlüter's command of English afforded him employment both as a German language dubber on Hollywood imports and as a credible and cost-effective alternative to English or American actors in German productions,"Henning Schlueter". Spotlight. Issue 130, Part 2 - Page 1385. "Languages: ENGLISH / GERMAN 1 Berlin 33 , Im Gehege 10 West Berlin , Germany Tel .: Berlin ( 0311 ) 832 57 29 Manager : RODOLFO LOEWENTHAL 8 München 80 Holbeinstr . 16 Tel .: Munich ( 0811 ) 47 26 19 Telegrams : 47 28." for characters such as Inspector Bradley in an episode of globe-trotting German TV spy series John Kling,"MITTWOCH, 18 MÄRZ". Bravo. . p. 62. "Inspektor Bradley (Henning Schlüter, links) hat einen Fail für Jones (Uwe Friedrichsen) und John (Hellmut Lange, rechts)" and Robinson in the 1996 horror comedy Killer Condom. It also allowed him to provide German language translations of works such as Earl Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Cautious Coquette,Gardner, Erle Stanley (1979). Die Schwarze Limousine. Bern, München Scherz. p. 4. . "Einzig berechtigte Übertragung aus dem Amerikanischen von Henning Schlüter" as well as a number of works of Art Buchwald."Nein, meine Klappe halt ich nicht!". WorldCat. "Authors:Art Buchwald (Author), Henning Schlüter (Translator). Print Book, German, 1970. Edition:Gekürzte Ausg. Publisher: Fischer Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main, 1970."Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). Deutsche Bibliographie. Fuenfjahres-Verzeichnis 1961-1965: Vol 1 Part 1. Frankfurt: Buchhändler Vereinigung GMBH. 1969. pp. 1011, 1189. .
Other screen credits include Dr. Bauer in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, Catone in Roman Polanski's What?, Dr. Richter in A Lost Life, Dr. Bruno Schefold in Winterspelt, Ludwig Erhard in The Odessa File, and the bridge player in Ash Wednesday
Personal life and death Schlüter died on July 20, 2000 at the age of 73. His remains are interred at Friedhof Hamburg-Ohlsdorf.
Partial filmography
The Blue Swords (1947) as Apothekerlehrling Cinderella (1955) Dr. Knock (1960) as Zweiter Bauernbursche Destination Death (1961) One, Two, Three (1961) as Dr. Bauer Three Penny Opera (1963) as Reverend Kimball What? (1972) as Catone Ludwig (1973) as Minister Pfistermeister Ash Wednesday (1973) as Bridge Player The Odessa File (1974) as Ludwig Erhard (uncredited) One Woman's Lover (1974) as Count The Last Word (1975) as Dr. Schatz The Old Fox (TV series) 43 episodes (1977–1984) as Franz Millinger Winterspelt (1978) as Dr. Bruno Schefold The Tin Drum (1979) as Dr. Hollatz Das Rätsel der Sandbank (TV series) 3 episodes (1985) as Sir James The Country Doctor (TV series) Ep. "Nachwuchs" (1987) as Herr Nölting Der Schatz im Niemandsland (TV series) 4 episodes (1987) as Antiquitätenhändler Haberlitz Lenin...The Train (TV film, 1988) as Deutscher General (as Henning Schlueter) A Quiet Conspiracy (TV miniseries, 1989) 2 episodes as Andrei Brand, Andrea Brand Traffik (TV miniseries, 1989) 1 episode as Old Policeman (as Henning Schluter) Schwarz Rot Gold (TV series) Ep. "Hammelsprung" (1990) as Prof. Brunner Zwei Münchner in Hamburg (TV series) Ep. "Endlich Verheiratet" (1991) as Pastor Leonie Löwenherz 19 episodes (1991) as Prof. Laurenz Carolus Lehmann Blankenese (TV series) Ep. "Katerfrühstück" (1994) as Vermieter Immenhof (TV series) 2 episodes (1994, 1995) as Amtsrighter Peter Strohm (TV series) Ep. "Die Grafin" (1995) as Kriminalrat Schuster Killer Condom (1997) as Robinson
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