Actor
Loriot
Born November 12, 1923 in Brandenburg, Germany
Died August 22, 201117 films
Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow (12 November 1923 – 22 August 2011), known as Vicco von Bülow or Loriot was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer. As an artist, he was almost exclusively known under his pen name Loriot, which is the French term for the bird oriole depicted as a crest in the coat of arms of the Bülow family.
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He was best known for his cartoons, the television series Loriot (1976-78) and his two movies, Ödipussi (1988) and Pappa Ante Portas (1991). On the television series Unsere Besten (Our Best), Loriot was ranked the 54th best German ever. In a special comedy episode of Unsere Besten, he was ranked as the most famous German comedian ever.
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First watchThe Longest Day19627.6as Pemsel's Adjutant (uncredited)The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of…View filmEssential films
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Filmography
17 films as actor- 2023Loriot's Great Cartoon RevueVarious (Voice)
- 2003Leonard Bernstein: CandideNarrator
- 1997Christmas at HoppenstedtsOpa Hoppenstedt
- 1991Pappa ante PortasHeinrich Lohse
- 1989Otto – The Alien from East FrisiaPaul Winkelmann
- 1988Loriot's 65th Birthday
- 1988ÖdipussiPaul Winkelmann
- 1987Evelyn and the MenKlaus-Günther Bröse
- 1983Loriot's 60th Birthday
- 1981Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?Walter, der Göttliche
- 1979Another OperaOpera critic
- 1974Loriots TelecabinetGastgeber / Viktor Schmoller / Herr Blühmel / Herr Pochlow, Cellist (as Loriot)
- 1962The Longest DayPemsel's Adjutant (uncredited)
- 1961The Miracle of Father MalachiaKauziger Professor
- 1959The BridgeStabsweldfebel
- 1957Sharks and Little FishMatrose
- 1940Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a GeniusPage at the Court of Duke Karl Eugen