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Horst Buchholz
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Horst Buchholz has been an active as a conductor, organist, and lecturer in the United States, Japan, Korea, Mexico, and throughout Europe . He has performed on some of the most famous organs in the world. He was a guest conductor with the Boulder Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony, the Sinfonia of Colorado, Central City Opera, the Akron Symphony, and other orchestras. He performed in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls, as well as for e United Nations in Vienna. He appeared on German National Television, the Korean TV, National Public Radio, the American AFN, and the British BBC. In the summer of 2000 Dr. Buchholz had his conducting debut in Salzburg during the International Summer Festival and has returned to Salzburg annually as conductor and organist. Future engagements include organ solo recitals at the Cathedrals of Berlin and Passa, Germany, as well as at the Winspear Center in Edmonton, Canada.
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Horst Buchholz is a young polish born sailor just returning home in England. Tired of waiting for him, his girl-friend has moved and has become the mistress of Anthony Dawson. In an access of jealousy, Buchholz killed her with Dawson's gun left in a drawer. Only Gillie, an 11 years old orphan girl, has witnessed the murder through the door's letterbox. She's fascinated with the gun and steals it from a scared Buchholz hidden in the building. Soon Buchholz recovers and finds Gillie.
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Born the son of a shoemaker in Berlin in 1933, Horst Buchholz became the first German screen actor accepted outside Germany after the war. At 15 he landed his first role in a Berlin theatre and his breakthrough came in 1956 as a wavy-haired rebel in DIE HALBSTARKEN (The Hooligans), soon to be dubbed the James Dean of Germany. In the sixties his career took him abroad to Hollywood, France, Spain, Italy and Britain where he worked with such directors as Billy Wilder, John Sturges and Wim Wenders. He ... worked with actors as Romy Schneider, Heinz Rühmann, Peter Falk, Hildegard Knef and Mario Adorf. His last major role was in Roberto Benigni’s LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
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Horst Buchholz received his early musical training in a boys choir in his native Germany and started conducting at age 16. When he was 21 years old, he had his Berlin Philharmonic debut as organ soloist, and shortly thereafter he founded the Berlin Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Buchholz holds two terminal degrees, one in Church Music from the University of Arts in Berlin, and one in Orchestral Conducting from Indiana University in Bloomington. His organ teachers were Heinz Lohmann, Peter Wackwitz, and Rudolf Heinemann. As an as-sistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Chorus he had the opportunity to work with and learn from such eminent maestros as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, and Herbert von Karajan.
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Christopher Buchholz, the son of German actor Horst Buchholz (The Magnificent Seven) and French actress Myriam Bru, was born in Los Angeles, and has gone on to an international career as an actor. In his earliest films, he used the last name Rhode, his grandfather’s surname.
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Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of a shoemaker. His paternal grandparents were German immigrants from New Jersey and his maternal grandparents were from Denmark. Records show his father's family were originally named Rosenholz when they arrived in Germany 1903. During World War II he was evacuated to Silesia and at the end of the war found himself in a foster home in Czechoslovakia. He returned to Berlin as soon as he could. He barely finished his schooling before seeking theatre work, first appearing on stage in 1949.
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