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Article: Obituary: Heinz Ruhmann
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 7, 1994
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Heinrich Wilhelm (Heinz) Ruhmann, actor and director; born Essen
7 March 1902; married 1924 Maria Bernheim (marriage dissolved
1938), 1939 Hertha Feiler (died 1970), 1974 Hertha Droemer-
Wohlberger; died Starnberger See, Germany 4 October 1994.
ALTHOUGH a comic institution in his native Germany on a par with
Fernandel in France (with whom he co-starred in La Bourse et la
Vie, 1965) and star of over 100 films, Heinz Ruhmann will be
familiar to most English-speaking audiences largely through his
appearance in Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools (1965), from Katherine
Anne Porter's best-seller of life aboard a Germany-bound ocean
liner in 1933. Ruhmann plays the lovable Jewish passenger: "There
are ...