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name: "David Hurst"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 May 1926"
died: "15 September 2019"
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average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T05:20:11.930704+00:00"
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# David Hurst

Actor. Born 8 May 1926 in Berlin, Germany. Died 15 September 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 May 1926, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 15 September 2019
- **Also known as:** Heinrich Theodor Hirsch
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hurst, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403588/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16106

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Hello, Dolly!*](https://film.one/film/hello-dolly.md) (56)

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## Biography

David Hurst (born Heinrich Theodor Hirsch) was a German actor. He appeared in the 1969 film *Hello, Dolly!* as Rudolph Reisenweber.

Born in Berlin in 1926, Hurst grew up in a theatrical family and came to Britain as a child via the Kindertransport. He began his stage career in Belfast, where he adopted his professional name, and performed with ENSA during the Second World War. After a West End debut in 1948, he appeared in numerous British films of the 1950s before moving to the United States in 1957. There he worked extensively in theatre, receiving the Clarence Derwent Award in 1959 and an Obie Award in 1964, and took character roles in films including *Kelly's Heroes* (1970) and *The Boys from Brazil* (1978), as well as television series such as *Star Trek* (1966) and *Mission: Impossible* (1966). He also taught as a visiting professor at Yale, Boston University and Carnegie Mellon.

Hurst returned to Germany in the 1990s and collaborated with director George Tabori. He retired in 2000 and died in Berlin in 2019.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hello, Dolly!* (1969), Fi1m 56, as Rudolph Reisenweber — [page](https://film.one/film/hello-dolly.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Skokie* (1981), as Sol Goldstein
- *Nero Wolfe* (1979), as Fritz Benner
- *The Boys from Brazil* (1978), as Strasser
- *Child of Glass* (1978), as Jacques Dumaine
- *Quincy, M.E.* (1976), series, as Dr. Fred Webber
- *Charlie's Angels* (1976), series, as Stovich
- *Paradise Lost* (1971), as Schabel
- *Great Performances* (1971), series, as Schnable
- *Kelly's Heroes* (1970), as Col. Dunkhepf
- *McCloud* (1970), series, Actor
- *Hello, Dolly!* (1969), as Rudolph Reisenweber — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/hello-dolly.md)
- *The Mod Squad* (1968), series, Actor
- *How to Steal the World* (1968), as Dr. Jan Vanovech
- *To Die in Paris* (1968), as Pirot
- *Mannix* (1967), series, as Vladek
- *The Flying Nun* (1967), series, Actor
- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), series, as Victor Grigov, Dr. Oswald Beck — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/mission-impossible-1966.md)
- *The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.* (1966), series, as Matthew Brecker
- *The Monkees* (1966), series, as The Baron
- *Star Trek* (1966), series, as Ambassador Hodin — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-1966.md)
- *Hawk* (1966), series, Actor
- *The F.B.I.* (1965), series, as Alex Keeler
- *Run for Your Life* (1965), series, as Heinrich Kleist
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964), series, as Dr. Leland Mayes Elmont, Dr. Jan Vanovech
- *Quick, Let's Get Married* (1964), as Gustave
- *The Patty Duke Show* (1963), series, Actor
- *The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries* (1960), series, as Baron
- *Play of the Week* (1959), series, Actor
- *DuPont Show of the Month* (1957), series, as Mr. Stryver
- *After the Ball* (1957), as Perelli
- *Theatre Night* (1957), series, as The Colonel
- *All for Mary* (1955), as M. Victor
- *As Long as They're Happy* (1955), as Dr. Hermann Schneider
- *One Good Turn* (1955), as Professor Dofee
- *Mad About Men* (1954), as Signor Mantalini
- *River Beat* (1954), as Paddy Maclure
- *Always a Bride* (1953), as Beckstein
- *Rough Shoot* (1953), as Lex
- *Top Secret* (1952), as Deutsch
- *Venetian Bird* (1952), as Minelli
- *Mother Riley Meets the Vampire* (1952), as Mugsy
- *So Little Time* (1952), as Blumel
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, as Petrovini
- *Smart Alec* (1951), as Poppi
- *Soho Conspiracy* (1950), as Franco
- *The Perfect Woman* (1949), as Wolfgang Wilhelm Winkel II (Swiss waiter)
- *Kraft Television Theatre* (1947), series, as Arthur Crook

## Gallery

- ![David Hurst](https://film.one/media/person/1243830/gallery-90f55ab8c678.jpg) David Hurst — Unknown (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/The_Maltese_Bippy_%281969%29_still_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![David Hurst](https://film.one/media/person/1243830/gallery-4eff3041944f.jpg) David Hurst — Image via TMDB

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