---
name: "Hardy Krüger"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hardy-kruger"
fi1m_id: "hardy-kruger"
imdb_id: "nm0473228"
tmdb_id: 37777
wikidata_id: "Q77342"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 April 1928"
died: "19 January 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:32:19.927739+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hardy Krüger

## Identity

Hardy Krüger

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hardy-kruger
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hardy-kruger
- **IMDb ID:** nm0473228
- **TMDB ID:** 37777
- **Wikidata ID:** Q77342
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Kr%C3%BCger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77342, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473228/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37777

Actor. Born 12 April 1928 in Berlin, Germany. Died 19 January 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 April 1928, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 19 January 2022
- **Also known as:** Харди Крюгер
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Kr%C3%BCger, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77342, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473228/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/37777

## Biography

Hardy Krüger was a German actor who appeared in more than sixty films from 1944 onwards. Born Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger in Berlin, he began his career in German cinema before gaining international recognition in the 1950s.

He is known for roles in *Hatari!* (1962), *Sundays and Cybèle* (1962), *The Flight of the Phoenix* (1965), *Barry Lyndon* (1975) as Captain Potzdorf, *A Bridge Too Far* (1977) and *The Wild Geese* (1978). Krüger worked in British, French and American productions as well as German films, and continued acting into the 2010s.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com, bfi.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Barry Lyndon* (1975), Fi1m 85, as Captain Potzdorf — [page](https://film.one/film/barry-lyndon.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

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

- *Familiengeheimnisse - Liebe, Schuld und Tod* (2011), as Victor Frey
- *Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker* (1991), as actor (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *War and Remembrance* (1988), series, as Erwin Rommel
- *The Inside Man* (1984), as Mandell
- *Wrong Is Right* (1982), as Helmut Unger
- *Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung* (1982), as Harms
- *Blue Fin* (1978), as Bill Pascoe
- *The Wild Geese* (1978), as Lt. Pieter Coetze
- *A Bridge Too Far* (1977), as Generalmajor der Waffen-SS Karl Ludwig
- *To Each His Hell* (1977), as Commissaire Bolar
- *The Spy Who Never Was* (1976), as Arthur Hersfeld
- *Montana Trap* (1976), as Potato Fritz
- *Barry Lyndon* (1975), as Captain Potzdorf — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/barry-lyndon.md)
- *Paper Tiger* (1975), as Müller
- *Le Solitaire* (1973), as Eric Lambrecht
- *What the Peeper Saw* (1972), as Paul
- *Das Messer* (1971), series, as Jim Ellis
- *The Secret of Santa Vittoria* (1970), as Capt. von Prum
- *The Red Tent* (1969), as Einar Lundborg
- *The Battle of Neretva* (1969), as Oberst Krenzer
- *The Lady of Monza* (1969), as Pater Paolo Arrigone
- *Franciscan of Bourges* (1968), as Alfred Stanke
- *The Big Grasshopper* (1967), as Carl
- *The Defector* (1966), as Counselor Peter Heinzmann
- *The Flight of the Phoenix* (1965), as Heinrich Dorfmann
- *Song of the World* (1965), as Antonio
- *The Uninhibited* (1965), as Vincent
- *The Big Hit* (1964), as Frank Willes
- *Death and the Lumberjack* (1963), as El Rubio
- *The Four Truths* (1962), as El rubio (segment "La mort et le bûcheron")
- *Sundays and Cybele* (1962), as Pierre
- *Hatari!* (1962), as Kurt Muller
- *The Dream of Lieschen Müller* (1961), as Autograph hunter
- *Liane, Daughter of the Jungle* (1961), as Thoren
- *Two Among Millions* (1961), as Karl genannt Kalle · Producer
- *Taxi for Tobruk* (1961), as Le capitaine Ludwig von Stegel
- *Bumerang* (1960), as Robert Wegner
- *Without Trumpet or Drum* (1959), as Fritz Brösicke
- *Blind Date* (1959), as Jan-Van Rooyer
- *The Rest Is Silence* (1959), as John H. Claudius
- *Bachelor of Hearts* (1958), as Wolf Hauser
- *Confess, Dr. Corda* (1958), as Dr. Fred Corda
- *Bank Vault 713* (1958), as Klaus Burkhardt, sein Bruder
- *The One That Got Away* (1957), as Franz von Werra
- *The Fox of Paris* (1957), as Capt. Fürstenwerth
- *Die Christel von der Post* (1956), as Horst Arndt
- *Liane, Jungle Goddess* (1956), as Thoren
- *Alibi* (1955), as Harald Meinhardt
- *Der Himmel ist nie ausverkauft* (1955), as Michael
- *An der schönen blauen Donau* (1955), as König Richard
- *Der letzte Sommer* (1954), as Rikola Valbo
- *The Girl on The Roof* (1953), as Donald Gresham
- *Ich und Du* (1953), as Peter Erdmann
- *Muss man sich gleich scheiden lassen?* (1953), as Andreas von Doerr
- *As Long as You're Near Me* (1953), as Stefan Berger
- *The Moon Is Blue* (1953), as Tourist (uncredited)
- *Illusion in Moll* (1952), as Paul Alsbacher
- *I Can't Marry Everyone* (1952), as Edi
- *My Name is Niki* (1952), as Paul
- *Mein Freund, der Dieb* (1951), as Bimbo
- *Schön muß man sein* (1951), as Juppi Holunder Jr.
- *Insel ohne Moral* (1950), as Manfred
- *Das Mädchen aus der Südsee* (1950), as Richard Kirbach
- *Das Fräulein und der Vagabund* (1949), as Karl
- *Kätchen für alles* (1949), as Schuspielschüler
- *Diese Nacht vergess ich nie* (1949), as Eugen Schröter
- *Junge Adler* (1944), as Bäumchen

## Gallery

- ![Hardy Krüger](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-7c02a2e8c8e6.jpg) Hardy Krüger — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Oliver_Mark_-_Hardy_Kr%C3%BCger%2C_Berlin_2001.jpg/1280px-Oliver_Mark_-_Hardy_Kr%C3%BCger%2C_Berlin_2001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-27652130826e.jpg) Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014) — Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0643.jpg/1280px-Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0643.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-9703963fa2ef.jpg) Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014) — Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0644.jpg/1280px-Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0644.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-71eee023b22a.jpg) Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014) — Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0647.jpg/1280px-Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0647.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hardy Krüger](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-22347c152214.jpg) Hardy Krüger — Image via TMDB
- ![Hardy Krüger](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-d2c0e032df00.jpg) Hardy Krüger — Image via TMDB
- ![Hardy Krüger](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-00603061d0a6.jpg) Hardy Krüger — Image via TMDB
- ![Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-91d79f6c4833.jpg) Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014) — Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0647_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0647_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-d53bf846e649.jpg) Birlikte - Kundgebung - Schweigeminute (2014) — Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0648.jpg/1280px-Birlikte_-_Kundgebung_-_1550_-_Schweigeminute-0648.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hardy Krüger](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-52ccb30a8073.jpg) Hardy Krüger — Image via TMDB
- ![Hardy Krüger](https://film.one/media/person/106229/gallery-3a59b21394b2.jpg) Hardy Krüger — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2009: Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (won)
- Knight of the Legion of Honour 2001: Knight of the Legion of Honour (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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