--- name: "Helmut Griem" canonical: "https://film.one/person/helmut-griem" roles: ["Actor"] born: "6 April 1932" died: "19 November 2004" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-20T05:38:04.778943+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." --- # Helmut Griem Actor. Born 6 April 1932 in Hamburg, Germany. Died 19 November 2004. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 6 April 1932, Hamburg, Germany - **Died:** 19 November 2004 - **Also known as:** Хельмут Грим - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Griem, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63523, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340926/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32059 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Cabaret*](https://film.one/film/cabaret.md) (88) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Helmut Griem was a German stage, film and television actor and theatre director. Born in Hamburg, he trained in literature and philosophy before beginning his career in cabaret and amateur theatre, later appearing at the Thalia Theater and Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich. He became known internationally for his film roles, notably as the SS officer Aschenbach in Luchino Visconti's *The Damned* (1969), the Baron Maximilian von Heune in Bob Fosse's *Cabaret* (1972), Count Dürckheim in Visconti's *Ludwig* (1973) and Lieutenant Simeon in *The Desert of the Tartars* (1976). Other credits include *Voyage of the Damned* (1976) and the television mini-series *Peter the Great* (1986) as Alexander Menshikov. Griem also directed stage productions, including Eugene O'Neill's *Long Day's Journey Into Night*. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de, thetimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Cabaret* (1972), Fi1m 88, as Maximilian von Heune — [page](https://film.one/film/cabaret.md) ## Complete filmography (74) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Liebe auf Bewährung* (2004), as Albert Tieck - *Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften* (2002), series, as Maximilian Fox - *Tides of Change* (2001), series, as Colonnello Greisberg - *Amokfahrt zum Pazifik* (2001), as Oscar - *Der Mörder in dir* (2000), as Günther Lehmann - *Lourdes* (2000), as Auguste La Fontaine - *The Hour of the Lion* (1999), as Professor Winterfeld - *SK Kölsch* (1999), series, as Willi Haller - *Der letzte Zeuge* (1998), series, as Karl Axer - *Koerbers Akte: Tödliches Ultimatum* (1997), as Romulka - *The Lost Daughter* (1997), as Rolf Sutter - *Der gefälschte Sommer* (1996), as Stefan Hansen - *Die Grube* (1995), as Helmuth Groscurth - *Burning Heart* (1995), as Gustav Regler - *Missus* (1994), as Monsignor Kastner - *Missus* (1994), series, as Monsignor Kastner - *1945* (1994), as Public prosecutor - *Charlemagne, le prince à cheval* (1994), series, as Widukind - *Verlassen sie bitte ihren Mann* (1993), as Pertussini - *Detective Extralarge* (1991), series, Actor - *Hard Days, Hard Nights* (1990), as Kronschneider - *Shooting Stars* (1990), as Gutke - *The Plot to Kill Hitler* (1990), as Erwin Rommel - *A proposito di quella strana ragazza* (1989), as Ugo - *Faust - Vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle* (1988), as Dr. Heinrich Faust - *Anwalt Abel* (1988), series, as Senftleben - *The Second Victory* (1987), as Karl Fischer - *Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich* (1986), as Carl Gustav Carus - *Peter the Great* (1986), series, as Alexander Menshikov - *The Devil's Lieutenant* (1984), as Judge Advocate Kunze - *Elective Affinities* (1983), as Edouard Otto - *The Passerby* (1982), as Michel Wiener - *The Original Trap* (1982), series, as Benno - *The Magic Mountain* (1982), as James Tienappel - *Versuchung* (1982), as Ludwig - *Das Traumschiff* (1981), series, as Herbert Ernst - *Sting in the Flesh* (1981), as Hans - *Malou* (1981), Actor - *Ludwig* (1981), series, as Dürckheim - *Berlin Alexanderplatz* (1980), series, as Sarug - *Put on Ice* (1980), as Brasch - *Landläufiger Tod* (1980), Actor - *The Hamburg Syndrome* (1979), as Sebastian - *Tales of the Unexpected* (1979), series, as Alois - *Breakthrough* (1979), as Major Stransky - *The Meetings of Anna* (1978), as Heinrich Schneider - *Black Sun* (1978), as Willi Mohr - *The Glass Cell* (1978), as Phillip Braun - *Germany in Autumn* (1978), as TV-Redakteur - *Voyage of the Damned* (1976), as Otto Schiendick - *The Desert of the Tartars* (1976), as Lieutenant Simeon - *The Clown* (1976), as Hans Schnier - *Es fängt ganz harmlos an* (1975), as Dieter Schwarz - *Children of Rage* (1975), as Dr. David Shalom - *Ludwig* (1973), as Dürckheim - *The Morals of Ruth Halbfass* (1972), as Franz Vogelsang - *Cabaret* (1972), as Maximilian von Heune — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/cabaret.md) - *The McKenzie Break* (1970), as Kapitänleutnant Willi Schlueter - *The Damned* (1969), as Aschenbach - *Bel Ami* (1968), as Georges Duroy - *Blick von der Brücke* (1967), as Rodolfo - *Liebe für Liebe* (1967), as Valentine - *Die Ballade von Peckham Rye* (1966), as Trevor Lomas - *Antigone* (1965), as Hämon - *Christinas Heimreise* (1965), as Florindo - *Don Carlos - Infant von Spanien* (1963), as Don Carlos - *Because, Because of a Woman* (1963), as Johann Muller - *East Zone, West Zone* (1962), as Hans - *Barbara - Wild wie das Meer* (1961), as Paul - *Girl from Hong Kong* (1961), as Glenn Dierks - *Fabrik der Offiziere* (1960), as Oberleutnant Krafft - *Zum Geburtstag* (1960), as Gabe Darcy - *Der zerbrochene Krug* (1959), Actor - *Die Brüder* (1958), as Jean Roland ## Gallery - ![Helmut Griem](https://film.one/media/person/1244401/gallery-fe71565d7937.jpg) Helmut Griem — Eiramesor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Helmut_Griem%2C_1955_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Helmut Griem](https://film.one/media/person/1244401/gallery-c7cabe550fc9.jpg) Helmut Griem — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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