---
name: "Rudolf Lenz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rudolf-lenz"
fi1m_id: "rudolf-lenz"
imdb_id: "nm0502361"
tmdb_id: 10624
wikidata_id: "Q87911"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 May 1920"
died: "12 July 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:01:29.674927+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."
---

# Rudolf Lenz

## Identity

Rudolf Lenz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rudolf-lenz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rudolf-lenz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0502361
- **TMDB ID:** 10624
- **Wikidata ID:** Q87911
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Lenz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87911, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502361/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10624

Actor. Born 25 May 1920 in Graz, Austria. Died 12 July 1987.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 May 1920, Graz, Austria
- **Died:** 12 July 1987
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Lenz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87911, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502361/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10624

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Fox and His Friends*](https://film.one/film/fox-and-his-friends.md) (78)

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## Biography

Rudolf Lenz was an Austrian actor. Born in Graz, he studied engineering and served as a naval engineer during the Second World War before entering the theatre after 1945. He made his stage debut in 1950 at the municipal theatres in Graz and later worked in Klagenfurt and at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.

Lenz became known in the 1950s for leading roles in Heimatfilme, beginning with *Der Förster vom Silberwald* (1954). In the 1970s and early 1980s he appeared in several films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including *World on a Wire* (1973), *Martha* (1974), *Effi Briest* (1974), *Fox and His Friends* (1975) as Attorney Dr. Siebenkäss, and *Lili Marleen* (1981). He died in 1987.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fox and His Friends* (1975), Fi1m 78, as Attorney Dr. Siebenkäss — [page](https://film.one/film/fox-and-his-friends.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

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

- *The Roaring Fifties* (1983), as Sir Derek
- *Herbstromanze* (1981), as Benno von Caldern
- *Lili Marleen* (1981), as Dr. Glaubrecht
- *Die Farbe des Himmels* (1979), as Baron Truchsess
- *Eichholz & Söhne* (1977), series, as Grevenhagen jr.
- *Bitte keine Polizei* (1975), series, as Winterberg
- *Fox and His Friends* (1975), as Attorney Dr. Siebenkäss — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/fox-and-his-friends.md)
- *Effi Briest* (1974), as Geheimrat Rummschüttel
- *Martha* (1974), as Porter
- *World on a Wire* (1973), series, as Hartmann
- *Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day* (1972), series, as Vermieter Mattes
- *Adele Spitzeder* (1972), as Polizeipräsident
- *The Ancestress* (1971), as der Graf
- *Gestern gelesen* (1969), series, as Baron Krody
- *Reiterattacke* (1968), as Graf Coronini
- *Der vielgeliebte Herr Brotonneau* (1968), as von Berville
- *Das Attentat - Der Tod des Engelbert Dollfuß* (1967), as Schuschnigg
- *Der Fall Bohr* (1966), as Commissär Felsenthal
- *The Battle of the Mods* (1966), as Capt. Landers
- *Ein Engel namens Schmitt* (1964), as Dr. Zoll
- *Annoncentheater* (1962), as Rinaldo Rinaldi
- *Du holde Kunst - Szenen um Lieder von Franz Schubert* (1961), Actor
- *Heimweh nach dir, mein grünes Tal* (1960), as Andreas Liebmann
- *The Songs of Your Home* (1959), as Paul Werner
- *The Priest and the Girl* (1958), as Stefan von Steinegg
- *Einmal noch die Heimat seh’n* (1958), as Michael
- *Das Posthaus im Schwarzwald* (1958), as Prinz Georg von Baden Werrach
- *Heimatlos* (1958), as Franz Leitner
- *Der Wilderer vom Silberwald* (1957), as Christian Pachegg
- *Der Edelweißkönig* (1957), as Ferdi
- *Der Jäger von Fall* (1957), as Friedl
- *Försterliesel* (1956), as Tony
- *Liebe, Schnee und Sonnenschein* (1956), as Paul Fehling, Bildreporter
- *.. und wer küsst mich?* (1956), as Rudolf Herbst
- *Die Sennerin von St. Kathrein* (1955), as Martin
- *Das Schweigen im Walde* (1955), as Fürst Heinz von Ettingen
- *The Story of Vickie* (1954), as Archduke Alexander of Russia
- *The Forester of the Silver Wood* (1954), as Hubert Gerold
- *Der erste Kuß* (1954), Actor
- *Der schweigende Mund* (1951), as Bräutigam
- *Witches* (1949), Actor

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