---
name: "Rudolf Melichar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rudolf-melichar"
fi1m_id: "rudolf-melichar"
imdb_id: "nm0577722"
tmdb_id: 1324140
wikidata_id: "Q2173424"
roles: []
born: "22 June 1929"
died: "2 October 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:24:43.633420+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 Melichar

## Identity

Rudolf Melichar

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rudolf-melichar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rudolf-melichar
- **IMDb ID:** nm0577722
- **TMDB ID:** 1324140
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2173424
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2173424, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577722/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1324140

Actor. Born 22 June 1929 in Berlin, Germany. Died 2 October 2025.

## Details

- **Born:** 22 June 1929, Berlin, Germany
- **Died:** 2 October 2025
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2173424, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577722/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1324140

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Piano Teacher*](https://film.one/film/the-piano-teacher.md) (82)

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## Biography

Rudolf Melichar was an Austrian actor. Born on 22 June 1929 in Berlin, Germany, he moved to Vienna at the age of thirteen and trained at the Reinhardt-Seminar. He joined the Burgtheater ensemble in 1968 and remained a member for over five decades, appearing in more than one hundred roles.

Melichar also worked regularly in film and television from the 1970s onwards. His credits include the role of Anton in the 1978 miniseries *Holocaust*, appearances in three episodes of the series *Tatort* (including as Dr. Berghof), and the part of Le directeur in Michael Haneke’s *The Piano Teacher* (2001). He died on 2 October 2025 in Austria.

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, wien.orf.at.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Piano Teacher* (2001), Fi1m 82, as Le directeur — [page](https://film.one/film/the-piano-teacher.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Murder in the Mountains* (2001), series, as Rudolf Roschmann
- *The Piano Teacher* (2001), as Le directeur — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-piano-teacher.md)
- *Ein Herz wird wieder jung* (1999), as Dr. Hahn
- *Opernball* (1998), series, as Polizeipräsident
- *Duett* (1992), as Schallgruber
- *The Strauss Dynasty* (1991), series, Actor
- *Wiener Walzer* (1988), as Barrimore
- *Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift* (1986), series, Actor
- *Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift* (1984), Actor
- *Professor Bernhardi* (1983), as Hofrat Dr. Winkler
- *Das gläserne Wappen* (1983), as Koloman Rotha
- *Holocaust* (1978), series, as Anton
- *Drei Schwestern* (1977), as Stabs-Kapitän Wassilij Wassiljewitsch Soljony
- *Der Bauer und der Millionär* (1977), as Dr. Haller
- *Totstellen* (1975), as Diplom-Ingenieur
- *Much Ado About Nothing* (1975), as Don Pedro
- *The Hunting Party* (1974), as 2.Minister
- *Unverhofft* (1973), as Berg
- *Sankt Peters Regenschirm* (1971), as Pfarrer
- *Gestrickte Spuren* (1971), as Freiherr von Prokesch
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Dr. Berghof
- *Der Feldherrnhügel* (1970), as Prinz Karl Eberhard von Friesland
- *Ardele oder Das Gänseblümchen* (1970), as Villardieu
- *In Munich Stands a Hofbäuhaus* (1951), as Peter Wurzinger junior

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