Hans Christian Blech
Hans Christian Blech was a German film, stage and television character actor who found success in both Germany and Hollywood.
He made his English film debut in the 1951 picture Decision Before Dawn. In this and many of his other Hollywood films, he played a German soldier. He had a prominent role in the 1962 World War 2 blockbuster film, The Longest Day. He served in the German Army and fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, where he may have acquired his facial scars. Another possible origin of his scars was a car accident on the Darmstadt Luisenplatz when Blech was 14 years old.Partial filmography
- Blum Affair as Karlheinz Gabler
- The Orplid Mystery as Martin Jarzombeck, Bräutigam
- Decision Before Dawn as Sgt. Rudolf Barth aka Tiger
- Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben as Brauer
- Geständnis unter vier Augen as Tscheche
- 08/15 as Wachtmeister Platzek
- The Phantom of the Big Tent as Naso, Clown mit Puppe
- Children, Mother, and the General as Feldwebel mit den Orden
- ' as Wachtmeister Platzek
- Bandits of the Autobahn as Willi Kollanski
- ' as Wachtmeister Platzek
- ' as Heinze
- Un homme se penche sur son passé as Archer
- ' as Dr. Laue
- ' as Oberarzt Dr. Neugebauer
- The Inheritance of Bjorndal as Aslak, Gunvor's Husband
- Enclosure as Karl
- The Longest Day as Major Werner Pluskat
- The Visit as Captain Dobrik
- Morituri as Donkeyman
- Battle of the Bulge as Conrad
- La Voleuse as Radek Kostrowicz
- The Bridge at Remagen as Capt. Carl Schmidt
- Cardillac as Cardillac
- The Customer of the Off Season as Hotel Manager
- The Scarlet Letter as Roger Chillingworth
- Giordano Bruno as Sartori
- Le Hasard et la Violence
- La Chair de l'orchidée as Gyula Berekian
- The Wrong Move as Laertes
- Innocents with Dirty Hands as Judge
- ' as Ritter
- The Clown as Derkum
- ' as Frank
- Grete Minde as Gigas
- ' as Sellman
- Knife in the Head as Anleitner
- Winterspelt as Wenzel Hainstock
- Victoria as Tutor
- See You in the Next War as Bitter
- Looping as Johnny
- Collin as Wilhelm Urack
- The Magic Mountain as Hofrat Behrens
- Colonel Redl as von Roden
- ' as Langenau
- Magyar rekviem as Tanár úr
- Der achte Tag as Svoboda
- ' as Pfarrer Nothsack
Television miniseries
- Theodor Chindler, as Theodor Chindler
- Via Mala, as Maler Lauters
