Victor Beaumont
Victor Beaumont was a German-born British film and television actor.
Biography
Beaumont billed under his birth name of Peter Wolff, appeared in a number of German films and at least one play. After emigrating to the United Kingdom in the 1930s, he appeared in British films and television dramas from the 1940s and Hollywood films from the 1960s. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals of Nazi German characters in films such as Where Eagles Dare in which he played Colonel Weissner, Carve Her Name with Pride, The Guns of Navarone, The Heroes of Telemark and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in the uncredited role of the psychologist.
His television appearances included two episodes of The Saint and a cameo appearance in the opening episode, 'Departure and Arrival', as Dr. Hauser in the short-lived, six-episode BBC sci-fi drama series Moonbase 3.
Beaumont died on 21 March 1977, aged 64.
Selected filmography
The Next of Kin as German Colonel The First of the Few as Von CrantzThunder Rock as Hans Tomorrow We Live as RabineauWe Dive at Dawn as German Airman Reach for the Sky as German Doctor Man from Tangier as Film Director Carve Her Name with Pride as German Colonel I Was Monty's Double as Gottmann Mark of the Phoenix as Travel ClerkThe Square Peg as Lt. JogenkrautSink the Bismarck! as Officer on the 'Bismarck' The Criminal as 2nd Man at Party Shoot to Kill as NaumanThe Guns of Navarone as German Officer in Gun Cave The Night We Dropped a Clanger as Factory CommandantFreud: The Secret Passion as Dr. GuberThe Password Is Courage as German Officer in Retreating Column Master Spy as PetrovJeff Gordon, Secret Agent as GrégoriThe Bay of St Michel as ManA Shot in the Dark as GendarmeThe Train The Heroes of Telemark as German SergeantThunderball as SPECTRE No. 3 The Quiller Memorandum as Weiss, Bowling Alley Manager Frozen Flashes as Chief of British Secret ServiceThe Night of the Generals as SS Officer Attack on the Iron Coast as German Battery Commander Where Eagles Dare as Col. WeissnerThe Assassination Bureau as von Pinck's Aide The Kremlin Letter as The DentistWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as Doctor