Rudolf Platte


Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte was a German actor.

Biography

Born in Hörde, Westphalia the son of a merchant, his family moved to Hildesheim three years later. Rudolf left school at the age of 16 to take acting lessons, making his debut in 1925 as Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in Düsseldorf. Two years later he moved to Berlin, where he together with Werner Finck and Hans Deppe founded the cabaret Die Katakombe.
From 1929 onward, Platte performed in more than 200 film roles, embodying the shy and underestimated, likeable "Little Man". In 1940 he succeeded Ralph Arthur Roberts as director of the Theater in der Behrenstraße in Berlin until its final closure in 1944. From 1945 to 1947 he directed the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, which in 1954 became home of the Berliner Ensemble theatre company.
After World War II, Platte could continue his film career in West Germany, performing in numerous comedies as well as in literary film adaptions, later also on television, and still successfully appeared on stage in Berlin.
In 1942 he had married the actress Georgia Lind. The couple divorced shortly afterwards, but remarried in 1954. In the intervening year he was married to another actress Marina Ried. Both are buried in an ehrengrab in the Berlin Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Selected filmography

Revolt in the Reformatory - ErziehungsgehilfeThree Days of Love - ChauffeurZimmer 12 a The Pride of Company Three - Unteroffizier KnollDas Millionentestament - Verkäufer KrüppliThis One or None - OfficerHow Shall I Tell My Husband? - BeamterLove at First Sight - Crammberg, Adjutant des PrinzenI by Day, You by Night - KuchenkellnerF.P.1 Doesn't Respond - Radio OperatorEine Tür geht auf Morgenrot Two Good Comrades Der Stern von Valencia Hitlerjunge Quex - Moritatensänger ' - WagnerViktor und Viktoria The Sun Rises - SauerweinSuch a Rascal - Rettig, TanzlehrerGold - SchwarzPappi - Der MannDer Meisterboxer - Ein TanzpaarCharley's Aunt - ShipmakerWhat Am I Without You - Franz Hurtig, SchriftstellerHeinz in the Moon - Arthur Kosemund, Nessels DienerThe Cousin from Nowhere - AugustBashful Felix - Felix KaminskiDer Herr Senator. Die fliegende Ahnfrau - Theo KellerLove Conquers All - Max - sein FreundGrüß' mir die Lore noch einmal - TheoLove, Death and the Devil - SpundaOne Too Many on Board The Gypsy Baron I Love All the Women The Court Concert Donogoo Tonka Stjenka Rasin A Girl from the Chorus Autobus S