German actor curd jurgens hell
During this he had a near-death experience where he claimed he died and went to Hell.
Curt Jurgens, a German actor and idol, had a negative experience when his heart stopped during much of the four hours it took Dr. Michael Debakey in Houston to....
Curd Jürgens: The actor who gave Nazis nuance
Among other rights complications, Broccoli did not have permission to include Bond’s nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the new production.
So the writers came up with Karl Stromberg, a megalomaniacal Swedish marine biologist and shipping-line owner living in an undersea base off Sardinia from where he planned to destroy humanity in order to live in peace in his marine world.
The role of Stromberg went to Curd (billed as Curt) Jürgens, a silver-haired, charismatic German actor whose film career would span more than 150 productions in Europe and the USA.
A new character replacing an established key figure in the series presented a daunting challenge to any actor, but for the man who had been effectively the face of postwar German cultural rehabilitation, this challenge was a minor one.
Indeed, Jürgens relished the role.
Having made his name portraying characters more nuanced than the ruthless Nazis who had dominated the screen, playing