Ulli Lommel
Biography
Ulli Lommel was a German actor and director, born in 1944, who began his film career in the early 1960s. One of his early roles was in Russ Meyer's Fanny Hill, and he then appeared in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's debut, Love Is Colder Than Death, in 1969; the ensemble cast won a German Film Award in 1970. He produced and starred in Fassbinder's surrealist western Whity (1971), and he also acted in Chinese Roulette (1976), The American Soldier (1970) and World on a Wire (1973). His second feature as director, The Tenderness of Wolves, was produced by Fassbinder and nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. After moving to the United States in 1977, he worked with Andy Warhol and directed Cocaine Cowboys (1978) and Blank Generation (1980). The Boogeyman (1980) became a worldwide hit, and he continued with genre films such as The Devonsville Terror (1983). He died in 2017.
72years old at death
- Born Sulęcin
- Died Stuttgart
- Star sign: SagittariusLast day of the sign, on the Capricorn cusp
- Ulrich Manfred Lommel (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 38 years1971 to 2009
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Big break
Lommel's second film as director was The Tenderness of Wolves, produced by Fassbinder and dealing with Fritz Haarmann's murders. A screening at a Chicago Film Festival led Andy Warhol to notice him.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed two of these films. Ingrid Caven appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
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