Victor Beaumont

Victor Beaumont was a German-British actor who made his screen debut as an extra in Metropolis (1927), opposite Brigitte Helm. Born in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1912, he studied psychology and pedagogy in Paris at the Sorbonne and moved to Britain before World War II. Under the stage name Victor Beaumont, he worked in British film and television from the 1940s and in Hollywood films from the 1960s. He was best known for playing Nazi officers, including Colonel Weissner in Where Eagles Dare (1968), with similar roles in Carve Her Name with Pride, The Guns of Navarone and The Heroes of Telemark. On television he appeared in two episodes of The Saint and played Dr. Hauser in the opening episode of the BBC sci-fi drama Moonbase 3 (1973). In the early 1970s he returned to Berlin for West German film and television work, and played a comic psychologist in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).