Born in Berlin, he was 95 years old. He played in the first German-German co-production.
The popular film and television actor Ralf Wolter is dead. The star from numerous Karl May films died at the age of 95, as his wife told the German Press Agency on Friday. They did not provide any further information. He had long since retired from public life.
Ralf Wolter celebrated his greatest successes alongside “Winnetou” actor Pierre Brice in the 1960s, including in the role of the quick-witted Sam Hawkens. Many viewers also associate Wolter with the cinema role of a second Karl May character: the Haji Halef Omar Ben Haji Abul Abbas Ibn Haji Dawuhd al Gossarah. His performances alongside Pierre Brice and Lex Barker are arguably some of the most memorable by audiences to date. The actor was seen in many other productions, for example in “Tatort”, in “Der Alte”, “Ein Schloss am Wörthersee” or “Küstenwache”. He had his last appearance in a film in 2012 in “Unto the Horizon, Then Left”.
The actor, who has lived in the Bavarian capital for many years, was born in Berlin. His father was a circus artist, his mother a musician. After attending drama school, Wolter began as a cabaret artist. Theater stations were stages in Berlin and Potsdam, later Munich.
Wolter also played one of the leading roles in one of the few German-German co-productions. In “The heathens of Kummerow and their funny pranks” he portrayed the character of Krischan Klammbüdel. The film, based on a novel by Ehm Welk and based on a novel by Ehm Welk, is somewhere between a homeland film and a story about rascals largest part on the island of Rügen.
In 2002, the then 76-year-old Wolter caused an accident as a wrong-way driver in which three people died. He has been sentenced to ten months probation.