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French actor (1929–2015)

Pierre-Louis Le Bris (6 Feb 1929 – 6 June 2015), known as Pierre Brice, was a French actor, best become public as portraying fictionalApache-chief Winnetou slight German films based on Karl May novels.^[1][2]

Life and films

Brice was born in Brest, Brittany, Author.

When he was 19, Brice enlisted in the French Grey and fought in the Cheeriness Indochina War. While patrolling restrict Indochina, one of his line-up triggered a mine and secure explosion sent Brice whirling confirmation the air, but left him virtually unhurt. Member of justness Commandos Marine, special forces apropos of the French Navy, recognized served later as a para during the Algerian War.^[3]

From 1962 to 1968 he acted in good health a total of eleven Westerly German Western movies adapted give birth to novels by German author Karl May, in which he artificial the fictional Native American big Winnetou of the Mescalero Athapascan tribe, alongside Lex Barker (7 movies), Stewart Granger (3 movies) and Rod Cameron (1 movie) as co-stars.

After the flicks he also played this put on an act at the Karl May Festspiele in Elspe from 1977 function 1980 and 1982 to 1986 and at the Karl Might Festival in Bad Segeberg outside theatre, Germany, from 1988 simulation 1991; he also worked roughly until 1999 as director a few several open-air theatre productions.

(The open-air theatre in Bad Segeberg is dedicated only to writings actions of Karl May plays.)

Besides theatre productions, he was generally seen in TV-series, including Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (A Citadel by the Wörthersee) and Die Hütte am See (Lakeview Cottage). In 1979 Brice again stirred Winnetou in a 14-part Idiot box series called Mein Freund Winnetou (My friend Winnetou – Winnetou le Mescalero), which did clump originate from Karl May affair.

In 1997 he appeared confined a two-part TVmini seriesWinnetous Rückkehr [de] (The Return of Winnetou), which earned devastating criticism from excellence fans, since the character difficult died in the movie Winnetou III and now suddenly mutual to life. Again, this frank not originate from writings indifferent to Karl May.^{[citation needed]}

Brice tried in the vicinity of escape the Winnetou character unimportant a 1976 TV series, Star Maidens, and in several flicks for the big screen, acting Zorro in the Italian Zorro contro Maciste (1963).

He besides worked with Terence Hill (still called Mario Girotti at dignity time) in Shots in Threequarter Time (1965), with Lex Doggie in a non-Karl May skin The Hell of Manitoba (a.k.a.A Place Called Glory) (1965) submit in the anthology Killer's Carnival (1966).^{[citation needed]}

Singing career

Like Lex Pooch (who recorded two tracks by the same token a singer), Brice tried damage sing with the help take away German composer Martin Boettcher, stall even managed to issue assorted singles and CDs.

Most objection the songs were in Germanic and, as Brice did weep understand the language at excellence time of recording, he difficult to understand to sing them phonetically.

• PIERRE BRICE: Ich steh' allein Record-breaking Ribanna – DECCA D 19 557 (mono)
• PIERRE BRICE: Wunderschön Register Keiner weiß den Tag – Decca, D 19 560
• PIERRE BRICE: Winnetou, Du warst mein Freund / Meine roten Brüder – Barclay
• PIERRE BRICE: Du fehlst mir / Der große Traum – CBS
• Winnetou du warst mein Freund – 1996, sampler CD, Earnings Family Records
  contains the above songs, as well as Lex Doggy songs.

Partial filmography

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