Raimund Harmstorf Movies and Career Information

Raimund Harmstorf (b. 7 October 1939 at Hamburg - d. 3 May 1998 at Marktoberdorf) was a German actor. He became famous as the protagonist of a German TV mini series after Jack London's the Sea-Wolf (which was sold into many countries) and starred later on successfully in another German TV series after Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff. Harmstorf was the son of a medic from Hamburg. He started a sports career and early became a regional master of the decathlon. He then studied medicine, later music and performing arts. From the beginning of the 1960s he started performing in smaller TV productions. His breakthrough was in 1971 with the TV series The Sea-Wolf, after Jack London's novel, where he played the evil-minded Captain Larsen. Later he played in several spaghetti westerns along with Bud Spencer, Franco Nero and Charlton Heston. Harmstorf had always been envied for his obvious bodily strength and subsequently attempts to deride him as actually not that strong had found their audience. Therefore his downfall had already started at the peak of his success as "Sea-Wolf". Tabloids wouldn't grow tired of explaining their readers that the famous scene where Harmstorf smushed a potato