
Equipped
with a brawny stature and a powerful, edgy skull, Turoff was predestined for
powerful characters of all types. Turoff embodied consistently down home types
and hands-on workers, including often times crooks. He received a rare starring
role in early 1930 alongside Grete Mosheim in Hans Tintner’s social drama “Cyankali”.
The
Propaganda of the Third Reich cinema very often cast him as a sinister negative
figure. In 1945 Turoff was seen in DEFA productions often playing proletarian
types. In the GDR, he was one of the busiest small actors in film; However, his
parts were rarely beyond character roles and soon he was often not even
credited by name.
Turoff
appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Fatal Error” (1969) as a carriage driver,
“Kit & Co.” (1974) as a trapper and “Death for Zapata” (1976) as Manuel.
Nico
died in Berlin, East Germany on June 22, 1978.
Today
we remember Nico Turoff on what would have been his 115th birthday.
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