[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Christoph Beyertt was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germanyon July 19, 1922. In the early 1940s, Beyertt trained as an actor at the Potsdam Film Academy under Wolfgang Liebeneiner and at the Bochum Theatre School under Saladin Schmitt. In addition to engagements at the Landestheater Potsdam and the Volksbühne Brandenburg, he also played in Senftenberg and at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Apart from his artistic work as an actor, Beyertt was mainly active in radio, worked at the Central German and Berlin Broadcasting Corporations, as well as briefly as a lecturer for acting at the University of Film and Television Potsdam.
He made his film debut in 1954 as a young worker in Slatan Dudow's “Stärker als die Nacht” (Stronger Than the Night) and was subsequently cast in other film and television productions of the DEFA and the German Television (DFF). He played in about 70 productions, such as Jaly in the German-French co-production “Die Elenden” (Les Misérables), until he moved to West Berlin in 1979 and worked increasingly for radio and television series dubbing.
Christoph Bayertt died in Berlin on October 14, 2021, at that of 99.
His only Euro-western appearance was as the mayor in Dean Reed’s starring Yukon adventure “Kit & Co” made in 1974.
BEYERTT, Christoph (aka Christoph Bayertt, Christoph
Beyert) [7/19/1922, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany – 10/14/2021, Berlin, Berlin,
Germany] – theater, film, TV actor.
Kit & Co. – 1974 (mayor)
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