Legendary Swiss born actor died at his Paris, France home
on April 8th at the age of 95. Born in Zurich on September 8, 1930 to
a German mother and an Italian father, Adorf grew up in the hilly rural Eifel
region in western Germany. He studied criminology but dropped out to start
acting for the theatre before moving on to film. From 1954 to 2023, he appeared
in both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television
productions, ranging from spaghetti westerns to the 1979 Oscar-winning film “The
Tin Drum”. His roles in more recent years included a three-part German TV movie
about Winnetou to a mafia film in 2019. Adorf appeared in 9 Euro-westerns: “The
Taste of Violence” 1960 as Chamaco, “Apache Gold” as Frederick Santer and “The
Last Ride to Santa Cruz” as Pedro Ortiz, both in 1963, “Massacre at Marble
City” as Matt Ellis in 1964, “Sunscorched” as Abel Dragna in 1965, “And for a Roof
a Sky Full of Stars” as Henry/Harry Jim, and “Drop Them or I'll Shoot” as
Francisco Rafael ‘El Diablo’ Fatorro both in 1968, “Deadlock” as Charles ‘The
Rat’ Drumm in 1970 and the TV mini-series “Winnetou the Myth Lives” 2016 reprising
his role as Frederick Louis Santer.
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