Fritz Hakl

{{short description|Austrian actor (1932–2012)}}

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|name=Fritz Hakl

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|birth_place=Oberfeistritz, Steiermark, Austria

|death_date={{death date and age|2012|2|28|1932|1|1|df=y}}

|death_place=Graz, Styria, Austria

|nationality=Austrian

|occupation=Actor

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Fritz Hakl (1 January 1932 – 28 February 2012[http://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/2959128/fritz-hakl-alter-80-jahren-verstorben.story Kleine Zeitung] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618065408/http://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/2959128/fritz-hakl-alter-80-jahren-verstorben.story |date=2013-06-18 }}, retrieved October 5, 2012) was an Austrian actor with the honorary title Kammerschauspieler.

Biography

Born in Oberfeistritz, Steiermark to ordinary-size parents, Fritzs Hakl was the small-sized sixth child in a poor family. From 1966 to 1994 he was part of the ensemble of the Vienna Burgtheater. In 1978 he played the clown and vaudeville group director Bebra in Volker Schlöndorff's film adaptation of the novel The Tin Drum by Günter Grass.

Since his retirement from the stage in 1994, Fritz Hakl lived again in his native Oberfeistritz. He died in Graz in 2012.

Filmography

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Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1972Der letzte WerkelmannLiliputaner
1973{{Interlanguage link multi|Van der Valk und die Reichen|de}}TV movie
1976DerrickKranzEpisode: "Das Superding"
1977Lady DraculaHotelgast Dr. Kannoft
1977Staatsoperette
1979The Tin DrumBebra
1979Fremd bin ich eingezogenZwerg Schubert
1992MetamorphosenNarratorVoice, (final film role)

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