Herbert Wilk

Herbert Wilk
Born	10 May 1905 Gnoien, Mecklenburg German Empire
Died	2 November 1977 West Berlin, Brandenburg West Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1936 - 1970 (film)

Herbert Wilk (1905–1977) was a German stage, television and film actor. He emerged as a screen actor during the Nazi era, appearing in war films such as U-Boote westwärts (1941).^[1] However the bulk of his career came after the Second World War. After initially appearing in films made by the East German studio DEFA, he largely worked in West German television for the remainder of his career.

Selected filmography

• The Desert Song (1939)
• Kriminalkommissar Eyck (1940)
• The Rothschilds (1940)
• U-Boote westwärts (1941)
• Stukas (1941)
• Free Land (1946)
• The Beaver Coat (1949)
• Canaris (1954)
• Stresemann (1957)
• The Black Chapel (1959)

References

1. Kreimeier p.312

External links

• Herbert Wilk at the Internet Movie Database

Bibliography

• Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.