{{Short description|Swiss actor (1906–1988)}} {{ref improve|date=January 2013}} '''Sigfrit Steiner''' (31 October 1906 &ndash; 21 March 1988) was a Swiss actor. His first stage performance was in 1928 in Gera. He performed in more than one hundred films. He was married to journalist and author Anne Rose Katz.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.steffi-line.de/archiv_text/nost_buehne/19s_steiner.htm|title = Sigfrit Steiner}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{Div col}} * ''Fusilier Wipf'' (1938) - Oberleutnant * ''Constable Studer'' (1939) - Untersuchungsricher Steffen * ''Dilemma'' (1940) - Prosecutor * ''Das Menschlein Matthias'' (1941) - Gemperle * ''Bieder der Flieger'' (1941) - Schwarzhausen * ''Steinbruch'' (1942) - Näppi - Dorfidiot * ''Menschen, die vorüberziehen'' (1943) - Gendarme * ''The Last Chance'' (1945) - Military Doctor * ''Madness Rules'' (1947) - Kommissar * ''Nach dem Sturm'' (1948) * ''Land der Sehnsucht'' (1950) * ''Palace Hotel'' (1952) - Gloor * ''The Village'' (1953) - Heinrich Meile * ''On Trial'' (1954) - Geôlier (uncredited) * ''Uli the Tenant'' (1955) - Gegenanwalt * ''Polizischt Wäckerli'' (1956) - Arzt * ''Kitty and the Great Big World'' (1956) - Polizeibeamter * ''Oberstadtgass'' (1956) - Polizist * ''Taxichauffeur Bänz'' (1957) - Tonis Chef * ''Bäckerei Zürrer'' (1957) - Tramp with Cigar Starting Music in Opening Scene (uncredited) * ''It Happened in Broad Daylight'' (1958) - Det. Feller * ''Der Schinderhannes'' (1958) - Baron Achbach * ''{{ill|Your Body Belongs to Me|de|Du gehörst mir (1959)}}'' (1959) * ''{{ill|Der Teufel hat gut lachen|de}}'' (1960) * ''Schneewittchen und die sieben Gaukler'' (1962) - Inhaber Sutor Heizungen (uncredited) * ''Anne Bäbi Jowäger - II. Teil: Jakobli und Meyeli'' (1962) - Gerichtspräsident * ''Stop Train 349'' (1963) * ''A Man in His Prime'' (1964) - Kriminalinspektor Scherbl * ''The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight'' (1966) - Dr. Smeat * ''Der Fall'' (1972) - Polizeichef * ''Cry of the Black Wolves'' (1972) * ''The Pedestrian'' (1973) - Auditor * ''Fluchtgefahr'' (1974) - Hausbursche Stotz * ''The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner'' (1976) - Konrad Steiner * ''Die Magd'' (1976) - Bryner * ''Waldrausch'' (1977) - Waldrauscher * ''{{ill|Heinrich (1977 film)|de|3=Heinrich (1977)|lt=Heinrich}}'' (1977) - Diener Riebisch * ''Brass Target'' (1978) - Herr Schroeder * ''When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'' (1978) - Onkel Julius * ''Bread and Stones'' (1979) - Tierarzt * ''Das gefrorene Herz'' (1980) - Korber * ''{{ill|Der Mond ist nur a nackerte Kugel|de}}'' (1981) - Moserbauer * ''Imperative'' (1982) - Professor * ''Wagner'' (1983, TV Series) - King Ludwig I of Bavaria * ''A Love in Germany'' (1983) - Melchior * ''Embers'' (1983) - Obert Wettach * ''Die schwarze Spinne'' (1983) - Hornbachbauer * ''Lisa und die Riesen'' (1984) * ''Fatherland'' (1986) - Drittemann * ''Duet for One'' (1986) - Leonid Lefimov * ''Wenn ich die Antwort wüßte'' (1987) * ''La nuit de l'eclusier'' (1989) - Father of Charles Belloz (final film role) {{div col end}}

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0826005}} * [http://www.cyranos.ch/sfstei-d.htm Short biography]

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