The eternal nature boy

The German actor Hardy Kruger in the exhibition "Hardy Kruger - movie
star, author, world traveler" in Frankfurt before a Filmuseum in an
exhibition poster, which shows him in 1962 during filming of the movie
'Hatari'. Hardy Kruger is 80 years old. He was on 12 April 1928 in
Berlin was born. (AP Photo / Bernd Kammerer)
Frankfurt / Main - Hardy Kruger as three years ago at the opening of
an exhibition dedicated to him at the Film Museum in Frankfurt came
with his third wife in the Main metropolis, nobody wanted to believe
that this still fit and youthful-looking man really should be 77 years
old. Now the actor and director on 12 April did already 80 years old.
And also you can see the former Sonnyboy of postwar German film simply
does not.
It has a career Kruger on camera behind him, the war began in 1943. At
the time, born in 1928 in Berlin-Wedding pupil of a Nazi elite
boarding school played in the propaganda film "Young Eagles" with. He
was blond, wiry and was recognized early as a carrier of the sympathy,
the Kruger should remain for life, directed by Alfred Man Willow.
After a brief stint in 1945 as a real soldier in the Division
"Nibelungen" and American captivity to the young man could emerge in
the postwar years as an actor, who was on the stages of Hamburg,
Hanover and Munich impression.
Soon he was again in film roles, mostly inconsequential entertainment
goods. But it did not stop. Because Kruger can claim to have been the
first German film actor, who made an international career after 1945.
This began in 1956 with the starring role as "positive" in German to
the English war movie "One That Got Away". "The wild geese come" into
international hits such as "A Bridge Too Far" and continued that
success. 1961 even the legendary American director Howard Hawks to the
German actor sat in his adventure film "Hatari!" One.

Popular TV world Bummer
Kruger was seen on television since 1963. From 1987 to 1995, he
presented himself as a writer, director and main character to be
"travel diary" with which he made known to the audience with many
distant countries. Whether in the South Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii or
Chile - the bearded-vital world traveler with the macho voice and knew
his way around knew about it to tell gripping. That he could also
write, Kruger proved in 1970 when his first book "A farm in Africa"
was released. In it he described his experiences in the African nation
of Tanzania, where he owned a hotel a few years. Novels, children's
books and also the 1998 memoir, "wandering years. Encounters a young
actor followed. "
From the first marriage which ended in divorce in 1965, is the
daughter Christiane, herself a well-known and attractive actress. With
his second wife Francesca Marazzi, an Italian painter, father of
Kruger's daughter Malaika and son Hardy, who is also entered in the
professional footsteps of his famous father. This may at its 80th
Birthday more than happy to look back: "I've had a wonderful life -
and I intend to go on even a crumb."
Kruger, who commutes between his residences in California and Hamburg
will have no problems with aging and also no fear of death: "I can not
imagine that when my body is dead, my energy goes dead." In his
earthly life, which probably still holds some special birthdays ready,
Hardy Kruger has really shown an excess of energy