Trivia

René Deltgen was married twice, first to actress Elisabeth Scherer with whom he had three children, sons Matthias and Florian, and daughter, Kate. From the second marriage to Anita Irene Wapordjieff is the daughter Dominique.

Cultured star of German films, the son of a chemist. Born in Luxemburg, he studied acting in Cologne and appeared on stage as psychologically flawed, or tortured characters in contemporary dramas by Pinter or Williams. In films (with Ufa, from 1935), he was more often employed in conventional roles as masculine, or cynical heroes, adventurers, pilots, divers, and the like. After World War II, Deltgen briefly tried his hand in cabaret and as a circus horse trainer, before returning to the screen and achieving national popularity on radio as Francis Durbridge's detective Paul Temple.

In the 60's were also added works for television and besides it he made a name as Paul Temple for a criminal serial for the Hörfunk, based on the novel of Francis Durbridge.

He took successful part in many productions of the 50's.

The actor René Deltgen attended the acting school in Cologne from 1927 and learned there among others to speak the German language without an accent (René Deltgen was born in Luxembourg).

Because of his agreeable appearance and his intensive performance he soon became a star and impersonated hero roles in action and adventure movies.

After the war he earned his living as a chef de cuisine and as a horse trainer at a circus for the time being.

From 1929 he got regular engagement at theaters in Cologne and Frankfurt, and the actor Eugen Klöpfer brought him to Berlin where he soon became a popular actor in classical productions.

When teamed up with actor Karl John for a topical-satirical program he finally was able to take action as an actor again. For the present followed engagements at the restored theaters before he became offered a movie role again in 1949.

Michael Wenk made in 2004 a documentary (René Deltgen - Der sanfte Rebell) about the life of till today the most famous Luxembourg actor.

Besides his reckless roles he was also able to impersonate other characters now and then, so in "Die 3 Codonas" (1940) an artist who was broken by his conflicts, in "Das grosse Spiel" (1942) a football centre and in "Wen die Götter lieben" (1942) the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.