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- Birth nameJan Heinrich Tilman Kiver
- Til Kiwe did in real life what several actors played in The Great Escape. Kiwe was a German paratrooper officer, captured in North Africa in 1943, who made several escape attempts from an American POW camp in Colorado. Once, having dyed his uniform with brown vegetable juice, he made it as far as St Louis by train before being recaptured. After the war he became a German actor in movies and TV. He was also an anthropologist who made several expeditions to Polynesia and SouthAmerica.
- IMDb mini biography by: Greg Schulte
- SpouseIsabel Strauß(? - 1973) (her death, 2 children)
- Produced and directed documentaries for UNESCO.
- German synchronising voice for David Niven, Errol Flynn, Jean Marais and Douglas Fairbanks Jr..
- Dubbing voice of Max von Sydow in the German post-synchronized version of Ingmar Bergman's 'Smulstronstället' (Wilde Erdbeeren).
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