Editing Klaus Maria Brandauer (section)

== Career ==
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Brandauer began acting on stage in 1962. After working in national theatre and television, he made his film debut in English in 1972, in ''[[The Salzburg Connection]]''. In 1975 he played in ''[[Derrick (TV series)|Derrick]]'' – in Season 2, Episode 8 called "Pfandhaus". His starring and award-winning role in [[István Szabó]]'s ''[[Mephisto (1981 film)|Mephisto]]'' (1981) playing a self-absorbed actor, launched his international career. (He would later act in Szabó's 1985 ''[[Oberst Redl]]''.)

[[File:Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor.jpg|thumb|Brandauer in 1982]]

Following his role in ''Mephisto'', Brandauer appeared as [[Emilio Largo|Maximillian Largo]] in  ''[[Never Say Never Again]]'' (1983), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]''. [[Roger Ebert]] said of his performance: "For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo. Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché. Instead, he brings a certain poignancy and charm to Largo, and since Connery always has been a particularly human James Bond, the emotional stakes are more convincing this time."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19831007/REVIEWS/310070301/1023 |title=Never Say Never Again |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=7 October 1983 |publisher=rogerebert.com |access-date=18 October 2008 |archive-date=4 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004010948/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19831007%2FREVIEWS%2F310070301%2F1023 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He starred in ''[[Out of Africa (film)|Out of Africa]]'' (1985), opposite [[Meryl Streep]] and [[Robert Redford]]. Brandauer was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] and won a [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe]] for the performance. In 1987, he was the Head of the Jury at the [[37th Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url= http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1987/04_jury_1987/04_Jury_1987.html |title=Berlinale: Juries |access-date=27 February 2011 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> In 1988 he appeared in ''[[Hanussen (1988 film)|Hanussen]]'' opposite [[Erland Josephson]] and [[Ildikó Bánsági]].

Brandauer was originally cast as Marko Ramius in ''[[The Hunt for Red October (film)|The Hunt for Red October]]''. That role eventually went to [[Sean Connery]], who played [[James Bond]] to Brandauer's Largo in ''Never Say Never Again''. He co-starred with Connery again in ''[[The Russia House (film)|The Russia House]]'' (1990).

His other film roles have been in ''[[The Lightship]]'' (1986), ''[[Streets of Gold (film)|Streets of Gold]]'' (1986), ''[[Burning Secret]]'' (1988), ''[[White Fang (1991 film)|White Fang]]'' (1991), ''[[Becoming Colette]]'' (1991), ''[[Introducing Dorothy Dandridge]]'' (1999, as director [[Otto Preminger]]), and ''[[Everyman's Feast]]'' (2002). In 1989 he participated in [[TF1]]'s two-part historical film ''[[La Révolution française (film)|La Révolution française]]'', playing the role of [[Georges Danton]]. He has also appeared as [[Nebuchadnezzar II|King Nebuchadnezzar II]] in 1998, in Time Life's [[Jeremiah]], from The Bible Collection: The Old Testament.

Brandauer has directed two films: ''{{ill|Seven Minutes (1989 film)|de|3=Georg Elser – Einer aus Deutschland|lt=Seven Minutes}}'' (1989), in which he starred as attempted [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] assassin [[Georg Elser]]; and ''[[Mario and the Magician (film)|Mario and the Magician]]'' (1994), based on the [[Mario and the Magician|1929 novella]] by Thomas Mann, in which he starred as Cipolla, a magician with hypnotic powers.

In August 2006, Brandauer's much-awaited production of ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'' gained a mixed reception. Brandauer had resisted questions about how his production of [[Bertolt Brecht]] and [[Kurt Weill]]'s classic musical comedy about the criminal MacHeath would differ from earlier versions, and his production featured Mack the Knife in a three-piece suit and white gloves, stuck to Brecht's text, and avoided any references to contemporary politics or issues.