Dieter Laser

Born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, on November 17, 1942, during the Nazi regime, at the age of sixteen Dieter Laser went to the door of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus theater in Hamburg, at the time the most famous theater in Germany, and asked him to the goalkeeper how to become an actor. He was missing an extra for a children’s adaptation of “A Christmas Carol,” so they recruited him. That was the beginning of his career as a performer.

He made his big screen debut in 1976, as the lead in Ulf Miehe ‘s John Gluckstadt ,  where he played a recluse trying to reintegrate into society. He won best actor recognition at the Lola, the German film awards. He then played a tabloid journalist in Katharina Blum’s Lost Honor , directed jointly by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta , which is considered one of the pinnacles of New German Cinema.Schlöndorff volvería a darle un papel en El ogro, de 1996.

Entre 1996 y 2002, Dieter Laser encarnó al villano principal, el científico Mantrid, en la surrealista serie de ciencia ficción Lexx. Los incondicionales de la serie B le conocen por otro papel similar, el Dr. Josef Heiter, de la provocadora The Human Centipede (First Sequence), desquiciado cirujano que secuestra a tres turistas para unirles quirúrgicamente, creando una especie de ciempiés humano. Reapareció en la tercera entrega de la saga, The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence), en la que da vida a otro personaje, William “Bill” Boss, director de una prisión que tras ver las dos primeras películas decide formar otro ciempiés con todos sus reclusos, de cara a abaratar costes. Se desconocen más datos sobre su vida privada.