Date of Birth : Jul 18th 1913
After the war he began a career in the London stage. Among other roles he played “Peachum” in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s Pohlmann was often present film and television productions, taking supporting roles in various adventure and crime films, and appearing occasionally in comedies. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as master criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives, as well as other authority figures. He was frequently cast in “foreign” roles, portraying Turks, Italians, Arabs, Greeks or Orientals; he also played King George I, and King George III twice.
One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reed’s classic The Third Man (1949). He also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare (1954), Chance of a Lifetime (1950), Reach for the Sky (1956), and Expresso Bongo (1960). He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge (1952), Mogambo (1953), Lust For Life (1956) and 55 Days at Peking (1963). Twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor – The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) and The House of the Seven Hawks (1959).
He displayed his comedic talents in films like Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) with Jane Russell, as a lecherous Arab sheikh in The Belles of St. Trinian’s (1954), and in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963).
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Expresso Bongo ( 1959 )
