Actor Mario Adorf passed away on Wednesday at the age of 95 following a brief illness. According to reporting from his management detailed by the German publication “Bild” he died in his Paris apartment. Throughout his extensive career spanning several decades, Adorf had a diverse body of work, not only as a stage actor but also as a narrator for audiobooks and radio dramas, a voice actor, and a writer. After his initial forays onto the stage, his career breakthrough came in 1957 with the crime film “Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam”. He played the villain in the first installment of the “Winnetou” trilogy in 1963. Over the decades that followed, he accumulated numerous other leading roles, frequently taking on the villain or, later in life, roles as a patriarch. Adorf also achieved success in international cinema, notably in Italy. He remained active in front of the camera well into his later years; notably, he portrayed Karl Marx in the documentary drama “Karl Marx – der deutsche Prophet” in 2018.
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