Her play Speer ( 1998 ) is a work of fictional biography about the German architect, Albert Speer, and has been staged in Berlin and London, directed by and starring Klaus Maria Brandauer.

An Austrian TV version, under the title Zwei aus Verona, was screened on channel ORF eins in 1969, a live transmission of Edwin Zbonek's production from the Theater in der Josefstadt, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Valentine, Albert Rueprecht as Proteus, Kitty Speiser as Julia and Brigitte Neumeister as Silvia.

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.

* The Lightship, a 1986 film adapted from the Lenz novel, with Robert Duvall and Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ out of 4 stars, and wrote that Never Say Never Again, while consisting of a basic " Bond plot ", was different from other Bond films: " For one thing, there's more of a human element in the movie, and it comes from Klaus Maria Brandauer, as Largo.

Just like an earlier television series, Der Kommissar ( also written by Reinecker ), Derrick features many prominent German and Austrian actors and actresses, including Luitgard Im, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Lilli Palmer, Heinz Bennent, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Horst Buchholz, Traugott Buhre, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Cornelia Froboess, Johanna von Koczian, Uschi Glas, Karlheinz Hackl, Michael Heltau, Harald Juhnke, Curd Jürgens, Martin Schulz, Gudrun Landgrebe, Inge Meysel and Gusti Wolf.

Klaus Maria Brandauer ( born 22 June 1943 ) is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Brandauer was born as Klaus Georg Steng in Bad Aussee, Austria.

He was the son of Maria Brandauer and Georg Steng ( or Stenj ), a civil servant.

He subsequently took his mother's maiden name as part of his professional name, Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Brandauer began acting onstage in 1962.

Following his role in Mephisto, Brandauer appeared in his first English-speaking role in playing Maximillian Largo in Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ), a remake of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball.

Brandauer is a wonderful actor, and he chooses not to play the villain as a cliché.

Brandauer was originally cast as Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October.

Brandauer directed his first film in 1989, Georg Elser-Einer aus Deutschland, with himself in the title role.

Brandauer is fluent in five languages: German, Italian, Hungarian, English and French and has acted in each.

Brandauer married Natalie Krenn in 2007.

Their affair was depicted in the HBO Pictures biopic, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, in which Preminger was portrayed by Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.

C Brandauer & Co Ltd., founded as Ash & Petit, traded at 70 Navigation Street.

The novel was also the basis for a 1985 mini-series starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Nero and a 2001 Polish mini-series directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

The director, famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, was criticised for the play's unadventurous staging, but Campino was cheered by the audience.

During his career, he directed 12 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Susannah York, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Melinda Dillon, Jessica Lange, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Holly Hunter.

* Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo ; based on the character Emilio Largo, a senior member of SPECTRE.

For the main villain in the film, Maximillian Largo, Connery suggested Klaus Maria Brandauer, the lead of the 1981 Academy Award-winning Hungarian film Mephisto.

For Robinson, the presence of Connery and Klaus Maria Brandauer as Maximillian Largo " very nearly make it all worthwhile.

He also thought the supporting cast was good, saying that Klaus Maria Brandauer ’ s Largo was " neurotic, vulnerable … one of the most complex of Bond ’ s foes " and that Barbara Carrera and Kim Basinger " make lasting impressions.

He rather wished he had never got into the business, and still -- scarcely to be resisted, a nice little profit with not much work involved, easy money

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

I had always resisted the passes made at me by other kids, and many times I had thought about my love for Johnnie who, being thirty, brought a maturity to love that the kids around town could know nothing about.

Surrounded by the vizier Said ibn al-Mundhir who had ordered the construction of bastions around the city, he resisted the siege for six months, until he surrendered, having his life spared ( 928 ).

The expedition was intended to bring the Cyclades into the Persian empire, to punish Naxos ( which had resisted a Persian assault in 499 BC ) and then to head to Greece to force Eretria and Athens to submit to Darius or be destroyed.

Tombaugh's widow Patricia stated after the IAU's decision that while Clyde may have been disappointed with the change since he had resisted attempts to remove Pluto's planetary status in his lifetime, he would have accepted the decision now if he were alive.

Hunter College – so-named in 1914, originally Female Normal and High School and later the Normal College – had existed since 1870, and later expanded into the Bronx in the early 20th century with what became Herbert Lehman College, but CCNY and Hunter resisted merging.

Before a systematic excavation of the site could be undertaken, the village had to be relocated but the residents resisted.

By his account, upon having been told by friends and relatives that they had prayed for him, he resisted the urge to ask them, " Did you also sacrifice a goat?

Often, the criteria had moral bases, such as in the case of Pierre de La Primaudaye's L ' Académie française and Guillaume Telin's Bref sommaire des sept vertus & c .. Encyclopaedists encountered several problems with this approach, including how to decide what to omit as unnecessary, how to structure knowledge that resisted structure ( often simply as a consequence of the sheer amount of material that deserved inclusion ), and how to cope with the influx of newly discovered knowledge and the effects that it had on prior structures.

As the war had ended with the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and the United States, operating under the Articles of Confederation, resisted any significant action with respect to Vermont, Allen's historic role as an agitator became less important, and his public role in Vermont's affairs declined.

It had a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuuraan Empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the west and a Portuguese incursion from the east during the Gaal Madow, meaning Black Christians, and the Ajuuraan-Portuguese wars.

But Hitler, supported by Göring, resisted these demands, which he feared would weaken civilian morale and lead to a repetition of the debacle of 1918, when the German army had been undermined ( in Hitler's view ) by a collapse of the home front.

In October 1990, Major and Douglas Hurd, Major's successor as Foreign Secretary, finally persuaded Thatcher to allow Britain to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism, a move which she had resisted for some years, and which had been a cause of her quarrels with Howe and Lawson.

Whale had long resisted doing a sequel to Frankenstein as he feared being pigeonholed as a horror director.

One chronicler had not seen " a siege so hard pressed or so strongly resisted ", whilst historian Reginald Brown describes it as " one of the greatest operations in England up to that time ".

When the British attempted to take control of the New Territories in 1898 they were resisted by the local militias which had been formed for mutual defence against pirate raids.

The Georgian stone buildings in Charlestown that are visible today had to be partially rebuilt after the earthquakes, and this led to the development of a new architectural style, consisting of a wooden upper floor over a stone ground floor ; the new style resisted earthquake damage much more effectively.

He had the satisfaction of reducing the most powerful and obstinate enemy of papal authority, Count Guido of Montefeltro, who for many years had successfully resisted the papal troops.