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Date of Birth 13 December 1915, Solln, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death 18 June 1982, Vienna, Austria (heart attack)

Birth Name Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens

Nickname The Norman hulk

Height 6' 4" (1.93 m)

Mini Bio (1)

Curd Jürgens (commonly billed as "Curt Jurgens" in anglophone countries) was one of the most successful European film actors of the 20th Century.

He was born Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens on December 13, 1915, in Solln, Bavaria, in Hohenzollern Imperial Germany, a subject of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Of Franco-German parentage, Jürgens -- who was born during the closing days of the second year of the First World War -- would abandon the country of his birth after the end of World War II: Jürgens became an Austrian citizen in 1945 and lived part-time in France.

Jürgens entered the journalism profession after receiving his education, and married Louise Basler, an actress.

Basler, the first of his