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- Birth nameWolfgang Ackva
- Wolf Ackva was born on July 30, 1911 in Montigny, Metz, Lorraine, Germany [now Montigny-lès-Metz, Moselle, France]. He was an actor and composer, known for Le comte de Monte-Cristo (1979), Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger (1965) and Die Fledermaus (1959). He was married to Els Ackva. He died on January 16, 2000 in Fahrenzhausen, Bavaria, Germany.
- SpouseEls Ackva(1960 - January 16, 2000) (his death)
- Was the german voice of Sam the Eagle from the Muppet Show.
- The actor Wolf Ackva began his professional career for the Mosse Verlag as a writer. It followed an education for medicine in 1931 which he interrupted in favor of an acting education.
- Afterwards he only acted in movies sporadically, among them "Rigoletto hat keine Pause oder Der lästige Ungar" (1981), "Ludwig 1881" (1993) and "Das Zauberbuch" (1996).
- He impersonated a lot of movie roles with his striking face for productions like "Hanna Amon" (1951), "Nachts auf den Strassen" (1952), "Der Hund von Baskerville" (1955), "Romeo und Julia" (1957), "Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino" (1958) and the successful serial "Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger" (1965-1970).
- He learned his acting abilities by Otto Balckenberg in Munich.
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