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- Birth nameHeinrich Göbel
- Heini Göbel was born on May 15, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1954), Der Fall Winslow (1961) and Der Revisor (1955). He died on September 24, 2009 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Göbel attended the Academy of Theatre and Music in Frankfurt from 1934 to 1936 and received his first engagements in Gießen, Bremerhaven and Darmstadt.
- Heini Göbel was a German film, stage and television actor.
- At the age of almost 90, he went on tour with the actor and entertainer Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff.
- In 1955 he portrayed Hercule Poirot in a German television adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express the first time the novel had been adapted for the screen.
- In the television version of 12 Angry Men, Göbel played the chairman of the jury alongside Mario Adorf and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer.
- I never considered myself an artist. I'm an acting engineer. That's precisely why the theater was the best thing that could have happened to me. Every performance was like Christmas to me.
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