Burkhard Driest

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Burkhard Driest (28 April 1939[1][2] — 28 February 2020) was a German actor, writer and director. He was perhaps best known for his acting work in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle.[3] He was born in Stettin.

Driest died on 28 February 2020 in Berlin of a long-illness, aged 80.[4]

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  1. "Burkhard Driest". Bild (in German). Bild.de. 12 January 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  2. "Burkhard Driest". Munzinger Archiv (in German). Internationales Biographisches Archiv. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  3. Selbst-Porträt der Kindheit und Jugend in: Florian Langenscheidt (Hrsg.): Bei uns zu Hause. Prominente erzählen von ihrer Kindheit. Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3430159458.
  4. "Schauspieler Burkhard Driest gestorben". Die Zeit (in German). 28 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.

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