Does he look familiar to you? He was in at least three major motion pictures.

He had big roles in El Cid, King of Kings and Dr Zhivago.

Gerard Tichy (also Gérard Tichy, Gerhard Tichi and Gerardo Tichy, 11 March 1920 – 11 April 1992) was a Spanish actor of German descent, who appeared in numerous movies, including several international productions. He was born in Weißenfels, Germany, on 11 March 1920, and died in Madrid, Spain, on 11 April 1992.

 

Tichy participated in World War II and held the rank of a lieutenant when it ended. He was put in a French POW camp but soon managed to escape to Spain. There he started his film career in the war epic Balarrasa (1951) and quickly became a prominent character actor in Spanish cinema, ultimately appearing in 99 films over the course of his career.

 

A capable if not fluent English speaker, Tichy also appeared in several international productions that were filmed in Spain, most notably King of Kings (1961) as Joseph, El Cid (1961) playing King Ramirez, and Doctor Zhivago (1965) as Liberius, a Red partisan commander.

Source:  Wikipedia entry

He looks a little like Josef Mengele!

13 hours ago, Salvage Sailor said:

Gerard Tichy (also Gérard Tichy, Gerhard Tichi and Gerardo Tichy, 11 March 1920 – 11 April 1992) was a Spanish actor of German descent, who appeared in numerous movies, including several international productions. He was born in Weißenfels, Germany, on 11 March 1920, and died in Madrid, Spain, on 11 April 1992.

 

Tichy participated in World War II and held the rank of a lieutenant when it ended. He was put in a French POW camp but soon managed to escape to Spain. There he started his film career in the war epic Balarrasa (1951) and quickly became a prominent character actor in Spanish cinema, ultimately appearing in 99 films over the course of his career.

 

A capable if not fluent English speaker, Tichy also appeared in several international productions that were filmed in Spain, most notably King of Kings (1961) as Joseph, El Cid (1961) playing King Ramirez, and Doctor Zhivago (1965) as Liberius, a Red partisan commander.

Source:  Wikipedia entry

Thats him.

Sure wish we knew his unit, by the photo he seems to have dark waffenfarbe all over, artillery, engneers maybe? Can't make out the numbers or device on his shoulder straps. Says captured in Alsace no date given, since he was a French POW then captured by them say in the Colmar Pocket in February 1945???

 

This is bits and pieces translated from a Spanish site on him, his last name might not of been Tichy/Tichi. it may have been Wondzinski  Not sure how accurate this is as far as his service goes. as we see no units are mentioned, says Infantry, and Iron Cross, whether that means the 2nd Class or both the 2nd and 1st Class it doesn't say.

 

Gerhard Tichy Wondzinski was born in Weissenfels a. Saale, a town in northern Germany on March 11, 1920.

 

He then lived a short period of artistic activity in which he combined amateur theater with sculpture, painting and a rapturous passion for a certain famous film actress. It is then when, near the outbreak of World War II, he trained in the "Labor Service", in a military camp near Goering's residence, where he stood out for fulfilling the order of painting a portrait of the Führer, who will preside over the hall of the institution. Suddenly, Gerard exchanges brushes and clays for weapons as he has been in combat from the very beginning of the war, with the invasion of Poland in 1939, as an infantryman. He also takes part in the conquest of France, a campaign in which he wins the officer's stripes. He also moved to the Russian front and ended his military service in Alsace.

 

 

When the terrible battle ends, Tichy is a lieutenant in the Wehrmacht and among the medals obtained for his merits in combat is the mythical "Iron Cross". Peace brought for the young officer(which we can see in an impressive portrait with his uniform, there next door) the seclusion in a prison camp in Bordeaux, in which he was confined for a year and a half and from which he managed to escape on Christmas Eve 1946, to be captured little later and transferred to another field. In the new destination, he stays only a few hours, then he boldly escapes and, with the help of a map available to the prisoners for their forced labor of digging up mines, sets out on foot and by train to reach Dax. In this town, he has been hiding in a cinema for a long time, until he manages to board the Hendaye rapid. As the Spanish border was closed, the determined Teuton studied the existing possibilities of crossing it and decided to ford the Bidasoa under a bridge. The Spanish border police detain him and three months pass until they find German residents in Spain to endorse it. He settles temporarily in San Sebastián, exercising various activities until he moves to Madrid where he begins by becoming a waiter at Casa Valentín first and at Club Castelló, later. and through the mediation of his compatriot, the operator Hans Sheib, he is claimed for the cinema by César Fernández Ardavín, who was looking for someone to give the type for the character of the German submarine commander, for his film “Neutrality” 1949.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here he is in these movies, got them all on DVD, so thats what got me interested in this when I WIKIed the casts and seen he was a German, in the German Army in WWII.

 

St Joseph in The King of Kings

 

King Ramiro in El Cid, not sure but he maybe will be Ramiro I of Aragon

 

 Liberius the  Red Partisan Commander in Doctor Zhivago.

On 7/17/2021 at 10:38 PM, patches said:

Here he is in these movies, got them all on DVD, so thats what got me interested in this when I WIKIed the casts and seen he was a German, in the German Army in WWII.

 

St Joseph in The King of Kings

 

King Ramiro in El Cid, not sure but he maybe will be Ramiro I of Aragon

 

 Liberius the  Red Partisan Commander in Doctor Zhivago.

 Liberius, that's a funny name for a Russian