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Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a Swiss-born writer, ufologist, television presenter and producer. He is a proponent of the pseudo-archaeological theory that ancient alien astronauts interacted with ancient humans. He is best known for his appearances on the television series Ancient Aliens. Tsoukalos also hosted the H2 series In Search of Aliens, which ran for one season in 2014.
In 2021 he appeared as himself on the television series Resident Alien.- Dominique Devenport was born in 1996 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Davos 1917 (2023), Sisi (2021) and Night Train to Lisbon (2013).
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For 40 years, Sean Ferrer has worked in all aspects of motion picture development, production, post-production and marketing. After taking a short sabbatical to create a series of charities dedicated to continuing his mother's humanitarian legacy, Sean directed and produced a one-man feature documentary titled, Racehoss (2001). Shot on HDTV, Racehoss (2001) is based on the highly successful biography by Albert Race Sample currently being developed as a feature by Mike Judge. Sean also executive produced of the award winning Australian mini series Cloudstreet (2011), based on the Australian best selling novel by Tim Winton. He is also the executive producer of Living the Blues (2010), a documentary about blues singers and musicians. Previously, Sean produced the motion picture Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991) raising the $6 mill budget independently. The film stars Alfre Woodard, Jill Clayburgh, Allison Elliot, Tess Harper and Charles S. Dutton. Directed by Ivan Passer, Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991) is set in the 1950's and chronicles the relationship between an African American mother and her white adopted daughter. Sean was also producer _Stranger's Kiss (1983)_ (starring 'Victoria Tennant' and Peter Coyote (Orion Pictures)) and Good to Go (1986) (starring Art Garfunkel (Island Pictures)). Sean's other production credits include: 1st AD. on Blood In, Blood Out (1993) (directed by Taylor Hackford); 2nd Unit U.P.M./ls1 AD. on Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992); Executive Director on Eye of the Widow (1991) (starring F. Murray Abraham, Ben Cross, Rick Young and Annabel Schofield); 1st AD./2nd Unit Supervisor on Old Gringo (1989) (directed by Luis Puenzo, starring Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck); Associate Producer on Ironweed (1987) (directed by Hector Babenco, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep); Director of Post-Production, Marketing and Foreign Servicing for Keith Barish Productions on Light of Day (1987) (starring Michael J. Fox) and The Running Man (1987) (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger). Other credits include: Treasure of the Moon Goddess (1987) (Hemdale), Bad Manners (1984) (Disney), They All Laughed (1981) (starring Audrey Hepburn and John Ritter), One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982) (starring Robert Mitchum and Angie Dickinson), Inchon (1981) (directed by Terence Young, starring Lawrence Olivier and Jacqueline Bisset). Sean has also produced music videos for Sade ("Paradise") and Joan Jett ("Light of Day"). Sean directed the live broadcast and was a founding member of the "American Cinema Awards." Educated in Europe, Sean is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.- Kevin Creekman was born on 17 July 1988 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Kevin is an actor, known for Disaster Man (2022), Bad Wolves: Killing Me Slowly (2019) and Illustrated Man (2016).
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American leading man and character actor of the silent period. Born in Crystal City, Missouri(though a number of popular reference works list Switzerland and Kokomo, Indiana). He is listed in the 1880 census as living in Kokomo at the age of two years. This means his date of birth must have been 1878. His father, Paul Santschi was born in Sigriswill, Switzerland and came to the U.S. as a child. Tom Santschi promoted the myth that he was born in Switzerland since it seemed much more exciting than being born in Crystal City or Kokomo. After performing as an amateur actor, he made his professional stage debut at age 19, and worked for the next decade in the theatre. He landed a small role in a film produced by Selig Polyscope, and over the next few years rose from bit player to leading man. He directed and wrote a few of his films. Following the First World War, he became more frequently seen in supporting roles, often as villains. He worked consistently until his death in 1931.- Actor
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Swiss professional wrestler known for his work for Ring of Honor, CHIKARA, CZW, IWA Mid-South, Pro Wrestling Guerilla and many other promotions under his own name and for WWE as Cesaro, formerly Antonio Cesaro. Debuted in 2000 and competed all over Europe, debuting in the U.S. in 2004. He and Chris Hero (Chris Spradlin) formed the Kings of Wrestling in CHIKARA and would go on to be the inaugural CHIKARA Campeones de Parejas (tag team champions). They would also be 2x ROH World Tag Team Champions, 2x CZW World Tag Team Champions, 1x JCW (Juggalo Championship Wrestling, the Insane Clown Posse's promotion in Michigan) Tag Team Champions, and, in 2010, Dave Meltzer's "The Wrestling Observer Newsletter" named them the Tag Team of the Year. He has also been a PWG World Heavyweight Champion, a WWE United States Heavyweight Champion and a 4x WWE Tag Team Champion (1x w/Tyson Kidd (T.J. Wilson) and 3x w/Sheamus (Stephen Farrelly)).- Composer
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Multi-award winning composer Marcel Barsotti is an impressive and extraordinary talent who creates powerful individual film scores and electronic music that expand the possibilities of storytelling. The composer is known for a wide range of international projects, from the impressive highly awarded international drama La Línea Imaginaria (2023), to the acclaimed Constantin Production Pope Joan (2009) and The Miracle of Bern (2003), the dystopian thriller Forgiveness (2022), to the well-known Warner family entertainment comedies Jesus Loves Me (2012) and The Return of the Racing Pig (2006), to the most successful german documentary Germany. A Summer's fairytale (2006) and the international fantasy movie The Bible Code (2008).
Barsotti's numerous more than 80 wins & nominations include the Bristol Independent Film Festival Award, German Record Critics Award, Rome & Madrid International Movie Award, New York Cinematography Award, Goldspire International Film Award, Atlantis Moondance Award, nominations at the Cannes World Film Festival, International Sound & Film Music Festival, Next Generation Indie Film Awards, Global Film Festival Los Angeles, German Television Award, German Film Academy Award, German Film Critics Award, German Music Authors Award and more than 40 other international credits.
Since 1995 Barsotti has composed the scores for more than 100 national and international movies & commercials. During these years he worked with famous directors and producers like Sönke Wortmann, Günter Rohrbach, Caroline Link, Luc Besson-Production, Carl Schenkel, Josée Dayan, Eberhard Junkersdorf and Hark Bohm.
From 1982 - 1988 he studied composition, piano, conducting and clarinet at the Conservatory of Munich in Germany. He is also contributing to the worldwide ethnic Sample Library Ethno World. In 2017 he founded the production music company Tunesformovies. In 2022 Barsotti starts a career as a music video director and received several wins like the International Singapore Competition Award & the London Movie Award.
From 2019 - 2022 Barsotti released his first electronic solo albums Transpicuous, Earth & YOX, as well as the orchestral cycle Americana, all of which were placed in the Spotify charts/playlists for several months and became very popular with numerous listeners and millions of streams of his more than 30 Soundtracks. In 2023 Barsotti started with his first orchestral concert tour.- Director
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Michael Koch is a young Swiss actor who received his training at the Actor's Academy at the "Junges Theater Basel", in Switzerland. Some of his many theater credits include the leading role in "Playboy of the Western World", featured at the Theaterspektakel in Zürich. He also played in "Die Schaukel", a theater play which won the 2001 Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Impulse Off-Theater Festival, and was invited to the prestigious Vienna Festwochen in 2002. His notable debut in cinema was in the motion picture "Achtung, Fertig, Charlie!" ("Ready, Steady, Charlie!"). A Swiss movie which became, during its 8 weeks of theater projection in Switzerland, the most successful film for years to be released in the country. It was nominated for the 2004 Swiss Film Prize.- Actor
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The son of Austrian political figure, Prince Ernst Ruediger von Starhemberg and Austrian stage and screen actress Nora Gregor, Prince Heinrich (von) Starhemberg joined his parents in Latin American exile after the 1938 Nazi annexation of Austria. Originally a student of law and philosophy, Starhemberg became interested in acting during his college years. Since 1964 he has been a well-known producer, director and actor in the four countries he resides in: Spain, Austria, Chile and Argentina. In addition to his Madrid-based Nora Productions, Starhemberg has appeared in over forty film and television roles and on many Latin American and European stages, often under the name Heinrich or Henry Gregor. Starhemberg has made the family castle in Eferding, Austria home to his Eferding Cultural Institute, which hosts international symposia on European culture and sociopolitics. A novelist and playwright as well, Strahemberg's stage works have been produced in several languages in Austria, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Chile and Argentina.- Gorgeous, buxom, and shapely brunette knockout Jolanda Egger was born on January 8, 1960 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She's the daughter of a Swiss filmmaker. Jolanda has lived in Spain, Germany, and Switzerland while working as a model, actress, or stewardess. Egger was the Playmate of the Month in the June, 1983 issue of "Playboy." She has acted in a couple of movies and made a guest appearance on an episode of a TV show. Jolanda married race car driver Marc Surer in 1986; she divorced Surer seven years later. Egger then married Patrick Tavioli in 1997; the couple had two children before splitting up in 2004. Jolanda married hotel owner Jacques Risi on her 50th birthday on January 8, 2010.
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Thomas Imbach was born on 19 December 1962 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a producer and director, known for Mary Queen of Scots (2013), Happiness Is a Warm Gun (2001) and Day Is Done (2011).- Director
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Aldo Gugolz was born in 1963 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Anche stanotte le mucche danzeranno sul tetto (2020), Zeit im Fluss (1997) and Rue de Blamage (2017).- Actress
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Alexandra Datig was born on 5 December 1969 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994), The Works (1996) and Marijuana: A Chronic History (2010).- Producer
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Villi Hermann was born on 8 May 1941 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a producer and writer, known for San Gottardo (1977), Matlosa (1981) and Bankomatt (1989).- Writer
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Fritz Muri was born in 1955 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a writer and director, known for Marc Forster - Der Weg zu 007 (2008), Eye Opener (2013) and Andy Hug: Vom Rocky zum Samurai (1995).- Actor
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He just finished his first independent feature film in America where he stars as "Mickey" in "Smile Now, Cry Later" and Patrick won the "Best Actor" award at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA during the "CineRockom" Film Festival in October 2013. Patrick sang and co-produced three songs for the "Smile Now, Cry Later" soundtrack.
He co-stars as "Adalric" in the provocative short film, "Crescendo" that won 11 International Film Festival Honors and is Executive Produced by Pattie Mallette (Justin Bieber's Mom).
He became famous with numerous Top Ten hits from his two pop/rock Albums "Welcome" & "Superglue" on Warner Music and his third Album, a self-titled CD, called "Nuo" for SONY BMG. His song "Undone" was chosen as the theme song for the Warner Bros. blockbuster hit, family film, Scooby Doo 2. For his music, Patrick has won the Bravo Otto Award & Radio Regenbogen Award.
Patrick became even more popular on German TV with hit shows on RTL including: "Deutschland sucht den Superstar" with Patrick as the Judge (Germany's version of "American Idol).- Producer
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Andrea Staka was born in 1973 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is a producer and director, known for Mare (2020), Fraulein (2006) and Cure: The Life of Another (2014).- Regula Mühlemann was born on 7 January 1986 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Hunter's Bride (2010), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Flûte enchantée/The Magic Flute (2013) and Das Labyrinth (2012).
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After studies of law and journalism entered film production as assistant to Maximilian Schell in 1971, production manager since 1975. Own production service company Unicorn Films founded in 1985. Worked with Fred Zinnemann, Jean-Jacques Annaud and on various James Bond action sequences. Lectures at University Siegen on film production.- Editor
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Andreas Karrer was born on 20 February 1977 in Sursee, Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an editor, known for Star Trek: Short Treks (2018), Star Trek: Discovery (2017) and Krypton (2018).- Writer
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Max Zihlmann was born on 6 February 1936 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was a writer and actor, known for Furchtlose Flieger (1971), Ein großer graublauer Vogel (1970) and 48 Stunden bis Acapulco (1967). He was married to Eva Pampuch. He died on 12 March 2022 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.- Thelma Morgan was born on 23 August 1904 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for So This Is Marriage? (1924), A Society Scandal (1924) and Any Woman (1925). She was married to Marmaduke Furness and James Converse. She died on 29 January 1970 in Culver City, California, USA.
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Judith Kennel was born in 1958 in Root, Lucerne, Switzerland. She is a director and assistant director, known for Zornige Küsse (2000), Steinschlag (2005) and Letzte Spur Berlin (2012).- Ruth Bannwart was born on 31 January 1943 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for Nid jetz, Schatz! (1972), Der Sprung von der Brücke (1980) and Das gefrorene Herz (1980). She died on 13 February 2017 in Zollikerberg, Switzerland.
- Tim Wielandt was born on 6 March 1974 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Tobias Ineichen was born on 18 May 1964 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Tage im Galopp (1993), Clara and the Secret of the Bears (2013) and Sonjas Rückkehr (2006).- Director
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Jonas Raeber was born in 1968 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a director and producer, known for Grüezi (1995), Hoffen auf bessere Zeiten (1993) and Credo (2000).- Actress
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Edith Mathis was born on 11 February 1938 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Die Hochzeit des Figaro (1967) and Der junge Lord (1969).- Writer
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Peter Obrist was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. After attending London International Film School, Peter was an assistant director on numerous music-film productions with world famous orchestras as The Vienna Philharmonics, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, top rating conductors like Karl Boehm, Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta and top musicians like Arthur Rubinstein and Yehudi Menuhin. Thereafter he was assistant director on theatre productions with The Freies Theater Muenchen, FTM, in Munich, Germany. 1986 Manuel, first feature Film as scriptwriter and director, awarded best young director at The Filmfestival Karlovy Vary. 1985 setup of production company relief-film, producing low-budget feature films and documentaries on sociocultural issues in India, Southkorea, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritius, Madagascar and in the South Pacific. 1995-2015 writing popular TV-shows and TV-movies for German and Swiss public and private TV channels. Highlights: 2004 Fremde I'm Paradies, awarded with the Prix Swissperform Cinema Tout Ecran Geneva. 2005 Peter created and scripted the German public TV ZDF crime-show Unter anderen Umstaenden, awarded 2006 with the Civis-Price. 2015 co-founding new production company Good Karma Fiction.- Actor
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Chris Bucher was born on 28 October 1987 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for King Courage (2012), Tyfelstei: An Alpine Horror Tale (2014) and The Lost Valley (2017).- Actress
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Ruth Schwegler was born in 1962 in Grosswangen, Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress and producer, known for Wilder (2017), The Circle (2014) and Buumes (2013).- Actor
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Emil Steinberger was born on 6 January 1933 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an actor and writer, known for Kassettenliebe (1981), Die Schweizermacher (1978) and The Formula (1980). He has been married to Niccel Kristuf since 28 May 1999. He was previously married to Maya Rudin.- Kerstin Cook was born on 15 April 1989 in Kriens, Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Paolo Poloni was born in 1954 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Fondovalle (1998), Mulhapar (2014) and Asmara (1993).- Director
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Ben Donateo was born in 1988 in Lucerne, Switzerland. Ben is a director and writer, known for Burnt. Land of FIre (2020).- Karin Frei was born on 31 May 1969 in Lucerne, Kanton Luzern, Switzerland.
- Max Heinzer was born on 7 August 1987 in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Thomas Oswald was born on 14 August 1981 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for 2B or Not 2B (2005).- Yvonne Kupper was born on 21 April 1944 in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Ein Fall für Männdli (1973), Mirakel (1990) and Pfarrer Iseli (1970).
- Peter von Matt was born on 20 May 1937 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an editor, known for Zimmer 202 - Peter Bichsel in Paris (2010), Merzluft (2015) and Der Meienberg (1999).
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Peter Bichsel was born on 24 March 1935 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a writer and director, known for Unser Lehrer (1971), Der Gemeindepräsident (1984) and A Table Is a Table (2010). He was previously married to Therese Bichsel.- Mauro Peter was born in 1987 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Die Zauberflöte (2017), Wozzeck (2018) and Das Labyrinth (2012).
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Ueli Christen was born on 21 April 1962 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an editor and assistant director, known for The Wave (2008), Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) and Gladbeck (2018).- Anja Zeidler was born on 27 July 1993 in Lucerne, Kanton Luzern, Switzerland.
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Martin Boyd was born on 10 June 1893 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He was a writer and actor, known for The Forgotten One (1989), Lucinda Brayford (1980) and Outbreak of Love (1981). He died in 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Producer
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Phil Carmen was born on 14 February 1953 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is a producer, known for Nena: Du bist überall (1990), C'est encore mieux l'après-midi (1985) and Der Club (1985).- Director
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Curt Truninger started his career while still a student of political science, writing film reviews for the German edition of 'Elle', and several Swiss dailies. He also worked as a feature writer for magazines like German Penthouse and STERN. He continued as a film, art and TV reviewer when he joined the Swiss TV DRS in Zürich where he did an internship. He directed and produced segments for the weekly arts program and was one of the hosts of the film program "Neu im Kino". In the second part of the 80's he worked primarily in Germany, first in Munich for the broadcaster ARD (i.e. "Weltspiegel") and then for the ZDF in Mainz. There he contributed to the weekly art show "Aspekte" and directed numerous long form documentaries and docu-dramas. For the ZDF/3SAT he co-hosted the talk show "Begegnungen" (Encounters). Commissioned by the legendary photographer , Richard Avedon, Curt directed a documentary about Avedon's Swiss tour and exhibition. He also directed a long form Music Video which was shot in Australia and England. Later Curt Truninger wrote the screenplay for his first feature film "Waiting for Michelangelo" (German: "Kein Mann ist perfekt") together with producer Margrit Ritzmann and directed and co-produced the film in 1995/96. "Waiting for Michelangelo" is distributed worldwide by Channel Four in London. In November 2000, Curt Truninger finished his new feature film DEAD BY MONDAY, a dark romantic comedy. The film was produced by Margrit Ritzmann and Ulrich Felsberg of 'Road Movies', Berlin, Wim Wender's production company. In 2010 Curt completed a darkly comic drama about two singles. He is in preparation for his ensemble comedy Zoe's Brilliant Plan.
Curt Truninger is also a visual artist, working currently on an installation project. The Swiss filmmaker is also an accomplished athlete. He started out as a gymnast and played soccer for one of the top boy's teams of Switzerland. A sport accident brought his career into the 'arty direction'. Later he was also a fine swimmer, winning several long distance races. As a good Swiss he is an expert skier, winning a bronze medal in the British University Ski Championship. His former professor of Political Science T. C. Archer, now at Manchester Metropolitan University, commented: "Curt could have been a head coach of Manchester United, as well as an academic. At a loss for the academic world he ended up as a filmmaker".
Curt Truninger lives in Toronto and Zürich. He still occasionally keeps his hand in journalism.- Producer
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Gerd Gockell was born 1960 in Darmstadt; from 1980-87 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brunswick; he worked as a freelance animator for the "HR-Hessische Rundfunk" Frankfurt; 1988 he moved to London and worked on several film projects; in 1990 he founded the ANIGRAF film production with Kirsten Winter in Hanover; various teaching appointments since 1992, including e. g. the Academy of Fine Arts in Brunswick, Ngee Ann Polytechnics in Singapore, Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and 2002-2011 Head of the Animation Dept. at the University of aplied Sience and Arts Lucerne, Switzerland; 2009 he founded the "Gerd Gockell Filmproduktion"; lives and works in Hanover and Lucerne.- Music Department
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Conductor, author, and music director for the Voice of America (1940-1947), educated at the University of Munich (Ph.D), and holder of a conducting diploma from the Academy of Vienna. He came to the USA in 1939, and conducted the Charles Wagner Opera Company between 1940 and 1947. During World War II, he served in the US Army, and was awarded a Bronze Star and five Battle Stars. In 1953 he began conducting the Opera Theatre at the University of Southern California, and conducted the University Symphony since 1958. He moved to Austin, Texas with his wife Gina in the fall of 1968 and headed up the Opera Theatre at The University of Texas.- Alfred Muff was born on 31 May 1949 in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2003), Guglielmo Tell (1988) and Don Giovanni (2007).