Heinrich Schweiger

Heinrich Schweiger (23 July 1931 – 14 July 2009) was an Austrian film and stage actor who played leading roles at the Burgtheater on the Ring beginning in 1949. Among the plays in which he starred were Schiller's Don Carlos, Shakespeare's Othello and Richard III and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. The actor's last roles were in Wallenstein, Franz Lehár's Das Land des Lächelns and in an ORF TV series.