Horst Buchholz’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actor Horst Buchholz died at the age of 69. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Remembered best for his roles in the 1960s films Fanny (as Marius), The Magnificent Seven (as Chico), and One, Two, Three (as Otto Ludwig Piffl), this German-born actor also appeared in such German-language movies as Nasser Asphalt and Die Halbstarken.

A native of East Berlin, Germany, he was raised by his mother Maria Hasenkamp and his stepfather Hugo Buchholz, as well as by a foster family in Czechoslovakia (during the World War II years). His marriage to French movie actress Myriam Bru resulted in two children.

Buchholz, who was recovering from a broken thighbone, died in intensive care at the Charite hospital, spokeswoman Kerstin Ullrich said. The cause of death was pneumonia.