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Dietmar Schönherr

Austrian actor (1926–2014)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Dietmar Otto Schönherr was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1944 and 2014. He was famous for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German science fiction series Raumpatrouille. He was born in Innsbruck, Austria. He was married to the Danish actress Vivi Bach from 1965 until her death in 2013. In 2011 he was awarded with the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class.

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“Dietmar Schönherr” enters the record as austrian actor (1926–2014). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dietmar, Schönherr and Austrian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1944, 2014, 1965, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dietmar, Schönherr and Austrian.
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“Dietmar Schönherr” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dietmar, Schönherr and Austrian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1944, 2014, 1965 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dietmar Schönherr” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.