Herb Andress(1935-2004)
- Actor
Herb Andress was born in upper Austria, and always intended to become
an actor. In 1957 he moved to France, appeared there in Chaque jour a son secret (1958) and in
1961 moved to New York, then later to San Francisco. He worked with
Elena Williams in Las Vegas and Los Angeles in an act that became well
known as "The Magical Dolls". He spent two years at a workshop at
Columbia Pictures under teachers like Ida Lupino, Ralph Nelson and Charlton Heston. His
first credits were under the name Herbert Andreas, and he often played
Germans in the classic war series Combat! (1962), and soon began to get better
parts. He moved to to Rome in 1968, and began a second career under the
name Herb Andress in international movies. He lives now in
Germany.
