Editing Reggie Nalder

{{Short description|Austrian actor (1907–1991)}}
{{one source|date=August 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name         = Reggie Nalder
| image        = 
| caption      = 
| birth_name   = Alfred Reginald Natzler
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1907|09|04|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Vienna]], [[Austro-Hungary]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1991|11|19|1907|09|04|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Santa Monica, California]]
| occupation   = Actor
| years_active = 1940s–1990s
}}

'''Reggie Nalder''' (born '''Alfred Natzler'''; 4 September 1907 – 19 November 1991) was a prolific [[Austrian people|Austrian]] film and television [[character actor]] from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features—partially the result of disfiguring burns<ref name= "vampires">{{cite news |last=Boucher |first=Geoff |title=The vampires with real bite |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=21 October 2007 |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-21-ca-vampires21-story.html  |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref>—together with a haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That Launched a Thousand Trips".

==Life and career==

Born in [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]], he was the son of actor and [[operetta]] singer Sigmund Natzler.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia |first=Stephen |last=Whitty |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |location=London |year=2016 |isbn=9781442251601 |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUkxDAAAQBAJ&dq=reggie+nalder+vienna&pg=PA292 |access-date=2024-10-08 |url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theater-wien.at/media/file/38_Stagione_22.pdf |title=Theater an der Wien}}</ref> He was a cousin of actresses and singers [[Grete Natzler]] and [[Hertha Natzler]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weniger |first=Kay |title='Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und ™sterreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945: Eine Gesamtübersicht |lang=de |trans-title="In Life, More is Taken From You Than Given...": Lexicon of Filmmakers Who Emigrated From Germany and Austria Between 1933 and 1945: a General Overview |publisher=Acabus Verlag |location=Hamburg |year=2011 |isbn=9783862820498 |page=358 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0wz3etGJoUC&q=grete+natzler+nalder&pg=PA358 |access-date=2024-10-08 |url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> As a young man he performed at second-rate Vienna theatres and from the 1930s in several [[cabaret]]s in [[Paris]]. After [[World War II]] he worked for the [[German language]] service of the [[BBC]].

Nalder is perhaps best remembered for his roles as an assassin in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1956 remake of ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', the vampire [[Kurt Barlow]] in the 1979 [[Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)|TV adaptation]] of the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[Salem's Lot]]'', and the [[Andorian]] ambassador Shras in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "[[Journey to Babel]]".

Nalder appeared, at the request of star [[Frank Sinatra]], in a brief, uncredited role as a communist spymaster named Dmitri in [[John Frankenheimer]]'s 1962 film ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]''. He also had a brief role in the 1981 Walt Disney film ''[[The Devil and Max Devlin]]'' but stated in an interview that he could not stand working with [[Bill Cosby]], the star of the film. He described him as "a pig", as well as "rude, arrogant, and very untalented."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kinoeye.org/03/02/delvalle02.php |title=Interview with David Del Valle |website=kinoeye.org |access-date=17 January 2018}}</ref>

Nalder's television work also included episodes of the series ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]'', ''[[It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)|It Takes A Thief]]'', ''[[Surfside Six]]'', [[Boris Karloff]]'s ''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'' ("The Terror In Teakwood" and "The Return Of Andrew Bentley"), ''[[McCloud (TV series)|McCloud]]'' and ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]''. Nalder was also credited as "Detlef Van Berg" in the [[X rated]] films ''Dracula Sucks'' (1978) and ''Blue Ice'' (1985), but performed in no scenes of a pornographic nature.

==Death==
Nalder died of [[Osteosarcoma|bone cancer]] in [[Santa Monica, California]] in 1991, aged 84.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=The face that launched a thousand trips {{!}} An Interview with Reggie Nalder |interviewer=[[David Del Valle]] |journal=Kinoeye |date=2003-02-03 |volume=3 |issue=2 |url=https://www.kinoeye.org/03/02/delvalle02.php#1 |access-date=2024-10-08 |quote=This interview was done with him in 1989 but never published in his lifetime.}}</ref>

==Partial filmography==
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* ''[[Roxy and the Wonderteam]]'' (1938) - Fußballer
* ''[[Jericho (1946 film)|Jericho]]'' (1946)
* ''La colère des dieux'' (1947)
* ''[[Dilemma of Two Angels]]'' (1948) - Bébé
* ''Le signal rouge'' (1949)
* ''[[Adventures of Captain Fabian]]'' (1951) - Constant
* ''[[Bluebeard (1951 film)|Bluebeard]]'' (1951) - Captain of the guard
* ''[[Betrayed (1954 film)|Betrayed]]'' (1954) - (uncredited)
* ''[[The Lovers of Lisbon]]'' (1955) - Le maître d'hôtel / Hotel Manager (uncredited)
* ''Les évadés'' (1955) - Le gardien avec le chien / Guard with dog  (début du film) (uncredited)
* ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'' (1956) - Rien
* ''[[Liane, Jungle Goddess]]'' (1956) - Viktor Schöninck
* ''[[Not Delivered]]'' (1958) - Dédé
* ''Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen'' (1958) - Sekretär Dewitz
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* ''[[The Spiral Road]]'' (1962) - Burubi
* ''[[Convicts 4]]'' (1962) - Greer
* ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]'' (1962) - Gomel (uncredited)
* ''[[The Day and the Hour]]'' (1963) - Le gestapiste
* ''Les saintes-nitouches'' (1963)
* ''[[Mark of the Devil (1970 film)|Mark of the Devil]]'' (1970) - Albino
* ''[[The Bird with the Crystal Plumage]]'' (1970) - Needles, Yellow Jacket Assassin (uncredited)
* ''[[Mark of the Devil Part II]]'' (1973) - Natas
* ''[[The Dead Don't Die (1975 film)|The Dead Don't Die]]'' (1975) - Perdido
* ''[[Fellini's Casanova]]'' (1976) - Faulkircher
* ''[[Crash!]]'' (1977) - Man at swap meet
* ''[[Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (film)|Zoltan, Hound of Dracula]]'' (1977) - Veidt Smith
* ''[[Dracula Sucks]]'' (aka ''Lust At First Bite'') (1979) - Dr. Van Helsing
* ''[[Seven (1979 film)|Seven]]'' (1979) - Ronald Kahala 'The Hermit'
* ''[[Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)|Salem's Lot]]'' (1979) - [[Kurt Barlow]]
* ''[[The Devil and Max Devlin]]'' (1981) - Chairman of Devil's Council
* ''Blue Ice'' (1985) - Anton Stuttgart
* ''[[Jericho (1991 film)|Jericho]]'' (1991) - German conqueror (final film role)
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==References==
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==External links==
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