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Harry Groener is a German-born American actor and dancer born on September 10, 1951, in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, to a musical family with an opera singer mother and concert pianist father. He emigrated to the United States with his family when he was two years old and later apprenticed with the San Francisco Ballet before studying drama at the University of Washington. Groener began his career in theater, making his Broadway debut in the 1979 production of "Oklahoma!" and going on to appear in shows including "Cats," "Crazy for You," and "Copenhagen," earning several Tony nominations for musicals like "Oklahoma!" and "Cats." He transitioned successfully to television and film, becoming perhaps best known for playing Mayor Wilkins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (seasons 3, 4 and 7), while also appearing in Dear John as Ralph Drang, How I Met Your Mother as Clint, and Mad About You as Lance Brockwell. His extensive television work includes multiple Star Trek series appearances, playing Tam Elbrun in The Next Generation's "Tin Man" episode, the Nechani Magistrate in Voyager's "Sacred Ground" episode, and Minister Nathan Samuels in Enterprise's "Demons" and "Terra Prime" episodes, and his film credits include A Cure for Wellness (2016), Patch Adams (1998) and Road to Perdition (2002). He has been married to Dawn Didawick since September 19, 1978, and his versatility as both a stage and screen actor, combined with his memorable villainous turn as the charming yet sinister Mayor Wilkins, has made him a respected figure in both theater and television.
Harry Groener
Helmut Krause
for Helmut Krause in Cold Files ( Die Kalten Akten )
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Cold Files is a surreal German crime mystery set in the early 2000s. Johann Stolz, a disgraced 50-year-old former detective, returns to the police force as a nobody in the archives. His job is to read unsolved cold cases and file them away. Until every file becomes a door. Johann has to go to the actual crime scene, and once he steps onto the location, the world shifts. Like an invisible spirit, he sees the murder with brutal clarity. Time rewinds around him. Footsteps. Voices. The killer’s route. The victim’s final moments. It all plays out in front of his eyes. The first presence to find him is Lydia Finkel, a rape and murder victim who becomes his guide. She pulls Johann toward scenes no one wants reopened, showing him details that never made it into reports. Johann has to turn what he witnessed into real evidence before anyone labels him unstable. Case by case, he exposes killers the system missed, until a pattern points back to a legend from the East Germany era under Soviet control. A faceless murderer known as Der Gesichtlose. When Johann reaches Lydia’s file, he returns to her crime scene and relives everything. And there, in the sharpest vision of all, he learns the truth. The man he’s been hunting is the one who killed her. Now Johann isn’t sorting old failures. He’s being pulled straight toward the most dangerous case of his life.
