Career
After growing up in Berlin and Hamburg, Hinz had his first theatrical role in 1958 in Terence Rattigan"s The Sleeping Prince at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. Hinz also starred in numerous films, such as The Longest Day, television series, and was the voice actor for Jeff Goldblum in The Ray Bradbury Theater and Scott Wilson in the 1967 film In Cold Blood. In 1967, he met the actress Viktoria Brams.
His ashes were interred as the Westfriedhof in Munich.