Background
Lukas Amann"s mother was a singer and his father a painter.
Lukas Amann"s mother was a singer and his father a painter.
Starting in 1933 he attended the acting school of Max Reinhardt in Berlin.
He continued to work steadily for over 60 years. He is best-known for his title role in the German television series Graf Yoster. Early After he saw Schiller"s The Robbers at grammar school in Basel, he aspired to be an actor.
In 1934, he left Germany with Heinrich Gretler for Switzerland.
In the beginning he worked in Saint Gallen and later at the Schauspielhaus Zürich with Therese Giehse. In 1948 he participated under Kurt Hirschfeld in the role of the attorney in the premiere of Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti.
After World World War II, Ammann belonged to the Ensemble of the theatre Kleine Freiheit in Munich. Guest performances and tours led him to stages in Austria, Scandinavia and the United States of America. Ammann began his film career in the 1939 Swiss movie Wachtmeister Studer after the novel of Friedrich Glauser, starring Heinrich Gretler.
Beginning in the 1950s, he was successful especially on German Television.
In 1961, he played in the series Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox with Günter Pfitzmann and Paul Edwin Roth. In 1963, he was one of the jurors in Die zwölf Geschworenen, which was a remake of the American film 12 Angry Men for German television In 1966, Ammann played in the first color-television series Adrian der Tulpendieb.
On top of that he appeared in series like Das Kriminalmuseum, Die fünfte Kolonne, Der Forellenhof and Der Kommissar.
In 1973, the horror movie Mark of the Devil Participant II depicted him as tortured to death. From 1994-2000, Ammann played a family patriarch in the television series Die Fallers.
In 1998, he played a purported survivor of the Holocaust in Dani Levy"s film Meschugge. In 2005, at age 92, he played Abi Golstein in Micha Lewinsky"s Swiss short film Herr Goldstein.
Ammann lent his voice in German dubbing Peter Sellers (in John and Julie, 1955) and Lucky Luke (in the animated film Daisy Town, 1971).
In 2013, he worked again, aged 101, with the director Ronnie Vogt on the movie Reunion Solitaire. Lukas Ammann lives in Munich. As of 2015, he still runs his household by himself and also still drives his car.