Dieter Schidor (6 March 1948 – 17 September 1987) was a German actor, perhaps best known for his work in
Sam Peckinpah
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Cross of Iron
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Querelle
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Dieter Schidor was born on 6 March 1948 in
Bienrode,
today a part of
Braunschweig
Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...
, Germany. From 1977 to 1986, Schidor lived with the New Zealand actor and producer Michael McLernon, until his death from AIDS. Schidor died from AIDS on 17 September 1987 in Munich.
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1948 births
1987 deaths
Actors from Braunschweig
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors
AIDS-related deaths in Germany
German gay actors
20th-century LGBT people
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