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OLIVER COLLIGNON

Name: Oliver Collignon
Date of Birth: IMDb gives his date of birth as 1 January 1957.
Place of Birth: Munich, West Germany

Filmography

1972   Cabaret
1975   Verbrechen nach Schulschluß / Crimes After School
           Monika und die Sechzehnjährigen / Monika and the Sixteen-year-olds
           Autoverleih Pistulla / Pistulla Car Rental (TV Series)

The 14-year-old German extra Oliver Collignon became the HJ who sings 'Tomorrow Belongs To Me' in the 1972 film Cabaret, in one of the most memorable scenes of this remarkable movie, though his voice was overdubbed by the American actor and singer Mark Lambert. Neither Collignon nor Lambert were included in the film's closing credits.

Three years after Cabaret, Oliver, no longer blond and with his normal mane of scruffy 70s hair, starred in the first part of an anthology film (Verbrechen nach Schulschluß), an extremely poor sex comedy (Monika und die Sechzehnjährigen), and a TV series about a car rental business (Autoverleih Pistulla). Unsurprisingly after this inauspicious beginning, he never seems to have acted in anything else.

Four screenshots from Cabaret

   

Below: Collignon on the poster for Verbrechen nach Schulschluß.

 

Below: lobby card for Monika und die Sechzehnjährigen, showing Collignon as Johannes, whom all the sixteen-year-old boarding school girls have the hots for, despite his vocation to the priesthood! – clearly a multi-layered philosophical masterpiece in the tradition of Bergman, Pasolini and Tarkovsky.

Finally, Collignon in a scene from the TV series Autoverleih Pistulla.

Oliver Collignon more recently.