German actor
Sky du Mont
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Nina_Petri_%2834954367482%29.jpg/220px-Nina_Petri_%2834954367482%29.jpg) Du Mont in 2017
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Born
| Cayetano Neven du Mont
(
1947-05-20
)
20 May 1947
(age 77)
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Other names
| Sky DuMont
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Spouses
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Helga Lehner
(
m.
1972, divorced)
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Diane Stolojan
(
m.
1992;
div.
1995)
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Cosima von Borsody
(
m.
1995;
div.
2000)
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Mirja du Mont
(
m.
2000;
div.
2016)
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Children
| 3
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Website
| www
.skydumont
.de
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Cayetano Neven du Mont
[
needs German IPA
]
(
Spanish:
[ka?e?tano
?neβen
du
?mon]
; born 20 May 1947), known professionally as
Sky du Mont
(
German:
[?ska?
dy
?moː]
,
Spanish:
[es?kaj
ðu
?mon]
), is a German-Argentine
actor
.
Early life
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Sky du Mont's family, who are related to the famous publishers
DuMont Schauberg
, fled the Nazis in the 1930s to South America.
[1]
He was born in Argentina as the son of a German and the British Chiquita Neven du Mont (1921?2018).
[2]
He grew up in England,
[3]
but came to Germany in 1969,
[4]
where he studied acting between 1969 and 1972 in Munich.
Career
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In Germany, he is well known for playing suave and urbane, sometimes villainous or shady upper class characters since the 1970s.
[5]
He appeared in three of the commercially most successful German film comedies of all time: In
Otto ? Der Film
(1985) as an aristrocratic-looking swindler, as the villain "Santa Maria" in the Western comedy
Der Schuh des Manitu
(2001) and in
Traumschiff Surprise ? Periode 1
(2003), where he reprised his role as "Santa Maria" and played a second role as "William der Letzte" (William the Last), an English duke in the Middle Ages.
In international cinema, Sky du Mont portrayed the Hungarian businessman Sandor Szavost in
Stanley Kubrick
's
Eyes Wide Shut
(1999) and played one of the Nazi killers in
The Boys from Brazil
(1978). Other international roles include Count
Galeazzo Ciano
in the US-miniseries
The Winds of War
(1983),
Claus von Stauffenberg
in the sequel
War and Remembrance
(1989), and a recurring role in the soap opera
General Hospital
in the 1980s. Du Mont also made an uncredited appearance in
Das Boot
as the officer aboard the resupply ship
Weser
[6]
to whom the U-96 Second Watch Officer demonstrates Depth-Charging. While he only appears in the background in the theatrical and director's cut, his full appearance is featured in the uncut mini-series.
Du Mont also serves as the German narrator of the children series
Thomas & Friends
. He is also known for his voiceover work for commercials.
Personal life
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Sky du Mont lives in Hamburg and has been married four times. In 2016, he separated from his wife Mirja Du Mont, who is also the mother of two of his three children, Tara Neven du Mont and Fayn Neven du Mont.
[7]
His third and oldest son is named Clemens Neven du Mont.
He was a member of the
Free Democratic Party
and supported them in campaigns, but left them in early 2018.
[8]
Selected filmography
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Sky du Mont reading
Confessions of Felix Krull
in 2005
Films and Miniseries
Television Series
- 1976:
Derrick
- Season 3, Episode 2: "Tod des Trompeters"
- 1978:
Derrick
- Season 5, Episode 6: "Klavierkonzert"
- 1980:
Derrick
- Season 7, Episode 6: "Die Entscheidung"
- 1982:
Derrick
- Season 9, Episode 7: "Hausmusik"
- 1984:
Derrick
- Season 11, Episode 4: "Drei atemlose Tage"
- 1984:
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
- Season 2, Episode 2: "The Times They Are a Changin"
- 1985:
Derrick
- Season 12, Episode 1: "Der Mann aus Antibes"
- 1986:
Derrick
- "Der Augenzeuge"
- 1988:
Derrick
- "Die Stimme"
- 1988:
Derrick
- "Die Mordsache Druse"
- 1989:
General Hospital
as Claudio Maldonado
- 1992:
Derrick
- "Mord im Treppenhaus"
- 1993:
Derrick
- "Ein Objekt der Begierde"
- 1994:
Derrick
- "Der Schlussel"
- 1995:
Derrick
- "Ein Mord und lauter nette Leute"
- 1996:
Derrick
- "Zeuge Karuhn"
- 2005:
Arme Millionare
External links
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References
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