Dieter Laser, a veteran German actor best known to international audiences for playing the evil Dr. Heiter in cult horror film The Human Centipede, has died.
He was 78. Laser's wife Inge told media on Friday that her husband had died in Berlin on Feb. 29. Laser appeared in more than 60 films and TV series, starring alongside Bruno Ganz in a TV production of Peer Gynt, with Glenn Close in István Szabó's Meeting Venus (1991) and with John Malkovich in Volker Schlöndorff's The Orge (1995).
But international audiences knew him best for roles in schlocky cult hits, playing the insect human machine Mantrid in the sci-fi comedy series Lexx or, most famously, the evil Dr.
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