Klaus Maria Brandauer (1943–) Actor, Director.

Klaus Maria Brandauer, born in Bad Aussee, Austria in 1943, rose to fame internationally through his work in Mephisto (1981), a Hungarian production, before portraying Bond villain and Sean Connery’s opponent Maximilian Largo in Never Say Never Again (1983). Brandauer subsequently starred with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in Out of Africa (1985), a performance that won him a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination. Brandauer would eventually work with Sean Connery again in the spy film The Russia House (1990). He is pictured here with Sean Connery in 1982.