Helmut Baierl was born on December 23, 1926 in Rumburk, Czechoslovakia as Helmut Johannes Baierl. He was a writer and actor, known for Lachtauben weinen nicht (1979), Das zweite Leben des Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Platow (1973) and Unterwegs zu Lenin (1969). He died on September 12, 2005 in Berlin, Germany.