| Net Worth: | € 10 million |
|---|---|
| Age: | 67 |
| Born: | 07/17/1952 |
| Country of origin: | United States of America |
| Source of wealth: | Singer and actor |
| Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
David Hasselhoff was born in Baltimore, Maryland, which is in the USA, on July 17th, 1952. He is an American actor and singer and has German ancestors. He became famous for his two leading roles in the television series Knight Rider and Baywatch. He also became known through various musical publications.
Early life
After birth and childhood, David Hasselhoff quickly discovered his acting talents, which he was able to demonstrate from 1975 to 1982 in the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. There he embodied the role of the young seducer Dr. Snapper Foster. In Germany, this series was put on the program under the synonym shadow of passion by the broadcaster Sat.1. In addition, various photos showing him in a leather jacket and black swimming trunks established his reputation as a male sex symbol. In 1979 he was Prince Simon in the Italian copy of Star Wars titled Star Crash – Duel Stars.
Career
David Hasselhoff achieved his worldwide breakthrough as Michael Knight in the series Knight Rider, which ran from 1982-1986 and reached an audience of millions. The series also achieved cult status. being the most-watched television series in the United States in the 1980s. With the Baywatch series, which started in 1989 and had a total of 241 episodes, David Hasselhoff also reached an audience of millions. This is also surprising because the US television series flopped in the United States after the first season. Baywatch later became the most successful television series in the world, with the series being shown in 144 countries. David Hasselhoff plays the role of lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and is the main actor in the series, which ended in 2001. In 2004 David Hasselhoff was also the main actor in the musical Chicago, a Westend production in London. He played Billy Flynn there. David Hasselhoff later described the leading role in the musical Jekyll and Hyde, which he embodied in 2000, as the realization of a great dream. In 2004, he made a short guest appearance as a coach for the German national team in the film Voll auf den Nüsse. David Hasselhoff also appeared in the real-time game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. In the end, David Hasselhoff was even named President of the United States. The star made his first appearance in a casting show in 2009 when he was a juror on the casting show America’s Got Talent. Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne were sitting next to him. In 2013 he was a guest on the Sat.1 television show Celebrity Big Brother, but had to leave it because his father was ill.
Career highlights
David Hasselhoff repeatedly went on trips to the two art forms of singing and dancing, for which he was very interested. In 1985 and 1987 he released two less successful albums with the two ballads Night Rocker and Lovin ‘Feelings in the USA. These two albums Night Rocker and Lovin ‘Feelings were released in Switzerland in 1989 and subsequently founded David Hasselhoff’s success in the Alpine republic. In 1988 David Hasselhoff appeared on a television show in which his famous car from the television series Knight Rider was driven onto the stage, where he also sang a duet with the actor Harald Juhnke. David Hasselhoff owes his mother-in-law to working with the German producer Jack White. The story is that Jack White was made aware of David Hasselhoff and spoke in favor of working with David Hasselhoff. With Jack White David Hasselhoff recorded the song Looking for Freedom in 1989, which after the appearance on the television show Wetten, dass ..? was sold up to 70,000 times a day in Germany and thus took first place in the hit parade for eight weeks. Then Jack White and David Hasselhoff recorded the album of the same name in a studio in Kitzbühel, which in the same year became the best-selling album within Germany. Finally, David Hasselhoff also made his breakthrough as a singer in Germany, after he was initially only successful in Austria. One of his highlights was on New Years Eve 1989, when he sang Looking for Freedom in front of the Berlin Wall in front of more than 500,000 people. In the 1990s, he produced several songs for Jeremy Jackson.
Famous quotes
- “It’s great that part of the wall is still standing. What do people want to see when they are in Berlin for the first time? They want to see the wall, they want to go with the Trabi and they want to go to the Brandenburg Gate. It is important to have a memory of the people killed here. ”
Amazing facts
The paternal great-great grandmother came from Völkersen near Bremen. In 1996 Hasselhoff was awarded a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood.
David Hasselhoff has received numerous other prestigious awards.
