Michael Ande (born 5 October 1944, Bad Wiessee, Germany) is a German actor, best known for his role as Gerd Heymann in the German crime-drama television series Der Alte which he played between 1977 and 2016.
Heimat is home, where I came from This kind of film stands for: very sentimental, lots of love (and some ache but with Happy End), idealistic setting, Lederhosen, Mountains, Conservative ideals, etc.
He played a variety of roles in these films, including choir boys.
One of these films was Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957) in which he played a chorister in the Vienna Boys' Choir.
Much attention he found in the role of Jim Hawkins on Television in Treasure Island, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was broadcast on Christmas 1966 for the first time.