Working as an extra in Hamburg he was discovered by acclaimed German theater director Gustaf Gründgens who gave him his first proper roles. He began formal training but dropped out of acting school after less than a year.
“I will become an actor and I’ll pay later on - in hell,” he said. In interviews he would later claim he had been so “brainwashed” by his family’s beliefs that, in his mind, he struck a “pact with the devil” to become an actor, even though it would condemn his soul to damnation. He left home at 16 and began work in the theater, first as a stage hand and extra at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, later as a performer. 17, 1942 in Kiel, northern Germany, Laser was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household where the Bible was the only reading material allowed. Despite initial creative differences with the director, Laser appeared in the third and final Centipede film, 2015’s The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence), this time as “Bill Boss,” the warden of a notorious prison who is inspired by the first two films to create a 500-person human centipede.īorn Feb. More infamous than successful - “it’s hard to say whether is more appropriately reviewed by a critic or therapist,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote at the time - The Human Centipede became a pop culture phenomenon and a touchstone for bad taste. The role won Laser the best actor honor at the Austin Fantastic Fest and a nomination for best villain at horror film honors the Screen Awards. “This is his 63rd acting role, but, poor guy, is seemingly the one he was born to play,” wrote Roger Ebert in his review of the film, in which Laser plays a deranged German surgeon who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus.
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