The actor Christian Oliver has died: this is the dramatic plane crash

German-born Hollywood actor Christian Oliver died today in an accident together with his two young daughters it happened when the small plane they were traveling on crashed into the Caribbean Sea, moments after takeoff.

Oliver, who appeared on the big screen alongside George Clooney in “The Good German” and the 2008 action comedy “Speed;;Racer,” was aboard a privately owned single-engine plane, local police said in San Francisco. a declaration.

Fishermen, divers and coast guard immediately rushed to the scene They recovered the bodies of the four people who were on board the plane. Oliver, 51, died along with his daughters Madita, 10, and Annik, 12, and pilot Robert Sachs.

The plane was en route from Bequia, a small island in the Grenadines, to Saint Lucia shortly after noon local time.

The family appeared to be on holiday and Oliver had posted a photo of a tropical beach on Instagram days earlier along with the caption: “Greetings from somewhere in heaven! To community and love… 2024 here we come!”

Oliver, born Christian Klepser, has more than 60 film and television credits to his name, including a minor role in Tom Cruise’s “The Valkyrie.”

Early roles in his career include the television series “Saved by the Bell: The New Class” and the film “The Baby-Sitters Club.” In his native Germany, Oliver starred in the popular crime show “Cobra 11” for two seasons.

The German actor, who has died at the age of 51, began his career in the series “Saved by the Bell: The New Class”, a spin-off published in 1993 of the famous drama of the late 80s, “Saved by the Bell”. .Countryside’. Subsequently, in 2006, he was part of the cast of ‘The Good German’, a film directed by Steven Soderbergh, in which he worked alongside George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. In 2008, he starred in the live-action adaptation of “Meteor” and played Snake Oiler.

In the same year, Oliver participated in the film “Valkyrie” and played Sergeant Major Arthur Adam. Furthermore, in 2015 he participated in three episodes of the famous Netflix series ‘Sense8’, in which he played Steiner Bogdanow, a German mafia boss who fought with his cousin Wolfgang, one of the protagonists of the fiction.

For his part, Klepser was also part of the cast of ‘Indiana Jones and the Quadrant of Destiny’, the fifth and final film of the famous saga starring Harrison Ford, according to the specialized page IMDb.