Andreas Wisniewski was born July 3, 1959, in Berlin, Germany. The 6ft 4in blond German spent the early part of his life dancing before turning to acting.

Andreas Wisniewski as Necros in ‘The Living Daylights’.

Wisniewski made his big screen debut in the 1986 Gothic, a film about Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in which Wisniewski plays the role of Fletcher. Probably his biggest film came the following year in 1987 Bond film The Living Daylights. Wisniewski portrays lethal hitman Necros who over the space of the film impersonates a Cockney milkman, an American jogger, a Austrian balloon salesman and a doctor. Throughout the film Wisniewski is seen listening to the song Where Has Everyboy Gone Sung by The Pretenders. Probably the most dramatic scene comes towards the end when James Bond is fighting for his life out the back of a plane with Necros, which ultimately ends with Necros falling to his death with Bond’s boot as his only hope of survival.

Some people would notice him in his next big role playing one of Hans Gruber’s henchman, Tony, in the 1988 blockbuster Die Hard, which sees him fighting it out with John McClane with the demise of Wisniewski’s character once again.