1. Fritz Wepper was a German film and television actor.
13 Facts About Fritz Wepper
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Fritz Wepper is best known for his role as Inspector Harry Klein in the long-running crime series Derrick.
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Fritz Wepper was born as the son of a lawyer who was missing in action as a soldier in Poland in 1945.
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Fritz Wepper started his acting career in a production of Peter Pan at the age of eleven.
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Fritz Wepper got his first important film role in Tischlein deck dich, a film adaption of the Brothers Grimm fairytale The Wishing Table.
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Fritz Wepper kept his popularity with German audiences into adulthood and appeared in several notable German films of the 1960s.
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Fritz Wepper's Wendel marries Marisa Berenson's character, a wealthy Jewish heiress, as Nazi power grows inexorably in Europe.
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Fritz Wepper played this role between 1974 and 1998 in 281 episodes of Derrick.
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From 2002 until the show's cancellation in 2021, Fritz Wepper played the sneaky and sly, but ultimately good-hearted, Mayor Wolfgang Woller in the TV series Um Himmels Willen, which was for many years one of the most-watched German television series.
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Fritz Wepper's daughter, Sophie is an actress, they appeared together in the crime series Mord in bester Gesellschaft between 2007 and 2017.
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Fritz Wepper made headlines in the yellow press when he left von Morgen for the far younger Susanne Kellermann was born on 1974 and in 2009.
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Fritz Wepper has a daughter was born on 2012 and from the relationship with Kellermann, but later returned to his wife.
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Fritz Wepper died in Munich on 25 March 2024, at the age of 82, less than six months after his brother Elmar's death.