Klaus Schwarzkopf
Appearance
Klaus Schwarzkopf (18 December 1922 in Neuruppin – 21 June 1991 in Bochum) was a German actor. From 1971 until 1978 he starred in the Norddeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort. He was also known as a respected stage actor and for being the German synchronisation voice of Peter Falk as Columbo during the 1970s.
Schwarzkopf was gay, but never admitted it. His partner was the dancer Hubertus Moeller. Schwarzkopf died in 1991 of AIDS.[1]
Filmography
Film
- 1965: Praetorius (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Dr. Watzmann
- 1967: Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Roland
- 1968: Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (directed by Alexander Kluge), as Gerloff, philologist
- 1971: Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Sirius
- 1971: Jailbreak in Hamburg (directed by Wolfgang Staudte), as Police commissioner Knudsen
- 1972: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Dr. Erkner
- 1973: All People Will Be Brothers (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Boris Minski
- 1974: Three Men in the Snow (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Otto Tobler
- 1974: One or the Other of Us (directed by Wolfgang Petersen), as Professor Rüdiger Kolczyk
- 1974: Only the Wind Knows the Answer (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Vicar
- 1985: Die Grünstein-Variante (directed by Bernhard Wicki), as The Greek
Television
- 1964: Flug in Gefahr
- 1964: Nachtzug D 106
- 1966: Zehn Prozent
- 1969: Der Kommissar: Ratten der Großstadt
- 1971: Tatort: Blechschaden
- 1971: Der Kommissar: Besuch bei Alberti
- 1972: Tatort: Strandgut
- 1973: Tatort: Jagdrevier
- 1973: Der Kommissar: Rudek
- 1974: Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski (4 episodes)
- 1974: Tatort: Gift
- 1974: Der Kommissar: Tod eines Landstreichers
- 1974: Tatort: Nachtfrost
- 1975: Tatort: Kurzschluß
- 1976: Die Stunde des Léon Bisquet
- 1977: Tatort: Reifezeugnis
- 1977: Die Dämonen (based on Dostoyevsky's Demons)
- 1978: Tatort: Himmelfahrt
- 1979: Die Buddenbrooks (based on Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks)
- 1980: Derrick - Season 7, Episode 11: "Pricker"
- 1981: Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (based on Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull)
- 1982: Das blaue Bidet (based on an essay by Joseph Breitbach)
- 1983: Gin Romme
- 1983: Die Rückkehr der Zeitmaschine
- 1986: Liebling Kreuzberg: Doppeleinsatz
- 1987: Praxis Bülowbogen (18 episodes)
- 1990: Die Richterin
References
- ^ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Mann für Mann – Ein biographisches Lexikon, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Hamburg 2001
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