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83 years |
Birth date |
August 17, 1941 |
Zodiac sign |
Leo |
Place of Birth |
Germany |
Occupation |
Actor |
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Fritz Wepper (born 17 August 1941, Munich, Germany) is a German film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Inspector Harry Klein in the long-running crime series Derrick.
Fritz Wepper was born as the son of a lawyer who was missing in action as a soldier in Poland in 1945. He started his acting career in a production of Peter Pan at the age of eleven. He got his first important film role in Tischlein deck dich, a film adaption of the Brothers Grimm fairytale The Wishing Table. His breakthrough role was as a young soldier in Bernhard Wicki's anti-war film Die Brücke (1959) which won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Wepper kept his popularity with German audiences into adulthood and appeared in several notable German films of the 1960s. In 1972 he played Fritz Wendel, a Jew passing as a Christian, in the Oscar-winning film version of Cabaret, opposite Liza Minnelli and Marisa Berenson.
Height | 5 ft 9 in / 174 cm |
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Weight | 159 lb / 72 kg |
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Hair Color | Light brown |
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Eye Color | Blue |
Nationality | German |
Race / ethnicity | White |