Klaus Schwarzkopf
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 . Schwarzkopf died in 1991 of AIDS.[1]
Filmography[]
Film[]
- 1956: Bonjour Kathrin (directed by Karl Anton), as Neighbour (uncredited)
- 1961: Freddy and the Millionaire (directed by Paul May), as Policeman (voice, uncredited)
- 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. Wolfgang 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: Bernhard Wicki), as Spiros the Greek (directed by
Television[]
- 1964: Nachtzug D 106 (TV film), as Zugkellner
- 1964: (TV film), as Harry Burdick
- 1966: Zehn Prozent (TV film), as Oberregierungsrat Frühwirth
- 1968: Spravedlnost pro Selvina (TV film), as Frank Selvin
- 1969: Der Kommissar: Ratten der Großstadt (TV series episode), as Krüger
- 1969: Bitte recht freundlich, es wird geschossen (TV film), as Frank Crawford
- 1969: (TV film), as Vendrino
- 1971: Der Kommissar: Besuch bei Alberti (TV series episode), as Gerhard Sidessen
- 1971: Tatort: (TV series episode), as Kommissar Finke
- 1972: Tatort: (TV series episode), as Kommissar Finke
- 1973: Der Kommissar: Rudek (TV series episode), as Georg Hauffe
- 1973: Tatort: (TV series episode), as Kommissar Finke
- 1974: Tatort: (TV series episode), as Kommissar Finke
- 1974: Der Kommissar: Tod eines Landstreichers (TV series episode), as Pock
- 1974: Eintausend Milliarden (TV film), as Müller-Mend
- 1975: Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski (TV miniseries), as Don Pacheco
- 1975: Tatort: (TV series episode), as Kommissar Finke
- 1977: Tatort: Reifezeugnis (TV series episode), as Kommissar Finke
- 1977: Die Dämonen (TV miniseries, based on Dostoyevsky's Demons), as Anton L. Grigoreff / Narrator
- 1978: Tatort: (TV series episode), as Kommissar Finke
- 1979: Die Buddenbrooks (TV miniseries, based on Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks), as Jesselmeyer
- 1980: Derrick: Pricker (TV series episode), as Alfred Pricker
- 1982: The Confessions of Felix Krull (TV miniseries, based on Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull), as Felix Krull's Father
- 1982: Das blaue Bidet (based on an essay by Joseph Breitbach) (TV film), as Barbe
- 1983: Gin Romme (TV film)
- 1983: Die Rückkehr der Zeitmaschine (TV film), as Dr. Erasmus Beilowski
- 1985: Derrick: Lange Nacht für Derrick (TV series episode), as Dr. Bomann
- 1985: Der Fahnder: S.O.S. am Sonntag (TV series episode), as Willie Spiegel
- 1986: Liebling Kreuzberg: Doppeleinsatz (TV series episode), as Dagobert Gruber
- 1986: Derrick: Die Nacht, in der Ronda starb (TV series episode), as Dr. Walter Schenk
- 1986: (TV film), as Léon Bisquet
- 1987–1992: Praxis Bülowbogen (TV series, 18 episodes), as "Gleisdreieck"
- 1980: Derrick: Kein Risiko (TV series episode), as Ingo Wecker
- 1988: The Old Fox: Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Mord (TV series episode), as Rudolf Ballat
- 1990: Die Richterin (TV film), as Benjamin Hofmann
References[]
- ^ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Mann für Mann – Ein biographisches Lexikon, Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Hamburg 2001
External links[]
Categories:
- 1922 births
- 1991 deaths
- German male television actors
- LGBT entertainers from Germany
- AIDS-related deaths in Germany
- Gay actors
- People from Neuruppin
- German male film actors
- 20th-century German male actors
- German television actor stubs