Horst Tappert

Infobox actor
name = Horst Tappert
imagesize = 125px
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birthname = Horst Tappert
birthdate = birth date and age|1923|5|26
location = flagicon|Germany Elberfeld, Germany
deathdate =
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height = 1,87m
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website = http://www.agentur-palz.de/Schauspieler/horst_tappert.htm
notable role = "Stephan Derrick" on Derrick
academyawards = Bambi (1979, 1990, 1998)
Telegatto (1986, 1987, 1990, 1999)
spouse = Ursula Pistor (1957)

Horst Tappert (born May 26, 1923) is a German actor who is most famous for playing Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama "Derrick".

Life and work

Born in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal). His father was a civil servant. Following high school, Tappert was drafted into the army for Germany in World War II and became a prisoner of war. Following the war, he was hired as a bookkeeper at a theater in Stendal, Germany and became interested in acting himself. He took acting classes and gave his stage debut in Stendal, Germany, playing Dr. Stribel in Helwig's "Die Flitterwochen".

In the following years, he changed employers several times and, in 1956, started working at the Kammerspiele Munich. He has been an independent actor since 1967 and still works as an actor today.

In the late 1950s, Tappert started taking part in movie and television productions. His big breakthrough was in 1966 with the three-part television show "Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse", in which he played post office robber Michael Donegan. In 1968, he changed sides by playing Scotland Yard detective Perkins in Edgar Wallace movies. When the second public TV station in Germany, the ZDF, started planning a new mystery series with a different type of investigator in 1973, he was chosen for the character of detective Stephan Derrick, with sidekick assistant Harry Klein (played by Fritz Wepper).

The character of Stephan Derrick has become a cult figure all over the world. The series was licensed in 104 countries of the world and was equally popular with the Chinese, Japanese, Italians and pope Johannes Paul II. The last of 281 episodes was filmed in 1998, when Tappert had reached his self-imposed age limit of 75 years for being a TV actor.

Thanks to "Derrick", Horst Tappert is the only German actor with fan clubs abroad.Fact|date=May 2008

Divorced twice, he lives in Gräfelfing near Munich with his third wife "Ursula Pistor" (since 1957). He is the father of three children (Karin, Ralph and Gary).

In December 2001, one of Tappert's sons, Gary, died of organ failure after having gone into a coma. He was 52, and an architect.

Filmography

*1958 "Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika"
*1958 "Helden" (Arms and the Man), with O. W. Fischer, Liselotte Pulver, Ellen Schwiers
*1958 "Wir Wunderkinder" (Aren't We Wonderful?), with Hansjörg Felmy, Robert Graf, Johanna von Koczian
*1959 "Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte", with Nana Osten, Henry Vahl, Ullrich Haupt
*1959 "Jacqueline", with Johanna von Koczian, Walter Reyer, Götz George, Hans Söhnker
*1959 "Das schöne Abenteuer" (Beautiful Adventure), with Liselotte Pulver, Robert Graf, Bruni Löbel
*1959 "Ruf ohne Echo" (TV-Film)
*1961 "Zu viele Köche"
*1961 "Küß mich Kätchen", with Peter Carsten, Harald Leipnitz, Christiane Maybach
*1961 "Ein schöner Tag" (TV-Film), with Joachim Teege, Hugo Lindinger, Trude Hesterberg
*1962 "Das Halstuch" (TV-Film), with Heinz Drache, Albert Lieven, Erica Beer, Eckart Dux
*1962 "Er kann's nicht lassen", with Heinz Rühmann, Rudolf Forster, Grit Böttcher, Lina Carstens
*1963 "Das tödliche Patent" (TV-Film), with Wolfgang Preiss, Gisela Trowe, Siegfried Lowitz
*1963 "Zwei Whiskey und ein Sofa" (Whiskey and Sofa), with Maria Schell, Karl Michael Vogler, Robert Graf
*1964 "Sechs Personen suchen einen Autor" (TV-Film), with Helmut Förnbacher, Robert Freitag
*1964 "Der Aussichtsturm" (TV-Film), with Claudia Sorbas, Konrad Georg, Monika John
*1964 "Leonce und Lena" (TV-Film), with Dieter Kirchlechner, Gertrud Kückelmann
*1965 "Eine reine Haut" (TV-Film), with Herbert Fleischmann
*1966 "Das ganz große Ding" (TV-Film), with Carl-Heinz Schroth, Brigitte Grothum
*1966 "Ein Tag in Paris" (TV-Film), with Paula Denk, Ingeborg Solbrig, Peter Fröhlich
*1966 "Der Kinderdieb" (TV-Film), with Isolde Bräuner, Lucie Mannheim, Walter Jokisch
*1966 "Der Mann aus Melbourne" (TV-Film), with Herbert Stass, Alf Marholm, Roma Bahn
*1966 "Der Schwarze Freitag" (TV-Film), with Curd Jürgens, Dieter Borsche
*1966 "Jerry Cotton: Die Rechnung - eiskalt serviert", with George Nader, Heinz Weiss
*1966 "Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse" (The Great British Train Robbery) (TV-Dreiteiler), with Hans Cossy, Günther Neutze
*1967 "Liebe für Liebe" (TV-Film), with Wolfgang Büttner, Helmut Griem, Klaus Löwitsch
*1968 "Der Hund von Blackwood Castle" (The Horror of Blackwood Castle), with Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Hans Söhnker
*1968 "Heißer Sand auf Sylt" (Hot Sand on Sylt - Just to Be Loved - The New Life Style), with Charlotte Kerr, Renate von Holt, Axel Burg
*1968 "Der Gorilla von Soho" (The Ape Creature - Gorilla Gang) , with Uschi Glas, Uwe Friedrichsen, Hubert von Meyerinck
*1968 "Das Kriminalmuseum - Die Reifenspur" (TV-Film)
*1969 "Der Mann mit dem Glasauge" (The Man with the Glass Eye), with Karin Hübner, Fritz Wepper, Hubert von Meyerinck
*1969 "Sieben Tage Frist" (Seven Days Grace), with Joachim Fuchsberger, Konrad Georg, Karin Hübner, Petra Schürmann
*1970 "Sie tötete in Ekstase" (She Killed in Ecstasy), with Soledad Miranda, Fred Williams
*1970 "Inspektor Perrak greift ein" (Perrak), with Erika Pluhar, Judy Winter, Werner Peters
*1970 "Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen" (And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot), with Alain Noury, Konrad Georg, Horst Frank
*1971 "Bleib sauber, Liebling" (The Love Keys), with Reinhold Brandes, Helmut Braschm, Hans-Werner Bussinger
*1971 "Der Teufel kam aus Akasava" (The Devil Came from Akasava), with Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Siegfried Schürenberg
*1971 "Der Kapitän" (The Captain's Table) , with Heinz Rühmann, Johanna Matz, Ernst Stankovski, Horst Janson
*1972 "Der Todesrächer von Soho" (The Corpse Packs His Bags), with Wolfgang Kieling, Barbara Rütting
*1972 "Hoopers letzte Jagd" (TV-Film), with Max Mairich, Liselotte Pulver, Florian Halm
*1973 "Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau" (TV-Film), with Lilli Palmer
*1973-1998 "Derrick" (Drama)
*1974 "Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler" (I Wasn't a Very Good Student Either), with Jutta Speidel, Georg Thomalla, Rudolf Platte
*1984 "Cinématon"
*2000 "Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe" (The Cardinal) - (TV-Film), with Christine Reinhart, Enzo De Caro
*2001 "In 80 Jahren um die Welt" (TV-Film)
*2003 "Herz ohne Krone" (The Uncrowned Heart) - (TV-Film), with Eleonora Brigliadori, Franco Nero, Jacques Breuer
*2004 "Derrick - Die Pflicht ruft" (Derrick - The Feature Film) - (Original voice of Tappert and Wepper)

Books

*cite book
year = 1999
title = Derrick und ich. Meine zwei Leben (Derrick and I. My two lifes
editor = Heyne-Verlag
edition = 1st
publisher = Heyne-Verlag Munich
location = Munich, Germany
id = ISBN 3-453-15000-7

External links

*imdb name|id=0850096|name=Horst Tappert
* [http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/portraet/0,1946,2000607,00.html ZDF Profile] de icon
* [http://www.agentur-palz.de/Schauspieler/horst_tappert.htm Palz Agency Munich] de icon