Horst Tappert

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Horst Tappert
Born Horst Tappert
May 26, 1923 (1923-05-26) (age 85)
Flag of Germany Elberfeld, Germany
Spouse(s) Ursula Pistor (1957)
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Horst Tappert (born May 26, 1923) is a German actor who is most famous for playing Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama Derrick.

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[edit] 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.[citation needed]

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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] Books

  • (1999) in Heyne-Verlag: Derrick und ich. Meine zwei Leben (Derrick and I. My two lifes, 1st, Munich, Germany: Heyne-Verlag Munich. ISBN 3-453-15000-7. 

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