Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Birthday: Born in 1900-07-27 in
Deathday: 1988-10-30
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Unheimliche Geschichten
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Tatort
Character: Antique Dealer
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Die Schwarzwaldklinik
Character: Konstantin Taubricht
The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after b...
Der Kommissar
Character: Robert Kersky
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein....
Der Tod läuft hinterher
Character: Inspector Brown
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Helga und die Nordlichter
Character: Vater Hans-Daniel
Helga und die Nordlichter is a German television series....
Pater Brown
Character: Inspektor Gilbert Burns
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Derrick
Character: Gösta von Turban
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Derrick
Character: Herr Baruda
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Derrick
Character: Stargard
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger
Character: Baron Karl-Otto von Steinegg
Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger is a German television series....
Konsul Möllers Erben
Character: Konsul Möller
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Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Professor Guillot
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour....
Wallenstein
Character: Tilly
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Der Sonne entgegen
Character: Prof. Lembach
Der Sonne entgegen is a German television series....
Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht
Character: Kaiser Friedrich III
Vom Webstuhl zur Weltmacht is a German television series....
Monaco Franze
Character: Dr. Völckers
A Munich detective falls into various misadventures as he pursues criminals and tries to evade women across the city....
L'Éducation sentimentale
Character: Dambreuse
Miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel....
Die Galerie der großen Detektive
Character: Sherlock Holmes
This is a 7-part German crime series by Peter A. Horn. In self-contained and unconnected episodes, the great detectives of crime literature solve various cases. Sherlock Holmes (Ernst Fritz Fürbringer) and Dr. Watson (Harald Mannl) start things off, followed by Auguste Dupin, David Wilson, Father Brown, Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff and Hercule Poirot. Every episode of this early crime series in the early days of television was still broadcast live. It could hardly have been more irregular: it...
Die Magermilchbande
Character: Lehrer Karrer
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Tim Frazer - Der Fall Salinger
Character: Donald Edwards
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Operation Walküre
Character: Erwin von Witzleben
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So Darling, So Deadly
Character: Prof. Akron
A scientist invents a filter that can increase the power of a laser beam, turning it into a death ray! A dangerous crime organization wants the device and will stop at nothing to get it, while murder and violence follow Joe and Tom to Singapore as they try to foil the evil plans....
The Tiger Gang
Character: Professor Tavaria
Captain Tom Rowland and Commissioner X are sent to Pakistan to destroy the Red Tigers gang, responsible for smuggling drugs from Afghanistan into the United States....
The Terrible People
Character: Sir Archibald
The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!...
Black Coffee
Character: Lord Amery
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Fellowship of the Frog
Character: Sir Archibald
Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murd...
Ludwig on the Lookout for a Wife
Character: School Director
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Secret of the Red Orchid
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Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons....
Lausbubengeschichten
Character: School Director
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Tante Frieda - Neue Lausbubengeschichten
Character: School Director
The 13-year-old Ludwig is to have for every joke. At boarding school he cuts his stern teacher, Captain a. D. Semmelmaier, during the nap from the beard. The angry pedagogue then sends the spoiled flail back to his beloved Bavarian village. The long-suffering mother persuades the rector to resume her reforming boy at the Latin school. Everything seems to be working out for the better, but the upcoming marriage of his sister Ännchen with the Berlin beer brewer Karl Schultheiss presents Ludwig wit...
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
Character: Connor
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault....
Viennese Spirit
Character: Prince Metternich
A musical comedy directed by Willi Forst....
Blond muß man sein auf Capri
Character: Von Straaten
Maria and Hannes are already looking forward to their vacation together when Hannes has to go away on business at short notice. Maria suspects that Hannes is having an affair with another woman and defiantly travels to Capri with her friends....
The Red Circle
Character: Sir Archibald Morton
A strange, red circle appears on the neck of a man saved from the guillotine. What is its mysterious meaning? Tragically, it turns out to be something of a family curse, as each generation thereafter bears the same sign, which in turn leads to blackmail and murder....
The Girl and the Legend
Character: Lord Horace
London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court ......
Andreas Schlüter
Character: Hofarchitekt
Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter....
Der arme Mann Luther
Character: Kaiser Karl V
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Die Dame in Schwarz
Character: Petterson, Bankier
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Heiße Ernte
Character: Vater Hubert Scharfenberg
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Der Herr vom andern Stern
Character: Professor Kalkhoff
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Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Character: Arzt
Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him....
Der Millionär
Character: Advokat Rienösl
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The Devil Strikes at Night
Character: Presiding Judge Dr. Schleffien
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case....
Der Pauker
Character: Oberschulrat Wagner
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The Trip to Marrakesh
Character: Jean, Orliacs Diener
Armande, the wife of surgeon Colbert, has numerous love affairs and pursues Jacques, whom Armande’s girlfriend Liliane has in her sights....
Dead Woman from Beverly Hills
Character: Professor Sostlov
Detective C.G. begins to investigate the death of an attractive woman whose naked body was found in Beverly Hills. When he recovers her journal, he is taken into her past where he finds that she lead a sexually promiscuous life. Perhaps in the pages of the diary will be a clue to her killer's identity....
Truxa
Character: Illusionist Garvin
The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa's place at a circus show in Wintergarten, Berlin....
Vorsicht Mister Dodd
Character: Sir Gerald Blythe
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Water for Canitoga
Character: Sheriff
In the spring of 1905, the water conduit project in the Canadian city of Canitoga is set to be completed. For years, the completion had been marred by sabotage. Engineer Oliver Montstuart commands the last blasting operation. But again, the explosive charge is too large and thus, further construction is forestalled again. When Montstuart confronts foreman Westbrook, the foreman threatens him with a knife. In self-defence, Montstuart shoots him. Now, he has to flee....
The Twelve Jurors
Character: Vierter Geschworener
Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict....
It Happened on July 20th
Character: 1. General
A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed....
Käpt'n Bay-Bay
Character: Präfekt
On his wedding day a sea captain recounts his various adventures to his guests...
Der blaue Stern des Südens
Character: Niccolini
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Ein Volksfeind
Character: Ministerialrat
Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has developed into a respectable resort. Dr. Stockmann is called in to become the town’s chief physician. He considers the sanitary conditions to be intolerable and insists on a clean-up. His ambitious brother and all those who, till now, have profited well from the corner cutting, are, of course, against that for financial reasons. The doctor is condemn...
Carl Peters
Character: Wehr-Bandelin
National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to...
The Stars Shine
Character: Hans Holger
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success....
Hannibal Brooks
Character: Kellerman
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland....
Gefangene Seele
Character:
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Gefährliche Jagd
Character: Narrator (voice)
A humorous documentary about a historic hunt in 1929 through the African savannah and Indian jungle with lots of animal footage....
Fasching
Character: Direktor Peter Wendland
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Der singende Tor
Character: Franchetti's lawyer
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Ein Blick zurück
Character: Professor Ammerfors
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Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone
Character:
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Ich bitte um Vollmacht
Character: Rechtsanwalt Dr. Norbert Hartwig
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Der große Fall
Character: Ein undurchsichtiger Herr
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Titanic
Character: Sir Joseph Bruce Ismay
In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines....
Grenzstation 58
Character: Grenzpolizeiinspektor Hirzinger
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Zwei Menschen
Character: Monsignore
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Frau Warrens Gewerbe
Character: Praed
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Sie liebten sich einen Sommer
Character: Professor Schott
The young medical student Claudia falls in love with the unknown but talented painter Stefan, whom she helps to get an assignment in Rome. They both get married before Stefan travels to Rome. When Claudia visits him there, they both spend the most wonderful days. The two's happiness doesn't last long......
Martin Luther
Character: Kardinal Cajetan
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Eight Witnesses
Character: Intelligence Chief
A scientist on the run with a valuable formula is murdered, and the only witnesses are eight blind people....
The Circus Princess
Character: Prinz Sergius
In this three-act operetta by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán, a dashing and mysterious circus performer is hired by a disappointed suitor of Princess Fedora Palinska to pose as a nobleman and marry her. This 1969 performance was produced for West German television....
Wallenstein
Character: Tilly
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In the Shadow of Karakorum
Character: Self - Narrator [West Germany & Austria] (voice)
In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Karakoram Mountains, geographically north of the Himalayas. They come across the Hunza, a people who live in the valley of the same name and believe they are descended from the soldiers of Alexander the Great. The documentary conveys impressions of the poor life of the Hunza people, the harvest, a court hearing, festivals and the children's everyday school life. Finally, the expedition sets off agai...
Animals United
Character: Elefant (voice)
One day the animals become too colorful: war is constantly going on among the people. When Alois, the lion, learns that the 365th Peace Conference has just failed, the animals decide that it is high time to intervene: they call their own "animal" peace conference. With much courage and even more imagination, they develop a plan so that Frides can finally prevail among the people of the world ......
Hexenjagd
Character: Pastor Hale
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Die Kuba-Krise 1962
Character: Dean Acheson
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Die heimlichen Bräute
Character:
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Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte
Character: Remisoff
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Der Monat der fallenden Blätter
Character: Harold Hilliard
When British philosopher Harold Hilliard took off for Warsaw to lecture on the Dysteleological Surd, he had no idea that he would soon become embroiled in international espionage. During the trip he tried to open a suitcase he mistook for his own. When a fellow passenger, a Pole with stainless steel teeth, took umbrage, Hilliard put it down to bad manners, but when the same man saw him pick up the wrong coat in the plane, Hilliard realized that he was suspected of spying. The party at the airpor...
Du bist mein Glück
Character:
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Is Paris Burning?
Character: General von Voineburg
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces....