Walter Sedlmayr
Birthday: Born in 1926-01-06 in Munich, Bavaria, Weimar Republic [now Germany]
Deathday: 1990-07-14
Walter Sedlmayr was a German folk actor, television director, and author. His murder in 1990 caused a media sensation.
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Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Alois Hirsch
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by G...
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Bahnwärter
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by G...
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Herr Schmiedl
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by G...
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Renz
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by G...
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Drogist
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by G...
Tatort
Character: Dünnkitz
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....
Tatort
Character: Pröpper
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....
Der Kommissar
Character: Polizist
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 Kommissar
Character: U-Bahn-Kontrolleur
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 Kommissar
Character: Bürgermeister
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 Kommissar
Character: Alfons Tolke
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....
Unsere schönsten Jahre
Character: Seidl
Unsere schönsten Jahre is a German television series....
Der Millionenbauer
Character: Josef Hartinger
Der Millionenbauer is a German television series....
Der Schwammerlkönig
Character: Dädy Schwaiger
Der Schwammerlkönig is a German television series....
Pater Brown
Character: Privatdetektiv Muggleton
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Der Herr Kottnik
Character: Alfred Kottnik
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Der Alte
Character: Ziesenhut
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Herbert Smolka
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Derrick
Character: Mr. Huber
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: Koch
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....
Polizeiinspektion 1
Character: Franz Schöninger
Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series....
Vater Seidl und sein Sohn
Character: Vater Ludwig Seidl
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Spannagl & Sohn
Character: Gustav Spannagl
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Monaco Franze
Character: Felix Hallerstein
A Munich detective falls into various misadventures as he pursues criminals and tries to evade women across the city....
Hafenpolizei
Character: Loetz
Hafenpolizei is a German television series....
Eichbergers besondere Fälle
Character: Herr Eichberger
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Eichholz & Söhne
Character: Dritter Skatfreund
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Der Staudamm
Character: Hering
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Welt am Draht
Character: Janitor
World on a Wire is a two-part 1973 West German science fiction television serial broadcast on ARD. Shot on 16 mm film, the two-part miniseries is directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who co-writes the screenplay with Fritz Müller-Scherz, based on Daniel F. Galouye's 1964 novel Simulacron-3. In the future, Simulacron, a computer simulated reality, encounters strange occurrences after its leader's death. Dr Fred Stiller questions the sudden disappearance of a friend and wonders if Simulacron hol...
Heut' abend
Character: Self
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Alle Jahre wieder – Die Familie Semmeling
Character: Reiseleiter Wiesner
After building their own home, the Semmeling family wants to go on vacation. However, this leads to a few problems....
STERN CRIME: Walter Sedlmayr - Outing durch Mord
Character: Self (archive footage)
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Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
Character: Witwer
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (German: Acht Stunden sind kein Tag) is a West German television drama miniseries written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, it broadcast in five episodes between 1972 and 1973. In Cologne, West Germany, young toolmaker Jochen's world is explored, including those around him: the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor....
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Character: Mr. Angermayer
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future....
Cold Blood
Character: Franz Grendel
Corinna witnesses how three guys chase and shoot a man in front of her lonesome house. As only witness, they force her to come with them and care for the guy's wound. But she manages to flee shortly after and takes Blondi to a doctor. He tells her his story, how he used to smuggle drugs, but one day fled with a suitcase full of money. Corinna inexplicably falls in love with him and decides to accompany him on his further flight. But the villains are close behind them....
The Little Town will go to Sleep
Character:
In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about their written messages. A clever sculptor uses the opportunity to play a prank....
Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal
Character: Franz Josef Reyer
The forester Auer is found killed on a Sunday in the forest, and the police begins a feverish search for the culprit. Only pastor Gruber already knows who it is. It is Hannes Reyer, son of the richest farmer in the region, who has confessed the act of murder to him. Gruber, however, is bound to his obligation to secrecy. But when the young Ernst Nortinger is arrested under suspicion for murder, he knows what he has to do and relinquishes his priesthood in order to report Hannes to the police. Bu...
Die Jugendstreiche des Knaben Karl
Character: Vater Fey
At the behest of his father, the young Karl Valentin is to complete a carpentry apprenticeship. When the father gets into a financial mess by a strict creditor, the boy works with growing success as a comedian to support his parents financiall...
Three Girls from the Rhine
Character:
Therese Hübner, owner of the “Linde”, is desperately trying to protect her long-established business from being taken over by the “Palasthotel”. But the bank manager doesn't want to grant her the loan she urgently needs, as he is betting on the newly opened luxury hostel. It's now old or new for the Linden landlady, who is shocked to realize that her daughters are also in favor of “modernity”. But just as she's about to give up, the tide turns. An admirer in love with his daughter Sabine plays f...
Die fromme Helene
Character: Bauer Knoll
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Bremen Freedom
Character: Pastor Markus
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth-century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends....
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Character: Alois Permaneder
Second part of two of the saga of the troubled Buddenbrook family and their business in 19th century Germany....
Die drei Dorfheiligen
Character: Schwälble
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Der Jäger von Fall
Character: Loisl
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Waltz King
Character: Konditor Franz
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Lina Braake
Character: Emil Schöner
After the death of the owner of the house Lina Braake is living in, the house is accrued to the bank. During the complete refurbishment of the building, the 81-year old woman is thrown out of her flat and is put in an old people′s home. There she meets 84-year old Gustaf. Together, the lively seniors come up with a plan to trick the bank with a smart credit fraud and take their revenge. They need the money to buy a country house on Sardinia and leave Germany for good. Although their coup proves ...
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Character: Karren-Verkäufer
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However, the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes....
Heidelberger Romanze
Character: Wirt
The rich and jung American Susanne falls in love with the Student Hans-Joachim. Set in the romantic Heidelberg....
The Niklashausen Journey
Character: Pastor
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket? The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary....
Der Pauker
Character: Aushilfslehrer
Secondary-school teacher Dr. Hermann Seidel is transferred from his sleepy, provincial grammar school to the big city. Here, he has to deal with a class of obstreperous students, where his outmoded teaching methods help him precious little. With the aid of good friends, however, he manages to turn things around, and he soon gets a handle on the students in his very own way…...
Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Character: Fritz
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge....
Rio das Mortes
Character: Sekretär
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married....
Rosen-Resli
Character: Theo
The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother, from whom she had to leave when she fell ill with a heart condition. With the help of old Jacob, the girl manages to grow a particularly beautiful rose. After some complications, this proves to be a stroke of luck, and not just for her....
Theodor Hierneis oder Wie man ehem. Hofkoch wird
Character: Theodor Hierneis
The film consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The screenplay was written by Syberberg and Sedlmayr and is based on the memoirs of Hierneis....
Radetzkymarsch
Character: Rittmeister Taittinger
The story of the Trotta family during the rise and fall of the Austrian-Hungary empire. Based upon the novel by Joseph Roth....
Dorothea Angermann
Character: Willi
Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby....
Mathias Kneißl
Character: Polizist
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole from the rich to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence....
When Worlds Collide
Character: Ein Gendarm
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Einen Jux will er sich machen
Character: Kraps - Hausknecht
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Baal
Character: Anwalt Pschierer
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality....
Der Frontgockel
Character: Beni Banzinger
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People in the Net
Character:
Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations....
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Character: Waffenhändler
Ruth is the wife of well-heeled corsetry manufacturer Erich Halbfass. As business booms, Erich lives frivolously and their daughter Aglaia attends school. The bored middle-class wife begins a secret affair with Aglaia's drawing teacher, setting murder and manslaughter in motion....
Der Schäfer vom Trutzberg
Character: Eberhard von Trutzberg
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Zwei Menschen
Character: Martin
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Das Glöcklein unterm Himmelbett
Character: Judge
Erotic entanglements among farmers, citizens and local politicians in a Bavarian village at the turn of the century....
Die Münchner Räterepublik
Character:
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Fox and His Friends
Character: Car Dealer
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for love and affection soon spirals into tragedy....
Die Ameisen kommen
Character: Kommissar
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The Experts
Character:
This grim German psychological drama unveils the process by which an innocent man can be so damaged by interactions with the criminal justice system that the smallest incident can trigger a murderous fury. Matthias (Matthias Eysen) is already a misfit and has trouble meeting society's expectations. When he is picked up by the police for a minor crime, the brutal indifference with which he is treated wounds him in ways which are not healed by his being found innocent and being released....
A Free Woman
Character:
A divorced thirtysomething woman fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women....
Das Andechser Gefühl
Character:
An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not...
Der Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau
Character: Muckl
Pauli is a professional wood carver of religious figures, but can't get the approval of his girlfriend's strict father....
Der Komödienstadel - Der verkaufte Großvater
Character: Haslinger
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