Erik Schumann
Birthday: Born in 1924-02-15 in Grechwitz, Germany
Deathday: 2007-02-09
TV Credits
Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein
Character: Simeon
Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein is a TV adaption of a novel of the same name by Austrian author Johannes Mario Simmel. Directed by Thomas Engel Siegfried Rauch walks in the footsteps of O. W. Fischer who played the protagonist "Thomas Lieven" already in 1961, just one year after the bestseller had been released. The series is unique for providing a little cooking show at the end of each episode. The book also includes recipes because "Thomas Lieven" is an accomplished amateur cook....
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Markus Renn
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: Gerd Dietz
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: Greve
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: Graffe
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: Broschek
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: Merk
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....
Derrick
Character: Herr Kessler
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....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Alf Weißenborn
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Horst Zoller
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series....
Hotel Paradies
Character: Alexander
Hotel Paradies is a German television series....
SOKO München
Character: Jochen Glaser
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
Graf Luckner
Character: Crapotte
Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman....
Cristoforo Colombo
Character: Benguela
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition....
Melissa
Character: Don Page
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Movie Credits
Lili Marleen
Character: von Strehlow
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”....
Veronika Voss
Character: Dr. Edel
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit....
Flaming Frontier
Character: Captain Miller
Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert...
The Counterfeit Traitor
Character: Nazi Gunboat Officer
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany....
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Character: Hans Schott
The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacuated by ships. Gotenhafen was the last open port and ships left the town almost by the minute, overloaded by refugees. One of the last ships to leave Gotenhafen was the 'Wilhelm Gustloff', a former 'Kraft durch Freude' pleasure cruiser designed...
Natürlich die Autofahrer
Character: Walter Schliewen
Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing pilot called Walter. But it gets even worse when Eberhard wins a VW-Kaefer at the annual police party. So he has to learn to drive and thus even brings his teacher close to a heart attack....
The Two-Headed Spy
Character: Lt. Reinisch
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest....
The Inquiry
Character: Flavio
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal....
When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn
Character: Danny Sontag
A crime reporter (Erik Schumann) uncovers a lurid plot by a Hamburg gang to dose impressionable young girls with LSD in order to enslave them into prostitution. Featuring mad killers, psychedelic acid trips and ladies mud wrestling!...
Question 7
Character: Rolf Starke
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes....
Devil's Girls
Character: Bob Fishman
Betty is in jail after a failed raid on a jewelry store while her accomplice Bob escaped. But by chance she finds Bob's hiding place and towers with four other girls....
Slavers
Character: Bill Parry
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love....
The Restless Night
Character: Hauptmann von Arnim
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Barbara - Wild wie das Meer
Character: Dr. Nielsson
A drama set on Faroe Islands by Frank Wisbar based on the novel by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen....
Johannisnacht
Character: Lorenz von Hergeth
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Paradies der flotten Sünder
Character: José Uraga
Ignaz Hirnbeißer has won the lottery. Now he has the money to travel to where the smartest playboys and the hottest girls can be found. However, he is told adventurous stories about this place at the travel agency....
Sky Without Stars
Character: Carl Altmann
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love....
A Piece of Heaven
Character: Ronald Henning
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Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder
Character: François Dupont
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Durchbruch Lok 234
Character: Harry Dölling
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Fabrik der Offiziere
Character: Hauptmann Rathshelm
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Heiße Ernte
Character: Konrad Stammer
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Muß i denn zum Städtele hinaus
Character: Dr. Werner Koch
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Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter
Character: Student
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Wenn Frauen schwindeln
Character: Peter Krüger
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The Benthin Family
Character: Hans Bodmer
The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in the West and Gustav in the East. The East German police catch on quickly, however, and Gustav is arrested. The small band of smugglers disperses, with Gustav’s chauffer Peter Naumann fleeing to the West and his sister choosing the East after struggling to find work and lodging in the West....
Studentin Helene Willfüer
Character: Dr. Stefan Rainer
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Hoopers letzte Jagd
Character: Robbins
After Chief Superintendent James Hooper was able to arrest the legendary Gentlemen mail robbery gang, he is only missing the head of the gang. But the extremely shrewd Michael Richy Richardson plays a cat-and-mouse game with the man from Scotland Yard, who has been chasing the gentleman gangster across the globe for years now. Richy changes identities like he changes suits, slipping Hooper through the net again and again. He is slowly running out of time, as his retirement is imminent. In well-d...
Call Girls of Frankfurt
Character: Alphons Tewes
After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja reports on wild sex parties of the murdered and mentions names, prominent names....
The Sandman
Character: Coppola
Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him, while he succumbs to an obsessive love with an enigmatic woman of strange beauty: Olympia, who might be far more than she first appears to be......
Himmelhunde
Character: Werner Gundler, Himmelshund
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Miracle of the White Stallions
Character: Capt. Danhoff
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform....
Junger Mann, der alles kann
Character: Tom, Maler
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Death in the Sun
Character: Captain Turnbull
A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancee....
Notwehr
Character:
A rock band moves into a farmhouse in a little village. They are eyed suspiciously by the citizens of the village....
Käpt'n Senkstakes Abenteuer - Ay, ay, Sheriff
Character: Black Jack
An adventure directed by Rolf Olsen....
Nie wieder Mary
Character: Oskar Nelson
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Schritte in der Nacht
Character: Harry Benson
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Reaching for the Stars
Character: Turell
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On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight
Character: Teddy Zakora
A crime movie directed by Rolf Olsen....
Magic Fire
Character: Hans von Bülow
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese....
Die Kuba-Krise 1962
Character: John Scali
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Wir Kellerkinder
Character:
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Professor Balthazar
Character: Narrator (voice)
Television series for children about an old inventor....