Edgar Bessen
Birthday: Born in 1933-11-11 in Hamburg, Germany
Deathday: 2012-02-02
TV Credits
Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman
Character:
...
Tatort
Character: Jochen Cordes
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: Hauptwachmeister Weinert
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: Heinz Nickel
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: Dr. Mörsenbach
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...
Tatort
Character: Herr Westphal
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: Bankdirektor Treibmann
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....
Ein Fall für TKKG
Character: Kommissar Glockner
Ein Fall für TKKG is a German television series....
St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken
Character:
...
Hamburg Transit
Character:
Hamburg Transit was a German crime television series that first aired in 1970. It ran for 52 episodes over four series until 1974. It depicts the officers of the Hamburg CID. It was a successor to the show Polizeifunk ruft which ran between 1966 and 1970....
Großstadtrevier
Character:
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Herr Becker
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Henner Gusch
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Großstadtrevier
Character: Herr Linke
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Achtung Zoll
Character: Schmitt
...
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Arnold Richter
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Kriminalbeamter Donner
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Erich Knesebeck
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Schwarz Rot Gold
Character: Globig
...
Die Cleveren
Character: Kriminalhauptkommissar Geroldt
Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German Bundeskriminalamt, dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities....
Ein Heim für Tiere
Character: Konrad Menzel
Ein Heim für Tiere is a German television series....
Ein Fall für zwei
Character: Herbert Lersch
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....
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
Character: Alfons 'Alfi' Möller
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995....
Notruf Hafenkante
Character: Robert Heidrich
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics....
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
Character: Revierchef
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995....
Küstenwache
Character: Stadtrat Körner
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea....
Die Schule am See
Character: Steenbeck
Die Schule am See is a German television series....
Immenhof
Character: Gärtner Scheller
Immenhof is a German television series....
Die Männer vom K3
Character: Projektleiter Klose
Die Männer vom K3 is a German television series....
Adelheid und ihre Mörder
Character: Kirchhoff
Adelheid und ihre Mörder was a German comedy-drama television series broadcast between 1992 and 2006 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 65, 50 minute episodes in five series were produced. Directors included Ulrich Stark, Arend Agthe, Claus-Michael Rhone, Stephan Meyer and Stefan Bart Mann....
Konsul Möllers Erben
Character: Roggenstroh
...
Neues vom Süderhof
Character: Herr Tönnissen
Neues vom Süderhof is a German television series....
Polizeistation
Character: Hermann Warnecke
...
Timm Thaler
Character: Mr. Rickert
Timm Thaler is a 1979 children's television miniseries based on the 1962 children's novel by German writer James Krüss. The series originally aired in Germany as the first Christmas series on German national broadcaster ZDF. In 1988, the series was acquired for transmission in the United Kingdom by the BBC. The English version was produced by Angela Beeching, with script by Nel Romano, and retitled The Legend of Tim Tyler. It aired during Children's BBC in the weekday afternoons. The screenplay ...
Zwei Münchner in Hamburg
Character: Polizei-Einsatzleiter
...
Kreisbrandmeister Felix Martin
Character: Polizist
...
Pogo 1104
Character: Wirt
Pogo 1104 is a German television series....
Die Montagsmaler
Character: Self
...
Die Kinder vom Alstertal
Character: Bienen-Bobby (Herr Valeitis)
Die Kinder vom Alstertal is a German television series....
Der Landarzt
Character: Rechtsanwalt Brodersen
...
Hafenpolizei
Character: Dritter Komplize
Hafenpolizei is a German television series....
Neues aus Büttenwarder
Character: Reporter
...
Notruf Hafenkante
Character: Herr Rose
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics....
Tatort
Character: Holm
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....
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP
Character: Herr Hallstein
Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP was a German hospital drama television series which aired on Sat.1 between 1996 and 2005. The series covered the work of a team of doctors, nurses and caregivers in the fictional Hamburg Hansa Clinic, located in the Altona district....
Heimatgeschichten
Character: Gerd Hollenstedt
...
Heimatgeschichten
Character: Gerichtsvollzieher
...
Heimatgeschichten
Character: Nachfolger
...
Hotel Paradies
Character: Oberkommissar Brest
Hotel Paradies is a German television series....
Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
...
Dem Täter auf der Spur
Character: Zirkusarbeiter
Dem Täter auf der Spur is a German television series....
Freunde fürs Leben
Character: Admiral Helmut
...
Die Pyramide
Character: Self
...
Movie Credits
Klein Erna auf dem Jungfernstieg
Character: Jens
Little Erna is a cheeky Hamburg girl. She gets up to the greatest pranks with her boyfriend. That's why her mother sends her on vacation alone to her aunt. There, too, the little girl gets up to all sorts of mischief......
Weihnachten … ohne mich, mein Schatz!
Character: Opa Friedrich
When Ruprecht forgets his wife Johanna at the taxi stand and shows no regrets, the well-off architect's wife tries the uprising after 30 years of marriage. Although Christmas is just around the corner, she quickly moves into the apartment of the young taxi driver Ellie, whom she has just met. When it comes to protecting Ellie's home from illegal demolition, Johanna rediscovers her legal talent. But they are fighting strong opponents: an influential real estate speculator and her willing architec...
Ohnsorg Theater - Vater Philipp
Character: Jan
Widow Brasse goes to great lengths to support her children and her elderly grandfather. Poverty and irritation are a constant state of affairs in the family, as there is not enough money to go around, even though Johanna Brasse washes clothes for strangers day after day. But as life goes, one day Grandpa Philipp is hit by a car and the widow senses a good deal. Although Grandpa is not injured, he is put to bed and given a proper bandage. All the preparations are made to extract a good deal of co...
Ohnsorg Theater - Die Kartenlegerin
Character: Fiete
Widow Lührs only receives a meagre pension and is therefore reliant on supplementary income, so she plays commercial cards without permission! One day, farmer Henck from Schandeloh appears at her house, who wants to scare his bossy wife with the help of the cards. Wilhelmine Lührs hesitates, but ham, sausage and money finally persuade her to change her mind. She lays out the cards for Mrs. Henck just as her husband had wished. But the fraud is discovered and Mrs. Lührs has to appear before the p...
Ohnsorg Theater - Verteufelte Zeiten
Character: Heiko Herkens
In the post-war period, the young farmer Heiko Herkens secretly distils beet schnapps in a hidden alcove with his farmhand Jan Spinn, has fun with Fleet Helga, the gendarme's daughter, and enjoys his life after the war and imprisonment. The maid Taline, who has lived on the farm with Jan for years, knows nothing about the moonshine still. However, this life of lottery is a thorn in her side. How she longs for Heiko to marry a righteous farmer's wife and for peace and order to finally return to t...
Ohnsorg Theater - Opa wird verkauft
Character: Schorsch Kulenkamp
A rich farmer learns that the grandfather of a poor farmer owns two houses. He therefore tries to buy his grandfather from the poor farmer. However, the grandfather is even more cunning than the inheritance hunter, and so everything ends well for the poor farmer, whose son then gets the rich farmer's daughter....
Ohnsorg Theater - Kein Auskommen mit dem Einkommen
Character: Klaus Jäger
The Bodendieks' pension is not enough for them. So the couple decide to rent it out. What they hadn't planned, however, was that they let out the good room twice - he to the young Lisa, she to Klaus, who is almost the same age. As business-minded as the Bodendieks have become, they believe they have double the income when they realize that Klaus works nights. But things only get tricky when Klaus is in bed during the day and Lisa's boss comes to visit......
Ohnsorg Theater - Söbenthein Sack Kaffee
Character:
Fisherman Hannes Högermann and his nephew Klaus have "salvaged" seventeen sacks of coffee from a stranded ship at night and stowed them in his cellar. Hermann Achner, who works for a coffee broker, is called in to get rid of the loot at a reasonable price. Instead of Hermann Achner, however, the owner of the ship appears first, who is mistaken by Hannes Högermann for the accomplice and learns to his astonishment about the hidden loot. But because the owner of the "Söbenteihn Sack Kaffee" has his...
Ohnsorg Theater - Der Weiberhof
Character: Jan
Having been disappointed by her first marriage, Annegret Klüver, the young widow of a farmer, is a long way from remarrying. Tina Petersen takes advantage of this: The experienced maid guards the young farmer's wife like a watchdog at every turn, especially against unwanted male visitors. The "Weiberhof" thus becomes a lonely farmstead run by just two women......
Ohnsorg Theater - Mein Mann der fährt zur See
Character: Adrian
The cozy harbor pub "Störtebeker" is run by the ship's cook Karl Brammer together with his wife Mary. One day Karl is caught in a small smuggling operation and is sent to prison for three months. Mary prefers to conceal the truth and tells him that her husband is back at sea. But then fate strikes: the supposed ship goes down with man and mouse and everyone who believes they can inherit something from Karl storms Mary's house. With so much "sympathy" from the grieving relatives, the man believed...
Ohnsorg Theater - Tratsch im Treppenhaus
Character: Dieter Brummer
Meta Boldt misses nothing in the house of master butcher Tramsen. She is firmly convinced that unsustainable conditions would prevail and order would be lost if she did not keep the landlord constantly informed of all the news. Unfortunately, Meta Boldt can't find out everything through glimpses through the keyhole and overheard conversations. Slowly but surely, her half-truths get her into trouble with everyone in the house, especially as she can't keep her mouth shut......
Ohnsorg Theater - Wenn der Hahn kräht
Character: Gustav Piepers
The village tailor Witt has been burgled, and he himself has received a nasty blow to the head! The seriousness of the crime means that the gendarme in charge does not investigate the case alone - the new head of the district is eager to take over. The head of the parish, Kreyenborg, slyly supports the criminal investigation by getting help from his servant Willem, a man of "plietscher Dröhnbüdeligkeit (a charmingly clever annoyance)". The young vet Renken is also happy to help him, which his da...
Ohnsorg Theater - Schneider Nörig
Character: Schlossergeselle Hannes
Frugality can be a virtue, but for Schneider Nörig this virtue seems to have turned into avarice. For him, pancakes with two kinds of jam are a reprehensible luxury. He prefers to put the money aside, or rather put it in his piggy bank. It is therefore not surprising that Schneider Nörig has to prevent the marriage of his youngest daughter to an almost penniless craftsman. Neighbor Krup seems to be a promising candidate and a good match in his eyes. Money could come into the family if Nörig were...
Ohnsorg Theater - Frauen an Bord
Character: Peter Fly
The coastal skipper Hein Butendörp marries his Alma head over heels because there is a baby on the way. The parents of the girl from a "better family" are bitterly angry about this "improper" liaison: they had completely different plans for their pretty daughter. Butendörp and his young wife live in an old boatman's cottage. Hein saves as much as he can to replace his outdated ship with a modern coaster. But for all her good intentions, the young sailor's wife Alma is getting in over her head wi...
Ohnsorg Theater - Vier Frauen um Kray
Character: Hein Kohrs
The grocer Karsten Kray, a widower in his prime, is being hunted: four women have set out to steer him into the harbor of a second marriage. His drinking companion Asmus Broihan, a coffee broker and bachelor with an in-depth knowledge of the establishments of "Sankt Liederlich", is completely against it. Both day and night, he is ready and eager to chase his friend Kray through the amusements of the world-famous entertainment district. He is prepared to use almost any means to thwart the plans o...
Supermarket
Character: zweiter Polizist
Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter....
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Character: 2. Aufseher
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent......
Im Herzen des Hurrican
Character: Diepholz
A moose has been spotted on the Elbe. It has strayed into Germany from the far north. Two city boys are after the animal. One of them just wants to photograph the moose, the other wants to kill it. Without knowing about each other at first, they travel all over Germany in pursuit of the moose. At some point they meet and, realizing that the moose is hopelessly at the mercy of an unknown world, the two tentatively become friends. Finally, after the animal has strayed as far as the highway and Fra...
Schließfach 763
Character: Schmidt
Erik Hoopen’s “Oversea Travel Agency” in Hamburg fronts an international gold‐smuggling ring. Couriers hide gold bars in special vests, exporting them to black markets in Cairo, Khartoum, Hong Kong, and Singapore and returning with suitcases of cash. Fierce underworld competition leads to thefts and murders. Central to the intrigue is mysterious locker #763, tying the criminal network together....
Wilhelmsburger Freitag
Character: Jan Ahlers
A day in the lives of a Hamburger couple Jan and Renate. A few days ago they moved to Wilhelmsburg. There they have to build a child's room, but they lack the money....
Ohnsorg-Theater - Der schönste Mann von der Reeperbahn
Character: Hein Moos
The nightclub "Zum Klabautermann" in St. Pauli is a cheerful place where people like to meet. Every evening, when the two bargemen wrap the guests in sailor's yarn as supposed sailors on a long voyage and Lotti, known as "Das laufende Glück", knits the clientele, things get very lively. Can landlady Hermine prevent a competitor from poaching her "artistic" staff...?...
Ohnsorg Theater - Die Chefin
Character: Karl Sprinkmann
...
Ohnsorg-Theater- Strandräuber
Character: Niels Nielsen - Schiffer
...
Preis der Freiheit
Character: Postenführer
24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the “Soviet zone”. Meanwhile their East German counterparts are under enormous pressure. The day begins with disciplinary action after one of the border guards was found sleeping on duty. The supervisors demand utmost vigilance and a solid ideological bent, and suspicio...
OhnsorgTheater - Die Kartenlegerin
Character: Fiete Brütt - ihr Neffe
...
Ohnsorg Theater - Mensch sein muß der Mensch
Character: Karl Benthin
With his human nature and good-natured character, Police Master Johannes Wilke has everything under control. For this reason, he can afford to enjoy a glass of schnapps and play chess on the phone while on duty. Both his colleague Benthin and Pastor Petersen are not at all happy with such an approach to the job. But when a floater, a naked bather and a thieving tipple brother turn up, Wilke puts his beloved chessboard to one side......
Stalingrad
Character: Soldat Vogt
The story of the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a Panzer commander and an officer in a penal battalion....
Hundert Jahre Brecht
Character:
...
Ohnsorg Theater - Die Königin von Honolulu
Character: Jonni Wiedebüx
In the sailors' pub "Die Königin von Honolulu" in Hamburg's St. Pauli district in 1910, the sailors are sitting grumpily and pestering their wages master, Krischon Honolulu, to finally get them a ship, as their coffers are at low tide. Then the sailor Scharli appears and reports that an American luxury yacht has arrived, owned by the millionaire William Thomson, a "madman" and misogynist who throws his money around. Eight sailors are wanted for a voyage around the world, including to Honolulu....