Karl Walter Diess
Birthday: Born in 1928-01-25 in Salzburg
Deathday: 2014-03-30
TV Credits
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Kriminalobermeister Gerken
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: Kriminaldirektor
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: Klaus Maschke
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: Dr. Tschirwa
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: Wegsteiner
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: Wolf Alsberg
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....
Die rote Kapelle
Character: Oberleutnant Grassmann
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Leopold Trepper, a colonel in the Red Army, travels to Belgium under a false name and sets up a spy ring there. Together with his employees Viktor Sukulow-Gurewitsch, Johann Wenzel, Hillel Katz and Michail Makarow, he succeeds in establishing a spy network throughout Belgium and France in a very short time. With the help of his cover companies - a chain of raincoat shops and later the import-export company Simexco ”- Trepper can collect information fr...
Das Traumschiff
Character: Plattner
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world....
Die fünfte Kolonne
Character: Hauptmann Gerbecks
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series....
Dem Täter auf der Spur
Character: Robert Fontaine
Dem Täter auf der Spur is a German television series....
Hamburg Transit
Character: Dr. Erwin Greven
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....
Derrick
Character: Johannes Halsner
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....
Der Alte
Character: Morgenroth jun.
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Gerd Winzer
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Siska
Character: Erich Reincke
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska. Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, Ru...
Derrick
Character: Herr Bocke
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: Holger
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: Backhaus
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: Johann Gall
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: Dr. Maier-Ollendorf
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....
Der Alte
Character: Walter Thielen
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Richard Brack
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Derrick
Character: Wilhelm Rodorf
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....
Der Alte
Character: Segebrecht
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Fahnder
Character: Karl Heinz Monk
Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005. In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 October 1985....
Der Alte
Character: Kolbasch
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Der Alte
Character: Dr. Dahlgrün
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Polizeiinspektion 1
Character: Aktionskünstler Viktor de Katharina
Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series....
Merkwürdige Geschichten
Character: Dr. Kreuzer
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Schwarz Rot Gold
Character: Hans Jürgen Lebenhart
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Der Trotzkopf
Character: Pastor
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Wallenstein
Character: Collalto
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Achtung Zoll
Character: Claus Gerber
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Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
Character: von Bernes
Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck is a German television series....
Auf Achse
Character: Holzner
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world....
Pater Brown
Character: Mr.Royce
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Die Schwarzwaldklinik
Character: Dr. Gerhard Schäfer
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...
Fabrik der Offiziere
Character: Hauptmann Feders
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Bismarck
Character: Dr. Virchow
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11 Uhr 20
Character: Brocca
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Movie Credits
Madame and Her Niece
Character: Dr. Fink
Michelle De Winter lives the good life, wining and dining with only the richest men who are fortunate to cross her path. Her daughter Yvette, whom Michelle insists on introducing as her 'niece', is a fashion model. She is saving herself for the right man, despite the fact that she is part of the free love generation and lives with a group of promiscuous creative types. While Michelle is searching for a new millionaire playboy, Yvette falls for the handsome Peter Von Hallstein. She asks the fathe...
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Character: Dr. Friese
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail....
The Devil's Female
Character: Commissioner
At a girls boarding school, a beautiful blonde orphan is possessed by an evil demon....
Die Schwarzwaldklinik: Die nächste Generation
Character: Dr. Schäfer
This reunion celebrates the 20th anniversary of the tv series "Die Schwarzwaldklinik"....
White King
Character: Ortskommandant Wimmer
The daughter of a poor mountain farmer becomes pregnant by a young nobleman. Because he does not want to marry her, she commits suicide. Her brother Ferdl then wants to confront the count. A brawl ensues. Ferdl has to flee into the mountains, where he falls into a ravine and is presumed dead....
Die Stadt im Tal
Character: Dr. Marquardt
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And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot
Character: Carlsson
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much futher, to a court hearing during the Third Reich......
Der Fall Liebknecht-Luxemburg
Character: Kapitänleutnant Pflugk-Hartung
Reconstruction of the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg and the following farcical military court procedures....
Der Spinnenmörder
Character: Mann
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Love Is Only a Word
Character: Leo
The 21-year-old student Oliver Mansfeld attends a boarding school in Frankfurt. There he meets the married banker's wife Verena. A passionate affair develops between them, which does not remain undiscovered by Verena's husband for long....
Wie eine Träne im Ozean
Character: Walter
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Wenn nur noch Liebe zählt
Character: Herbert
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Der Millionär und die Stripperin
Character:
The widowed millionaire Wolff visits an exclusive bar with friends in a secluded area. He leaves the establishment early because it is not to his taste. As a result, his car breaks down with engine damage. Rita, of all people, a dancer at the strip club, turns up to save the day. Despite their mutual reservations, a friendship develops between them. However, his family is not happy about it....
Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
Character:
Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder....
Das Geheimnis der Mary Celeste
Character: Eugen Agrylle
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Tod im Studio
Character: Chief of Security
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Oberst Wennerström
Character: Jenssen
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Supermarket
Character:
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....