Franz Buchrieser
Birthday: Born in 1937-12-26 in Graz, Austria
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Auf Achse
Character: Max Kottan
The adventures of a group of German truckers on jobs all over the world....
Stockinger
Character: Dr. Ladurner
Stockinger is an Austrian-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997. The series is a spin-off from the popular Austrian television drama Inspector Rex, and focuses on Ernst Stockinger, one of the original members of the Homicide division or Mordkommission in German. Stockinger leaves the series to return to Salzburg where his wife has inherited a dental practice from her late father . He is appointed a Bezirksinspektor at the Landes Gendarmeri...
Kottan ermittelt
Character: Kottan
Kottan ermittelt is an Austrian television series that was aired by Austrian television ORF between 1976 and 1984. The satirical 19-episode series about a policeman from Vienna now sports cult status. Police major Adolf Kottan was played by three actors who each gave the character a distinct 'flavor'....
Tatort
Character: Paul Gassmann
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....
Bas-Boris Bode
Character: Rutger Bode
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Der Bulle von Tölz
Character: Gustl Brunner
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Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau
Character: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Reidinger
Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau is a German television series....
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
Character: Meiser
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari is a German television series....
Letzter Wille
Character: Alois Winther
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Watzmann ermittelt
Character: Josef Lahner
Chief Inspector Benedikt Beissl, who lives in Berchtesgaden with his wife Elisabeth and their three daughters Maria, Johanna and Eva, has been keeping order in Berchtesgaden for decades. To his displeasure, one day he is assigned a new colleague. Until now, the lone inspector has been content to do his work alone....
Café Meineid
Character: Anton Kirchweger
Café Meineid is a German courtroom comedy television series based on actual cases. The series aired 147 episodes from 1990 to 2003 and ended with the death of lead actor Erich Hallhuber....
Der Bergdoktor
Character: Stefan Mayerhofer
Der Bergdoktor is a German-Austrian medical drama television series, broadcast in 96 episodes between 1992 and 1997....
Der Fahnder
Character: Hauptkommissar Schulz
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....
Das Traumhotel
Character: Simon Vogler
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Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt
Character: W. Paulsen
Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt is a German television series....
Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Bruno Weingart
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Die Rosenheim-Cops
Character: Anselm Hirtreiter
A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer....
Die Alpensaga
Character: Korporal Josef Huber
A six-part film series addressing the problems of rural Austria from 1900 to 1945. Contrary to the traditional "Heimatfilm", the Alpensaga detaches itself from typical clichés and tries to depict a critical view of societal structures of the time. World history is shown from the view of a peasant family living in a small village in Upper Austria....
Kommissar Rex
Character: Kurt Kovarik
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger....
Kommissar Rex
Character: Manfred Gruber
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger....
Forsthaus Falkenau
Character: Bauer Schlüter
Forsthaus Falkenau is a German television series....
SOKO Kitzbühel
Character: Karl Moosbauer
SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties....
Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber
Character: Hanns Mazinger
Die Neue – Eine Frau mit Kaliber is a German television series....
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Character: Gottfried Meck
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld....
Der Salzbaron
Character: Alphons von Glempegg
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Das Glück dieser Erde
Character: Baron Von Gradenberg
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SOKO Donau
Character: Paul Schweikhart
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series....
Tatort
Character: Adi Duswald
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....
Kaisermühlen Blues
Character: Dr. Schneider
Kaisermühlen Blues is an Austrian television series....
Kottan ermittelt
Character: Major Adolf Kottan
Kottan ermittelt is an Austrian television series that was aired by Austrian television ORF between 1976 and 1984. The satirical 19-episode series about a policeman from Vienna now sports cult status. Police major Adolf Kottan was played by three actors who each gave the character a distinct 'flavor'....
SOKO Donau
Character: Berti Berger
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series....
Sophie - Sissis kleine Schwester
Character: Hanfstaengl
When Princess Sophie's affair with photographer Edgar becomes public knowledge, King Ludwig II breaks off the engagement. Sophie's parents immediately arrange a replacement: a marriage to the Duke of Alençon....
Zwei Weihnachtsmänner
Character: Stadlhuber
A tough lawyer and a childish pool-noodle salesman become mismatched traveling companions as they try to get home to Berlin in time for Christmas....
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Character: Meck
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld....
Movie Credits
The Noah's Ark Principle
Character: Max Marek
The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the s...
Der Ruf der Berge
Character: Bürgermeister Wegerer
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Der Ruf der Berge - Schatten der Vergangenheit
Character: Bürgermeister Wegerer
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Zwölfeläuten
Character: Schwarzenegger
A village in Styria, Austria, 1945. A troop of the elderly, the lame, and the village idiots roams the woods. When the Nazis invade to collect metal for weapons, the church bell disappears....
Kill Cruise
Character: Owner 'California'
Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for....
Steirertod
Character: Oberst Kräuter
Two murders of prostitutes in a similar way - no wonder that Commissioner Sandra Mohr suspects a connection. The obvious suspicion that a serial killer could be up to mischief in Styria is initially dismissed by her supervisor Sascha Bergmann....
All Is Forgiven
Character: Fritz
A father and daughter are reunited some 11 years after the father's drug addiction tore the family apart....
Lilly Schönauer - Die Stimme des Herzens
Character: Julius Weisenbach
29-year-old Kathy works as an editorial assistant at a publishing house in Frankfurt am Main. She left her parents' winery in Styria after an argument with her father. But she doesn't feel at home in the big city. On the occasion of her father's birthday, she wants to talk things out with him. She takes a well-known author, who wants to find peace and quiet to write again, with her on the trip home. The two fall in love....
Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga
Character: Kommissar Stanek
It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family....
Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n
Character: Stanek
The Sackbauer family unexpectedly inherits a villa with a large garden in a cottage district in Lower Austria. The villa itself is in acceptable condition, but the garden is less so. Mundl quickly sets about sprucing it up with garden gnomes, lanterns, and lots of love....
If the Seed Doesn't Die
Character: Hans
Two fathers, a Romanian searching for his daughter who was forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania, meet on the river Danube. A boatman recounts the 200 year-old legend of Romanian peasants struggling unsuccessfully to move an old wooden church up the hill to their village at a time when building Orthodox churches was prohibited....
Tom and Huck
Character: Anton Schön / teacher
The story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, placed in the years right after the Second World War in Germany. A tale about friendship and courage....
Homecoming with Obstacles
Character: Johann Riedlinger
Veterinarian Hansi Riedlinger emigrated to Australia many years ago. At the request of his mother Marianne, he is now returning to Kaisertal to give his father Johann a hand. After an expensive renovation of his stud, the stud ran into financial difficulties and the farm was threatened with loss, because Mayor Ludwig Hackl asked for his loan back earlier than agreed. Johann is up to his neck, but he doesn't want to be helped. To this day, he has not forgiven his son for turning his back on the c...
Bauernschach
Character: Dr. Hummel
Franz Hofnagel has been a prisoner in a psychiatric institution for 22 years, where he was sent by his own lawyer. The fact that he has become fat during his time there and from the medication suits his plans... his lawyer will not recognize him when he uses his first vacation in so many years to take bloody revenge on the fraudulent lawyer for robbing him of his farm, his wife... ultimately his life. He thinks....
Hannah
Character: Commissioner Moser
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang. But while Hannah is still totally immersed in this passionate love affair, she unknowingly and progressively gets caught in a web of danger. Behind the harmless dolls and teddy-bears produced by the company a deadly secret is revealed. And for Hannah, the game of love suddenly turns bloody....
The Cop & the Girl
Character: Otto
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the cop helps her one night, she steals his gun and flees. He should report the loss of his gun to his boss, so he has to search for the girl. At the Dutch border it falls into the power of the police! Henceforth they are on the run, without a plan and without a goal .....
Kaiserschmarrndrama
Character: Herr Kessler
A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right now....
Second Sight
Character: Rehlinger
A young woman who works in a bookstore has been terrified by nightmares about having committed suicide in a past lifetime, combined with a sense of déjà vu regarding a specific apartment building. When she meets a young man who works in an optical company, whether she knows it or not, she is that much closer to the truth about her visions....
Leni
Character: Blatzer
A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed from the home....
Kurhotel Alpenglück
Character: Hannes Lochbrunner
Decades have passed since Richard Steiner left his small hometown on Lake Tegernsee to pursue a career in Berlin. Over the years, he has built up a successful law firm as a commercial lawyer and leads a sophisticated life with a charming wife, a luxurious apartment - and an attractive lover. One day, however, Richard is confronted with his long-suppressed roots: his uncle has unexpectedly bequeathed him a hotel in his home village. Richard reluctantly travels to Lake Tegernsee with his nature-lo...
Fünf-Sterne-Kerle inklusive
Character: Werner Strolz
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Die Pferdefrau
Character: Hr. Grasser
The young veterinarian Christine from Vienna stands on the sunny side of life. She is in a relationship with the attractive management consultant Alexander, has just completed her doctorate and is looking forward to a dream job. And she is also unexpectedly pregnant. But after an altercation with Alexander, she loses the child. She desperately flees to her father Georg, a painter to whom she had no contact for many years. He lives on an inherited family estate in Saxony. But instead of rest ther...
The Uppercrust
Character: Adolf Kottan
This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt"....
Sheer Madness
Character: Dieter
Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with the men in their lives....
Der indische Ring
Character: Ferdinand Weißenberger
Andreas has already been in India for a few months and works as a doctor in a hospital for the needy. He invites his mother Anna over to give her a surprise. His mother has no idea that he wants to introduce her to his future wife Savita. But that's not all, he also shocks his mother with his intention to stay in India forever. In addition, a rival tries to prevent the wedding......
The Beast in Lake Constance
Character: Kommissar Schuh
A dinosaur clone escapes from a scientific laboratory. It swims across the Rhine River to Germany's largest lake—Lake Constance—and begins killing innocent people. All the usual clichés are used: the main scientists (a divorced couple who find each other again during the story!) have been fired before the final experiment; children go swimming at night, even though everyone knows there is something dangerous in the lake; the equipment is completely destroyed because someone shoots at the screen....
Lili Marleen
Character: Thome (uncredited)
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”....
The Fall
Character: Anselm Kristlein
Film adaptation of the last part of Martin Walser's "Kristlein Trilogy": After the perpetually failing intellectual Anselm Kristlein had to make a living as a sales representative and advertising copywriter in "Halbzeit" and became a writer in "Das Einhorn" (filmed in 1977 by Peter Patzak), he now tries his hand as the owner of a pinball arcade in Munich, loses his wife's fortune, and returns to Lake Constance in a chaotic state of mind....
Drei Herren
Character: Karli
Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village....
Murer: Anatomy of a Trial
Character: Robert Wallner
Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, although the evidence is overwhelming, the desire to close this obscure chapter of history seems to surpass the desire for justice....
Barbara Wood - Sturmjahre
Character: Prof. Richard Higgs
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Rise Up! And Dance
Character:
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Rosen aus Jericho
Character: Dr. Peter Arndt
In the worst crisis of his life, widower Franz Schuster finds out he has cancer and definitively gives up. Neither is his daughter able to get through to him. In hospital, he gets to know retired doctor Peter Arndt, who tries to show him the right way. At the lowest point of his life, Schuster gets to know and love Erika Frecher. Together they attempt to master their lives, and it is not the length of time, but the manner in which they will live, which opens up their avenue of hope....
Society's Finest
Character: Krott
When Fritz returns from his studies in the United States he wants to walk on pink clouds with Maxie, a TV journalist, but they come upon a gun-running operation in which Fritz's father is involved. Fritz is caught between his loyalty to his family and his love for Maxie, who also can't decide what's more important, a career as a journalist or Fritz. They both are caught unaware by the enormous amount of individuals involved in the scandal and their unscrupulous reactions. Finally they both atte...
Kassbach - Ein Portrait
Character: Friend
Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of the "Kleinbürger", trapped between the fringes of the lower and middle-classes....
The Secret Floor
Character: Grandfather
When 12-year-old Karli moves to an old hotel in the Alps, he discovers an elevator that harbors a secret – it’s a magical time portal that transports him back to 1938! There, he befriends Hannah, a spirited Jewish girl, and Georg, a shoeshine boy. But when Georg is falsely accused of stealing, the children must solve a mystery case hidden within the hotel’s walls, all while the shadow of Nazi Germany begins to grow around them....
Operation White Christmas
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Enis, in his late 20s and of Turkish background, must pay off a huge debt to save his video store. With help from an Asian amateur hacker, he contacts a mysterious businessman on the darknet. The businessman offers a bizarre deal. If they prevent the Kazakh president's state visit on Christmas Eve, he'll pay off the debt. Enis and his ally see only one option: they enlist a notorious skinhead to carry out the mission....