Lukas Ammann
Birthday: Born in 1912-09-29 in Basel, Switzerland
Deathday: 2017-05-03
TV Credits
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Mauser
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...
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Graf Yoster
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour....
Der Kommissar
Character: Mirco Brandic
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....
Tatort
Character: Erwin Bader
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 fünfte Kolonne
Character: Herr Kuhn
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series....
Die fünfte Kolonne
Character: Oberst Sabern
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series....
Am laufenden Band
Character: Self - Guest
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Gewagtes Spiel
Character: Kurt Ventriner
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Hals über Kopf
Character: Prof. Gulbikian
Hals über Kopf is a German television series....
Zwei Münchner in Hamburg
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Alpha Alpha
Character: Konsul Wagner
Alpha Alpha was a 1972 German science fiction fantasy television series which aired on ZDF. It starred Karl Michael Vogler, Lilith Ungerer, Arthur Brauss and Horst Sachtleben. Each episode was only 25 minutes long, the series lasted only one season. Karl Michael Vogler played agent alpha of an unnamed secret organization, investigating mysteries, technical and psychic phenomena and even alien encounters. Alpha Alpha's tenor is comparable to the later X-Files drama television series....
Graf Luckner
Character: Vittorio
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....
Dalli Dalli
Character: Self
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Die Fallers – Eine Schwarzwaldfamilie
Character: Wilhelm Faller
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Slim Callaghan greift ein
Character: Karl 'Plüschauge' Richter
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Movie Credits
Weißer Holunder
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A Big Grey-Blue Bird
Character: Cinque
Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists....
Day of Anger
Character: Judge Cutchell
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption....
Dällebach Kari
Character: Basler Nationalrat
Karl Tellenbach, called "Dällebach Kari", was one of Bern’s legendary characters at the beginning of the 20th century. Born with a strong hare lip which left him disfigured and gave his voice a peculiarl nasal tone, he devoted his entire life trying to get people to laugh with him instead of at him. Ultimately, his despairing at ever becoming accepted as a fellow man coupled with unrequited love made his life tragic, culminating in his suicide at age 54. His jokes are still well known today....
The Devil Strikes at Night
Character: Public Defender
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, forces as dark and terrible as the criminal himself become involved in the case....
Massage Parlor '73
Character: Maurice
It’s love at first sight when a handsome journalist gets a massage from a beautiful masseuse. But when he discovers she’s left for a job in an unknown country, he sets off on an adventure that takes him around the globe, one massage parlor at a time!...
Congress of Love
Character: Friedrich von Gentz
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves brought back 150 years earlier during the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815. Before their eyes wide open, history is in the making. Gathered around the Tsar of Russia, Alexander I, the Kings of Bavaria, Würtemberg, Prussia and Denmark, are persuaded they are building the future Europe whereas they are being manipulated by foxy Chancellor Metternich, he ...
Ferien vom Ich
Character: Dirigent
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The Killer Likes Candy
Character: Faoud
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late....
The Twelve Jurors
Character: Zwölfter Geschworener
Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict....
Broken Silence
Character: Fritz Erne
A black comedy directed by Walter Deuber and Peter Stierlin....
The Living Corpse
Character: Fürst Abreskow
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Dilemma
Character: Sterner
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Character: Britannus
Julius Caesar may have met his match in Cleopatra, the young queen of Egypt....
Menschen die vorüberziehen
Character: Blacky
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Professor Sound und die Pille
Character: Hoteldirektor
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Der achte Tag
Character: Prof. Wagner
A medical doctor who is regarded as a specialist in retort research has been found dead. Science journalist Vera Pukall investigates the alleged suicide and uncovers the ruthless activities of a large pharmaceutical company. She receives help from Dr. Svoboda, of all people, the group's main stockholder....
Ich war ihm hörig
Character: Dessouki
Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to cuddle up to her. But in reality the man is an unscrupulous fraudster who is after Anette's money....
Palace Hotel
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The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place....
Jet Generation
Character: Inspektor Arnold
In the "Swinging Munich" of the late 1960s: The young millionaire daughter Carroll Buchheim, an American, flew from the United States to Germany to visit her brother, who is missing....
The Giraffe
Character: Eliah Goldberg
Lena Katz, who is German, and David Fish, who is American, are Jews who live in New York. When Lena's mother, who arrives from Germany, meets her at a hotel, she finds an almost-dead woman lying on the hotel floor. She accompanies the injured woman to the hospital and meets David, who is the woman's son. After David's mother dies from the injuries, a question remains: was she murdered? The trail leads to Germany. Apparently, Lena's mother has some kind of relationship with David's mother that re...
Flight from Paradise
Character: Mait
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom....
The Ideal Woman
Character: Butler bei Martini
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Mark of the Devil Part II
Character: Fürst
A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition....
Der Zarewitsch
Character: Ministerpräsident
Lehar romantic operetta set in Russia about a beautiful dancer who is set up to attract a tsar's son, and they fall in love. Beautiful settings and wonderful music....
Heiße Ware
Character: Erwin Wanka
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Bel Ami
Character: Minister Laroche-Mathieu
In the 1880s, Georges Duroy, back from the Colonies, arrives in Paris with the firm intention of conquering the capital through his power of seduction, his selfishness and cynicism. Entering into journalism through the back door he will soon rise to the top with the support of several women: Madeleine Forestier, the wife of his journalist friend Charles; Clothilde de Marelle, his first mistress; Virginie Walter, the wife of a newspaper owner; Suzanne Walter, her daughter who eventually marries D...