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Graf Yoster
''Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre'' (French title: ''Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur'') – which translates to English as ''Count Yoster has the Honour'' – was a television series produced between 1967 and 1976. Starring Lukas Ammann and Wolfgang Völz, the series followed the adventures of the titular aristocratic gentleman detective and his working-class butler. It was a success, in particular in West Germany and in France. Originally the show was a West German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour. Main character Lukas Ammann plays Graf (Count) Yoster, who is presented as an impeccable gentleman. He wore a traditional suit and bowler hat, and carried an umbrella, similar to John Steed in the TV series '' The Avengers''. Although he lived in a castle in Bavaria (where, especially in the beginning, a great deal of the show was shot) he had no Bavarian accent and his appearance was as British as his Rolls-Royce. Sidekick Wolfg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total land area of Germany, and with over 13.08 million inhabitants, it is the list of German states by population, second most populous German state, behind only North Rhine-Westphalia; however, due to its large land area, its population density is list of German states by population density, below the German average. Major cities include Munich (its capital and List of cities in Bavaria by population, largest city, which is also the list of cities in Germany by population, third largest city in Germany), Nuremberg, and Augsburg. The history of Bavaria includes its earliest settlement by Iron Age Celts, Celtic tribes, followed by the conquests of the Roman Empire in the 1st century BC, when the territory was incorporated into the provinces of Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Marin
Christian Marin (8 February 1929 – 5 September 2012) was a French film actor. Born in Lyon, he is best known for his role in ''Le gendarme series'' (as "Merlot"), although he did not appear in the last two sequels. In 1967 he appeared in the television serial '' Les Chevaliers du ciel'', in which he portrayed the character Ernest Laverdure. Partial filmography * '' Les Tortillards'' (1960) * '' Le Tracassin ou Les Plaisirs de la ville'' (1961) * '' La Belle Américaine'' (1961) * '' All the Gold in the World'' (1961) * '' L'honorable Stanislas, agent secret'' (1963) * '' Pouic-Pouic'' (1963) * '' Bebert and the Train'' (1963) * ''Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez ''The Troops of St. Tropez'' (; literally ''The Policeman from Saint-Tropez'') is a 1964 French comedy film set in Saint-Tropez, a fashionable resort on the French Riviera. Starring Louis de Funès as Ludovic Cruchot of the ''gendarmerie'', the fi ...'' (1964) * '' Le gendarme à New York'' (1965) * '' The Sleeping Car Murd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Fischer
Helmut Fischer (15 November 1926 – 14 June 1997) was a popular, award-winning German actor. Life Helmut Fischer was the son of a businessman and a tailor who grew up in the Munich district of at 50a, where he also went to school. When the secondary school rejected him, he joined Otto Falckenberg's drama school, which he quit after a short time. Subsequently, Fischer worked as a stage actor. In 1952, he debuted at Würzburg city theatre in the role of Albrecht III in Friedrich Hebbel's ''Agnes Bernauer''. The reviews were devastating. For almost 20 years, Fischer remained largely unknown and was only cast in minor supporting roles. Among other things, he worked at the ''Zuban'' show at Munich's Oktoberfest, playing the part of a zebra's behind. In 1953, he married dancer Utta Martin, with whom he lived together up until his death (44 years). 1961 saw the actor's debut in Bavarian Television, as a hairdresser in Ludwig Thomas comedy ''Die Lokalbahn''. Fischer described h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Schwarzkopf
Klaus Schwarzkopf (18 December 1922, in Neuruppin – 21 June 1991, in Bochum) was a German actor. From 1971 until 1978 he starred in the Norddeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series '' Tatort''. He was also known as a respected stage actor and for being the German dubbing voice of Peter Falk as ''Columbo'' during the 1970s. Schwarzkopf was gay, but never admitted it. Schwarzkopf died in 1991 of AIDS. Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: ''Mann für Mann – Ein biographisches Lexikon'', Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Hamburg 2001 Filmography Film *1956: '' Bonjour Kathrin'' (directed by Karl Anton), as Neighbour (uncredited) *1961: '' Freddy and the Millionaire'' (directed by Paul May), as Policeman (voice, uncredited) *1965: ''Praetorius'' (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Dr. Watzmann *1967: '' Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn'' (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Roland *1968: '' Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed'' (directed by Alexander Kluge), as Gerloff, philologist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl-Otto Alberty
Karl-Otto Alberty (also Karl Otto Alberty, 13 November 1933 – 25 April 2015) was a German actor. He was variously credited as ''Charles Albert'', ''Charles Alberty'' and ''Carlo Alberti''. Career Alberty was born as ''Karl-Otto Poensgen'' in Berlin on 13 November 1933. He started out as an amateur boxer before discovering a talent for acting, making his début at the City Theatre in Konstanz in 1959. He then began to take supporting roles in films. He made his first appearance in English language films as an SD officer (who captures Richard Attenborough) in '' The Great Escape'' (1963). With his broad face, broken nose and distinctive white-blond hair, he would go on to play variations of the role of German officers in a series of films, notably ''Battle of the Bulge'' (1965), Andrew V. McLaglen's '' The Devil's Brigade'' (1968), Luchino Visconti's '' The Damned'' (1969), and as a Waffen-SS tank commander of a Tiger I tank from the 1st SS Panzer Division LSSAH in ''Kelly's H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulrich Beiger
Ulrich Beiger (26 August 1918 – 18 September 1996) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Little Residence'' (1942) - Möller * ''The Trip to Marrakesh'' (1949) - Mixer * ''Sensation in Savoy'' (1950) - young Indian * ''Scandal at the Embassy'' (1950) * '' Heart's Desire'' (1951) - resident physician * '' One Night's Intoxication'' (1951) - Dr. Felix Fichtner * ''The Imaginary Invalid'' (1952) - Rolf * '' The Forester's Daughter'' (1952) - Simmerl * ''The White Horse Inn'' (1952) - Sigismund * '' The Little Town Will Go to Sleep'' (1954) * ''Clivia'' (1954) * '' Portrait of an Unknown Woman'' (1954) - auctioneer * '' The Confession of Ina Kahr'' (1954) * ''Oasis'' (1955) - hairdresser * '' Silence in the Forest'' (1955) - Diener Martin * ''The Major and the Bulls'' (1955) - CIC-Lieutenant Houseman * ''Manöverball'' (1956) - Adjutant * '' El Hakim'' (1957) - Prince Ali Hussni * ' (1958) - Mario Marinadi * ' (1958) * '' The Shepherd from Trutzberg'' (1959) - Heini von ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Father Brown
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective. He is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton, published between 1910 and 1936. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on The Right Reverend, the Rt Rev. Monsignor, Msgr John O'Connor (priest), John O'Connor (1870–1952), a Catholic priest, parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's Religious conversion, conversion to Roman Catholicism, Catholicism in 1922. Since 2013, the character has been portrayed by Mark Williams (actor), Mark Williams in the ongoing BBC television series Father Brown (2013 TV series), ''Father Brown''. Character Father Brown is a short, plain Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human behaviour. His unremarkable, seemingly naïve appearance hides an unexpectedly sharp intelligence and keen powers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Meinrad
Josef Meinrad (; 21 April 1913 – 18 February 1996) was an Austrian actor. From 1959 until his death in 1996, Meinrad held the Republic of Austria's Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor — each bequeathing the ring to the next holder, judging that actor to be the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre". Life Josef Meinrad was born Josef Moučka in Vienna, as the fourth and youngest child of the tram driver Franz Moučka and his second wife Katharina. For his secondary education, he received a scholarship in a school run by Redemptorists in Katzelsdorf near Wiener Neustadt. At first, he wanted to become a priest, but he left the boarding school in 1929 and began a commercial apprenticeship, while taking acting lessons. He made his public acting debut during a theatre festival at Korneuburg in 1930, by which time he called himself Josef Meinrad. Nevertheless, he finished his training and worked as a commercial clerk until 1935. From that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whodunit
A ''whodunit'' (less commonly spelled as ''whodunnit''; a colloquial elision of "Who asdone it?") is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an criminal investigation, investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around ... in which the puzzle regarding who committed the crime is the main focus. The reader or viewer is provided with the clues to the case, from which the identity of the wikt:perpetrator, perpetrator may be deduced before the story provides the revelation itself at its Climax (narrative), climax. The investigation is usually conducted by an eccentric, amateur, or semi-professional detective. Concept A whodunit follows the paradigm of the traditional detective story in the sense that it presents crime as a puzzle to be solved through a chain of inquiries questions that the detective po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Peter Wimsey
Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh). A amateur, dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is an archetype for the British gentleman detective. He is often assisted by his valet and former batman (military), batman, Mervyn Bunter; by his good friend and later brother-in-law, police detective Charles Parker (detective), Charles Parker; and, in a few books, by Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife. Biography Background Born in 1890 and ageing in real time, Wimsey is described as being of average height, with straw-coloured hair, a beaked nose, and a vaguely foolish face. Reputedly his looks are patterned after those of academic and poet Roy Ridley, whom Sayers briefly met after witnessing him read his Newdigate Prize–winning poem "Oxford" at the Encaenia ceremony in July 1913. Twice in the nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butler Parker
Butler Parker is a fictitious British character who was, despite his ostentatious Britishness, created by a German pulp fiction author and became eventually the protagonist of a German TV series. Author Butler Parker was the brainchild of the very successful and productive author Günther Dönges (1923–August 2001) who often used Anglo-Saxon aliases due to the in Germany widespread opinion that only Anglo-Saxons could write entertaining good crime stories. Protagonist Butler Joshua Parker worked for different employers who would leave him a lot of freedom. However, Butler Parker would always be the main character who cracked the cases and sometimes protected or even rescued his employers. He had a steel-strengthened bowler hat and his umbrella could be used to shoot arrows. Moreover, he drove a classic London taxi which was equipped with a variety of stunning gadgets. Novels Like Jerry Cotton Joshua Parker had an obviously English name and drove an English car. (Altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
