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Slim Callaghan Intervenes
''Slim Callaghan Intervenes'' (German: ''Slim Callaghan greift ein'') is a 1964 West German crime television series broadcast on ZDF in eight episodes. The programme was based on the series of novels by British writer Peter Cheyney featuring the London-based private detective Slim Callaghan.Compton p.375 In the television adaptation Callaghan is operating his own agency in Munich. He is played by Viktor de Kowa while Eva Pflug featured as his loyal secretary Steffie. Main cast * Viktor de Kowa as Slim Callaghan * Eva Pflug as Steffie * Helmuth Rudolph as Inspektor Dallmüller Other actors who appeared in episodes of the series include Carla Hagen, Grit Boettcher, Hanne Wieder, Ellen Frank, Ursula Herking, Walter Janssen, Karl Schönböck, Jan Hendriks, Ulrich Beiger, Alexander Golling, Dieter Eppler, Hellmut Lange, Lukas Ammann, Rosemarie Fendel, Tatjana Sais Tatjana Sais, Lady Greene (28 January 1910 – 26 February 1981) was a German film actress. She appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slim Callaghan
Slim Callaghan is a fictional London-based private detective created by the writer Peter Cheyney. Like another of Cheyney's characters, the FBI agent Lemmy Caution, he was constructed as a British response to the more hardboiled detectives of American fiction such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. After making his debut in the 1938 novel ''The Urgent Hangman'' he featured in six further novels and a number of short stories. The novels were all bestsellers. The character has also appeared in a variety of film, television, radio and stage adaptations. The novels enjoyed particular popularity in France where actor Tony Wright played Callaghan in three film adaptations. Other actors to portray Callaghan include Michael Rennie, Derrick De Marney and Viktor de Kowa who played him in the 1964 German television series ''Slim Callaghan Intervenes''. Operating out of an office in Mayfair's Berkeley Square he frequently encounters attractive, but deceitful femmes fatales. Callaghan has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Herking
Ursula Herking (28 January 1912 – 17 November 1974) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than 130 films between 1933 and 1972. She was born in Dessau, Germany and died in Munich, West Germany. Selected filmography * ''Susanne in the Bath'' (1936) * '' Stronger Than Regulations'' (1936) * '' Uncle Bräsig'' (1936) *'' The Chief Witness'' (1937) * '' Togger'' (1937) * '' The Grey Lady'' (1937) * '' The Four Companions'' (1938) * ''Red Orchids'' (1938) * '' Twelve Minutes After Midnight'' (1939) * '' Goodbye, Franziska'' (1941) * '' A Gust of Wind'' (1942) * '' Love Me'' (1942) * '' Bravo Acrobat!'' (1943) * ''Beloved Darling'' (1943) * '' A Man With Principles?'' (1943) * '' Nora'' (1944) * '' The Roedern Affair'' (1944) * '' A Wife for Three Days'' (1944) * '' Thank You, I'm Fine'' (1948) * '' Trouble Backstairs'' (1949) * ''Shadows in the Night'' (1950) * '' Who Drove the Grey Ford?'' (1950) * '' Furioso'' (1950) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * '' When a Woman L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 German Television Series Debuts
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Peter Carsten
Peter Carsten (30 April 1928 – 20 April 2012) was a German actor and film producer. He appeared in 90 films between 1953 and 1999, including in supporting roles, '' Dark of the Sun'' (1968), ''Hannibal Brooks'' (1969), ''Madame Bovary'' (1969), ''And God Said to Cain'' (1970) and ''Zeppelin'' (1971). Selected filmography * '' The Immortal Vagabond'' (1953) * '' The Beginning Was Sin'' (1954) - Marko, Knecht * '' 08/15'' (1954) - Stabsgefreiter Kowalski * '' The Song of Kaprun'' (1955) - Bertl * ' (1955) - Stabsgefreiter Kowalski * '' The Happy Village'' (1955) - Gerd Bunje, Müller * ' (1955) - Stabsgefreiter Kowalski * ''Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben'' (1956) - Erich Klein * '' Fruit in the Neighbour's Garden'' (1956) - Briefträger * ''Nina'' (1956) - Major Tubaljow * ''Like Once Lili Marleen'' (1956) - Toni Knoll * ''Love'' (1956) - Jan Hopper * '' The Story of Anastasia'' (1956) - Soldat Tschaikowski * '' Sand, Love and Salt'' (1957) - Alberto * '' Song o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Landrock
Maria Landrock (1923–1992) was a German film and television actress.Noack p.13 Selected filmography * ''Pedro Will Hang ''Pedro Will Hang'' (german: Pedro soll hängen) is a 1941 German adventure film directed by Veit Harlan and starring Gustav Knuth, Heinrich George and Maria Landrock.Garden p. 95–96 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Mac ...'' (1942) References Bibliography * Noack, Frank. ''Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker''. University Press of Kentucky, 2016. External links * 1923 births 1992 deaths German film actresses German television actresses Actresses from Berlin People from Treptow-Köpenick {{Germany-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatjana Sais
Tatjana Sais, Lady Greene (28 January 1910 – 26 February 1981) was a German film actress. She appeared in 20 films between 1937 and 1967 and was a member of the jury at the 1st Berlin International Film Festival. She was married to Günter Neumann and later to Sir Hugh Greene. Selected filmography * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1939) * ''Fireworks'' (1954) * ''I Was an Ugly Girl'' (1955) * '' The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp'' (1959) * ''Praetorius Praetorius, Prätorius, Prætorius was the name of several musicians and scholars in Germany. In 16th and 17th century Germany it became a fashion for educated people named " Schulze," "Schultheiß," or " Richter" (which means "judge"), to Latinis ...'' (1965) * '' Hocuspocus'' (1966) * '' Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn'' (1967) References External links * 1910 births 1981 deaths German film actresses Actors from Frankfurt 20th-century German actresses Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor people Wives of knights { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemarie Fendel
Rosemarie Fendel (1927-2013) was a German actress and director, who worked on the stage, in film, and in television. She was also a voice actress, and was the voice of notable actresses for German dubs of their work, including Elizabeth Taylor, Jeanne Moreau, and Annie Giradot. She won numerous awards for her work in film and television, and also directed and wrote a few screen productions herself. Her daughter is German actress, Suzanne von Borsody. Career Theater Fendel began her acting career on stage in 1946, appearing at the Kammerspiele in Munich as a flower girl in a production of Girodoux's "Die Irre von Chaillot". She studied acting with the actress, Maria Koppenhöfer. She was noticed by director and actor, Gustaf Gründgens, who brought her to act in productions in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus as well as to perform in Darmstadt, Munich and Frankfurt. in 1957, she temporarily retired from the stage after the birth of her daughter, Suzanne von Borsody, who was b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lukas Ammann
Lukas Ammann (29 September 1912 – 3 May 2017) was a Swiss actor who appeared mainly in German and Swiss films and television shows. He continued to work steadily for over 60 years. He is best known for his title role in the German television series '' Graf Yoster''. Early life Lukas Amann's mother was a singer and his father a painter. After he saw Schiller's '' The Robbers'' at grammar school in Basel, he aspired to be an actor. Starting in 1933 he attended the acting school of Max Reinhardt in Berlin. In 1934, he left Germany with Heinrich Gretler for Switzerland. Because of his Jewish mother, he was discriminated against even in Switzerland. In the beginning he worked in St. Gallen and later at the Schauspielhaus Zürich with Therese Giehse. In 1948, he participated under Kurt Hirschfeld in the role of the attorney in the premiere of ''Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti''. After World War II, Ammann belonged to the Ensemble of the theatre Kleine Freiheit in Munich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellmut Lange
Hellmut Lange (19 January 1923 - 13 January 2011) was an actor and journalist who became famous as an action hero on TV and eventually succeeded as presenter on popular TV show ''Kennen Sie Kino?'' or ''Do You Know Film?'' Acting career Hellmut Lange started his acting career on radio drama shows for the West German Radio Station Sender Freies Berlin also known as Radio Free Berlin. After finishing his schooling he studied acting for two years in Hanover and then he worked as a stage actor in Munich. In the early fifties he played Old Shatterhand on an open air stage. After starring in several made for television films, in he was the principal actor in ''The Forger of London'' a German Edgar Wallace adaption for cinema. The next year he had one of the main roles in a TV mini series based on a story by Francis Durbridge. He also acted as the secret agent protagonist the TV series ''John Kling (TV series), John Kling''. He played Natty Bumppo in a European miniseries based on Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dieter Eppler
Dieter Eppler (11 February 1927, in Stuttgart – 12 April 2008, in Stuttgart) was a German television actor and director of radio dramas. He was an actor, known for ''Jonas'' (1957), ''The Country Doctor'' (1987) and '' The Last Winter'' (1960). He was married to Magdalene Schnaitmann and they had five children. He was a prolific German character actor, seen in many TV crime series like ''Tatort'', ''Derrick'' and ''The Old Fox''. In the 1950s and 1960s, he had leading roles in several Edgar Wallace adaptations. Often portraying military types, he was noted for his starring role in '' U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien'' (1957). He also did horror as in the character of the evil vampire in the 1962 film ''Slaughter of the Vampires''. He stayed in Germany and worked there and in European films until his death in 2008. Filmography *1956: ''Der Hexer'' (TV film) as Wachtmeister Carter *1957: ''Jonas'' as M.S. *1958: '' The Green Devils of Monte Cassino'' as Karl Christiansen *1958: '' U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Golling
Alexander Golling (August 2, 1905 – February 26, 1989) was a German actor. Golling was a member of the Nazi Party.Hervé Dumont, ''Robert Siodmak: le maître du film noir'', L'Age D'Homme, 1981, p. 294 Selected filmography * ''Der stählerne Strahl'' (1935) - Zöger * ''Santa Joanna D'Arc'' (1935) * '' The Private Life of Louis XIV'' (1935) - General Mélac * ''One Too Many on Board'' (1935) - Kommissar Sörensen * '' The Call of the Jungle'' (1936) - William Edwards * '' Michel Strogoff'' (1936) - Iwan Ogareff * ''The Kaiser of California'' (1936) - Kewen - Bürgermeister von San Franzisko * '' Ninety Minute Stopover'' (1936) - Conny Steven * '' Men Without a Fatherland'' (1937) - Ischnikoff * '' The Tiger of Eschnapur'' (1938) - Prinz Ramigani, Vetter des Maharadscha * '' The Indian Tomb'' (1938) - Prinz Ramigani, Vetter des Maharadscha * '' Travelling People'' (1938) - Ganove Tino * '' Sergeant Berry'' (1938) - Evans * ''Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone'' (1938) * '' Gold in Ne ... [...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 * ' (1957) - Prince Ali Hussni * ' (1958) - Mario Marinadi * ' (1958) * '' The Shepherd from Trutzberg'' (1959) - Heini von Seeburg * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
