Dieter Pfaff (2 October 1947 – 5 March 2013) was a German actor and

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. The son of a police officer, Pfaff was best known as police officer Hans Sperling in the series ''Sperling''. Sperling also appeared in two films about Swedish

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, namely '' Flickan i jordkällaren'' and '' Den japanska shungamålningen''. In 2002, he starred in '' Goebbels und Geduldig''. Between 1984 and 1996, he played Otto Schatzschneider in the German

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''. Pfaff and his wife Eva Maria Emminger had two children, twins Johanna and Maximilian. Pfaff was professor for acting at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts from 1983 until 1990.

Death

Pfaff was diagnosed with

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in 2012, and died on 5 March 2013, aged 65.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1984–1996, TV series, 109 episodes), as Otto Schatzschneider * ' (1994, TV film), as Hauptkommissar Paule Pietsch * '' Balko'' (1995–1997, TV series, 22 episodes), as Kriminaloberrat Vollmer * ' (1996–2007, TV series, 18 episodes), as Kommissar Hans Sperling * ''Bruder Esel'' (1996, TV series, 14 episodes), as Ludger Spengler * ' (1999), as Mick Meyer * '' Goebbels und Geduldig'' (2001), as Eugen Haase * ''

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'' (2002, TV miniseries), as Hermann Schomberg * ''

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'' (2002–2013, TV series, 24 episodes), as Dr. Maximilian Bloch * ' (2003, TV film), as

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* '' Der Dicke'' (2005–2012, TV series, 52 episodes), as Gregor Ehrenberg * '' Beck – Flickan i jordkällaren'' (2006, TV), as Kommissar Hans Sperling * '' Beck – Den japanska shungamålningen'' (2007, TV), as Kommissar Hans Sperling

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pfaff, Dieter 1947 births 2013 deaths German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors Deaths from cancer in Germany Male actors from Dortmund