Horst Tappert (26 May 1923 – 13 December 2008) was a German film and television actor best known for the role of Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama ''

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''.

Biography

Horst Tappert was born on 26 May 1923 in

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(now

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. His father, Julius Tappert (1892–1957), was a civil servant; his mother was Ewaldine Röll Tappert (1892–1981). Following high school and at the age of 17, Tappert was drafted into the

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during

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. Aged 19, he was, according to his widow against his will, transferred from the Army to the ''

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'', where the author of the ''Derrick'' series,

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, had also served. Initially a member of a reserve

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unit in

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, he was listed as a

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with the

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in March 1943. In 1945, he was briefly a

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in Seehausen, Altmark. Following the war, he was hired as a bookkeeper at a theatre in

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, Germany, and became interested in acting. He took acting classes and gave his stage debut in Stendal, playing Dr. Stribel in

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's ''Die Flitterwochen''. In the following years, he changed employers several times, and in 1956, started working at the Kammerspiele,

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. An independent actor since 1967, he worked as an actor until he died. In the late 1950s, Tappert started taking part in movie and television productions. His big breakthrough was in 1966 with the three-part television show ''Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse'', in which he played train robber Michael Donegan. In 1968, he changed sides by playing Scotland Yard detective Perkins in

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movies. In 1970-71, he co-starred in three crime dramas directed by Jesus Franco, '' She Killed in Ecstasy'', ' and '' The Devil Came from Akasava''. When the second public television station in West Germany, the

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, started planning a new mystery series with a different type of investigator in 1973, he was chosen for the character of detective Stephan Derrick, with sidekick assistant Harry Klein (played by Fritz Wepper). The character Stephan Derrick became a cult figure. The series was licensed in 104 countries and was popular with audiences in China, Japan, and Italy (and even Pope

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). The last of 281 episodes was filmed in 1998, when Tappert reached his self-imposed age limit of 75 years old for being a television actor.

Personal life

Divorced twice, he last lived in

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near

with his third wife, Ursula Pistor (married in 1957). He was the father of three children. Tappert enjoyed fishing and hunting. He had a summer holiday home on the coast of northern

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, a country where he also became a popular visitor, as Derrick, as well as a private person. Tappert and his wife Ursula had a cabin in

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from 1990 to 2008, when due to his age and failing health, they had to sell the cabin. His wife Ursula Pistor is also an actor, a graduate of the same acting school in

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as Ellinor Hamsun, daughter of

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. In interviews and his memoirs, Tappert did not elaborate on his World War II career, claiming to have served as a company medic in the ''

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'', after which he became a prisoner of war. In April 2013, he was revealed to have joined the 3. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Totenkopf, then deployed on the Eastern Front, in March 1943. Historian Jan Erik Schulte, an expert on the history of the SS, said that the circumstances of Tappert's membership in the SS and the question of whether he was pressured or coerced into joining remain unclear. Following the discovery of Tappert's service with the Waffen SS during the war, German broadcaster ZDF dropped all repeats of ''Derrick.'' Similarly, Bavaria's

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said it was considering stripping the late actor of an honorary chief police inspector title awarded to Tappert in 1980. Tappert died on 13 December 2008 in

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, Germany at age 85.

Filmography

*1950: '' Doctor Praetorius'' - Verkäufer (uncredited) *1958: ''

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'' (with

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) *1958: ''

Wir Wunderkinder ''Wir Wunderkinder'' is a 1958 West German comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Hansjörg Felmy and Robert Graf. The black-and-white film is also known in English as ''Aren't We Wonderful?''. Plot The film recounts the lives of tw ...

'' (Aren't We Wonderful?) (with

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, Robert Graf,

Johanna von Koczian Johanna von Koczian (, née von Kóczián-Miskolczy, 30 October 1933 – 10 February 2024) was a German actress. She grew up in Salzburg where Gustaf Gründgens offered her a role at the 1951 Salzburg Festival, and she played at several German ...

) - Teacher Schindler *1958: ''

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'' (AAN as Best Foreign Film) (with

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, Ellen Schwiers,

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) *1959: ''

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'' (with Nana Osten,

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, Ullrich Haupt) - Herr Parker *1959: '' Jacqueline'' (with

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, Hans Söhnker) - Haack, Journalist *1959: '' The Beautiful Adventure'' (with

, Robert Graf, Bruni Löbel) - Frécon *1959: ''Ruf ohne Echo'' (TV film) (with

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) - Pierre *1961: ''Zu viele Köche'' (TV miniseries) (with Heinz Klevenow, Joachim Fuchsberger,

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) - Hoteldetektiv Odell *1961: ''Ein schöner Tag'' (TV film) (with Joachim Teege, Hugo Lindinger,

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) - Er *1961: ''Küß mich Kätchen'' (TV film) (with

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, Harald Leipnitz, Christiane Maybach) - Erster Ganove *1962: ' (TV miniseries) (with

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, Eckart Dux) - Vikar Nigel Matthews *1962: ''

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'' (with

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) - Simpson *1962: '' Snow White and the Seven Jugglers'' - Hugendobler, Künstleragent *1963: ''Das tödliche Patent'' (TV film) (with

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, Gisela Trowe,

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) - Inspector Morland *1963: ' (Whiskey and Sofa) (with

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, Robert Graf) - Krause *1963: ''Leonce und Lena'' (TV film) (with

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) - King Peter of the Kingdom of Popo *1964: ''Der Aussichtsturm'' (TV film) (with Claudia Sorbas,

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, Monika John) - Eliott Nash *1964: ''Sechs Personen suchen einen Autor'' (TV film) (with

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, Robert Freitag) - Regisseur *1965: ''Eine reine Haut'' (TV Movie) (with

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) - Harry *1966: ' (The Great British Train Robbery) (TV miniseries) (with Hans Cossy, Günther Neutze) - Michael Donegan *1966: ''Ein Tag in Paris'' (TV film) (with Paula Denk, Ingeborg Solbrig, Peter Fröhlich) - Boury *1966: ''Der Kinderdieb'' (TV film) (with Isolde Bräuner, Lucie Mannheim, Walter Jokisch) - Colonel Bigua *1966: ''Das ganz große Ding'' (TV film) (with

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) - Jimmy Warren *1966: ''Der Mann aus Melbourne'' (TV film) (with Herbert Stass, Alf Marholm,

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) - Der Fremde *1966: '' Jerry Cotton: Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert'' (with

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) - Charles Anderson *1966: '' Four Queens for an Ace'' - Man in Restaurant (uncredited) *1966: ' (TV film) (with

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, Dieter Borsche) - Narrator (voice) *1967: ''Liebe für Liebe'' (TV film) (with Wolfgang Büttner,

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) - Scandal *1968: ' (with Charlotte Kerr) - Walter Bergmann / Travel agency owner *1968: ''

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'' (with Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Hans Söhnker, Agnes Windeck) - Donald Fairbanks *1968: '' Das Kriminalmuseum'' (TV series) - Friedrich Groth *1968: ''

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'' (with Uschi Glas, Uwe Friedrichsen, Hubert von Meyerinck) - Insp. David Perkins *1969: ''

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'' (with

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, Fritz Wepper,

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) - Insp. Perkins *1969: '' Seven Days Grace'' (with Joachim Fuchsberger,

, Karin Hübner,

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) - Klevenow *1970: ' (with

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, Judy Winter,

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) - Kommissar Perrak *1971: '' The Devil Came from Akasava'' (with Soledad Miranda, directed by Jesus Franco) - Dr. Andrew Thorrsen *1971: ''

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'' (''The Caesar Code'') (with Alain Noury,

, Horst Frank, Judy Winter, Doris Kunstmann) - Dr. Otto Forster *1971: ' (with , Uwe Friedrichsen,

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) - Stubenrauch *1971: '' The Captain'' (with

, Johanna Matz,

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, Horst Janson) - Konsul Carstens *1971: '' She Killed in Ecstasy'' (with Soledad Miranda, directed by Jesus Franco) - Inspector *1972: ' (aka ''The Corpse Packs His Bags'') (directed by Jesus Franco) - Charles Barton *1972: ' (TV film) (with Max Mairich,

, Florian Halm) *1973: ''Eine Frau bleibt eine Frau'' (TV miniseries) (with

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) - Oberstudienrat *1974: ''Plus minus null'' (TV film) (with Anaid Iplicjian, Rolf Becker) - Schattat *1974–1998 ''

'' (TV series) - Stephan Derrick *1974: ''

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'' (I Wasn't a Very Good Student Either) (with Jutta Speidel,

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) - Dr. Siegfried Elsenbeck *1984: ''Cinématon'' *2000: ''Der Kardinal – Der Preis der Liebe'' (The Cardinal) (TV film) (with Christine Reinhart, Enzo De Caro) - Clemens Roetger *2001: ''In 80 Jahren um die Welt'' (TV film) *2003: ''The Uncrowned Heart'' (TV film) (with Eleonora Brigliadori,

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, Jacques Breuer) - Rudolph der Listige *2004: ''Derrick – Die Pflicht ruft'' (Derrick – The Feature Film) (Animated film with original voice of Tappert and Wepper) - Stephan Derrick (voice) (final film role)

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