Peter Fitz profile
Actor profile

Peter Fitz

8th August 1931 Kaiserslautern, Germany Acting

Peter Fitz (8 August 1931 - 10 January 2013) was a German stage and film actor. Fitz completed an apprenticeship at the drama school of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in the 1950s. In the 1960s, engagements at the Schauspiel Frankfurt theatre followed. Director Peter Stein brought him into the ensemble of the Berlin Schaubühne theatre, where he worked under the direction of Stein as well as Klaus Michael Grüber. In the course of his career, Fitz performed at all major German-language venues, such as the Vienna Burgtheater, the Munich Kammerspiele, Berlin's Schiller Theater, as well as the Salzburg Festival. In 1980 and 1983, he was voted Actor of the Year by the editors of Theater heute magazine. Fitz' theater work took precedence throughout his career, but he also appeared in a number of films and television productions. Some of these include the 1987 film Au revoir les enfants and The Wannsee Conference in 1984. In 1996, Fitz was nominated for the German Film Award for his portrayal of Reinhold Schünzel in Hans-Christoph Blumenberg's Beim nächsten Kuß knall’ ich ihn nieder. Fitz was also known to a broad television audience through crime films and series, as well as for his voice acting work. Peter Fitz died in his Berlin apartment on 10 January 2013 at the age of 81. He was the father of actress Hendrikje Fitz (1961–2016) and actor Florian Fitz (born 1967). His is buried in the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf Berlin forest cemetery. His daughter was buried next to him upon her death in 2016. Source: Article "Peter Fitz" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

88 Movies 38 TV Shows 126 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Prater 10th February 2007 as Narrator
Waves poster
Waves 21st January 2005 as Graf von Köhne-Jasky
Dunckel poster
Dunckel 28th October 1999 as Kommisar Richter
23 poster
23 2nd July 1998 as Brückner
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Flirt 14th September 1995 as Doctor
Dr. M poster
Dr. M 24th May 1990 as Veidt
Faust poster
Faust 1st January 1982 as Mephistopheles
Die Kumpel poster
Die Kumpel 26th September 2001 as Prof. Albrecht Weisenbach
SK Kölsch poster
SK Kölsch 11th January 1999 as Karl-Heinz 'Der Aap' Arpers
Wilsberg poster
Wilsberg 20th February 1995 as Kurt Vosswinkel
Faust poster
Faust 1st January 1994 as Wolfram Schulze-Leitner
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Bella Block 17th December 1993 as Pastor Justus Bauernfeind