Günter Pfitzmann
Born: 1924-04-08 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 2003-05-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
Günter Pfitzmann (April 8, 1924, Berlin – May 30, 2003, Berlin) was a German actor, voice actor, and cabaret performer. He was best known for portraying characters with the distinctive Berlin blend of warmth and blunt humor, and gained widespread popularity through leading roles in television series such as Drei Damen vom Grill, Praxis Bülowbogen, and Der Havelkaiser. His film work included notable titles like Die Brücke (1959) and the Edgar Wallace thriller Der Zinker (1963). In addition to stage, film, and television, Pfitzmann was a prolific dubbing artist, voicing actors such as Kirk Douglas, Jean Gabin, and Lloyd Bridges, and providing the German voice of Obelix in Asterix the Gaul. He remained active well into his later years and was one of Berlin’s most recognizable television personalities until his death in 2003.
Filmography
2018
- Große Klappe, großes Herz as Self (archive footage)
2001
- Die Meute der Erben as Arno Adelmann
2000
- Ein lasterhaftes Pärchen as Wilhelm
1999
- Beckmann as Self
1998
- In aller Freundschaft as Theo Köckritz
- Letzte Chance für Harry as Simon Spradow
1997
- Röpers letzter Tag as Hannes Röper
1996
- Klinik unter Palmen as Dr. Gieselher
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
1994
- Der Havelkaiser as Richard Kaiser
1993
- Ein unvergeßliches Wochenende as Bernhard Loebe
- Kein schöner Land as Self
1992
- Heimatgeschichten as Georg Winterstein
- Glückliche Reise as Albert Dahlke
1991
- Insel der Träume as Kurt Keller
1990
- Schmidteinander
- Der Millionenerbe as Johannes Redlich
1988
- Nase vorn as Self
1987
- Praxis Bülowbogen as Dr. Peter Brockmann
1986
- Showgeschichten as Self
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Berliner Weiße mit Schuß as various
1983
- Telestar as Self
- So oder so ist das Leben: Vier Begegnungen in einer Großstadt
- Frohe Ostern as Stephane Margelle
- Mensch, Teufel noch mal as Laurent-Bayoux
1982
- So oder So ist das Leben
- Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober as Fürst Paphnutius
- Jeden Mittwoch as John
- Es muß ja nicht der erste sein as Norbert Bachmann
- Liebe hat ihre Zeit
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Das Traumschiff as Alfred Sander
- Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne as Jakob Renz
1980
- Verstehen Sie Spaß? as Self
- Heut' abend as Self
- Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen as Konsul Meier
- Pension Schöller as Major a. D.
- Bühne frei für Kolowitz as Theaterdirektor Ziegler
- Einmal hunderttausend Taler as Kalau
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren as Self
- Die Koblanks as Nante
- Zwei Mann um einen Herd as Rudi
- Zwei Mann um einen Herd as Rudi
1978
- Ein Mann will nach oben as Kalubrigkeit
- Die Kur as Bernhard
- Medienklinik
1977
- Drei Damen vom Grill as Otto Krüger
1976
- Direktion City as Direktor Hollreiser
- Gesucht wird... as Karsten Kehl
- Ein Fall für Stein as Kommissar Bartels
- Dear Fatherland Be at Peace as Prangel
- Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee as Knorke
1975
- Musik ist Trumpf as Self
- Beschlossen und verkündet as Herr Bock
- PS as Jochen Neubert
- Bleib doch zum Frühstück as Steuerbeamter
1974
- Schlagerfestival as Self
1973
- Lokaltermin as Schauspieler Bruno Ziganke
- Der Nervtöter as Herr Linderode
1972
- The Century of Surgeons as Dr. Everett
- Die Schöngrubers
- Alle reden von Liebe as Dr. Wolfgang Breysig
- Eine Handvoll Brennesseln as Kommissar Voutand
- Mancher lernt's nie
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self
- Sie und Er im Kreuzverhör
- Der Kapitän as Chefingenieur Oldenburg
- Die Frau ohne Kuß as Dr. Hartwig, Frauenarzt
- Die Zeit schreit nach Satire as Dr. Milbe
- Wer kennt diesen Mann? as Georg
1970
- Scene of the Crime as K.F. Kastrup
- ZDF Werkstatt as Self
- Schwarzer Peter as Self
1969
- TV Intim as Self
- Alle Hunde lieben Theobald as Franz Hartmann
- Diary of a Serial Killer as Werner Lehmann
- Die Jubilarin as Grisar
- Eden ist fern
1967
- Auf Sieg? Auf Platz? - Auf Liebe! as Patsy
- Die Flucht nach Holland as von Haeften
- Das Geständnis eines Mädchens as Conny
1966
- Wilhelmina as Georg
1965
- Die Rudi Carrell Show
- Die Unverbesserlichen as Jürgen Hechler
- Ein Eremit wird entdeckt as Meff
- Überstunden as Fred
- Simone, the Lobster and the Sardine as Maurice Lagarce
1964
- Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen as Self
- Mode-Cocktail as Modefotograf Fips Hase
- Der Doktor as Dr. med. Bentin
1963
- Das Kriminalmuseum as Kriminalkommissar Marquardt
- The Squeaker as Frank Sutton
- Hallo Nachbarn as Self
- Frauen sind keine Engel as Richard Andorr
1962
- Nachts ging das Telefon as Robert Bullinger
- Gabriel Schillings Flucht as Ottfried Mäurer
- Der Schwierige as Neuhoff
1961
- Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox as Paul Cox
- The Miracle of Father Malachia as Rudolf Reuschel
- Auf Wiedersehen as Willi Kuhlke
- Always Trouble with the Bed as Peter Schulze
1960
- Am grünen Strand der Spree as Bob Arnoldis
- Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen as Oberleutnant Dankel
- Die Brücke des Schicksals as Frank Mossdorf
- Heldinnen as Werner
- Der Traum des Mr. Borton as Dick Crane
- Ich, die Hauptperson. 30 Tage aus dem Leben eines Portemonnaies as Der Ausrufer
1959
- The Bridge as Heilmann
- Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? as Wachmeister Kunowski
- Rebel Flight to Cuba as Howard Sims
- Drillinge an Bord as Mac
- The Day the Rains Came
- Nick Knattertons Abenteuer as Max
- Straße der Gerechten as Frank Morrison
- Nocturno im Grand Hotel as Diener Viktor
1958
- Forbidden Paradise as Assessor Dr. Linde
- Taiga as Dickmann
- I'll Carry You on My Hands as Georg
- Herz ohne Gnade as Dr. Knoll
- Doctor Crippen Lives as Pierre, Kriminalassistent
- Cölestine as Peter
- Der widerspenstigen Zähmung as Petruchio
1957
- Zum blauen Bock as Self
- Aktuelle Schaubude as Self
- Siebenmal in der Woche as Polizist
- Jede Nacht in einem anderen Bett as Anton Hasch
1956
- Spy for Germany as Korvettenkapitän Hilbig
- Gesellschaft der Gänseblümchen as Danny Palmer
1955
- Der Hauptmann und sein Held as Hauptmann Roeder
- Your Life Guards as Charly
- Oberwachtmeister Borck as Wachtmeister Heinz Ohlsen
1954
- Emil and the Detectives as Lehrer
1952
- Adventure in Berlin as Polizist in Funkzentrale
1950
- Zwischen Ebbe und Flut as Narrator
- Nur eine Nacht