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
- Kein schöner Land as Self
- Ein unvergeßliches Wochenende as Bernhard Loebe
1992
- Heimatgeschichten as Robert
- Glückliche Reise as Albert Dahlke
1991
- Insel der Träume as Kurt Keller
1990
- Schmidteinander
- Der Millionenerbe as Johannes Redlich
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
- Frohe Ostern as Stephane Margelle
- Mensch, Teufel noch mal as Laurent-Bayoux
- So oder so ist das Leben: Vier Begegnungen in einer Großstadt
1982
- So oder So ist das Leben
- Es muß ja nicht der erste sein as Norbert Bachmann
- Jeden Mittwoch as John
- Liebe hat ihre Zeit
- Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober as Fürst Paphnutius
1981
- Das Traumschiff as Alfred Sander
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne as Jakob Renz
1980
- Heut' abend as Self
- Verstehen Sie Spaß? as Self
- Bühne frei für Kolowitz as Theaterdirektor Ziegler
- Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen as Konsul Meier
- Pension Schöller as Major a. D.
- Einmal hunderttausend Taler as Kalau
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- Die Koblanks as Nante
- Peter Alexander: Wir gratulieren as Self
- 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
- Ein Fall für Stein as Kommissar Bartels
- Gesucht wird... as Karsten Kehl
- Dear Fatherland Be at Peace as Prangel
- Sladek oder Die schwarze Armee as Knorke
1975
- Beschlossen und verkündet as Herr Bock
- PS as Jochen Neubert
- Musik ist Trumpf as Self
- Bleib doch zum Frühstück as Steuerbeamter
1974
- Schlagerfestival as Self
1973
- Lokaltermin as Schauspieler Bruno Ziganke
- Der Nervtöter as Herr Linderode
1972
- Die Schöngrubers
- The Century of Surgeons as Dr. Everett
- Eine Handvoll Brennesseln as Kommissar Voutand
- Mancher lernt's nie
- Alle reden von Liebe as Dr. Wolfgang Breysig
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self
- Der Kapitän as Chefingenieur Oldenburg
- Sie und Er im Kreuzverhör
- Wer kennt diesen Mann? as Georg
- Die Zeit schreit nach Satire as Dr. Milbe
- Die Frau ohne Kuß as Dr. Hartwig, Frauenarzt
1970
- Scene of the Crime as K.F. Kastrup
- ZDF Werkstatt as Self
- Schwarzer Peter as Self
1969
- TV Intim as Self
- Die Jubilarin as Grisar
- Alle Hunde lieben Theobald as Franz Hartmann
- Diary of a Serial Killer as Werner Lehmann
- Eden ist fern
1967
- Das Geständnis eines Mädchens as Conny
- Die Flucht nach Holland as von Haeften
- Auf Sieg? Auf Platz? - Auf Liebe! as Patsy
1966
- Wilhelmina as Georg
1965
- Die Rudi Carrell Show
- Die Unverbesserlichen as Jürgen Hechler
- Ein Eremit wird entdeckt as Meff
- Simone, the Lobster and the Sardine as Maurice Lagarce
- Überstunden as Fred
1964
- Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen as Self
- Der Doktor as Dr. med. Bentin
- Mode-Cocktail as Modefotograf Fips Hase
1963
- Das Kriminalmuseum as Kriminalkommissar Marquardt
- Hallo Nachbarn as Self
- The Squeaker as Frank Sutton
- Frauen sind keine Engel as Richard Andorr
1962
- Gabriel Schillings Flucht as Ottfried Mäurer
- Der Schwierige as Neuhoff
- Nachts ging das Telefon as Robert Bullinger
1961
- Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox as Paul Cox
- Auf Wiedersehen as Willi Kuhlke
- The Miracle of Father Malachia as Rudolf Reuschel
- Always Trouble with the Bed as Peter Schulze
1960
- Am grünen Strand der Spree as Bob Arnoldis
- Heldinnen as Werner
- Die Brücke des Schicksals as Frank Mossdorf
- Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen as Oberleutnant Dankel
- 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
- Straße der Gerechten as Frank Morrison
- Drillinge an Bord as Mac
- Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? as Wachmeister Kunowski
- Rebel Flight to Cuba as Howard Sims
- Nick Knattertons Abenteuer as Max
- The Day the Rains Came
- Nocturno im Grand Hotel as Diener Viktor
1958
- Doctor Crippen Lives as Pierre, Kriminalassistent
- Forbidden Paradise as Assessor Dr. Linde
- Der widerspenstigen Zähmung as Petruchio
- Taiga as Dickmann
- Herz ohne Gnade as Dr. Knoll
- I'll Carry You on My Hands as Georg
- Cölestine as Peter
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
- Nur eine Nacht
- Zwischen Ebbe und Flut as Narrator