Klaus Schwarzkopf

Klaus Schwarzkopf (18 December 1922, in Neuruppin – 21 June 1991, in Bochum) was a German actor. From 1971 until 1978 he starred in the Norddeutscher Rundfunk version of the popular television crime series Tatort. He was also known as a respected stage actor and for being the German dubbing voice of Peter Falk as Columbo during the 1970s.

Schwarzkopf was gay, but never admitted it. Schwarzkopf died in 1991 of AIDS.^[1]

• 1956: Bonjour Kathrin (directed by Karl Anton), as Neighbour (uncredited)
• 1961: Freddy and the Millionaire (directed by Paul May), as Policeman (voice, uncredited)
• 1965: Praetorius (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Dr. Watzmann
• 1967: Glorious Times at the Spessart Inn (directed by Kurt Hoffmann), as Roland
• 1968: Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (directed by Alexander Kluge), as Gerloff, philologist
• 1971: Und Jimmy ging zum Regenbogen (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Sirius
• 1971: Jailbreak in Hamburg (directed by Wolfgang Staudte), as Police commissioner Knudsen
• 1972: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Dr. Wolfgang Erkner
• 1973: All People Will Be Brothers (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Boris Minski
• 1974: Three Men in the Snow (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Otto Tobler
• 1974: One or the Other of Us (directed by Wolfgang Petersen), as Professor Rüdiger Kolczyk
• 1974: Only the Wind Knows the Answer (directed by Alfred Vohrer), as Vicar
• 1985: Grünstein's Clever Move [de] (directed by Bernhard Wicki), as Spiros the Greek

• Klaus Schwarzkopf at IMDb