Joachim Fuchsberger

Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (; 11 March 1927 – 11 September 2014) was a German actor and television host, best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (often a Detective Inspector with Scotland Yard). In the English-speaking world, he was sometimes credited as Akim Berg or Berger.

Life and career Fuchsberger was born in Zuffenhausen, today a district of Stuttgart, and was a member of the obligatory Hitler Youth. During World War II, at the age of 16, he was trained as a Fallschirmjäger, combat instructor and sent to the Eastern Front where he was wounded. He was captured in a hospital in Stralsund by the Red Army and came into Soviet captivity and later in American and British captivity. Because of this turbulent time of his youth in Second World War, he never obtained a school diploma. Since 2009, Fuchsberger is member of the Board of Trustees of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and co-patron of the volunteer program for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011.

His son, (1957–2010), was a composer and drowned in Kulmbach on 14 October 2010. Late in life, Fuchsberger lived in Grünwald near Munich and in Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania. He held Australian citizenship together with his original German one. He died of organ failure at his German home in Grünwald on 11 September 2014. He is survived by his wife Gundula and two grandchildren.

Awards 1942 – War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords 1961 – Bravo Otto 1961 – 1969 – Bambi Award 1970 – International Film Ribbon (Italy) 1970 – Bravo Otto 1971 – Bravo Otto 1972 – Bravo Otto 1979 – Bavarian Order of Merit 1982 – Goldene Kamera 1982 – Bambi Award 1983 – Federal Cross of Merit 1985 – Der liebe Augustin (Austria) 1986 – Goldene Europa 1983 – 1994 – Grand Federal Cross of Merit 1999 – Honorary Ambassador of Tourism (Tasmania) 2005 – Bavarian TV Awards 2006 – 2007 – 2007 – in the category Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 – Platin Kurier Romy 2009 – 2010 – Goldene Kamera for Lifetime Achievement 2011 – Deutscher Fernsehpreis for Lifetime Achievement 2011 – German Sustainability Award 2012 – Bambi Award for his life's work

Selected filmography

1953: Open Your Window (Director: Anton Kutter) 1954: Wenn ich einmal der Herrgott wär (Director: Anton Kutter) .... Fred 1954: 08/15 (Director: Paul May) .... Gefreiter Asch 1955: The Song of Kaprun (Director: Anton Kutter) .... Der 'schöne Eugen' 1955: (Director: Paul May) .... Wachtmeister Asch 1955: The Last Man (Director: Harald Braun) .... Alwin Radspieler 1955: (Director: Paul May) .... Leutnant Herbert Asch 1956: Symphonie in Gold (Director: Franz Antel) .... Walter Gerlos 1956: (Director: Franz Antel) .... Johann Leim, Tischler 1956: Wenn Poldi ins Manöver zieht (Director: Hans Quest) .... Thomas 1957: (Director: Carl Boese) .... Journalist Harry Greif 1957: Kleiner Mann – ganz groß (Director: Hans Grimm) .... Thomas Olderhoff 1957: Song of Naples (Director: Carlo Campogalliani) .... Franco Ferri 1957: Illusionen (TV Movie, Director: ) .... Tom 1957: The Twins from Zillertal (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Franz von Auerstein 1957: Hafenmelodie (Director: Joachim Fuchsberger) 1958: Eva küßt nur Direktoren (Director: Rudolf Jugert) .... Karl Müller 1958: The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Lt. Reiter 1958: Liebe kann wie Gift sein (Director: Veit Harlan) .... Stefan Bruck 1958: U 47 – Kapitänleutnant Prien (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Oberleutnant Thomas Birkeneck 1958: The Girl with the Cat's Eyes (Director: Eugen York) .... Norbert Wilms 1958: My Sweetheart Is from Tyrol (Director: Hans Quest) .... Peter Weigand 1959: The Scarlet Baroness (Director: Rudolf Jugert) .... Tailor 1959: Der Frosch mit der Maske (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Richard Gordon 1959: Mein Schatz komm mit ans blaue Meer (Director: Rudolf Schündler) .... Direktor Paul Marzez 1960: Final Destination: Red Lantern (Director: Rudolf Jugert) .... Martin Stelling 1960: Die zornigen jungen Männer (Director: Wolf Rilla) .... Dr. Jürgen Faber 1960: The Terrible People (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Chefinspektor Long 1961: Zu viele Köche (TV miniseries about the detective Nero Wolfe, Director: Kurt Wilhelm) .... Archie Goodwin 1961: The Dead Eyes of London (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspektor Larry Holt 1961: The Devil's Daffodil (Director: Ákos Ráthonyi) .... Jack Tarling 1961: The Strange Countess (Director: Josef von Báky) .... Inspektor Michael 'Mike' Dorn 1961: Auf Wiedersehen (Director: Harald Philipp) .... Ferdinand Steinbichler 1962: (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Harry Raffold 1962: The Inn on the River (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Insp. Wade 1962: Mystery Submarine (Director: C. M. Pennington-Richards) .... Cmdr. Scheffler 1963: (Director: Paul May) .... Strafverteidiger 1963: The Curse of the Yellow Snake (Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb) .... Clifford Lynn 1963: The White Spider (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Ralph Hubbard 1963: The Black Abbot (Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb) .... Dick Alford 1964: Room 13 (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Johnny Gray 1964: Der Hexer (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspector Bryan Edgar Higgins 1965: Hotel of Dead Guests (Director: ) .... Barney Blair 1965: The Last Tomahawk (Director: Harald Reinl) .... Captain Bill Hayward 1965: The Face of Fu Manchu (Director: Don Sharp) .... Carl Jannsen 1965: I Knew Her Well (Director: Antonio Pietrangeli) .... The Writer 1966: Who Killed Johnny R.? (Director: José Luis Madrid) .... Clyde Smith 1966: (Director: ) .... Robert B. Fuller 1966: Long Legs, Long Fingers (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Robert Hammond 1966: How to Seduce a Playboy (Director: Michael Pfleghar) .... Sokker 1967: Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb) .... Army MP Haggan (uncredited) 1967: The College Girl Murders (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspektor Higgins 1967: (Director: ) .... Frankie Bargher 1967: (TV miniseries, Director: Wolfgang Becker) .... Edward Morrison 1968: Im Banne des Unheimlichen (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Inspektor Higgins 1968: Commandos (Director: Armando Crispino) .... Oberleutnant Heitzel Agen - Professor 1969: Seven Days Grace (Director: Alfred Vohrer) .... Hendriks 1969: The Unnaturals (Director: Antonio Margheriti) .... Ben Taylor 1969: Hotel Royal (TV film, Director: Wolfgang Becker) .... Chris Norman 1970: 11 Uhr 20 (TV miniseries, Director: Wolfgang Becker) .... Thomas Wassem 1971: Heißer Sand (TV film, Director: ) .... Jeff Barlow 1971: Olympia-Olympia (TV film, Director: Kurt Wilhelm) .... Schutzgeist 1972: What Have You Done to Solange? (Director: Massimo Dallamano) .... Inspector Barth 1972: (Director: Rudolf Zehetgruber) .... Plato 1973: The Girl from Hong Kong (Director: Jürgen Roland) .... Frank Boyd 1973: The Flying Classroom (Director: Werner Jacobs) .... Dr. Johannes Böhk, gen. Justus 1977: (Director: Michael Verhoeven) .... Mitglied der Rock & Roll Jury 1982: Der Fan (Director: Eckhart Schmidt) .... Mann im Fernsehen / Man on TV 1996: (TV miniseries) – Director: Fabrizio Costa .... Earl Alessio Capilupi 1998: (TV film, Director: ) .... Baldassarre 1998: (TV miniseries, Director: Fabrizio Costa) .... Marke 2007: (Director: and ) .... Lord Dickham 2008: (TV film, Director: Christoph Schrewe) .... Pope Innocent 2010: (TV film, Director: Wolfgang Murnberger) .... Degenhard Schagowetz 2013: (TV film, Director: Wolfgang Murnberger) .... Degenhard Schagowetz (final film role)

TV shows 1960–1961: Nur nicht nervös werden (ARD) 1973–1975: Der heiße Draht (SWF) 1975–1976: Spiel mit mir (SWF) 1977–1986: (SWF) 1980–1991: Heut' abend (ARD) 1990–1994: Ja oder Nein (ARD)

Documentation 1988–2003: Terra Australis (20 films by Fuchsberger about people and landscapes of his adopted country) 2011: (TV) – Regie: Michael Wenk (Fuchsberger as interviewee commemorating his former film partner Germaine Damar)

Audiobooks 2011: Altwerden ist nichts für Feiglinge. [Growing old is not for cowards] Publisher: Gütersloher Verlagshaus (Biography, read by Joachim Fuchsberger).