Helmut Fischer

In 1972 he played in the Bavarian Television's first episode of the Tatort series, as assistant to then-time Inspector Veigl (played by Gustl Bayrhammer). When Veigl was "retired" in 1981, Fischer was "promoted" to Commissioner Ludwig Lenz and as such he solved a total of seven cases until 1987. In 1974 Helmut Fischer, in his favourite café Münchner Freiheit met director Helmut Dietl. The latter recognised his friend's true talent and in 1980 gave him a major role in the TV series Der ganz normale Wahnsinn in which Fischer for the first time got to play a manquéed playboy. The final breakthrough came in 1983 with Helmut Fischer's series Monaco Franze - der ewige Stenz. Again Helmut Dietl was the director, Patrick Süskind cooperated on the scripts to almost all episodes. In the series, which has now reached cult status among fans, Fischer alongside Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Karl Obermayr and Erni Singerl in inimitable way embodied an easygoing dandy, charmer and ladies' men, who always manages to master awkward situations with a sheepy smile. Famous sayings by the character role like "A bisserl was geht immer (Anything goes)" were adapted into daily language use. Matching this, Fischer also recorded a successful single titled "Spatzl (Schau wia i schau)) (Sweetheart (Look like I'm looking))". From now on, the actor was busy with roles whose character were always based on Stenz though. Until the end of his life Fischer kept assuring that the figure of Monaco Franze had nothing to do with his real life. In the mid-1980s, Fischer played with Thomas Gottschalk and Michael Winslow in the two Zärtliche Chaoten films, from 1987 to 1992 he could be seen as "Josefbärli" along Veronika Fitz and Ilse Neubauer in the series Die Hausmeisterin (The House Keeper). Fischer enjoyed his last success in the series Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (A castle on theWörthersee), where he played the absentminded estate manager Leo Laxeneder, and as the fictitious mayor of Hohenwaldau, Peter Elfinger in Peter and Paul alongside Hans Clarin. In 1993 Helmut Fischer was diagnosed with cancer. He kept this diagnosis largely secret, only his wife Utta knew about it. In 1996, the actor underwent treatment by the well-known and controversial cancer specialist Julius Hackethal. In November he celebrated his 70th anniversary with a great number of friends and colleagues. At the occasion the told the press: "Das Leben macht sich ja mehr und mehr aus dem Staub (Life is more and more buzzing off)". Eight months later Fischer, to the surprise of the common public, died in Chiemgau. More than 1,000 people participated in the funeral service at the mortuary of Munich's northern cemetery and the subsequent funeral at the Bogenhausen cemetery (gravesite no. 2-4-2) on 19 June 1997. In his funeral speech Munich's Lord Mayor Christian Ude, a friend and neighbour of Fischer, said: "... Populär war er in ganz Deutschland - in München wurde er geliebt. (He was popular throughout Germany - in Munich, he was loved.)"

Known For: Acting

Born: Munich, Germany, 1926-11-15

Died: 1997-06-14

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1958	Augsburger Puppenkiste - Cenodoxus – Der Doktor von Paris	Smilax	0
2	1960	Die Lokalbahn	Anton Hartl	0
3	1960	Oh, diese Bayern!	Gemeinderat Merkl	0
4	1962	The Honors of War	Staff Sergeant Holbrock	46
5	1962	Der Komödienstadel - Der Hochzeiter	Sepp Oberleitner	0
6	1965	Der Ruepp	Kaspar	0
7	1965	Das unverschämte Glück, ein Mann zu sein	Walter Pistorek	0
8	1966	Familie Schimek	Baumann	0
9	1966	Italienische Nacht	Erster Faschist	0
10	1967	Der Röhm-Putsch	SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber	0
11	1967	Umsonst	Müller	0
12	1967	Kurzer Prozeß	Kellner	64
13	1968	Knüpfe das Netz nach dem Fisch	Dragotin	0
14	1970	Recht auf Gewissen	Bill	0
15	1971	Augenzeugen müssen blind sein		0
16	1971	Die Schrott-Story	Assistent	0
17	1978	Das Einhorn	Dr. Blagge	50
18	1979	Blauer Himmel den ich nur ahne	Julius Linnekogel	0
19	1979	Der Durchdreher	Lino	0
20	1979	Die Farbe des Himmels	Generalsekretär Ascher	0
21	1980	Die Undankbare	Rechtsanwalt Dr. Hermann	60
22	1981	Mein Freund der Scheich	Franz	0
23	1984	Mama Mia - Nur keine Panik	Bert	52
24	1987	Hexenschuß	Leo Hansen	100
25	1987	Three Crazy Jerks	Schmidgruber	45
26	1988	Starke Zeiten	Monaco Franze	20
27	1988	Three Crazy Jerks II	Xaver Prielmayer	53
28	1989	Jede Menge Schmidt	Alfred Löffler	10
29	1995	Drei in fremden Kissen	Ludwig König	70
30	1996	Drei in fremden Betten	Ludwig König	0
31	1997	Happy Divorced	Wiggerl Fröhlich	0
32	2024	Der unsterbliche Stenz - Erinnerungen an Helmut Fischer	self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
2	1955	What Am I?	Self	65
3	1959	Stars in the Ring	Self	53
4	1961	Funkstreife Isar 12	Helle Leitner	0
5	1963	Das Kriminalmuseum	Knöferl	85
6	1964	Grimme Awards Ceremony	Self	0
7	1964	Der Nachtkurier meldet…	Georg Hübkoppel	0
8	1967	Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre	Butler	61
9	1969	Gestern gelesen	Düsterberg junior	0
10	1969	Der Staudamm	Helikopterpilot	0
11	1969	Die Perle – Aus dem Tagebuch einer Hausgehilfin	Taxichauffeur	0
12	1970	Scene of the Crime	Ludwig Lenz	61
13	1973	Okay S.I.R.	Kellner	0
14	1974	Derrick	Lindemann	60
15	1977	Polizeiinspektion 1	Martin Widmann	0
16	1977	Polizeiinspektion 1	Herr Strohmeier	0
17	1978	Sachrang	Kavallerieleutnant	60
18	1979	Der ganz normale Wahnsinn	Lino Gailing	0
19	1979	Fast wia im richtigen Leben	James Grützner	73
20	1979	Der Millionenbauer	Rhaider Lois	0
21	1980	Felix und Oskar		0
22	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
23	1981	Der Gerichtsvollzieher	Prüfer Bergstahler	0
24	1981	Das Traumschiff	Anton Stinglmayer	43
25	1982	Master Eder and his Pumuckl	Dr. Schredlbach	73
26	1983	Monaco Franze	Monaco Franze	86
27	1983	Unsere schönsten Jahre	Herbert Dirscherl	100
28	1984	Die verflixte 7	Self	0
29	1986	Rette mich, wer kann	Oskar Schatz	0
30	1987	Die Hausmeisterin	Josef Haslbeck	60
31	1990	Romy Award	Self	90
32	1990	Café Meineid	Wembacher	0
33	1990	Ein Schloß am Wörthersee	Leo Laxenender	58
34	1992	Lilli Lottofee		0
35	1994	Peter und Paul	Peter Elfinger	0

Helmut Fischer

Film

Television