Fritz Wepper, a German actor with a prolific TV career in his native country but known to American audiences for his funny and heartfelt performance as a German Jew is Bob Fosse’s Oscar-winning 1972 hit musical Cabaret, died Monday at a hospice facility in Munich. He was 82.
His death was announced by wife Susanne Kellermann to German newspaper Bild. Kellerman said Wepper passed away peacefully following a long illness.
A familiar presence in Germany from his role as the crime-solving Detective Sergeant Harry Klein in the long-running series Derrick (1974-98), Wepper made a lasting impression on international audiences with his performance as the charming, if insecure, aspiring gigolo Fritz Wendel of Cabaret.
In the film starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey, Wepper’s Fritz befriended Minnelli’s Sally Bowles and York’s Brian Roberts, while longing for the beautiful and wealthy Jewish heiress Natalia Landauer (Marisa Berenson). Secretly Jewish himself,...
His death was announced by wife Susanne Kellermann to German newspaper Bild. Kellerman said Wepper passed away peacefully following a long illness.
A familiar presence in Germany from his role as the crime-solving Detective Sergeant Harry Klein in the long-running series Derrick (1974-98), Wepper made a lasting impression on international audiences with his performance as the charming, if insecure, aspiring gigolo Fritz Wendel of Cabaret.
In the film starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey, Wepper’s Fritz befriended Minnelli’s Sally Bowles and York’s Brian Roberts, while longing for the beautiful and wealthy Jewish heiress Natalia Landauer (Marisa Berenson). Secretly Jewish himself,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On Feb. 13, 1998, New Line unveiled The Wedding Singer in theaters in time for Valentine’s Day audiences. The Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore rom-com went on to earn 123 million globally at the box office. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below.
We’ve all heard him, usually at weddings and bar mitzvahs where alcohol often blurs true appreciation of his talents. Song stylist extraordinaire, he has the uncanny ability to make virtually any song, even “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,” sound like “Hot Hot Hot.”
Now, thanks to Adam Sandler, he has been finally given his due in The Wedding Singer, a (for the most part) winning romantic comedy that plays off the per former’s sweet, loopy personality. Despite a saggy middle stymied by sappy good intentions, the picture stands as Sandler’s best effort.
Demographically, expect some thing of a trade-off. While all the lovey-dovey stuff might turn off some of his partying young male fans,...
We’ve all heard him, usually at weddings and bar mitzvahs where alcohol often blurs true appreciation of his talents. Song stylist extraordinaire, he has the uncanny ability to make virtually any song, even “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,” sound like “Hot Hot Hot.”
Now, thanks to Adam Sandler, he has been finally given his due in The Wedding Singer, a (for the most part) winning romantic comedy that plays off the per former’s sweet, loopy personality. Despite a saggy middle stymied by sappy good intentions, the picture stands as Sandler’s best effort.
Demographically, expect some thing of a trade-off. While all the lovey-dovey stuff might turn off some of his partying young male fans,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Michael Rechtshaffen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you weren’t familiar with Harry Nilsson before the first season of Netflix’s “Russian Doll,” you certainly knew his song “Gotta Get Up” after it recurred on all eight of the show’s episodes — every time Natasha Lyonne’s Nadia repeatedly reawakens on the same night after dying in different ways. The second season of the series, now streaming on Netflix, doesn’t have a specific tethering song, but it serves up some choice cuts from the ’70s and ’80s, including Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus,” Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” Falco’s “Der Kommissar,” Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With the Devil” and Nena’s “99 Luftballons.”
These needle drops are apropos considering the central theme of the new season is time travel — whenever Nadia takes the subway. “We wanted the music to feel authentic and line up with the eras,” says Brienne Rose, music supervisor for “Russian Doll,...
These needle drops are apropos considering the central theme of the new season is time travel — whenever Nadia takes the subway. “We wanted the music to feel authentic and line up with the eras,” says Brienne Rose, music supervisor for “Russian Doll,...
- 4/22/2022
- by Lily Moayeri
- Variety Film + TV
“slick and spooky…all-encompassing good performances…standout sound design and a killer score that keeps viewer’s hairs thoroughly raised throughout”
– Silver Screen Riot
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, 32 Malasana Street fromShudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release 32 Malasana Street on Digital HD and DVD on July 20, 2021. Check out this scary trailer::
Written by Ramón Campos (The Misfits Club), Gema R. Neira (“Alta Mar”), David Orea (“45 Revoluciones”)and Salvador S. Molina (“45 Revoluciones”), the film wasdirected by Albert Pintó (Killing God). 32 Malasana Street stars Begoña Vargas (La otra mirada), Iván Marcos (Odd Job), and Bea Segura (“El comisario”).
The film was produced by Bambu Producciones’ Ramón Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdés, with Studiocanal handling worldwide sales.
Rlje Films will release 32 Malasana Street on DVD for...
– Silver Screen Riot
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film, 32 Malasana Street fromShudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. Rlje Films will release 32 Malasana Street on Digital HD and DVD on July 20, 2021. Check out this scary trailer::
Written by Ramón Campos (The Misfits Club), Gema R. Neira (“Alta Mar”), David Orea (“45 Revoluciones”)and Salvador S. Molina (“45 Revoluciones”), the film wasdirected by Albert Pintó (Killing God). 32 Malasana Street stars Begoña Vargas (La otra mirada), Iván Marcos (Odd Job), and Bea Segura (“El comisario”).
The film was produced by Bambu Producciones’ Ramón Campos and Teresa Fernández-Valdés, with Studiocanal handling worldwide sales.
Rlje Films will release 32 Malasana Street on DVD for...
- 6/30/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Deutschland 83 debuted on Sundance in 2015, right in the middle of the run of The Americans, a couple of months after the end of that show’s third season. The story of an East German soldier recruited to go undercover in the West German military, it functioned as a tense and lively parallel narrative to what Philip and Elizabeth Jennings were doing back in the States.
The Americans concluded earlier this year, which makes the belated sequel to the other series, now called Deutschland 86, particularly welcome. The two shows...
The Americans concluded earlier this year, which makes the belated sequel to the other series, now called Deutschland 86, particularly welcome. The two shows...
- 10/24/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
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