Fritz Wepper, the German film and TV actor best known for his role in “Cabaret” has died. He was 82.
His family told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday that Wepper died at a hospice facility in Munich on Monday after a long illness that followed the life-threatening sepsis he suffered last year.
In 1972, Wepper appeared alongside Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, and Joel Grey in Bob Fosse’s Oscar-winning musical, “Cabaret.”
Wepper pictured in October 2022. ZUMAPRESS.com Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles in “Cabaret.” Fritz Wepper was 82. ZUMAPRESS.comHe would then turn down Hollywood offers to star in the German crime series “Derrick,” alongside Horst Tappert, and was well known in his home country for his work on “High Society Murder” from 2007 to 2017, and in his last recurring role in “For Heaven’s Sake” from 2002 to 2021.
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However, he did return for one stateside project in 2001: the TV flick “Murder on the Orient Express.”
Wepper in a scene from “Derrick.” Alamy Stock Photo “Derrick” ran from 1974 and 1998. Alamy Stock PhotoHis first-ever major role came at age 18 in Bernhard Wicki’s 1959 classic, “The Bridge.”
Wepper is survived by Kellermann, 45, and their daughter, Filippa, 13, as well as his daughter Sophie, 42, whom she shared with his first wife Angela Wepper von Morgen, and one granddaughter born in 2018.
