
Acting
Siegfried Lowitz
Born — Died
1914-09-22 — 1999-06-27
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
80 titles
Siegfried Lowitz (22 September 1914 – 27 June 1999) was a German actor.
Known for
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
5.6A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Wetten, dass..?
1981
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Was bin ich?
1955
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Boulevard Bio
1991
Film credits
1970s · 8 titles
6.1Dr. Mabuse and his accomplices steal all kinds of attributes from a National Research Institute (including female staff members) in order to complete his own evil mind-control ray. Dr. Mabuse has this impressive and horribly scarred man-monster that kills for him while the entire police force desperately tries to catch him.
The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse
1972
NRBernd, a 13-year-old paralyzed boy, has met a man, Mr. Soldan, who has taken him out in his wheelchair a few times. Bernd has problems because of his physical helplessness: his friends play soccer, are free, carefree and he is confined to his wheelchair. Soldan also lives in a constant state of mental tension: he has served a prison sentence for stealing money, but has not given up the stolen money. The basis of the close relationship between Soldan and Bernd is their outsider status in relation to the world around them. Long before their acquaintance was finally established, Bernd was already observing Mr. Soldan. The strange thing happens: the 13-year-old boy takes on the role of the detective, who then becomes the perpetrator.
Herr Soldan hat keine Vergangenheit
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Drei Tage bis Allerseelen
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Die See
1974
NRRetired detective inspector Keith Kendrick is to commit the perfect murder and collect 20,000 pounds for it! The shrewd old fox from Scotland Yard can hardly believe it...
Eine Tote soll ermordet werden
1972
No synopsis available yet.
Tartuffe oder Der Betrüger
1970
Pavel Rusanov is admitted to an overcrowded cancer ward.
Krebsstation
1970
No synopsis available yet.
Der Fall Opa
1972
1960s · 19 titles
6.8Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
1962
6.7A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
The Sinister Monk
1965
5.8After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy.
The Brain
1962
5.6A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.
The Forger of London
1961
6.7The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
The Mysterious Magician
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Der Trinker
1967
5.5Charles, a talented but poor chemist, has become a wealthy man overnight. The industry is all about his new invention. But the next day, his wife suddenly dies. Nobody suspects anything bad at first, but then Detective Inspector Morland shows up and begins an insidious game of questions and answers. Poison has been found in the contents of the dead woman's stomach.
Das tödliche Patent
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Verräterische Spuren
1962
7.8Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must find a unanimous verdict.
The Twelve Jurors
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Aus Gründen der Sicherheit
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Weiß gibt auf
1966
7.0A private psychiatric clinic: three physicists are staying here. Two of them claim to be Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, respectively. The third is named Johann Wilhelm Möbius. The scientist has discovered the world formula, which poses a great danger: whoever possesses it holds the key to the destruction of all humanity. By presenting a false story, Möbius has managed to take refuge in the asylum, but he could not have known that two agents posing as Einstein and Newton are there with him, intent on stealing the formula from him...
Die Physiker
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Pauken und Trompeten
1967
6.7Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especially his bishop, who is not amused by a priest playing detective.
The Black Sheep
1960
No synopsis available yet.
Ich stehe zur Verfügung
1968
Duke Orsino's unhappy love for Countess Olivia and the fate of the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated by a shipwreck, based on Shakespeare‘s play,
Was Ihr wollt
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Ostwind
1967
No synopsis available yet.
Bedaure, falsch verbunden
1962
No synopsis available yet.
Biedermann und die Brandstifter
1967
1950s · 32 titles
6.9Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl, who helps her cross the border, and they fall in love.
Sky Without Stars
1955
7.0A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed.
It Happened on July 20th
1955
7.4The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
It Happened in Broad Daylight
1958
6.1London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court ...
The Girl and the Legend
1957
6.6A young domestic worker on a farm is used and abused by the men in her life.
The Sins of Rose Bernd
1957
6.9Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age. The case is taken over by a new team, including Dennert's son Harry. Convinced that they have arrested the wrong person, Dennert begins investigating by himself with assistance from the criminal underworld.
The Copper
1958
7.3A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to get a job and start anew, but finds that without a job he can't get a permit, and without a permit he can't get a job. Ensnared in the absurd net of Prussian bureaucracy, he can't see any way out. That is, until he enters a thrift shop and spots a Prussian officer's uniform that fits him like a second skin...
The Captain from Kopenick
1956
8.0A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer?
Confess, Dr. Corda
1958
6.6Both Scotland Yard and an amateur American sleuth are tracking a master criminal known as The Frog. This moniker refers to the bulging-eyed mask worn by the evildoer, and is reflected by the frog icons painfully tatooed onto the forearms of his henchmen. The trail leads to the country manor of an enigmatic, steely-eyed nabob, whose repressed son has eyes for the artistes at the Lolita cabaret, and whose lovely daughter captures the fancy of both the American playboy and the villain himself. Murder, kidnapping and seduction ensue.
Fellowship of the Frog
1959
6.9The film portrays the interaction of Johann Friedrich Struensee, a doctor treating the mentally ill Christian VII of Denmark, and his English consort Caroline Matilda.
King in Shadow
1957
No synopsis available yet.
Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Straße der Gerechten
1959
7.31802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars.
Der Schinderhannes
1958
7.5Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.
The Doctor of Stalingrad
1958
6.6An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
On Call...Murder!
1959
8.0In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.
Hanussen
1955
7.5Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their comrade Robert intercepts them and decides to have them court-martialed. On their way to Algiers, they pick up young Madeleine, who has just survived an attack by insurgents. Suddenly Robert changes his mind and joins the deserters. Madeleine realizes that she is now a prisoner of the four foreign legionnaires and must make her own escape.
Escape from Sahara
1958
10.0Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to cuddle up to her. But in reality the man is an unscrupulous fraudster who is after Anette's money.
Ich war ihm hörig
1958
7.2No synopsis available yet.
Das Sonntagskind
1956
No synopsis available yet.
Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben
1956
7.0Because Diva Christine believes that her husband is cheating on her, she hurtles away and dies. Only the little son prevents the widower from committing suicide.
Mein Vater, der Schauspieler
1956
5.8Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.
Sharks and Little Fish
1957
7.0Germany in 1947. After the Second World War, revue stars Alice and Ellen meet up again with their husbands in Munich. The place where their dream career began. During a visit to their childhood home, the ladies reminisce and relive the exciting events.
Solang es hübsche Mädchen gibt
1955
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Engel mit dem Flammenschwert
1954
9.0A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls.
Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte
1958
7.0Germany, end of the 1950s. After his business partner Kleinschmidt fled to the West, Mr. Reichert managed the company they had once founded together in East Germany alone. The company's export hit is a new type of synthetic fiber. But now the West German company, where Kleinschmidt now works, wants to cancel all orders. Kleinschmidt fears that this could be a welcome opportunity for the East German authorities to order the compulsory expropriation of his company. He wants to save the order on a trip to the West. The reunion with his old friend Kleinschmidt is overshadowed by existential fears.
Besuch aus der Zone
1958
No synopsis available yet.
Zwölftausend
1956
Martin Lundt, heir to his family's industrial business, falls for and, against his family's wishes, weds the family maid, Régine. Soon thereafter, rumors begin to circulate about Régine's faithfulness and being to haunt Martin.
Regine
1956
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Fischer vom Heiligensee
1955
No synopsis available yet.
Meuterei auf der Caine
1954
1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners exploiting poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars. The French eventually allied themselves with the German authorities. After initially having great success, he is betrayed one day. His beloved Julchen, who is pregnant, leaves him to save herself and the child. When Schinderhannes learns that Julchen has borne him a child, he wants to seek her out - but it is a trap ... Bückler and most of his gang are finally captured and executed.
Schinderhannes
1957
No synopsis available yet.
Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit
1957
Series credits
6.3A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
The Old Fox
1977
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
6.0Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Derrick
1974
5.6A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Wetten, dass..?
1981
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
8.0Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
The Commissioner
1969
No synopsis available yet.
Was bin ich?
1955
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Boulevard Bio
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Blauer Panther
1989
No synopsis available yet.
Wortwechsel
1982
8.6No synopsis available yet.
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
1989
5.3No synopsis available yet.
Stars in der Manege
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Music & Guests
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ein unvergeßliches Wochenende
1993
9.0A story of the famous British train robbery from the 1960s, told from the view of the robbers.
Die Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse
1966
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Anna Maria - Eine Frau geht ihren Weg
1994
9.0Janet Freeman, the daughter of the English nuclear researcher Clive and his wife Lucy, is kidnapped.
Es ist soweit
1960
NRThe country estate of Count Claudieuse is located near Paris. One night in 1871, it goes up in flames. Two shots are fired, the count is critically injured, and the countess and her children escape the flames with the help of the feeble-minded Cocoleu. Cocoleu accuses Jacques von Beaucoran from the neighboring estate of being the perpetrator. Jacques protests his innocence.
Der Strick um den Hals
1975
9.5No synopsis available yet.
Babeck
1968
