Richard Münch

Acting

Richard Münch

Born — Died

1916-01-10 — 1987-06-05

Place of birth

Gießen, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

80 titles

Richard Heinrich Ludwig Münch (10 January 1916 – 6 June 1987) was a German actor, best known for portraying Alfred Jodl in Patton (1970). He also portrayed General Erich Marcks in The Longest Day (1962).

Known for

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick 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

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Film Award

1951

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der 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

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Die Schwarzwaldklinik poster
6.6

The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.

Die Schwarzwaldklinik

1985

Film credits

1980s · 6 titles

1970s · 10 titles

Patton poster
7.4

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.

Patton

1970

Group Portrait with a Lady poster
5.0

Leni Gruyetin, a resident of Nazi Germany, lives a tumultuous life as she bears witness to the fascist regime of the Nazis.

Group Portrait with a Lady

1977

Der Durchdreher poster
9.0

The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the day of his divorce, he meets a new woman in a rear-end collision, who has also just been divorced and with whom he plunges headlong into a new relationship.

Der Durchdreher

1979

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7.0

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Tödlicher Ausgang

1979

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8.0

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Als wär's ein Stück von mir

1976

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9.0

After eleven years of solitary confinement, Perahim, convicted of murdering a police officer, is released early from prison after exceptionally good behavior. He has a son that he wants to take care of.

Perahim - die zweite Chance

1974

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8.0

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Wenn ihr wollt, ist es kein Märchen

1973

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NR

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Der Scheck heiligt die Mittel

1974

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10.0

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Onkel Wanja

1979

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die seltsamen Begegnungen des Prof. Taratonga

1978

1960s · 34 titles

The Longest Day poster
7.6

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

The Longest Day

1962

The Bridge at Remagen poster
6.7

In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.

The Bridge at Remagen

1969

The Train poster
7.6

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

The Train

1964

The Visit poster
7.2

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

The Visit

1964

The Inn on the River poster
6.8

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.

The Inn on the River

1962

The Miracle of Father Malachia poster
5.4

The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, however, is not understood by the people but only exploited as a lucrative sensation.

The Miracle of Father Malachia

1961

Where Are You Taking That Woman poster
7.4

A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay

Where Are You Taking That Woman

1966

Das Liebeskarussell poster
3.3

An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer.

Das Liebeskarussell

1965

Hocuspocus poster
5.4

Kurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz.

Hocuspocus

1966

Call Girls of Frankfurt poster
5.7

After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja reports on wild sex parties of the murdered and mentions names, prominent names.

Call Girls of Frankfurt

1966

Murderers Club of Brooklyn poster
8.8

Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter.

Murderers Club of Brooklyn

1967

Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included poster
8.3

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget that he has unfinished business with them.

Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included

1966

The Violin Case Murders poster
7.0

The first film adaptation of Jerry Cotton. FBI agents Jerry Cotton and Phil Decker are tracing a group of six murderers. Disguised as a vagabond Jerry Cotton infiltrates the gang. Kitty, the leader's girlfriend, soon becomes Jerry's most important helper. With her help, he's able to prevent a bomb's explosion in a school. The deadly attack on a rich collector he can not prevent. The gangsters flee with the loot and a hunt to the death begins ...

The Violin Case Murders

1965

Manhattan Night of Murder poster
8.0

Second Jerry Cotton movie. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Special agent Jerry Cotton is summoned by the FBI to help crack down on the Criminals and put them out of business. He doesnt pull any punches either.

Manhattan Night of Murder

1965

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10.0

A young father has been left by his wife, and has to go on military service with his baby.

Himmel, Amor und Zwirn

1960

The Pipes poster
6.0

This three-part Austrian/Czech comedy stretches the boundaries of what is considered to be humorous. Part one finds a silent film actor upset because of a rival actor's attention to the former's wife. When he kills his rival, it is only when he is strapped to the electric chair that he realizes that this is his last live scene. The second episode has the wife of an elderly British nobleman having an affair with the young gamekeeper of their estate. Part three finds a peasant woman taking a lover when her husband goes off to fight the war.

The Pipes

1966

Redhead poster
5.9

Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.

Redhead

1962

Mark of the Tortoise poster
6.6

English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“…

Mark of the Tortoise

1964

Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight poster
7.4

Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high.

Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight

1966

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mr. Arcularis

1967

Heißes Pflaster Köln poster
5.9

Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.

Heißes Pflaster Köln

1967

No artwork available
7.0

The film around the intelligence officer Captain Smith plays in the headquarters of a British tank regiment shortly after the beginning of the invasion of 1944, where Le Havre waws to be overrun by allied troops and forced to surrender. Smith refuses to continue the fight as he is convinced that the war has become meaningless, he came to that conclusion due to the denial of the request of a German general to evacuate the French civilian population.

The bad soldier Smith

1963

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NR

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Sir Basil Zaharoff - Makler des Todes

1969

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NR

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Friedrich Ebert - Geburt einer Republik

1969

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Epitaph für einen König

1969

No artwork available
9.0

Summer 1938: renowned Viennese surgeon Professor von Benda is summoned by Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart to attend the Evian Conference on Jewish refugees. Disguised as a loyal Nazi physician, von Benda’s “mission” is to propose that participating nations purchase German Jews for 250 Reichsmark each, ostensibly saving them from deportation. Over ten days in Evian-les-Bains, von Benda navigates tense negotiations with diplomats and relief workers, confronting the moral abyss behind his government’s plan. As alliances form and falter around him, he watches the fates of refugees - and of Europe itself - unfold without judgment, bearing witness to a tragedy that history cannot forget.

Die Mission

1967

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Waldhausstraße 20

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Affäre Eulenburg

1967

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hôtel du commerce

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Tod im Apfelbaum

1960

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Einer von sieben

1960

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Feldwebel Schmid

1968

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Annoncentheater

1962

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das große Geschäft

1966

1950s · 10 titles

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? poster
7.3

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

1959

Doctor Crippen Lives poster
6.8

Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.

Doctor Crippen Lives

1958

The Restless Night poster
6.5

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.

The Restless Night

1958

The Lost One poster
6.8

A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.

The Lost One

1951

Wet Asphalt poster
6.0

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

Wet Asphalt

1958

The Young Go Wild poster
7.0

High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl Ulla, but she rejects him when she finds out how he spends his time. When the pimp Horst tries to rape Ulla, she is rescued by Fabian. Shortly afterwards, Horst's body is found and Fabian is convicted of the murder due to the false testimony of a witness. In prison, he comes to trust the prison doctor Dr. Knittel, who believes him and is able to unmask the real culprit.

The Young Go Wild

1959

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5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Frau im besten Mannesalter

1959

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Dreigroschenoper

1957

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keiner stirbt leicht

1956

No artwork available
NR

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Das heilige Experiment

1955

Series credits

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

The Old Fox poster
6.3

A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.

The Old Fox

1977

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick 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

Derrick poster
6.0

Derrick 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

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

German Film Award

1951

The Commissioner poster
8.0

Der 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

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Polizeiinspektion 1 poster
10.0

Polizeiinspektion 1 is a German television series.

Polizeiinspektion 1

1977

Die Schwarzwaldklinik poster
6.6

The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.

Die Schwarzwaldklinik

1985

Hafenpolizei poster
7.5

Hafenpolizei is a German television series.

Hafenpolizei

1963

Kir Royal poster
7.0

A six-part television series, a parody of the Munich newspaper, its gossip reporter Michael Graeter, and its publisher Anneliese Friedmann. The series centres around the tabloid reporter Baby Schimmerlos, who plays in the Munich "Schicki-Micki" scene of the 1980s.

Kir Royal

1986

Unheimliche Geschichten poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Unheimliche Geschichten

1982

Der seidene Schuh poster
NR

Dona Proeza loves the Spanish nobleman Don Rodrigo, the long-standing viceroy of the West Indies, at the end of the 16th century, but is first married to the old judge Don Pelayo and then to Don Camillo, and in between goes on a journey with Don Baltasar.

Der seidene Schuh

1965

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7.0

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Rabe, Pilz und dreizehn Stühle

1972

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hallo Nachbarn

1963

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lobster

1976

No artwork available
NR

Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakthroughs that make little hope for new times.

Das Totenreich

1986

Le Grand Secret poster
7.0

A young woman searches for her biologist lover who disappeared after an Indian scientist made a discovery that could endanger humanity.

Le Grand Secret

1989

Affäre Dreyfuss poster
9.0

The disaster began in the late summer of 1894, when a French staff officer appeared at the military attaché of the German embassy in Paris. He offers important military information at very high prices. A cover letter for this case ends up in the attaché's wastepaper basket. It is stolen. Investigations by the French Ministry of War incriminate Captain Dreyfus.

Affäre Dreyfuss

1968

Summer in Lesmona poster
NR

Bremen, 1893. Young Marga Lürmann has many suitors but has never fallen in love. This changes when she meets Percy, a distant cousin from England, during a glorious summer spent in Lesmona, her uncle's country estate. Although Percy is not yet able to support a wife, he promises to return in five years to marry her. However, Marga, under pressure from her family to find a husband, grows more lonely and confused as time goes by, and eventually accepts a marriage proposal from someone else.

Summer in Lesmona

1987