Wolf Ackva

Acting

Wolf Ackva

Born — Died

1911-07-30 — 2000-01-16

Place of birth

Montigny, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

74 titles

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

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger

1978

Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger poster
8.0

Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger is a German television series.

Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger

1965

Film credits

1970s · 14 titles

Naughty Co-Eds poster
4.2

Tis is the 8th part of series. Another story based on what real-life German teenagers schoolgirls of the day were up to...

Naughty Co-Eds

1974

In Trouble poster
3.3

This movie chronicles several pregnant women on their quest to have an abortion. Some got pregnant by accident, others were raped. Sure to offend anti-abortionists, pro-lifers, feminists and chauvinists alike. The portions of the movie that deal with European folk remedies to pregnancy are especially interesting.

In Trouble

1971

Natascha - Todesgrüsse aus Moskau poster
6.5

Super agents from East and West have 24 hours to foil an assassination attempt on Brezhnev. Together they hunt the terrorist No. 1. The race against the clock shows eerily realistic the practices of the secret services.

Natascha - Todesgrüsse aus Moskau

1977

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Hitler/Ludendorff-Prozeß

1971

Housewives Report poster
3.0

A report style film that focuses on salacious episodes of housewives engaging in infidelity.

Housewives Report

1971

Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr poster
4.5

Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.

Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr

1976

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Schuft, der den Münchhausen schrieb

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Taxi 4012

1976

Brennendes Geheimnis poster
7.3

A married woman takes her young son to a spa resort in the hope of helping his asthmatic condition. But she falls in love with a dashing baron.

Brennendes Geheimnis

1977

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Protokoll eines Verdachts

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Timon von Athen

1976

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jedermanns Weihnachtsbaum

1975

Claus Graf Stauffenberg poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Claus Graf Stauffenberg

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nachbarn

1970

1960s · 19 titles

Devil in the Flesh poster
4.7

Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.

Devil in the Flesh

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Bürger von Calais

1968

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Porträt eines Helden

1966

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Traum des Eroberers

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ein Tag ohne Morgen

1966

Peter Pan poster
7.0

Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever; because the adult world does not please him at all. Together with the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter Pan lures the girl Wendy and her two brothers John and Michael to Nowhere, where Peter teaches them to fly. They join forces with the Indians, led by the beautiful Tigerlilly, to fight together against the evil Captain Jack Haken and his wild pirates.

Peter Pan

1962

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie

1965

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Rette sich, wer kann oder Dummheit siegt überall

1966

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Und nicht mehr Jessica

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Plädoyer für einen Rebellen

1965

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keiner ist wie der andere

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Trauerspiel von Julius Caesar

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Fall Rouger

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Leb wohl, mein Traum

1963

Alaska – Wildnis am Rande der Welt poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Alaska – Wildnis am Rande der Welt

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Eine halbe Stunde

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der Geisterzug

1963

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nebeneinander

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Flieger Ross

1966

1950s · 17 titles

Nights on the Road poster
7.9

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.

Nights on the Road

1952

Hanna Amon poster
6.1

Hanna Amon and her brother Thomas live on an estate they've inherited from their parents. Local veterinarian Brunner loves Hanna from afar, and Thomas is in love with the daughter of the local mayor. Love, however, doesn't always mean happiness, as both Hanna and Thomas are soon to find out.

Hanna Amon

1951

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe

1955

Bandits of the Highway poster
8.7

The film is based on a true story, concerning a series of robberies on the highways of Germany. At the time of the actual events, there was a controversy over whether or not highway patrolmen should be given permission to use firearms against perpetrators.

Bandits of the Highway

1955

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Das Spinnennetz

1956

Junges Herz voll Liebe poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Junges Herz voll Liebe

1953

Beiderseits der Rollbahn poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Beiderseits der Rollbahn

1953

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Caine war ihr Schicksal

1959

Rommel ruft Kairo poster
4.5

In 1942 the Germans devised an operation to introduce in Egypt spies to provoke a rebellion against the British.

Rommel ruft Kairo

1959

Die verschwundene Miniatur poster
10.0

Master butcher Külz from Hanover meets the young and beautiful Irene Trübner, private secretary to the wealthy art collector Steinhövel, in Copenhagen. She asks him to help her transport a miniature recently acquired by her employer at an auction in Copenhagen to Hanover. The newspaper has just reported on the theft of some of the art objects sold at the same auction and she is afraid of being robbed as well. The two agree that Külz should discreetly give her the miniature at the station the next morning in order to deceive any robbers. However, Miss Irene does not give Mr. Külz the original, but a copy. During the train journey, the miniature is stolen from Mr. Külz...

Die verschwundene Miniatur

1954

No artwork available
9.0

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Der Hund von Baskerville

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Paul und Julia

1958

No artwork available
NR

Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.

Mecki Introduces Himself

1952

No artwork available
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Die schöne Tölzerin

1952

No artwork available
7.0

A German doctor who is a prisoner of war inspires her compatriots in a Siberian labor camp to regain their courage and confidence in life.

Taiga

1958

No artwork available
4.5

The wife of the English consul in British-occupied Egypt at the turn of the century falls in love with a French foreign legionnaire, and her husband takes advantage of this to spy on secret plans for an uprising instigated by the French. An action by the French in the desert is then bloodily suppressed by the English. The legionnaire survives, but he cannot forgive the woman who loves him for the fact that many of his comrades have died as a result of her betrayal.

Geliebte Feindin

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Schwestern

1957

1930s · 6 titles

Hurra, ich bin Papa poster
7.0

Peter Ohlsen, a perpetual student, leads a dissolute life and has been living off his filthy-rich father for years. When Peter comes home drunk from a party with his friends yet again, he finds a three-year-old boy in his bed who had been left with his housekeeper along with a letter. The letter states that Peter is the boy’s father and that he is hereby entrusted with the child’s upbringing.

Hurra, ich bin Papa

1939

Irrtum des Herzens poster
6.2

On the afternoon of Christmas Eve, Sister Angelika bids her boss, Professor Reimers, farewell, for she has quit her post. Reimers doesn’t understand the reason for this and since she won’t say a word as to why she’s quit, he asks her to spend the evening with him and his son Konrad. Konrad, however, wanted to take advantage of the holiday to bring his divorced parents back together and sends Angelika packing as soon as she reaches the house. Disappointed and sad, she drives to the airport to meet Captain van Santen, who also invited her to spend the holiday.

Irrtum des Herzens

1939

Alarm at Station III poster
5.8

During the Prohibition the US government has been just as successful at stopping drinking as they have been in the War on Drugs. Customs Officer Arne Kolk is determined to stop the alcohol smugglers at any price.

Alarm at Station III

1939

Anschlag auf Schweda poster
7.0

The student Hans Kessler is suspected of having murdered the banker Hergotin, who has been found dead in his hotel in Zurich. When a search is launched for an unknown woman, who was seen in the hotel at the time of the murder, Hans suddenly confesses to the deed. The prosecution is headed by Schweda and Hans is sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Only afterwards does Regine, Hans' sister, find out about the events. She is convinced that her brother is innocent and is covering for the actual murderer.

Anschlag auf Schweda

1935

No artwork available
9.0

The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and ward off a villainous foreign competitor for his lady love.

If It Were Not for Music

1935

Black Roses poster
6.8

Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.

Black Roses

1935

Series credits

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

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre poster
6.9

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger

1978

Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger poster
8.0

Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger is a German television series.

Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger

1965

Hafenpolizei poster
7.5

Hafenpolizei is a German television series.

Hafenpolizei

1963

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

1979

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Anwalt

1976

Pater Brown poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pater Brown

1966

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mordkommission

1973

No artwork available
10.0

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox is a series of crime novels and audio dramas written by the German couple Rolf and Alexandra Becker, later also adapted to a television series and a movie. The series chronicle the adventures of Paul Cox, a professional gambler in London, with a tendency to get involved in intricate murder mysteries, where he often ends up as the main suspect and has to evade police and solve the crime to clear his name. He's aided in all his adventures by his friend Thomas Richardson, a private detective.

Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Perle – Aus dem Tagebuch einer Hausgehilfin

1969

Interpol poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Interpol

1963

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Frühbesprechung

1973