Anecdotes

Lives in Berlin with his girlfriend, a bookseller.

Was trained to be a baker.

After a road accident in 1969, he became addicted to heroine and was sentenced to jail ten times in the following years. In the 1980s, he was successfully given therapy.

After being a member of German rock band "Amon Düül II in the early 1970s, he released a solo single called "Irgendwann wird alles besser" ("Someday everything will be better") (1992).

His daughter with Gisela Getty is Anna Getty was born on 25 October 1972.

Toured Germany as cast member of the musical "Gabba Gabba Hey!" (2005).

German dubbing voice of Nicolas Cage and 'Robert de Niro'.

A film critic once called Zacher the "best small-time criminal of German cinema".

Zacher appeared in about 190 films and television shows between 1961 and 2016, often in illustrious or eccentric character roles.

He died at a nursing home in Hamburg.

He won the Deutscher Filmpreis for portraying a criminal in Reinhard Hauff's film drama Endstation Freiheit (1980).