Biographie

In 1956, appeared with Liesl Karlstadt in the first commercial of German television, produced by Henkel for their washing powder Persil. During 1956, several commercials for this product were produced with sketch-like plots, all starring the Bavarian acting duo.

In the 60's one saw him in other normally funny movies but he succeeded far better in escaping from this cliché with his theater roles where he also impersonated broken characters and insignificant figures.

He also became very popular with his movies together with actor and director Joe Stöckel. Because of the death of Joe Stöckel in 1959 the promising future of this matching came to an end.

From 1925 he took acting lessons and got his first theater engagement two years later.

With his part in Helmut Käutner's "Des Teufels General" (55) he got the chance to impersonate one of his few serious characters, which kept an exception.