- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJosef Brem
- Height1.91 m
- Beppo Brem was a German comedian, stage and film actor. His father was a stone mason. Beppo Brem studied to become a cabinet maker and his first job to work for the Munich Kammerspiele as a stage carpenter. There he got a job on stage as an extra. After that he took acting lessons. From 1925 to 1927 he worked at the theatre in Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, and went on to Ulm, Regensburg, Berlin and Munich. His first films were La fiancée vendue (1932) ("The Bartered Bride") (1932) and Muß man sich gleich scheiden lassen (1933). All together he appeared in over 200 films and did some guest appearances on TV, especially in the plays by Ludwig Thoma. Starting in 1964, he played in about 117 episodes of a crime series the title role of 'Inspector Wanninger'. Beppo Brem was married to Marga Wening from 1932 till he passed away.- IMDb mini biography by: Rudi Polt / rudipolt@aol.com
- SpouseMarga Wening-Brem(1932 - September 5, 1990) (his death, 1 child)
- 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.
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