JOACHIM FUCHSBERGER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 345010
Sale Price $85.00
Reg. $100.00
JOACHIM FUCHSBERGER
This 4x5¾ color photograph is signed by the German actor with an inscription to a fan
Inscribed photograph signed: “To/William Dutcher/best wishes/Joachim/Fuchsberger” in black
ink. 4x5¾. Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (1927-2014) was a German-Austrian actor,
television host, lyricist and businessman. During World War II, at the age of 16, he was
trained as a paratrooper combat instructor and sent to the Eastern Front where he was
wounded. He was captured in a hospital in Stralsund by the Red Army and came into Soviet
captivity and later in American and British captivity. After the war he worked as an engineer.
In 1954 he had his breakthrough acting role as "Gunner Asch" in the three-part war film
08/15, based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst. After several war films he starred in the
1959 film Der Frosch mit der Maske (The Frog with the Mask) playing Amateur
detective Richard Gordon. More than 3.2 million visitors saw the movie in the cinema. The
surprising success laid the foundation for many other film adaptations of novels by Edgar
Wallace and he played the detective in another 12 Edgar Wallace films. Fuchsberger later
was the stadium announcer for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1972 Summer
Olympics in Munich. In 1984 he was made the first German ambassador for UNICEF.
On November 13, 2006 he was awarded the Bavarian State Medal for Social Services for
his work. Lightly toned. Corners slightly rounded. Light surface tear on verso. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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