Status: 12/30/2022 12:37 p.m
He was one of the busiest character actors on German television. His voice enjoys cult status among radio play fans. The actor Hans Peter Hallwachs has died at the age of 84.
The actor and radio play speaker Hans Peter Hallwachs is dead. The dpa news agency learned this from the family circle. Hallwachs died on December 16 in Berlin, he was 84 years old. “For us, he always played leading roles, throughout a long, fulfilling life,” says a family obituary.
Hallwachs was one of the busiest character actors on German television, but he was almost always seen in supporting roles. He played in 16 crime scenes alone ARD with, among other things, in the very first episode “Taxi to Leipzig”. In the Hallwachs had 13 appearances in the ZDF series “Der Alte”.
Title role in Kästner film adaptation
His career began in the 1960s. In the Erich Kästner film “Fabian” (1980), the Berliner played the title role. TV viewers know his face, among other things, from the ARDseries “Murder with a View”, where he played the father of Sophie Haas (Caroline Peters).
He also took part in “The Great Bellheim” (1993). In 2020 he could still be seen in a new case in the ZDF series “Letzte Spur Berlin”.
Classic crime drama
Hallwachs’ voice has cult status among radio play fans. Among other things, he can be heard in many Raymond Chandler settings of the 1980s. His leading role in Edward Boyd’s “Five Fingers Make a Hand” from 1969 is also considered a classic of West German crime radio plays.