Horst Tappert: Horst Tappert. Actor: Derrick. Born on 26 May 1923 in Wuppertal, he served with the Nazi German Waffen-SS in World War II. After attending acting lessons at the theater in Stendal, where he also made his stage debut, he performed on several important stages in Germany, but became widely popular as cinema and television actor in the late 1950s and 1960s, probably best known as gentleman gangster in The Great...
Known For: Derrick (Stephan Derrick), Das Halstuch (Vikar Nigel Matthews), Der Engel, der seine Harfe versetzte (Herr Parker), The Great British Train Robbery (Michael Donegan)