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Hans Peter Hallwachs at a cinema premiere in 2015
Photo: POP-EYE / Rene du Vinage / IMAGO
The actor and radio play speaker Hans Peter Hallwachs is dead. The German Press Agency learned this from the family on Friday.
Hallwachs lived to be 84 years old.
He was one of the busiest character actors on German television, but was almost always seen in supporting roles.
He played in 16 crime scenes on ARD alone, including the very first episode, Taxi nach Leipzig.
Hallwachs had 13 appearances in the ZDF series Der Alte.
His career began in the 1960s.
The Berliner played the title role in the Erich Kästner film »Fabian« (1980).
TV viewers also know his face from the ARD series »Mord mit Aussicht«, where he played the father of Sophie Haas (Caroline Peters).
He also took part in »Der Große Bellheim« (1993).
In 2020 he could still be seen in a new case in the ZDF series »Letzte Spur Berlin«.
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.
As it became known on Friday, Hallwachs died on December 16 in Berlin.
"He always played leading roles for us, throughout a long, fulfilling life," says an obituary from his family.
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