Beppo Brem

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 Die verkaufte Braut (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.

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.

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.

Starting in 1964, he played in about 117 episodes of a crime series the title role of 'Inspector Wanninger'.

When Beppo Brem performed the leading role in the TV serial "Die seltsamen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger" (64), he had a great success as the Bavarian Maigret version. The serial was continued in 1978 with the title "Die unsterblichen Methoden des Franz Josef Wanninger" - there were a total of 117 episodes.