Fritz Wepper dead – Cabaret star who appeared alongside Liza Minnelli in Oscar-winning movie dies aged 82
CABARET actor Fritz Wepper has died at the age of 82.
The German star was best known for appearing alongside Liza Minnelli in the 1972 Oscar-winning movie.
Wepper died on Monday morning in a Munich hospice, according to reports.
It's claimed he had been treated for around a month before succumbing to a long illness.
In the five weeks leading up to his death, Wepper had been receiving palliative care.
His wife, Susanne Kellermann, announced his death, telling German newspaper Bild that he died peacefully in his sleep.
Wepper was born in Munich in 1995 and began his acting career at the age of 11 in a production of Peter Pan.
The German actor was also known for playing the character Harry Klein in more than 280 episodes of the cult long-running German crime series Derrick, between 1974 and 1998.
He was married twice and had two children.
His first wife was Angela von Morgen, who he married in 1979 and appeared alongside in the crime series Mord in bester Gesellschaft between 2007 and 2017.
In 2009, however, he left Von Morgen for his current wife, Susanne, before later returning to his first wife.
After Von Morgen died in 2019, Wepper married Kellermann a year later.
Wepper has two daughters, one with each of his wives.
His eldest, Sophie, 42, is also an actress and played alongside her father in Mord in bester Gesellschaft.
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