Horst Tappert (born May 26, 1923) is a German actor who is most famous for playing Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama Derrick.
Born on 26 May 1923 in Wuppertal, he joined the army for Germany 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 Gentlemen bitten zur Kasse, Die (1966) (TV). Nevertheless, the role of his role was the character of "Stephan Derrick", a Munich Chief Inspector, who became a cult figure all over the world. He played the role from 1974 to 1998 and received several awards such as the Golden Camera, Bambi and the Italian Telegatto.
