Joachim Fuchsberger (born March 11, 1927 in Zuffenhausen, today a district of Stuttgart) is a German actor and television host best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (always playing one of the good guys, often a Detective Inspector with Scotland Yard).
Fuchsberger was a parachutist during World War II. His nickname Blacky, which has been incessantly used by the media, hails from that time. In the English-speaking world, he is sometimes credited as Akim Berg or Berger.
He withdrew from film and television work in the 1970s and concentrated on his stage career. Only in the late 1990s did he start reappearing in some television movies.
Fuchsberger was also the stadium announcer at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
He has been married to actress Gundula Korte since 1954. Their son, Thomas (born 1957), is a composer. Fuchsberger lives in Munich and near Hobart, Tasmania.
Father of Thomas Fuchsberger.
Lives in Munich, Germany, but also in Sydney and Hobart, Australia some months of the year. He shot several documentaries about his "second home country" and was awarded "Honorary Ambassador of Tourism" by Tasmania`s Prime Minister in 1999.
Stadium announcer at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
First German ambassador of UNICEF (1984).
On the cover of the US video release of "Hexer, Der" (1964) he was credited as 'Joachim Berger'.
Was a parachutist during World War II.
According to an interview with "Stern" magazine, his nickname "Blacky" hails from his preference for the whiskey brand "Black & White".
In the early 1960s, producer Horst Wendlandt asked him to play a character called "James Bond" after being offered the film rights by Ian Flemming. Fuchsberger warned Wendlandt against the project because he considered it too expensive, but later regretted that advice.
Considering it a bad parody on his own 1960s Edgar Wallace movies, he rejected an offer to make a cameo appearance on Wixxer, Der (2004). After Oliver Kalkofe and Bastian Pastewka sent him a DVD to Australia, he liked the movie and agreed to play a character in its sequel Neues vom Wixxer (2007).
Neues vom Wixxer (2007) was the first theatrical movie he made within 34 years.
