Tilo Prückner

Q: When did Tilo Prückner die?

Tilo Prückner died on July 2, 2020.

Q: How old was Tilo Prückner when they died?

Tilo Prückner was 79 years old at the time of death.

Tilo Prückner (26 October 1940 – 2 July 2020) was a German television and film actor. His career spanned five decades and more than 100 films. He became known for his portrayal of often eccentric characters in high-profile public television productions such as Tatort, Adelheid und ihre Mörder, Kommissarin Lucas and Rentnercops.[1]

Early life

Tilo Prückner was born in Augsburg, the son of the paediatrician Alfred Prückner and his wife Dorothea née Krause in Augsburg. The Prückner family has a long reaching family tradition in Hof. He first went to the St. Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg and changed then to the school Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nürnberg, where he passed his Abitur in 1960. He dropped his study of law to begin an actor's education in Munich with Hans Josef Becher and Ellen Mahlke.

Career

From 1962 until 1964 he was employed at the Schauburg in Munich, and afterwards worked at the Theater St. Gallen, from 1966 to 1968 at the Theater Oberhausen and 1968/1969 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich. From 1970 to 1973, he played at Berlin's Schaubühne, where he was one of the founding members. Since 1973 he worked as a freelance actor at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich.

After his participation in the TV recordings of productions at the Schaubühne, his work with directors of the New German Cinema increased, including Bernhard Sinkel, Edgar Reitz and Peter Fleischmann. He often played sick or handicapped people. In 1976 Prückner received the German Actors Award [de] for his role as the violinist Hännschen Wurlitzer in Bomber & Paganini [de]. Among his more recognized roles with international audiences are the bat-riding "Night Hob" in the 1984 fantasy film The NeverEnding Story and the scientist Dr. Richter in the 2012 science fiction comedy Iron Sky.

In later years, Prückner proved his art of interpreting diverse characters in a great number of movie and TV productions, often portraying cranky or eccentric characters. He appeared as the hypochondriac detective Gernot Schubert in the TV-series Adelheid und ihre Mörder for six years, co-starring with Evelyn Hamann and Heinz Baumann. Since 2003, he had a regular supporting role in the TV-series Kommissarin Lucas as the landlord of the main character played by Ulrike Kriener. From 2015 until his death, he played a lead role in the ARD crime series Rentnercops about retired cops who are hired back into their jobs.

In 2013, he published his first novel, Willi Merkatz wird verlassen.

Death

On 2 July 2020 Prückner died of a sudden heart failure in Berlin at the age of 79.

Selected filmography

Wilder Reiter GmbH [de] (1967, dir. Franz-Josef Spieker) as Stiglitz
Apokal (1971, dir. Paul Anczykowski) as Miles
Die Verrohung des Franz Blum [de] (1974, dir. Reinhard Hauff) as Zick Zack
One or the Other of Us (1974, dir. Wolfgang Petersen) as Drögnitz
Schoolmaster Hofer (1975, dir. Peter Lilienthal) as Custodian
Valley of the Dancing Widows [de] (1975, dir. Volker Vogeler) as Crazy Butch
John Glückstadt (1975, dir. Ulf Miehe) as Michel
A Happy Family Life (1975, dir. Marianne Lüdcke [de], Ingo Kratisch [de]) as Manfred
Berlinger [de] (1975, dir. Bernhard Sinkel, Alf Brustellin) as Laski
The Sternstein Manor (1976, dir. Hans W. Geißendörfer) as Nepomuk Kleebinder aka Muckerl
Paule Pauländer [de] (1976, dir. Reinhard Hauff) as Charly
Hans im Glück [de] (1976, TV Movie, dir. Wolfgang Petersen) as Albert Bäumler
Bomber & Paganini [de] (1976, dir. Nikos Perakis) as Hänschen "Paganini" Wurlitzer
Grete Minde (1977, dir. Heidi Genée) as Gerd Minde
SOKO 5113 (1978–2014, TV Series, 11 episodes) as Kriminalhauptmeister Neubert / Hermann Heindl
Paul kommt zurück (1978, TV Movie, dir. Peter F. Bringmann [de]) as Kalle
Der harte Handel (1978, TV Movie, dir. Uli Edel) as Sepp Lederer
The Man in the Rushes (1978, dir. Manfred Purzer) as Tramp
The Tailor from Ulm (1978, dir. Edgar Reitz) as Albrecht Berblinger
Lena Rais [de] (1979, dir. Christian Rischert [de]) as Albert Rais
The Hamburg Syndrome (1979, dir. Peter Fleischmann) as Fritz
The Willi Busch Report (1979, dir. Niklaus Schilling) as Willi Busch
Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 (1980) as Herr Brackmann
Der Schatz des Priamos [de] (1981, TV Movie, dir. Karl Fruchtmann [de]) as Heinrich Schliemann
The Magic Mountain (1982, dir. Hans W. Geißendörfer) as Lehrer Popow
Non-Stop Trouble with Spies [de] (1983, dir. Ottokar Runze) as Fred
Banks and Robbers [de] (1983, dir. Rolf Silber) as Herr Bauermann
Unser Mann vom Südpol [de] (1984, TV Movie, dir. Peter Adam) as Fred
Non-Stop Trouble with My Double [de] (1984, dir. Reinhard Schwabenitzky) as Bazille
The NeverEnding Story (1984, dir. Wolfgang Petersen) as Night Hob
Fear of Falling [de] (1984, dir. Christian Rischert [de]) as Theo Schuster
Tiger: Springtime in Vienna [de] (1984)
The Little Prosecutor [de] (1987) as Von Knörringen
Freckled Max and the Spooks (1987) as Sepp
Herz mit Löffel (1987)
Wallers letzter Gang (1989) as Paul Schönfaerber
Hab' ich nur deine Liebe (1989) as Michael Seebisch
Verfolgte Wege (1989) as Heindl
Border Frenzy [de] (1992, dir. Niklaus Schilling) as Willi Busch
Pauline In Between [de] (1993) as Teacher
Adelheid und ihre Mörder (1993–2000, TV Series, 26 episodes) as Kriminalhauptmeister Gernot Schubert
'El Chicko' – der Verdacht (1996) as Paul's father
Alle für die Mafia (1998) as Sepp
Pinky and the Million Dollar Pug [de] (2001) as Punk
Goebbels und Geduldig (2001) as Heinrich Hoffmann
Tatort (2001–2008, TV Series, 15 episodes) as Kriminaloberkommissar Eduard Holicek
Kommissarin Lucas (2003–2019, TV Series, 29 episodes) as Max Kirchhoff
Die Stunde der Offiziere (2004) as Friedrich Olbricht
Willenbrock [de] (2005) as Fritz
5 vor 12 (2006) as Geldeintreiber #1
Doppelspiel (2006) as Louis Seyfer
The Counterfeiters (2007) as Hahn
SEK Calw (2007)
Mein Freund aus Faro (2008) as Willi Wandel
Totgesagte leben länger (2008) as Psychiater
Räuber Kneißl [de] (2008) as Schreiner Christof
Whiskey with Vodka [de] (2009) as Wirt Landgasthof
Village People 2 – Auf der Jagd nach dem Nazigold (2009) as Adolf Hitler
Village People – Voll Porno (2011) as Pornoproduzent
Anduni [lb] (2011) as Onkel
Holger sacht nix [de] (2011, TV Movie) as Holger Thiessen
Iron Sky (2012) as Doktor Richter
Fly Away [de] (2012) as Schlepper
Little Thirteen (2012) as Holger Schreiber
Tatort Calw – Hexensabbat (2013) as Dr. Franz Bäuerle
Windstorm (2013) as Herr Kaan
Tatort Calw – So ein Theater! (2014) as Attentäter
Nebenwege (2014) as Ferdl
Coming In (2014) as Erich
Herzlos (2014) as Obdachloser
Head Full of Honey (2014) as Dr. Ehlers
Windstorm 2 [de] (2015) as Herr Kaan
Stroppy Cow, Stubborn Ram [de] (2015) as Jakob's Father
Rentnercops [de] (2015–2020, TV Series, 56 episodes) as Kriminaloberkommissar Edwin Bremer
Windstorm 3: Windstorm and the Wild Horses [de] (2017) as Herr Kaan
Village People – Tod aus dem All (2018) as Dr. Bretschneider
Windstorm 4: Ari's Arrival [de] (2019) as Herr Kaan
Mordkommission Calw – Schattenkrieger (2019) as Dr. Neufeld