Fritz Umgelter

Filmography

His film releases were:

• 1958: All the Sins of the Earth
• 1958: Mit Eva fing die Sünde an [de] (American re-edited version 1962: The Bellboy and the Playgirls)
• 1958: Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter [de]
• 1961: Only the Wind
• 1965: Tread Softly
• 1967: A Handful of Heroes
• 1968: Tower of Screaming Virgins [de] (Uncredited. Director: Franz Antel)

His television work includes:

• Nicht zuhören, meine Damen! (1954) — (based on N'écoutez pas, mesdames !)
• Ein Phönix zuviel (1955) — (based on A Phoenix Too Frequent)
• Der Hund von Baskerville (1955) — (based on The Hound of the Baskervilles)
• Ein Volksfeind (1955) — (based on An Enemy of the People)
• Molière spielt in Versailles (1955) — (based on a play by Walter Knaus [de] including three plays by Molière)
• Schiffchen zu 100 Francs (1956) — (based on the radio play Der Admiral by Alix du Frênes)
• Der Flüchtling (1956) — (based on a play by Fritz Hochwälder)
• Gelähmte Schwingen (1956) — (based on a play by Ludwig Thoma)
• Der Verräter (1956) — (based on the play The Traitor by Herman Wouk)
• Öl und Champagner (1956) — (based on a play by Ferenc Molnár)
• Die letzte Patrouille? (1956) — (screenplay by Artur Müller [de])
• Das Spinnennetz (1956) — (based on Spider's Web by Agatha Christie)
• Zwölftausend (1956) — (based on a play by Bruno Frank)
• Zehn Jahre und drei Tage (1956) — (based on a radio play by Ivo Braak [de])
• Die Panne (1957) — (based on A Dangerous Game by Friedrich Dürrenmatt)
• Montserrat (1957) — (based on a play by Emmanuel Roblès)
• Monsignores große Stunde (1957) — (based on the play Monsignor's Hour by Emmet Lavery)
• Romeo und Julia (1957) — (based on Romeo and Juliet)
• Ganz groß in Kleinigkeiten (1957) — (based on An Eye for Detail by Berkely Mather)
• Don Carlos (1957) — (based on Don Carlos)
• Olivia (1958) — (based on Love In Idleness)
• As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (1959, TV miniseries) — (based on the story of Cornelius Rost)
• Die Räuber (1959) — (based on The Robbers)
• Das mittlere Fenster (1959) — (based on the novel The Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge)
• Am grünen Strand der Spree (1960, TV miniseries)
• Der Mann, der Donnerstag war (1960) — (based on The Man Who Was Thursday)
• Gericht über Las Casas (1960) — (based on the play Las Casas vor Karl V. [de] by Reinhold Schneider)
• Prinz Friedrich von Homburg (1961) — (based on The Prince of Homburg)
• Die Journalisten (1961) — (based on a play by Gustav Freytag)
• Und Pippa tanzt (1961) — (based on a play by Gerhart Hauptmann)
• Wer einmal aus dem Blechnapf frisst (1962, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Hans Fallada)
• Montserrat (1962) — (based on a play by Emmanuel Roblès)
• Der Belagerungszustand (1963) — (based on The State of Siege)
• Danton's Death [de] (1963) — (based on Danton's Death)
• Die Abrechnung (1963) — (based on the play Zar Alexander by Reinhold Schneider)
• Freundschaftsspiel (1963) — (screenplay by Dieter Meichsner [de])
• Der schlechte Soldat Smith (1963) — (based on the play The Bad Soldier Smith by William Douglas Home)
• Den Tod in der Hand (1963) — (based on the novel Échec au porteur by Noël Calef [fr])
• Der Traum des Eroberers (1964) — (based on a play by Reinhold Schneider)
• König Richard III (1964) — (based on Richard III)
• Tom und seine Söhne (1964) — (based on The Country Boy)
• Bei Tag und Nacht (1964) — (based on The Dog in the Manger)
• The Physicists [de] (1964) — (based on The Physicists)
• Überstunden (1965) — (screenplay by Johannes Hendrich [de])
• Der Sündenbock (1965) — (based on a novel by Luise Rinser)
• Nun singen sie wieder (1965) — (based on a play by Max Frisch)
• Nachtfahrt (1965) — (based on a novel by Simon Glas)
• Perlenkomödie (1966) — (based on a play by Bruno Frank)
• Münchhausen (1966) — (based on a play by Walter Hasenclever)
• Freiheit im Dezember (1966) — (screenplay by Leo Lehman [de])
• Caroline (1966) — (based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham)
• Herrenhaus (1966) — (based on the play Mannerhouse by Thomas Wolfe)
• Der gute Mensch von Sezuan (1966) — (based on The Good Person of Szechwan)
• Nur einer wird leben (1966) — (based on a novel by André Picot [fr])
• Die Affäre Eulenburg (1967) — (
  Harden–Eulenburg affair
  )
• Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (1967) — (based on Chips with Everything)
• Mr. Arcularis (1967) — (based on a story by Conrad Aiken)
• Sieben Wochen auf dem Eis (1967) — (
  airship Italia
  )
• So war Herr Brummell (1967) — (film about Beau Brummell, based on a play by Ernst Penzoldt)
• Fräulein Julie (1968) — (based on Miss Julie)
• Die Freier (1969) — (based on a play by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff)
• Epitaph für einen König (1969) — (based on August Strindberg's play Karl XII)
• Rebellion of the Lost [de] (1969, TV miniseries) — (screenplay by Wolfgang Menge, based on a novel by Henry Jaeger)
• Der Tanz des Sergeanten Musgrave (1969) — (based on Serjeant Musgrave's Dance)
• Like a Tear in the Ocean [de] (1970, TV miniseries) — (based on Like a Tear in the Ocean by Manès Sperber)
• Sessel zwischen den Stühlen (1970) — (screenplay by Wolfgang Menge)
• Menschen (1970) — (based on Creatures That Once Were Men by Maxim Gorky)
• Merkwürdige Geschichten (1970–71, TV series, 13 episodes)
• Viel Getu' um nichts (1971) — (based on Much Ado About Nothing)
• Elsa Brändström (1971) — (Docudrama about Elsa Brändström)
• Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall – Ur-Opas dufter Krieg 70/71 (co-director: Jürgen Neven-du Mont, 1971)
• Das Abenteuer eines armen Christenmenschen (1971) — (based on Story of a Humble Christian)
• Das Klavier (1972) — (based on a novel by Julius Tinzmann [de])
• Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck (1973, TV miniseries) — (biographical film about Friedrich von der Trenck)
• Der Vorgang (1973) — (based on a novel by Ladislav Mňačko)
• Wenn alle anderen fehlen (1973) — (screenplay by Manfred Bieler [de])
• Der Zweck heiligt die Mittel (1973) — (based on La Fin et les Moyens by Louis C. Thomas [fr])
• Arsène Lupin (1974, TV series, 3 episodes)
• Im Vorhof der Wahrheit [de] (1974) — (screenplay by Johannes Hendrich [de])
• Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski [de] (1975, TV miniseries) — (biographical film about Maurice Benyovszky)
• Tatort: Die Rechnung wird nachgereicht [de] (1975)
• Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus [de] (1975, TV miniseries) — (based on Simplicius Simplicissimus)
• Ein Badeunfall (1976) — (screenplay by Karl Wittlinger [de])
• Tatort: Zwei Flugkarten nach Rio [de] (1976)
• Die Babenberger in Österreich (1976) — (documentary about the Babenberg dynasty, starring Klaus Maria Brandauer)
• Der Winter, der ein Sommer war [de] (1976, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Sandra Paretti)
• Tatort: Flieder für Jaczek [de] (1977)
• Tatort: Feuerzauber [de] (1977)
• Vorhang auf, wir spielen Mord (1978) — (based on the novel Enter Murderers by Henry Slesar)
• Ein typischer Fall (1978) — (screenplay by Irene Rodrian [de])
• Revolution in Frankfurt [de] (1979) — (film about the Fettmilch uprising 1614)
• Dr. Knock oder Der Triumph der Medizin (1979) — (based on Knock)
• Die rote Zora und ihre Bande (1979, TV miniseries) — (based on The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle)
• The Weavers [de] (1980) — (based on The Weavers)
• Gesucht wird ... – Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren (1980) — (screenplay by Herbert Reinecker)
• In Prag und anderswo (1980) — (biographical film about Jaroslav Hašek)
• Tatort: Schattenboxen [de] (1981)
• In the Land of Cockaigne (1981) — (based on a novel by Heinrich Mann)
• Das Traumschiff (1981–82, TV series, 6 episodes)

References

External links

• Fritz Umgelter at
  IMDb