Biography

Besided the acting he was also a speaker for radio plays and he realized two movies as a director.

Television became a more important part in his career from the 70s, beside it he still appeared in feature movies, among them several humorously colored sex movies which seemed to dominate the 70s of the German film industry.

During his long lasting career at the theater he was also busy as a director for many other theaters after the war, beside it he also appeared on stage as a cabaret artist.

Balding, moustachioed German character actor whose forte was playing pedantic or fussy types, usually bureaucrats, doctors, lawyers, bankers and so on. On the stage from 1938, Beiger spent many years at diverse theatres in Munich and in cabaret. He appeared in classical plays by Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, as well as in operettas and musical comedy. A familiar face in films (from 1942) with numerous guest spots in popular TV shows, especially crime dramas ("Der Alte", "Percy Stuart", "Derrick", "Der Komissar", etc).

The actor Ulrich Beiger studied among others dramatics in Munich and in 1938 he was engaged as an assistant director at the Münchner Kammerspielen. There he also made his debut as an actor and remained at the Münchner Kammerspielen till 1944.