- The producers of Cabaret (1972) didn't allow him to participate at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1973.
- The producer of Max and the Junkmen (1971) didn't allow him to participate at the Academy Awards ceremony in 1973.
- Brother of Elmar Wepper
- He has a daughter (b. 2012) from a relationship with Susanne Kellermann (2009-2012).
- Son-in-law of Ernst von Morgen (1893-1963) and Margarethe Gräfin von Schlitz gen. von Görtz (1909-1994), stepfather of Valerie (b. 1969) and Stephanie Prinzessin von Hohenzollern (b. 1971) (from his wife's first marriage to Ferfried von Hohenzollern).
- Began acting at the age of nine in children's series for Bavarian TV.
- His character "Harry Klein", the assistant in Derrick (1974), became a cult figure all over the world. Many Japanese believed that every German has his own "Harry".
- Father of Sophie Wepper.
- Was the German dubbing voice for Sabu in The Jungle Book, also dubbed for Jean-Louis Trintignant and John Savage.
- Came to international notice in Bernhard Wicki's classic anti-war drama Die Brücke (1959), playing one of a group of teen-aged recruits tasked with defending a remote bridge against impossible odds in April 1945.
- He was the son of the lawyer Friedrich Karl Wepper and his wife Wilhelmine.
- On stage from 1952 in 'Peter Pan' at the Munich Staatstheater.
- Co-founder in 2003 of the Deutsche Filmakademie.
- Published his autobiography in August 2021, entitled 'Ein ewiger Augenblick'. A second book (Nur mit Hund bin ich ein Mensch) followed in October 2023, co-written with his wife Susanne.
- Until her death in 1979, Wepper was married to Angela von Morgen (1942-2019), who was also known as Prinzessin Angela von Hohenzollern.
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