- Lives in Berlin with his girlfriend, a bookseller.
- Was trained to be a baker.
- After a road accident in 1969, he became addicted to heroine and was sentenced to jail ten times in the following years. In the 1980s, he was successfully given therapy.
- After being a member of German rock band "Amon Düül II in the early 1970s, he released a solo single called "Irgendwann wird alles besser" ("Someday everything will be better") (1992).
- His daughter with Gisela Getty is Anna Getty was born on 25 October 1972.
- Toured Germany as cast member of the musical "Gabba Gabba Hey!" (2005).
- German dubbing voice of Nicolas Cage and 'Robert de Niro'.
- A film critic once called Zacher the "best small-time criminal of German cinema".
- Zacher appeared in about 190 films and television shows between 1961 and 2016, often in illustrious or eccentric character roles.
- He died at a nursing home in Hamburg.
- He won the Deutscher Filmpreis for portraying a criminal in Reinhard Hauff's film drama Endstation Freiheit (1980).
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