Acting

Ben Hecker

Born August 30, 1948 · Köln, Germany

Died February 21, 2019 · aged 70

No biography available.

Known For

CollideCollide · 2016
Collide
★ 5.62016
MovieThrillerAction
An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne’s autobahns.
The ClownThe Clown · 1976
The Clown
★ 6.11976
MovieDrama
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
Die drei ??? LIVE - und der Super-PapageiDie drei ??? LIVE - und der Super-Papagei · 2006
Die drei ??? LIVE - und der Super-Papagei
★ 6.02006
MovieMystery
Band of BrothersBand of Brothers · 2001
Band of Brothers
★ 8.62001
SeriesDramaWar & Politics
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
KüstenwacheKüstenwache · 1997
Küstenwache
★ 5.81997
SeriesCrimeAction & Adventure
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.
A Case For TwoA Case For Two · 1981
A Case For Two
★ 5.71981
SeriesDramaCrime
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.
SOKO WismarSOKO Wismar · 2004
SOKO Wismar
★ 5.92004
SeriesCrime
Unser CharlyUnser Charly · 1995
Unser Charly
★ 5.71995
SeriesComedyFamily
The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.

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The PeppercornsThe Peppercorns · 1999
The Peppercorns
★ 6.91999
SeriesAction & AdventureKids
Die Pfefferkörner is a German television series produced by Der Kinderkanal. The peppercorns are five friends from Hamburg: Jana Holstein Coutre, Natasha "Tascha" Jaonzäns, Philip "Fiete" Overbeck, Cem Gülec and Vivien "Vivi" Overbeck, Fiete's eight year old sister. After school, the young detectives meet at a high level of a spice warehouse of the company Overbeck & Associates, which belongs to Fiete and Vivi's parents in the first part, but is later given to Fiete and Vivi to look after. Here, in the historic warehouse district, the five friends have their headquarters. With smarts, combined delivery and support of the Internet, they find their cases here. The detectives convict polluters, animal dealers and drug smugglers. They also help each other with personal problems they encounter. Cem has lost his parents in a car accident and sometimes feels sad and lonely. Jana lives with her divorcee mother, a lawyer who is rarely at home. Natasha comes from Latvia. Her parents initially have very strict rules in terms of her education, that make Natasha unhappy. Fiete has problems showing his feelings and hides them behind grumpiness and hostility towards girls, until he falls in love with Natasha. Vivi is suffering from her role of the youngest member of the group. She believes that she must constantly struggle for recognition.

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