Private Schulz

Private Schulz

Limited Series 1981 · 6 eps · ★ 5.3 · Crime, Comedy, Drama, War & Politics

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Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.

Created by Jack Pulman

Network: BBC One

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Cast

Michael Elphick Gerhard Schulz
Cyril Shaps Solly
Ronald Baddiley British Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
Ian Richardson Major Neuheim
Billie Whitelaw Bertha Freyer
Terence Suffolk Willy Schumacher
Walter Sparrow Becker
Clive Merrison Radio Announcer (voice)
John Shrapnel German Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
David Swift Professor Bodelschwingh
Ken Campbell Krauss
Mark Wingett Walter Schmidt

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