Thomas Fritsch

 ( 1944 Births ) 

He played his first film role in the 1962 Austrian movie Adorable Julia at age 17, alongside Lilli Palmer. He starred opposite Daliah Lavi in , and became a favourite of teenagers. He was frequently featured on the cover of the youth magazine Bravo. He played in in 1963, alongside Hildegard Knef. In 1964, he appeared in his only film together with his father, Das hab ich von Papa gelernt. He appeared two more times with his father, in the ZDF television specials Das gibts doch zweimal in 1965 and Andere Zeiten, andere Sitten. Die Thomas-Fritsch-Show in 1967. He had film roles in Drei Männer in Santa Cruz, Onkel Toms Hütte, and played one of the three men in the title of Drei Männer im Schnee, among many others.

In the 1970s, Fritsch appeared in the television series Der Kommissar and Derrick several times. From 1977, Fritsch appeared in a leading role in the popular series (Three are one too many) by Barbara Noack, portraying a man in a love triangle story. It made him one of Germany's most popular actors. He also starred in the television series Rivalen der Rennbahn (1989). In 2004, he made a return to cinema when he appeared as the villainous Earl of Cockwood in Der Wixxer, a comedy which spoofed the German Edgar Wallace films of the 1960s. Nachruf auf Thomas Fritsch: Liebling des Publikums , Süddeutsche Zeitung

Fritsch became known as a voice actor. He was the German voice of Russell Crowe in Gladiator, and Proof of Life. He dubbed Scar in the German version of The Lion King in 1994; Diego, a Smilodon, in Ice Age and sequels, beginning in 2002; and Aslan in and sequels. In the 2000s, he replaced the late Joachim Kemmer as Lumiere for the "Human Again" DVD feature of Beauty and the Beast. His last role was the narrator in the 2018 children's film Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer, an adaption of Michael Ende's Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver.

Fritsch died on 21 April 2021 in Berlin, aged 77. Körzdörfers NACHRUF in: BILD-Printausgabe ( BILD Letzte Seite) vom 22. April 2021 sowie He was given a burial at sea near the island of Sylt. Thomas Fritsch ist tot: Schauspieler in der Nordsee bestattet (in German)

• Adorable Julia (1962), as Roger, Julia's son
• (1962), as Jean de Wehrt
• (1963), as High school student
• (1964), as Rick Hofer
• Drei Männer in Santa Cruz ( The Last Ride to Santa Cruz, 1964), as Carlos
• Das hab ich von Papa gelernt ( I Learned It from Father, 1964), as Andreas Andermann
• Legend of a Gunfighter (1964), as Chris Harper
• (1965), as Pierre de Sauterne
• Onkel Toms Hütte ( Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1965), as George Shelby
• (1965), as Philipp
• Das gibt's nur zweimal (1965, TV)
• Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
• Der Kommissar (TV series)
• Der Papierblumenmörder (episode 15) – (1970)
• Mord nach der Uhr (episode 94) – (1975)
• Drei Männer im Schnee ( Three Men in the Snow) (1974)
• (1975, TV series)
• Derrick (TV series):
• (1975)
• Abendfrieden (1977)
• Ein Todesengel (1979)
• Der Charme der Bahamas (1986)
• Anruf in der Nacht (1986)
• Tossners Ende (1989)
• (1977, TV series)
• Rivalen der Rennbahn (1989, TV series)
• (1995)
• Rosamunde Pilcher: Federn im Wind (2004)
• Der Wixxer (2004)
• Das total verrückte Wunderauto (2006)
• Die ProSieben Märchenstunde (2006, TV series)
• Meine wunderbare Familie (2007)
• (2008)