 Wepper is also remembered for his roles in the films "Cabaret" (1972) and "The Bridge" (1959) and as Mayor Wöller in the TV series "Um Himmels Willen" (since 2002).Fritz Wepper was born as the son of a lawyer who was missing in action as a soldier in Poland in 1945.He started his acting career in a production of "Peter Pan" at the age of eleven.