Willy Egger

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Wilhelm "Willy" Egger (born March 8, 1929 in Vienna ; † August 2, 2005 in Berlin ) was an Austrian production and line producer at German film.

Live and act

The son of a tax consultant had volunteered at the Viennese production company Asto-Film and took on several auxiliary functions at the home newsreel before making his debut in 1948 as a production manager at the Marika Rökk production Fregola .

Since the beginning of the 1950s he was also active in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1954 Egger took part in a production management for the first time, but until the early 1960s he was still mainly active as a production manager. For a long time, the productions supervised by Egger were not very substantial, but he also produced two productions by Wolfgang Staudte in the 1960s , of which the Yugoslav drama Herrenpartie in particular received a lot of attention.

Since the 1970s, Willy Egger has worked as a production manager, including for Billy Wilders, among others, star drama Fedora, which was filmed in the Bavaria Studios in Munich . Since the late 1980s, he served Horst Wendlandt's Rialto Film in this role . Towards the end of his career, the native of Vienna was also involved in the production of several hit comedies by German star comedians Loriot , Otto Waalkes and Hape Kerkeling .

Egger, who is married to a hairdresser, has also worked for television and sporadically appeared in front of the camera with guest roles in some of the films he produced.

Filmography

(Co-) production management or (co-) production management for cinema productions

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 520.

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personal data
SURNAME Egger, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egger, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian production and line manager at German film
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2005
Place of death Berlin