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Michael Pfleghar
Stuttgart, Germany
The son of a manufacturer received training as an editor and became an assistant director at SDR in Stuttgart in 1954. He later worked there as a television director and at the e…
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The son of a manufacturer received training as an editor and became an assistant director at SDR in Stuttgart in 1954. He later worked there as a television director and at the end of the 1950s followed Helmut Jedele to Bavaria Film near Munich. From 1959 to 1963 he was chief director, after which he worked as a freelancer. With his innovative shows, he soon became Germany's best-known television director. In 1967 he directed the award-winning music television special A Man and His Music plus Ella plus Jobim for Frank Sinatra, starring Ella Fitzgerald and Antônio Carlos Jobim, in the United States. He lived with Sinatra's daughter Tina Sinatra in Munich at the end of the 1960s. He directed i.a. the ZDF show series Wünsch Dir was and in the years 1973 to 1979 the comedy television series Klimbim. He had been in a relationship with Ingrid Steeger, actress in Klimbim, for five years since 1974. In 1990, Pfleghar founded the Lobby für Kinder association together with Ursula Pfeiffer in Nuremberg. The association helps children in need. Michael Pfleghar was married to the pop singers Bibi Johns (1960-1962) and Inge Brück (divorced in the late 1960s); meanwhile he had a relationship with Heidi Brühl. From 1981 to 1990 he was Wencke Myhre's second husband and father of their son Michael (* 1982). A daughter came from a liaison with Corinne Pulver. He shot himself in 1991 in the Düsseldorf apartment of his friend Hubert Maessen, a publicist. Pfleghar was buried in the family grave in the forest cemetery in Stuttgart-Degerloch
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2006
Svein and the Rat
Movie Production Assistant
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2004
Köpfe in Bayern
TV show Self
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1991
Die lieben Verwandten
TV show Director
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1987
Top Kids
Movie Director
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1986
Showgeschichten
TV show Self
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1986
Die Zukunft hat Geburtstag - 100 Jahre Automobil
Movie Director
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1982
Liza Minnelli - Silvester-Gala 1982 live aus Bad Gastein
Movie Director
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1980
Susi
TV show Director
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1978
Zwei himmlische Töchter
TV show Director
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1978
Die Gimmicks
TV show Director
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1973
Visions of Eight
Movie Narrator
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1973
Klimbim
TV show Creator
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1972
Schöne Stimmen
TV show Director
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1972
Jules und die olympischen Geister
Movie Director
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1971
Perlico - Perlaco
Movie Director
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1970
ZDF Werkstatt
TV show Self
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1970
Münchner Bilderbogen
TV show Self
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1968
Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose
Movie Director
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1967
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
Movie Director
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1967
With Love, Sophia
Movie Director
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1967
The Oldest Profession
Movie Director
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1966
How to Seduce a Playboy?
Movie Director
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1965
Serenade for Two Spies
Movie Director
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1964
Dead Woman from Beverly Hills
Movie Director
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1964
Grimme Award
TV show Self
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1960
Drei tänzerische Skizzen
Movie Director
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1959
Wenn Sechse eine Reise tun
Movie Director
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1959
Freunde, vernehmt die Geschichte
Movie Director
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1959
Drei kleine Helle
Movie Director
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1959
3 x Tanzpalast
Movie Director
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1957
Der Schallplattendieb
Movie Director
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Thomas Mann
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