''Slim Callaghan Intervenes'' (German: ''Slim Callaghan greift ein'') is a 1964 West German
crime
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television series
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broadcast on
ZDF
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in eight episodes. The programme was based on the series of novels by British writer
Peter Cheyney
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy Ca ...
Slim Callaghan
Slim Callaghan is a fictional London-based private detective created by the writer Peter Cheyney. Like another of Cheyney's characters, the FBI agent Lemmy Caution, he was constructed as a British response to the more hardboiled detectives of Ameri ...
.Compton p.375 In the television adaptation Callaghan is operating his own agency in
Munich
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. He is played by
Viktor de Kowa
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Life
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while Eva Pflug featured as his loyal secretary Steffie.
Main cast
*
Viktor de Kowa
Viktor de Kowa (also spelled Victor de Kowa, born Victor Paul Karl Kowalczyk; 8 March 1904 – 8 April 1973) was a German stage and film actor, chanson singer, director, narrator, and comic poet.
Life
He was born the son of a farmer and engineer ...
as
Slim Callaghan
Slim Callaghan is a fictional London-based private detective created by the writer Peter Cheyney. Like another of Cheyney's characters, the FBI agent Lemmy Caution, he was constructed as a British response to the more hardboiled detectives of Ameri ...
* Eva Pflug as Steffie
* Helmuth Rudolph as Inspektor Dallmüller
Other actors who appeared in episodes of the series include
Carla Hagen
Carla Hagen (11 September 1927 – 27 January 2020) was a German film and television actress.
Hagen died in Hamburg on 27 January 2020, at the age of 92.
Selected filmography
* ''Professor Nachtfalter'' (1951)
* ''The Happy Village'' (1955)
* ' ...
,
Grit Boettcher
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Early life
In 1938, Boettcher was born in Berlin, Germany.
Career
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,
Hanne Wieder
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Selected filmography
* ''Rosemary'' (1958)
* '' Heiße Ware'' (1959)
* ''Labyrinth'' (1959)
* '' Marili'' (1959)
* '' The Haunted Castle'' (1960)
* ' (1961)
* ...
Ursula Herking
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Selected filmography
* '' Susann ...
,
Walter Janssen
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Selected filmography
* '' The Dancer'' (1919)
* ''Destiny'' (1921)
* ''Wandering Souls'' (1 ...
,
Karl Schönböck
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Ulrich Beiger
Ulrich Beiger (26 August 1918 – 18 September 1996) was a German actor.
Selected filmography
* ''The Little Residence'' (1942) - Möller
* ''The Trip to Marrakesh'' (1949) - Mixer
* '' Sensation in Savoy'' (1950) - young Indian
* ''Scandal at ...
,
Alexander Golling
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Selected filmography
* ''Der stählerne ...
,
Dieter Eppler Dieter Eppler (11 February 1927, in Stuttgart – 12 April 2008, in Stuttgart) was a German television actor and director of radio drama
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Lukas Ammann
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Tatjana Sais
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