A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany
Born:
March 20, 1933
Died:
June 23, 1991
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
Author:
1986 Die Zukunft hat Geburtstag - 100 Jahre Automobil
Director:
1957 Der Schallplattendieb
1959 Freunde, vernehmt die Geschichte
1964 Dead Woman from Beverly Hills
1965 Serenade for Two Spies
1966 How to Seduce a Playboy?
1967 Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
1967 The Oldest Profession
1967 With Love, Sophia
1968 Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose
1971 Perlico - Perlaco
1972 Jules und die olympischen Geister
1973 Visions of Eight
1974 La Course en tête
1975 Eddy Merckx - The Greatest Show on Earth
1982 Liza Minnelli - Silvester-Gala 1982 live aus Bad Gastein
1986 Die Zukunft hat Geburtstag - 100 Jahre Automobil
1987 Top Kids
Production Assistant:
1957 Der Schallplattendieb
1959 Freunde, vernehmt die Geschichte
1964 Dead Woman from Beverly Hills
1965 Serenade for Two Spies
1966 How to Seduce a Playboy?
1967 Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
1967 The Oldest Profession
1967 With Love, Sophia
1968 Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose
1971 Perlico - Perlaco
1972 Jules und die olympischen Geister
1973 Visions of Eight
1974 La Course en tête
1975 Eddy Merckx - The Greatest Show on Earth
1982 Liza Minnelli - Silvester-Gala 1982 live aus Bad Gastein
1986 Die Zukunft hat Geburtstag - 100 Jahre Automobil
1987 Top Kids
2006 Svein and the Rat
Writer:
1957 Der Schallplattendieb
1959 Freunde, vernehmt die Geschichte
1964 Dead Woman from Beverly Hills
1965 Serenade for Two Spies
1966 How to Seduce a Playboy?
1967 Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
1967 The Oldest Profession
1967 With Love, Sophia
1968 Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose
1971 Perlico - Perlaco
1972 Jules und die olympischen Geister
1973 Visions of Eight
1974 La Course en tête
1975 Eddy Merckx - The Greatest Show on Earth
1982 Liza Minnelli - Silvester-Gala 1982 live aus Bad Gastein
1986 Die Zukunft hat Geburtstag - 100 Jahre Automobil
1987 Top Kids
2006 Svein and the Rat
Creator:
1973 Klimbim
1978 Die Gimmicks
1978 Zwei himmlische Töchter
Director:
1973 Klimbim
1978 Die Gimmicks
1978 Zwei himmlische Töchter
1980 Susi
1991 Die lieben Verwandten
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