Helmut Förnbacher

Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter

Helmut Förnbacher
Born	(1936-01-26) 26 January 1936 (age 88) Basel, Switzerland
Occupation(s)	Actor, film director, screenwriter
Years active	1959–present

Helmut Förnbacher (born 26 January 1936) is a Swiss actor, film director and screenwriter.^[1] He has appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1959. He starred in the 1976 film The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.

Selected filmography

Hinter den sieben Gleisen (1959), as Paul Eberhard
Stage Fright (1960), as Thomas Crusius
Tread Softly (1965), as Percy
No Shooting Time for Foxes (1966), as the main character
Murderers Club of Brooklyn (1967), as Bryan Dyers
St. Pauli Between Night and Morning [de] (1967), as Helmut
Beyond Control [de] (1968, director), as Kurt Sandweg
Köpfchen in das Wasser, Schwänzchen in die Höh’ [de] (1969, director), as Berger
Love, Vampire Style [de] (1970, director)
The Moonstone [de] (1974, TV film), as Godfrey Ablewhite
The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner (1976), as Peter
Akte Grüninger (2013), as Valentin Keel