Munich actor Fritz Wepper has died at the age of 82. He was the eternal sidekick in "Derrick" and the eternal schemer in "For Heaven's Sake" Wepper played the scheming mayor in the series “For Heaven’s Sake’.

He also played the older brother Elmar in the TV series ‘Two Brothers’ Wepper was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died at his home in Munich.