
Private Schulz
1981 Crime, Comedy, Drama 1 season
TMDB rating 5.3/10 Ended
Private Schulz is a six-part 1981 television comedy-drama serial written by Jack Pulman and produced for BBC Two. It stars Michael Elphick in the title role, with Ian Richardson, Tony Caunter, Billie Whitelaw, Billy Murray, and Mark Wingett. Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.
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Set primarily in Germany, during and immediately following World War II, fraudster and petty criminal Gerhard Schulz is forced to serve in the SS. In a story based on the real, though unrealised, plot by the Germans known as Operation Bernhard, Schulz tricks the Nazis into making counterfeit British £5 notes, millions of which will be used to destroy the British economy.
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Cast and details
Michael ElphickGerhard Schulz
Cyril ShapsSolly
Ronald BaddileyBritish Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)
Ian RichardsonMajor Neuheim
Billie WhitelawBertha Freyer- Terence SuffolkWilly Schumacher
Walter SparrowBecker
Clive MerrisonKruger
John ShrapnelGerman Newsreel Commentator (voice, uncredited)- David SwiftProfessor Bodelschwingh
Ken CampbellKrauss
Mark WingettWalter Schmidt
- Created by
- Jack Pulman
- Network
- BBC One
- First aired
- May 6, 1981
- Latest episode
- Jun 10, 1981
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