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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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