# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willy-schafer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:03:06.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willy-schafer"
name: "Willy Schäfer"
slug: "willy-schafer"
description: "Willy Schäfer was a German television actor. Schäfer is best known as Willi Berger on the television series Derrick, a role he played in more than 190 of the series' 281 episodes. He was born in Saarbrücken, Territory of the Saar Basin, and died in Munich, Germany. Willy Schäfer was married and lived in Munich, where he had settled since 1960 and became a permanent resident because of his role in Derrick. He is survived by a son."
tagline: "Television actor (1933-2011)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/c9jH0B2UU76NRydTMUwE7PpYUF4.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1933-03-06"
deathDate: "2011-05-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.33
  momentum:             5.649350649350649
  historical:           9.920126666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0778095/"
    handle:    "nm0778095"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer_(dramatan)"
    title: "Willy Schäfer (dramatan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "ويلي شيفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "ويلى شيفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "Willy Schäfer (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer_(actor)"
    title: "Willy Schäfer (actor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer_(n%C3%A4yttelij%C3%A4)"
    title: "Willy Schäfer (näyttelijä)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Willy Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Willy Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer_(skuespiller)"
    title: "Willy Schäfer (skuespiller)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Willy Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Sch%C3%A4fer"
    title: "Willy Schäfer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85453"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1133040"
    title: "Willy Schäfer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump