Fritz Umgelter

Fritz Umgelter (1922 to 1981) was a German television director, television writer and film director who worked mainly in television, where he remains best known. He received directing credit for 68 television films or series and writing credit for 22 television films or series segments, and he directed seven cinema films, receiving directing credit for six, which were not critically acclaimed. His early television work includes stage adaptations such as Der Hund von Baskerville in 1955, based on The Hound of the Baskervilles, Romeo und Julia in 1957 and Die Rauber in 1959, and the 1959 television miniseries As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me. In 1967 his television film Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen, based on Arnold Wesker's play Chips with Everything, won the Teleplay Award at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival, which the source calls a German analog to a BAFTA or Emmy Award.