Michael Pfleghar

Biography

The son of a manufacturer received training as an editor and became an assistant director at SDR in Stuttgart in 1954. He later worked there as a television director and at the end of the 1950s followed Helmut Jedele to Bavaria Film near Munich. From 1959 to 1963 he was chief director, after which he worked as a freelancer. With his innovative shows, he soon became Germany's best-known television director. In 1967 he directed the award-winning music television special A Man and His Music plus Ella plus Jobim for Frank Sinatra, starring Ella Fitzgerald and Antônio Carlos Jobim, in the United States. He lived with Sinatra's daughter Tina Sinatra in Munich at the end of the 1960s. He directed i.a. the ZDF show series Wünsch Dir was and in the years 1973 to 1979 the comedy television series Klimbim. He had been in a relationship with Ingrid Steeger, actress in Klimbim, for five years since 1974. In 1990, Pfleghar founded the Lobby für Kinder association together with Ursula Pfeiffer in Nuremberg. The association helps children in need. Michael Pfleghar was married to the pop singers Bibi Johns (1960-1962) and Inge Brück (divorced in the late 1960s); meanwhile he had a relat…

Directed

1. The Oldest Profession (1967) — Director
2. Visions of Eight (1973) — Director
3. Dead Woman from Beverly Hills (1964) — Director
4. Klimbim (1973) — Director
5. Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967) — Director
6. How to Seduce a Playboy? (1966) — Director
7. Serenade for Two Spies (1965) — Director
8. Zwei himmlische Töchter (1978) — Director
9. Top Kids (1987) — Director
10. Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose (1968) — Director
11. Susi (1980) — Director
12. With Love, Sophia (1967) — Director
13. Liza Minnelli - Silvester-Gala 1982 live aus Bad Gastein (1982) — Director
14. The Greatest Show on Earth (1975) — Director
15. Die Zukunft hat Geburtstag - 100 Jahre Automobil (1986) — Director
16. Perlico - Perlaco (1971) — Director
17. Jules und die olympischen Geister (1972) — Director
18. Der Schallplattendieb (1957) — Director
19. Freunde, vernehmt die Geschichte (1959) — Director
20. Wenn Sechse eine Reise tun (1959) — Director
21. Drei tänzerische Skizzen (1960) — Director
22. 3 x Tanzpalast (1959) — Director
23. Drei kleine Helle (1959) — Director
24. Die lieben Verwandten (1991) — Director
25. Die Gimmicks (1978) — Director
26. Schöne Stimmen (1972) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Visions of Eight (1973) — Narrator
2. Münchner Bilderbogen (1970) — Self
3. Showgeschichten (1986) — Self
4. ZDF Werkstatt (1970) — Self
5. Köpfe in Bayern (2004) — Self
6. Grimme Award (1964) — Self