Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (pronounced [ˈjoːaxɪm ˈfʊksbɛʁɡɐ]; 11 March 1927 – 11 September 2014) was a German actor and television host, best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (often a Detective Inspector with Scotland Yard).

Fuchsberger was born in Zuffenhausen, today a district of Stuttgart, and was a member of the obligatory Hitler Youth.

[1] During World War II, at the age of 16, he was trained as a Fallschirmjäger, combat instructor and sent to the Eastern Front where he was wounded.

After his release, he worked as an engineer for typesetting and printing machines in the family business and later in a publishing house in Düsseldorf.

The surprising success laid the foundation for many other film adaptations of novels by Edgar Wallace.

With the help of his wife, Gundula, good friends and tireless work, he managed to discharge the debt and to start a new existence.

[4] Late in life, Fuchsberger lived in Grünwald near Munich and in Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania.