Jan Fedder

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Birth Date:
14.01.1955
Death date:
30.12.2019
Length of life:
64
Days since birth:
25324
Years since birth:
69
Days since death:
1598
Years since death:
4
Categories:
Actor
Nationality:
 german
Cemetery:
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Jan Fedder (14 January 1955 in Hamburg, Germany – 30 December 2019) was a German actor.

He is best known for his role as police officer Dirk Matthies in the German television show Großstadtrevier. He is also known for his role as the crude Petty Officer Pilgrim in Wolfgang Petersen's film, Das Boot.

While filming a scene in which the U-96 is caught in a storm, Fedder lost his footing and was nearly swept off the conning tower set. Bernd Tauber (who played Navigator Kriechbaum) noticed Fedder was suddenly missing and cried out "Mann-über-Bord!" (man overboard). With the cameras still rolling, Tauber helped him to the conning tower hatch. Petersen did not realize at first that it was an accident and said "Good idea, Jan. We'll do that one more time!" before it came upon him. Fedder was hospitalized and his role was partially rewritten so that he was bed-ridden for a short portion of the film. The footage was developed and the scene in which Pilgrim is nearly swept off the submarine is one of the most memorable moments in the film.

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