German humorist, cartoonist, film director and actor

Vicco von Bülow

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German humorist, cartoonist, film director and actor

Awards Received

Bavarian Order of Merit

Order of Merit of Berlin

Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Order of Karl Valentin

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art

Kassel Literary Prize

Weilheim Literature Prize

Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum

Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Pipe Smoker of the Year

Bavarian TV Awards

Grimme-Preis

honorary doctor of the University of Wuppertal

Music

Member of, past and present

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Von Bülow in 2010

Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow (12 November 1923 – 22 August 2011), known as Vicco von Bülow or Loriot, was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.

He is best known for his cartoons, the sketches from his 1976 television series Loriot, alongside Evelyn Hamann, and his two movies, Ödipussi (1988) and Pappa Ante Portas (1991).

On the television series Unsere Besten (Our Best), Loriot was ranked the 54th best German ever. In a special comedy episode of Unsere Besten, he was ranked as the most famous German comedian ever.