The Wixxer (2007) was the first theatrical movie he made within 34 years.
According to an interview with "Stern" magazine, his nickname "Blacky" hails from his preference for the whiskey brand "Black & White".
Considering it a bad parody on his own 1960s Edgar Wallace movies, he rejected an offer to make a cameo appearance on Der Wixxer (2004). After Oliver Kalkofe and Bastian Pastewka sent him a DVD to Australia, he liked the movie and agreed to play a character in its sequel The Wixxer (2007).
Father of Thomas Fuchsberger.
First German ambassador of UNICEF (1984).
In the early 1960s, producer Horst Wendlandt asked him to play a character called "James Bond" after being offered the film rights by Ian Fleming. Fuchsberger warned Wendlandt against the project because he considered it too expensive, but later regretted that advice.
Lives in Munich, Germany, but also in Sydney and Hobart, Australia some months of the year. He shot several documentaries about his "second home country" and was awarded "Honorary Ambassador of Tourism" by Tasmania`s Prime Minister in 1999.
On the cover of the US video release of The Mysterious Magician (1964) he was credited as 'Joachim Berger'.
Stadium announcer at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
Was a parachutist during World War II.