Jörg Schneider (7 February 1935 – 22 August 2015) was a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. He gained great renownedness in the German speaking area by numerous Kasperle, Pumuckl and fairytale-radio plays records and also adapted plays for the Swiss German language.

Biography

Born in Zürich, canton of Zürich, in Switzerland, Jörg Schneider lives in in the municipality of Wetzikon. Jörg Schneider is married to Romy Schneider; their son died in 2010. Schneider started acting in the 1960s, getting popular in comedian-related rules, later also in radio plays and as stage actor and comedian, and is still one of the most prominent Swiss German actors.

In Usfahrt Oerlike (2015) Jörg Schneider is starring alongside Mathias Gnädinger.