Overview

• He has played Kommissar Thorsten Lannert in the Stuttgart edition of Tatort since 2008, sustaining one of the franchise’s longest-running detective turns.
• His national breakthrough came with the 1979 TV three-parter Die große Flatter, after which he was widely called Richy and later made the name official.
• Coverage notes conflicting viewership figures for that 1979 production, with reports ranging from about 22 million to roughly 27 million.
• Müller says he amassed nearly 200,000 Deutsche Mark in debt in the late 1980s after declining roles on moral grounds, recovering through work on Traumschiff and a later ZDF series.
• Recent activity includes a 13-performance stint as Clayton in the Tarzan musical in Stuttgart and continued public interest in his motorsport passion, including a lilac Porsche.