Josef Schaper was born on March 19, 1901 in Ungvár, Hungary, Austria-Hungary as Josef Schapira. He was an actor, known for Die zwölf Geschworenen (1963), Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin (1972) and Othello (1958). He died on March 20, 1984 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.