Christian Berkel
Acting
Christian Berkel (born October 28, 1957) is a German actor. Berkel was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was a military doctor. From the age of 14 he lived in Paris where he took drama lessons with Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Berlin. He then trained at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and appeared on stage in Augsburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Vienna and at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin. He has appeared in many German television productions and secured a major role in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall as Doctor Ernst-Günther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds. He lives in Berlin with the actress Andrea Sawatzki, with whom he has two sons. He is also fluent in French and English. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christian Berkel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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movieBlock 10
2026
Dr. Maximilian Samuel
movieEin Taxi für zwei
2025
Gregor Basil
movieEntführen für Anfänger
2024
Adam Lansky
movieQuerschuss
2024
Andreas
movieBlack Box
2023
Erik Behr
tvHijack
2023
Roland Murnau
movieUnser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
2022
Narrator (voice)
movieA Retribution
2022
Simon Wiesenthal
movieTrügerische Sicherheit
2022
Magnus Mittendorf
tvFuria
2021
Minister Hardenberg
movieSportabzeichen für Anfänger
2021
Bertram Dinkler
movieEnfant Terrible
2020
Interviewer
tvDie verlorene Tochter
2020
Heinrich von Gems
movieThe Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2020
Louis Ziffer
tvRealm of the Volga
2019
Narrator
tvCriminal: Germany
2019
Steffen Marquardt
tvBeat
2018
Richard Diemer
movieScheidung für Anfänger
2018
Christoph
tvIn Wahrheit
2017
Erich Kupka
tvRedemption Road
2017
Jonathan Roth
movieElle
2016
Robert
movieEin gefährliches Angebot
2016
Michael Dithardt
movieTrumbo
2015
Otto Preminger
movieAnti-Social
2015
Philip
movieDreamgirls
2015
Herr Hegemann
movieElly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
2014
Ernst Udet
tvMDR um 4
2014
Self
movieBuddy
2013
Dr. Küster
movieTotenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
2013
Dr. van der Meer
movieDas dunkle Nest
2011
Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg
movieThe Last Employee
2011
David Böttcher
tvThe Man with the Bassoon
2011
Heinrich Bockelmann
movieInglourious Basterds
2009
Proprietor Eric
movieLeningrad
2009
Vinkelmeyer
movieValkyrie
2008
Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
movieMogadischu
2008
Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
movieMiracle at St. Anna
2008
Captain Eichholz
movieHaber
2008
Fritz Shimon Haber
movieFlame & Citron
2008
Hoffmann
movieDer andere Junge
2007
Jakob Wagner
tvDer Kriminalist
2006
Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann
movieBlack Book
2006
General Käutner
movieHelen, Fred und Ted
2006
Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
tvHelen, Fred und Ted
2006
Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
tvDie Sturmflut
2006
Helmut Schmidt
movieFlightplan
2005
Mortuary Director
Der Vater meiner Schwester
2005
Dr. Klaus Merbold
Hexenküsse
2005
Herbert Zauner
Feuer in der Nacht
2004
Karl Winkler
movieGuys & Balls
2004
Rudolf
movieDownfall
2004
Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
ZIBB
2003
Self
Der Unbestechliche
2002
Harald Kittler
movieSafe Conduct
2002
Alfred Greven
Erste Liebe
2002
Rolf Drost
movieThe Experiment
2001
Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
movieSweet Little Sixteen
1999
Thomas Reiner
movieTod auf Amrum
1998
Rolf Spiekermann
tvDer letzte Zeuge
1998
Hans Leinen / Helmut Gittel
tvDie Cleveren
1998
Alfons Kleiber
movieRossini
1997
Weich
Lautlose Schritte
1996
Simon Sundermann
movieGates of Fire
1996
Dr. Sander
Spur eines Zweifels
1995
Jens Kolberg
Ich, der Boss
1995
Victor Mazza
tvInspector Rex
1994
Gregor Schell
tvRosa Roth
1994
Maiwald
tvDie Kommissarin
1994
Walter Neumann
tvDoppelter Einsatz
1994
Sebastian van Leuyen
tvEin starkes Team
1994
Gerhard Brock
movieMutter, ich will nicht sterben!
1994
Walter Gebhard
tvBella Block
1993
Thomas Engler
Hecht & Haie
1993
Dr. Frenkel
tvRiverboat
1992
Self
tvDAS!
1991
Self
tvDer Bastard
1989
Felix Dennison
movieWallenstein
1987
Schwedischer Hauptmann
Das schöne irre Judenmädchen
1984
Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin
Frau Jenny Treibel
1982
Leopold Treibel
Steckbriefe
1982
Gerhard Hartung
tvA Case For Two
1981
Bernd Marquart
movieNew Year's Eve
1978
The Young Man
movieThe Serpent's Egg
1977
Student
movieMaiden's War
1977
Karol Djudko
tvThe Old Fox
1977
Mano Deller / Thilo Müller / Hans Fänger / Werner Kuziemsky / Erik Falter / Peter Aulan / Hausmann / Peter Larsen / Harry Westphal
tvDerrick
1974
Alex Sierich / Lussmann / Jürgen Klose / Dixi / Andy Stein / Rolf Laduhn / Psychopath / Manfred Kessler
tvPolizeiruf 110
1971
Max Ortheil
tvScene of the Crime
1970
Uwe Pfandler / Erik Steinbeck / Rainer Wenisch / Alfred Waller / Doc Decker
tvBambi
1948
Self
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movieQuerschuss
2024
Producer