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Christian Berkel
Christian Berkel

Christian Berkel

ActingBorn October 28, 1957 (age 68)Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]

Biography

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.

Filmography

2026
Block 10

as Dr. Maximilian Samuel

Movie
2025
Ein Taxi für zwei

as Gregor Basil

Movie
2024Movie
2024
Querschuss

as Andreas

Movie
2023
Black Box

as Erik Behr

Movie
2023
Hijack

as Roland Murnau

TV
2022Movie
2022
A Retribution

as Simon Wiesenthal

Movie
2022
Trügerische Sicherheit

as Magnus Mittendorf

Movie
2021
Furia

as Minister Hardenberg

TV
2021Movie
2020
Enfant Terrible

as Interviewer

Movie
2020
Die verlorene Tochter

as Heinrich von Gems

TV
2019TV
2019TV
2019
Criminal: Germany

as Steffen Marquardt

TV
2018
Beat

as Richard Diemer

TV
2018TV
2018Movie
2018Movie
2017
Abendshow

as Self

TV
2017
In Wahrheit

as Erich Kupka

TV
2017
MDR um 11

as Self

TV
2017
Redemption Road

as Jonathan Roth

TV
2016TV
2016TV
2016TV
2016
Elle

as Robert

Movie
2016
Ein gefährliches Angebot

as Michael Dithardt

Movie
2015
Trumbo

as Otto Preminger

Movie
2015TV
2015
Anti-Social

as Philip

Movie
2015
Dreamgirls

as Herr Hegemann

Movie
2014
Quizduell

as Self

TV
2014Movie
2014
MDR um 4

as Self

TV
2013
Buddy

as Dr. Küster

Movie
2013Movie
2013TV
2012TV
2012TV
2012TV
2011
Das dunkle Nest

as Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg

Movie
2011
The Last Employee

as David Böttcher

Movie
2011
The Man with the Bassoon

as Heinrich Bockelmann

TV
2011TV
2009
Inglourious Basterds

as Proprietor Eric

Movie
2009
Leningrad

as Vinkelmeyer

Movie
2008
Valkyrie

as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim

Movie
2008
Mogadischu

as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt

Movie
2008
Miracle at St. Anna

as Captain Eichholz

Movie
2008
Haber

as Fritz Shimon Haber

Movie
2008TV
2008
Flame & Citron

as Hoffmann

Movie
2007
Dickes B

as Self

TV
2007
Der andere Junge

as Jakob Wagner

Movie
2006
Der Kriminalist

as Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann

TV
2006
Black Book

as General Käutner

Movie
2006
Helen, Fred und Ted

as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich

Movie
2006
Helen, Fred und Ted

as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich

TV
2006Movie
2006
Die Sturmflut

as Helmut Schmidt

TV
2005
Thadeusz

as self

TV
2005
Flightplan

as Mortuary Director

Movie
2005
Der Vater meiner Schwester

as Dr. Klaus Merbold

Movie
2005TV
2005TV
2005
Hexenküsse

as Herbert Zauner

Movie
2004
Feuer in der Nacht

as Karl Winkler

Movie
2004
Guys & Balls

as Rudolf

Movie
2004
Downfall

as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck

Movie
2004
Soundless

as Lang

Movie
2003
ZIBB

as Self

TV
2002
Der Unbestechliche

as Harald Kittler

Movie
2002
Safe Conduct

as Alfred Greven

Movie
2002
Erste Liebe

as Rolf Drost

Movie
2001
The Experiment

as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38

Movie
2000Movie
2000TV
2000Movie
1999Movie
1999TV
1999Movie
1999Movie
1999TV
1999
Sweet Little Sixteen

as Thomas Reiner

Movie
1998
Tod auf Amrum

as Rolf Spiekermann

Movie
1998
Der letzte Zeuge

as Hans Leinen

TV
1998
Der letzte Zeuge

as Helmut Gittel

TV
1998
Die Cleveren

as Alfons Kleiber

TV
1998Movie
1997
Rossini

as Weich

Movie
1997
Im Dialog

as self

TV
1996
Lautlose Schritte

as Simon Sundermann

Movie
1996
Gates of Fire

as Dr. Sander

Movie
1996TV
1996
Der Mann ohne Schatten

as Bruno Kuhlin

TV
1995
Spur eines Zweifels

as Jens Kolberg

Movie
1995
Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann

as Patrick Lajonne

Movie
1995
Ich, der Boss

as Victor Mazza

Movie
1994
Inspector Rex

as Gregor Schell

TV
1994
Rosa Roth

as Maiwald

TV
1994
Die Kommissarin

as Walter Neumann

TV
1994
Doppelter Einsatz

as Sebastian van Leuyen

TV
1994TV
1994
Ein starkes Team

as Gerhard Brock

TV
1994Movie
1993
Bella Block

as Thomas Engler

TV
1993
Hecht & Haie

as Dr. Frenkel

TV
1992TV
1992
Riverboat

as Self

TV
1991
DAS!

as Self

TV
1990TV
1989TV
1989
Der Bastard

as Felix Dennison

TV
1988Movie
1987
Wallenstein

as Schwedischer Hauptmann

Movie
1985Movie
1984
Das schöne irre Judenmädchen

as Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin

Movie
1984TV
1982
Frau Jenny Treibel

as Leopold Treibel

Movie
1982
Steckbriefe

as Gerhard Hartung

TV
1981
A Case For Two

as Bernd Marquart

TV
1981TV
1979TV
1978
New Year's Eve

as The Young Man

Movie
1977Movie
1977
Eine Jugendliebe

as Wolfgang

Movie
1977
Maiden's War

as Karol Djudko

Movie
1977
The Old Fox

as Mano Deller

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Thilo Müller

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Hans Fänger

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Werner Kuziemsky

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Peter Larsen

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Peter Aulan

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Erik Falter

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Hausmann

TV
1977
The Old Fox

as Harry Westphal

TV
1976TV
1974
Derrick

as Lussmann

TV
1974
Derrick

as Jürgen Klose

TV
1974
Derrick

as Rolf Laduhn

TV
1974
Derrick

as Alex Sierich

TV
1974
Derrick

as Psychopath

TV
1974
Derrick

as Andy Stein

TV
1974
Derrick

as Dixi

TV
1974
Derrick

as Manfred Kessler

TV
1971
Polizeiruf 110

as Max Ortheil

TV
1971TV
1970
Scene of the Crime

as Uwe Pfandler

TV
1970
Scene of the Crime

as Erik Steinbeck

TV
1970
Scene of the Crime

as Rainer Wenisch

TV
1970
Scene of the Crime

as Alfred Waller

TV
1970
Scene of the Crime

as Doc Decker

TV
1948
Bambi

as Self

TV
Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayOctober 28, 1957
Place of BirthBerlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Popularity0.7