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Gerald Alexander Held (born 19 October 1958) was a German actor. He was internationally best known for his historical depictions, as Walther Hewel in the 2004 film Der Untergang, Robert Mohr in the 2005 film Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage and as state prosecutor Siegfried Buback in the 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex.
During his school years, Held was a solo singer of the Regensburger Domspatzen, and played football for TSV 1860 MĂŒnchen, winning five youth championships. He finished his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich, and then joined the Munich Kammerspiele. Further engagements at the Staatsschauspiel Hannover, the Freien VolksbĂŒhne BeâŠ
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Gerald Alexander Held (born 19 October 1958) was a German actor. He was internationally best known for his historical depictions, as Walther Hewel in the 2004 film Der Untergang, Robert Mohr in the 2005 film Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage and as state prosecutor Siegfried Buback in the 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. During his school years, Held was a solo singer of the Regensburger Domspatzen, and played football for TSV 1860 MĂŒnchen, winning five youth championships. He finished his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich, and then joined the Munich Kammerspiele. Further engagements at the Staatsschauspiel Hannover, the Freien VolksbĂŒhne Berlin, the Theater Basel, and the Salzburg Festival followed. In 1993, Held was cast by director Klaus Emmerich in Morlock in his first television film role. Since then he has appeared in numerous cinema and TV productions, including Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl - The Last Days, and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall. In the Sat.1 series Der Bulle von Tölz with Ottfried Fischer, he played a Social Democratic Party of Germany Bundestag member, who mostly has to look after his opponents in the "Bavarian Unity Party". In 2007, he starred alongside Iris Berben as the greedy villain Heinrich von Strahlberg in the two-part TV film Afrika, mon amour. In 2008, he played Alois Kugler, the opponent of Brandner Kaspar, in the film of the same name, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. In 2009, he played the politically tactical abbot Kuno in the Margarethe von Trottas film Vision alongside Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, and Hannah Herzsprung, and in the same year, he was seen in Sönke Wortmann's Pope Joan as the Frankish Emperor Lothar I. In 2010, he played the Attorney General Dr. Sasse alongside Ulrich Tukur in Dieter Wedel's two-part TV film Greed. Since 2010, he has starred in the crime series Stralsund as the head commissioner Karl Hidde. Since 2014, he has played the lead role of head commissioner Ludwig Schaller in the crime series MĂŒnchen Mord. Held's father was actor JosĂ© Held, who died in 1974. From December 2005, Held was married to German actress Patricia GrĂ€fin Fugger von Babenhausen (1961â2014). Source: Article "Alexander Held" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Alexander Held's Filmography
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Geheimkommando Familie
as Klaus Gremme
Der Masuren-Krimi - Fangschuss
as Tadeusz von Breska
Maria Mafiosi
as JĂŒrgen Moosandl
My Blind Date with Life
as Fried
A Minuteâs Silence
as Rektor Block
Sanctuary
as Hausvater Brockmann
Storno: Todsicher versichert
as Bruno
Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Geld oder Leben
as Janis Kortschak
UnverschĂ€mtes GlĂŒck
as Harry Hindenach
Burning Souls
as Weihbischof Förner
Public Enemies
as Siegfried Buback
Der Prediger
as Anwalt Dieter Dorn
Lena Fauch - GefÀhrliches Schweigen
as Christian Fenn
Alaska Johansson
as E. L. Johansson
Schon wieder Henriette
as Hartmut Ille
The Girl with Nine Wigs
as Dr. Friedrich Leonhard
Im Netz
as Brinkmann
Der groĂe Schwindel
as Dr. Blamberger
Die Kronzeugin - Mord in den Bergen
as Tom Brandauer
Trau niemals deiner Frau
as Arnold Ettmayr
Alleingang
as Josef Zuckmaier
Dora Heldt: Kein Wort zu Papa
as Mr. Truckenbrot
Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze
as Nodger 'Nod' Kern
4 Days in May
as Oberstleutnant
Eine Sennerin zum Verlieben
as Georg Ametsrieder
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
as Valerius (age 75)
Nanga Parbat
as Dr. Franz Burda
Pope Joan
as King Lothar
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
as Abt Kuno
Crash Point: Berlin
as Zimmer, Leitung CESA
No Poster
Genug ist nicht genug
as Landrat Wieshuber
Between Today and Tomorrow
as Zimmerkellner / room waiter
Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin
as Josef Kolb
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
as Alois Kugler
The Baader Meinhof Complex
as Siegfried Buback
No Poster
Zur Sache, Lena!
as Staber
The Wave
as Tim's Vater
Der zweite FrĂŒhling - Im Tal des Schweigens 4
as Stadlhuber
Ich wollte nicht töten
as Martin Kehl
GrĂŒĂ Gott, Herr Anwalt
as Hubertus MĂŒller
Bezaubernde Marie
as Dr. Hans Weber
Life Actually
as Vater KrĂŒger
No Poster
Franziskas GespĂŒr fĂŒr MĂ€nner
as Niklas RĂŒders
Wholetrain
as Polizist Steinbauer
Mozart - Ich hĂ€tte MĂŒnchen Ehre gemacht
as Leopold Mozart
Emilia â Familienbande
as Hubert Seilinger
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
as Robert Mohr
No Poster
In einem anderen Leben
as Hauptfeldwebel
Downfall
as Walter Hewel
No Poster
Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann
as Dr. Lehner
Before the Fall
as Friedrich's Father
Im Tal des Schweigens
as Stadlhuber
No Poster
Getting a Life
No Poster
Treibjagd
as Schreinereibesitzer
Strange Gardens
as SS officer
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
as Vincenzo Bracconi
No Poster
Das Geheimnis des Lebens
as Roderick van Hof
Bibi Blocksberg
as Dr. Buttcock
Friends of Friends
as Frankfurter GeschÀftsmann
Leo & Claire
as Gauleiter
Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die EntfĂŒhrung des Richard Oetker
Manitou's Shoe
as Karl May
No Poster
Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund
as Max Loibl
Romeo
as Robert
No Poster
Die RĂŒckkehr des schwarzen Buddha
as Schlutz
No Poster
Der Nebelmörder - Schatten ĂŒber der Stadt
as Kommissar Falkowski
Anatomy
as Polizist
No Poster
Heimlicher Tanz
as Frank Baumann
No Poster
Jagd auf Amor
as Peter Bohlmann
No Poster
OA jagt OberÀrztin
No Poster
Schwarzes Blut
as BKA-Mann Hinspeter
No Poster
Todesengel
as Dr. Henning
Liebe und weitere Katastrophen
Die Spesenritter
Die Musterknaben
as Wempe
It Happened in Broad Daylight
as 2. Jungbauer
Mali
as Simmerl
Alle haben geschwiegen
as Staatsanwalt
Deathline
as Inspector
Inzest - Ein Fall fĂŒr Sina Teufel
as Philipp Spieker
No Poster
Sau sticht
Schindler's List
as SS Bureaucrat