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Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor.
Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor.
His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards S…
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Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.
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Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
as Self
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
as Himself
Fly Away
as Eckehardt Tiedgen
No Poster
Die Schuld der Erben
as Leonhard Asmussen
Life Is Too Long
Krabat
as Narrator (voice)
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
as Helmut
Little King Macius
as Erasmus (voice)
Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre
as Voice
The Danube
as Franz
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
as Erzähler (voice)
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
as Self
No Poster
Tödliches Vertrauen
as Bernd Kortens
No Poster
Atlantic Affairs
as Maitre de Plaisir on Stage
Happy Too
as Himself / Gert Bastian
100 Pro
as Narrator
Sass
as Vater Sass
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
as Professor Steinach
Marlene
as Bühnenmanager
No Poster
E-m@il an Gott
as Petrus
No Poster
Majestät brauchen Sonne
as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
Girls under investigation
as Staatsanwalt Baldur Meixner
Männer sind wie Schokolade
as Vater Lano
No Poster
Der Kuß des Vergessens
as Herr Jelke
No Poster
Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust
as Walker
Am I Beautiful?
as David
The Harmonists
Conversation with the Beast
as Adolf Hitler Double
No Poster
Liebe Lügen
as Vater
The Killer Condom
as Mr. Higgins
Lumière & Company
as Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
No Poster
Matulla und Busch
as Korte
Nikolaikirche
as kirchlicher Superintendent
The Promise
as Professor Lorenz
Bauernschach
as Dr. Gerold Stadler
Das Loch
as Der Mann
The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang
as Prof. Hinzelmann
No Poster
Hölderlin-Comics
Movie Days
as Maður á hesti
Three Sisters
as Vershinin
The Film Narrator
as Salzmann
The Olympic Summer
as Sprecher
Faraway, So Close!
as Cassiel
Inge, April und Mai
No Poster
Schlusschor
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
No Poster
Bescheiß kein Kind!
as Vater
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
No Poster
Vorwärts
Time of Vengeance
as Robert
The Break
as Erwin Lubowitz
No Poster
Wie du mir..
as Markus Petarka
The Case of Mr. Spalt
as Otto Spalt
Wings of Desire
as Cassiel
No Poster
Close Up
as Professor Spalt
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
as Gerichtsgehilfe
No Poster
Drei Schwestern
as Alexander Ignatjewitsch Werschinin
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
as Loan officer Grop
Wahnfried
as Richard Wagner
Rosa Luxemburg
as Karl Liebknecht
No Poster
Eine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin
as Rezitation
No Poster
Der Mord mit der Schere
as Inspector Spalt
A Love in Germany
as Narrator
No Poster
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
as Self
Der Mann im Pyjama
as Rudi
Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?
as Nummer Sieben
Das Boot
as Phillip Thomsen
Strike Back
as Kowalski
No Poster
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
No Poster
Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
as Kalfisch
No Poster
Die Ursache
No Poster
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
Palermo or Wolfsburg
as Staatsanwalt
The Tin Drum
as Meyn
No Poster
Trilogie des Wiedersehens
as Richard
No Poster
Phantom
No Poster
Plastikfieber
as Wilfried
No Poster
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
No Poster
Heinrich Zille
Four Against the Bank
as Eberhard Winter
The Marquise of O
as Brother, Forstmeister
Summer Guests
as Pjotr Suslov
No Poster
Lehmanns Erzählungen
as Lehmann
Berlin 10. 11. 74 - 28. 1. 75: Exercises in 9 Pieces
as Himself
Meine Sorgen möcht' ich haben
as Harald Bornemann
No Poster
Die Bakchen
as Tiresias
One or the Other of Us
as Rulle Ruhlsdorff
No Poster
Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt
No Poster
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
as Obrist Kottwitz
No Poster
The Ignoramus and the Madman
No Poster
Die Mutter
No Poster
Sonntags am Meer
as Fritzchen
No Pawing, Darling
No Poster
Sonnabend, der 1.
No Poster
Ludwig
as Ludwig