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Christian Berkel
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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, DĂŒsseldorf, 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-GĂŒnther Schenck. He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movâŠ
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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, DĂŒsseldorf, 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-GĂŒnther 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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Christian Berkel's Filmography
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Block 10
as Dr. Maximilian Samuel
Ein Taxi fĂŒr zwei
as Gregor Basil
EntfĂŒhren fĂŒr AnfĂ€nger
as Adam Lansky
Querschuss
as Andreas
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
as Sania
Black Box
as Erik Behr
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
as Narrator (voice)
Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grĂŒĂt der Antisemit
as Self
A Retribution
as Simon Wiesenthal
TrĂŒgerische Sicherheit
as Magnus Mittendorf
Sportabzeichen fĂŒr AnfĂ€nger
as Bertram Dinkler
Enfant Terrible
as Interviewer
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
as Louis Ziffer
Scheidung fĂŒr AnfĂ€nger
as Christoph
What Doesn't Kill Us
as Mark
In Wahrheit - Mord am Engelsgraben
as Erich Kupka
Elle
as Robert
Ein gefÀhrliches Angebot
as Michael Dithardt
Trumbo
as Otto Preminger
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Udo
Anti-Social
as Philip
Dreamgirls
as Herr Hegemann
Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight
as Ernst Udet
Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit
as Pilot
Buddy
as Dr. KĂŒster
Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall
as Dr. van der Meer
Das dunkle Nest
as Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg
The Last Employee
as David Böttcher
Inglourious Basterds
as Proprietor Eric
Leningrad
as Vinkelmeyer
Valkyrie
as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
Mogadischu
as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
Miracle at St. Anna
as Captain Eichholz
Haber
as Fritz Shimon Haber
Flame & Citron
as Hoffmann
Der andere Junge
as Jakob Wagner
Black Book
as General KĂ€utner
Helen, Fred und Ted
as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
No Poster
Eine Frage des Gewissens
as Martin Beltz
Flightplan
as Mortuary Director
Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall'
as Self
No Poster
Der Vater meiner Schwester
as Dr. Klaus Merbold
No Poster
HexenkĂŒsse
as Herbert Zauner
No Poster
Feuer in der Nacht
as Karl Winkler
Guys & Balls
as Rudolf
Downfall
as Prof. Dr. Ernst-GĂŒnter Schenck
Soundless
as Lang
No Poster
Der Unbestechliche
as Harald Kittler
Safe Conduct
as Alfred Greven
No Poster
Erste Liebe
as Rolf Drost
The Experiment
as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
No Poster
Verzweiflung
No Poster
Blondine sucht MillionĂ€r fĂŒrs Leben
as Dietrich
Halt mich fest!
as Axel
No Poster
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
as Richard
Paradise Is a Trap
as Rudi
Your Best Years
as Arzt
Sweet Little Sixteen
as Thomas Reiner
Tod auf Amrum
as Rolf Spiekermann
No Poster
Single sucht Nachwuchs
No Poster
Vickys Alptraum
as John
No Poster
Simones Entscheidung
Rossini
as Weich
No Poster
Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns
as Stelzer
No Poster
Lautlose Schritte
as Simon Sundermann
Gates of Fire
as Dr. Sander
No Poster
Spur eines Zweifels
as Jens Kolberg
No Poster
Ein Herz fĂŒr Laura
No Poster
Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann
as Patrick Lajonne
No Poster
Ich, der Boss
as Victor Mazza
No Poster
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Mutter, ich will nicht sterben!
as Walter Gebhard
Das Schicksal der Lilian H.
as Josef
No Poster
The Devil Kissed from Behind
No Poster
MĂŒnchhausens letzte Liebe
as Wilhelm
Wallenstein
as Schwedischer Hauptmann
No Poster
Wind von SĂŒdost
as Gernot
No Poster
Das schöne irre JudenmÀdchen
as Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin
No Poster
Frau Jenny Treibel
as Leopold Treibel
New Year's Eve
as The Young Man
The Serpent's Egg
as Student
No Poster
Eine Jugendliebe
as Wolfgang
Maiden's War
as Karol Djudko
No Poster
Triptych
No Poster
Ein Knödel fĂŒr Zwei
as Roman Boll