Christian Berkel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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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- Born:
- Oct 28, 1957 In Berlin, Germany
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 117
- First Appeared:
- In the series Scene of the Crime 1970-11-29
- Latest Project:
- Movie Entführen für Anfänger 2024-09-28
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Entführen für Anfänger | Adam Lansky | 2024-09-28 |
| Movie | Querschuss | Andreas | 2024-08-24 |
| Movie | Black Box | Erik Behr | 2023-08-10 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in Algeria | Sania | 2023-11-15 |
| Series | Voices of Liberation | Self | 2022-05-02 |
| Movie | Trügerische Sicherheit | Magnus Mittendorf | 2022-04-04 |
| Movie | Schächten | Simon Wiesenthal | 2022-07-30 |
| Movie | Sportabzeichen für Anfänger | Bertram Dinkler | 2021-01-08 |
| Movie | The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes | Louis Ziffer | 2020-01-23 |
| Series | Die verlorene Tochter | Heinrich von Gems | 2020-01-27 |
| Movie | Enfant Terrible | Interviewer | 2020-10-01 |
| Series | Criminal: Germany | Steffen Marquardt | 2019-09-20 |
| Series | Realm of the Volga | Narrator | 2019-12-13 |
| Movie | Scheidung für Anfänger | Christoph | 2018-09-01 |
| Movie | What Doesn't Kill Us | Mark | 2018-09-01 |
| Series | Beat | Richard Diemer | 2018-11-09 |
| Series | Redemption Road | Jonathan Roth | 2017-01-30 |
| Series | NSU German History X | Amor | 2016-03-30 |
| Movie | Elle | Robert | 2016-05-25 |
| Movie | Ein gefährliches Angebot | Michael Dithardt | 2016-04-01 |
| Movie | Dreamgirls | Herr Hegemann | 2015-02-19 |
| Movie | Anti-Social | Philip | 2015-05-01 |
| Movie | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Udo | 2015-08-13 |
| Movie | Trumbo | Otto Preminger | 2015-10-27 |
| Movie | Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit | Pilot | 2014-01-01 |
| Movie | Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight | Ernst Udet | 2014-03-30 |
| Series | Grill den Henssler | Unknown | 2013-09-29 |
| Movie | Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall | Dr. van der Meer | 2013-11-04 |
| Movie | Buddy | Dr. Küster | 2013-12-25 |
| Series | Gottschalk Live | Unknown | 2012-01-23 |
| Series | Im Leben von … | Unknown | 2012-03-17 |
| Movie | Das dunkle Nest | Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg | 2011-11-28 |
| Movie | Der Mann mit dem Fagott | Heinrich Bockelmann | 2011-09-14 |
| Series | Günther Jauch | Unknown | 2011-09-11 |
| Movie | The Last Employee | David Böttcher | 2011-10-27 |
| Movie | Leningrad | Vinkelmeyer | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Inglourious Basterds | Proprietor Eric | 2009-08-02 |
| Movie | Flame & Citron | Hoffmann | 2008-03-25 |
| Movie | Haber | Fritz Shimon Haber | 2008-08-05 |
| Movie | Mogadischu | Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt | 2008-11-30 |
| Movie | Miracle at St. Anna | Captain Eichholz | 2008-09-15 |
| Movie | Valkyrie | Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | Der andere Junge | Jakob Wagner | 2007-08-25 |
| Series | Attack on Leningrad | 2007-10-19 | |
| Movie | Die Sturmflut | Innensenator Helmut Schmidt | 2006-02-19 |
| Movie | Eine Frage des Gewissens | Martin Beltz | 2006-03-29 |
| Series | Der Kriminalist | Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann | 2006-12-08 |
| Movie | Helen, Fred und Ted | Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich | 2006-09-13 |
| Movie | Black Book | General Käutner | 2006-09-14 |
| Movie | Der Vater meiner Schwester | Dr. Klaus Merbold | 2005-08-23 |
| Movie | Hexenküsse | Herbert Zauner | 2005-01-01 |
| Movie | Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" | Self | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Flightplan | Mortuary Director | 2005-09-22 |
| Movie | Downfall | Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck | 2004-09-16 |
| Movie | Soundless | Lang | 2004-04-22 |
| Movie | Guys & Balls | Rudolf | 2004-10-07 |
| Movie | Feuer in der Nacht | Karl Winkler | 2004-10-26 |
| Series | Die Affäre Semmeling | Fred Kiefer | 2002-01-02 |
| Movie | Erste Liebe | Rolf Drost | 2002-01-01 |
| Movie | Paradise Is a Trap | Rudi | 2002-05-22 |
| Movie | Safe Conduct | Alfred Greven | 2002-01-09 |
| Movie | Der Unbestechliche | Harald Kittler | 2002-09-24 |
| Movie | The Experiment | Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38 | 2001-03-08 |
| Movie | Halt mich fest! | Axel | 2000-03-31 |
| Movie | Verzweiflung | 2000-10-12 | |
| Movie | Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben | Dietrich | 2000-05-10 |
| Movie | Sweet Little Sixteen | Thomas Reiner | 1999-03-26 |
| Movie | Your Best Years | Arzt | 1999-09-03 |
| Movie | Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht | Richard | 1999-11-22 |
| Series | Die Johannes B. Kerner Show | Gast | 1998-01-22 |
| Movie | Vickys Alptraum | John | 1998-01-07 |
| Series | Die Cleveren | Alfons Kleiber | 1998-03-10 |
| Movie | Single sucht Nachwuchs | 1998-03-18 | |
| Movie | Tod auf Amrum | Rolf Spiekermann | 1998-12-28 |
| Series | Der letzte Zeuge | Helmut Gittel | 1998-03-23 |
| Movie | Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns | Stelzer | 1997-01-01 |
| Movie | Simones Entscheidung | 1997-03-03 | |
| Movie | Rossini | Weich | 1997-01-23 |
| Series | Der Mann ohne Schatten | Bruno Kuhlin | 1996-03-04 |
| Movie | Gates of Fire | Dr. Sander | 1996-11-10 |
| Movie | Lautlose Schritte | Simon Sundermann | 1996-11-18 |
| Movie | Ich, der Boss | Victor Mazza | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann | Patrick Lajonne | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Ein Herz für Laura | 1995-01-01 | |
| Series | A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft | Lefevre | 1995-01-03 |
| Movie | Spur eines Zweifels | Jens Kolberg | 1995-09-09 |
| Series | Ein starkes Team | Gerhard Brock | 1994-03-28 |
| Movie | Gute Referenzen | 1994-06-30 | |
| Series | Bella Block | Thomas Engler | 1994-03-26 |
| Movie | Mutter, ich will nicht sterben! | Walter Gebhard | 1994-01-01 |
| Series | Die Gerichtsreporterin | Dr. Wegener | 1994-08-23 |
| Series | Die Kommissarin | Walter Neumann | 1994-10-06 |
| Series | Air Albatros | Unknown | 1994-09-17 |
| Series | Inspector Rex | Gregor Schell | 1994-11-10 |
| Series | Rosa Roth | Maiwald | 1994-11-05 |
| Series | Doppelter Einsatz | Sebastian van Leuyen | 1994-09-20 |
| Movie | The Devil Kissed from Behind | 1993-01-01 | |
| Series | Hecht & Haie | Dr. Frenkel | 1993-03-04 |
| Series | Ein unvergeßliches Wochenende | Unknown | 1993-05-01 |
| Movie | Das Schicksal der Lilian H. | Josef | 1993-09-23 |
| Series | Kommissar Klefisch | Terboven | 1990-01-07 |
| Movie | Münchhausens letzte Liebe | Wilhelm | 1988-01-01 |
| Movie | Wallenstein | Schwedischer Hauptmann | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Wind von Südost | Gernot | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | Das schöne irre Judenmädchen | Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin | 1984-02-08 |
| Movie | Frau Jenny Treibel | Leopold Treibel | 1982-12-14 |
| Series | Wetten, dass..? | Unknown | 1981-02-14 |
| Series | A Case For Two | Bernd Marquart | 1981-09-11 |
| Series | SOKO München | Unknown | 1978-01-02 |
| Movie | New Year's Eve | The young man | 1978-12-31 |
| Series | Der Alte | Harry Westphal | 1977-04-11 |
| Movie | Der Mädchenkrieg | Karol Djudko | 1977-06-06 |
| Movie | The Serpent's Egg | Student | 1977-10-28 |
| Movie | Eine Jugendliebe | Wolfgang | 1977-09-26 |
| Series | Derrick | Dixi | 1974-10-20 |
| Series | Polizeiruf 110 | Max Ortheil | 1971-06-27 |
| Series | Scene of the Crime | Doc Decker | 1970-11-29 |