Alexander Held
Born: 1958-10-19 in Munich, Germany
Died: 2026-05-12
Known For: Acting
Biography
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 München, 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 Volksbühne 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 München Mord. Held's father was actor José Held, who died in 1974. From December 2005, Held was married to German actress Patricia Gräfin Fugger von Babenhausen (1961–2014). Source: Article "Alexander Held" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
2023
- Geheimkommando Familie as Klaus Gremme
2021
- Der Masuren-Krimi - Fangschuss as Tadeusz von Breska
2020
- Genial oder Daneben? as Self
- Unterleuten: The Torn Village as Meiler
2018
- Attempted Murder as Thomas Rautenbach
2017
- My Blind Date with Life as Fried
- Maria Mafiosi as Jürgen Moosandl
2016
- A Minute’s Silence as Rektor Block
2015
- Wer weiß denn sowas? as Self
- Line of Separation as Franz Schober
- Sanctuary as Hausvater Brockmann
- Storno: Todsicher versichert as Bruno
- Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Geld oder Leben as Janis Kortschak
- Unverschämtes Glück as Harry Hindenach
2014
- München Mord as Ludwig Schaller
- Der Prediger as Anwalt Dieter Dorn
- Public Enemies as Siegfried Buback
- Burning Souls as Weihbischof Förner
2013
- Schon wieder Henriette as Hartmut Ille
- The Girl with Nine Wigs as Dr. Friedrich Leonhard
- Der große Schwindel as Dr. Blamberger
- Lena Fauch - Gefährliches Schweigen as Christian Fenn
- Im Netz as Brinkmann
- Die Kronzeugin - Mord in den Bergen as Tom Brandauer
- Alaska Johansson as E. L. Johansson
2012
- Letzte Spur Berlin as Brigadegeneral Werner Opitz
- Die Chefin as Karl-Walter von Stetten
- Trau niemals deiner Frau as Arnold Ettmayr
- Alleingang as Josef Zuckmaier
- Dora Heldt: Kein Wort zu Papa as Mr. Truckenbrot
2011
- 4 Days in May as Oberstleutnant
- Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze as Nodger 'Nod' Kern
2010
- Nanga Parbat as Dr. Franz Burda
- Gier as Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Sasse
- Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
- Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine as Valerius (age 75)
- Eine Sennerin zum Verlieben as Georg Ametsrieder
2009
- Schnell ermittelt as Roland Anwatter
- Flemming as Dr. Arnulf Rand
- Stralsund as Karl Hidde
- Pope Joan as King Lothar
- Vom Reich zur Republik as Kurt von Schleicher
- Between Today and Tomorrow as Zimmerkellner / room waiter
- Crash Point: Berlin as Zimmer, Leitung CESA
- Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen as Abt Kuno
- Genug ist nicht genug as Landrat Wieshuber
2008
- Markus Lanz as Self
- The Wave as Tim's Vater
- The Baader Meinhof Complex as Siegfried Buback
- Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell as Viktor Toller
- Die Anwälte as Lothar Franzen
- M/S Gustloff as Escher
- Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar as Alois Kugler
- Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin as Josef Kolb
- Der zweite Frühling - Im Tal des Schweigens 4 as Stadlhuber
- Zur Sache, Lena! as Staber
2007
- Mord in bester Gesellschaft as Bernd Zeisinger
- Life Actually as Vater Krüger
- Afrika, mon amour as Heinrich von Strahlberg
- Ich wollte nicht töten as Martin Kehl
- Grüß Gott, Herr Anwalt as Hubertus Müller
- Bezaubernde Marie as Dr. Hans Weber
2006
- Kommissar Stolberg as Dr. Uwe Falk
- Franziskas Gespür für Männer as Niklas Rüders
- Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht as Leopold Mozart
- Wholetrain as Polizist Steinbauer
2005
- Vienna Crime Squad as Jakob Bauer
- Der Staatsanwalt as Kai Middeldorf
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days as Robert Mohr
- Emilia – Familienbande as Hubert Seilinger
- In einem anderen Leben as Hauptfeldwebel
2004
- SOKO Wismar as Prof. Dr. Nick Kahlow
- Downfall as Walter Hewel
- Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie as Lothar Frick
- Before the Fall as Friedrich's Father
- Zwei am großen See as Rupert Vorreiter
- Im Tal des Schweigens as Stadlhuber
- Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann as Dr. Lehner
2003
- SOKO Köln as Harald Pützer
- Nachtschicht as Justizvollzugsbeamter Vierlande
- Kommissarin Lucas as Joseph Kürten
- Pfarrer Braun as Joseph Köpplinger
- Die Sitte as Werner Jacobi
- Strange Gardens as SS officer
- Getting a Life
- Treibjagd as Schreinereibesitzer
2002
- Die Rosenheim-Cops as Sebastian Huter
- For Heaven's Sake as Philipp Diebold
- Das Duo as Pathologe Holzmann
- Under Suspicion as Robert Mertens
- Bibi Blocksberg as Dr. Buttcock
- Leo & Claire as Gauleiter
- Friends of Friends as Frankfurter Geschäftsmann
- Das Geheimnis des Lebens as Roderick van Hof
- Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch as Vincenzo Bracconi
2001
- Murder in the Mountains as Bernd Stuchlik
- SOKO Leipzig as Ferdinand Hauser
- Der Ermittler as Edmund Strehle
- Sommer und Bolten: Gute Ärzte, keine Engel as Nischke
- Manitou's Shoe as Karl May
- Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
- Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund as Max Loibl
- Romeo as Robert
2000
- Abendschau as self
- Donna Leon as Marcello Filippi
- Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha as Schlutz
- Anatomy as Polizist
- Der Nebelmörder - Schatten über der Stadt as Kommissar Falkowski
1999
- Volle Kanne as Self
- SK Kölsch as Jürgen Honig
- OA jagt Oberärztin
- Todesengel as Dr. Henning
- Heimlicher Tanz as Frank Baumann
- Jagd auf Amor as Peter Bohlmann
- Wilder Kaiser as Hans Lindemair
- Liebe und weitere Katastrophen
- Schwarzes Blut as BKA-Mann Hinspeter
- Die Spesenritter
1998
- Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt as Hans Breitner
- HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin as Bert Nitschke
- Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari as Franz
1997
- Mali as Simmerl
- It Happened in Broad Daylight as 2. Jungbauer
- Mali as Simmerl
- Die Musterknaben as Wempe
1996
- Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police as Alexander 'Zar' Millberg
- Deathline as Inspector
- Inzest - Ein Fall für Sina Teufel as Philipp Spieker
- Alle haben geschwiegen as Staatsanwalt
1995
- Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall as Werner Hofstetter
- Sau sticht
1994
- Ein starkes Team as Hans Zoche
- Im Namen des Gesetzes as Kurt Rückert
- Rosa Roth as Dr. Jakob Robran
- Doppelter Einsatz as Wolfgang Hartmann
- Ärzte
- Faust as Lothar Kruse
- Weißblaue Wintergeschichten as Waldemar Schickinger
- Zwei Brüder
1993
- Schindler's List as SS Bureaucrat
- Bella Block as Dr. Klaus Rückert
- Morlock as Dr. Hagenberg
1992
- Wolffs Revier as Alfred Hammer
1991
- DAS! as Self
1989
- Blauer Panther as Self
1988
- Anwalt Abel as Trost
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Der Fahnder as Mackenrath
- Weißblaue Geschichten
1981
- A Case For Two as Arndt von Mayenberg
- Das Traumschiff as Stefan Arndt
1978
- SOKO München as Alfons Küfner
1977
- The Old Fox as Hans Litz
1976
- Kölner Treff as Self
1974
- Derrick as Georg
1971
- Polizeiruf 110 as Palm
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Leo Biller