Christian Berkel
Born: 1957-10-28 in Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2026
- Block 10 as Dr. Maximilian Samuel
2025
- Assenheimers Promitalk as Self
- Ein Taxi für zwei as Gregor Basil
2024
- Entführen für Anfänger as Adam Lansky
- Querschuss as Andreas
2023
- Hijack as Roland Murnau
- Black Box as Erik Behr
- The Blond Boy from the Casbah as Sania
2022
- Voices of Liberation as Self
- A Retribution as Simon Wiesenthal
- Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!" as Narrator (voice)
- Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit as Self
- Trügerische Sicherheit as Magnus Mittendorf
2021
- Furia as Minister Hardenberg
- Sportabzeichen für Anfänger as Bertram Dinkler
2020
- The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes as Louis Ziffer
- Enfant Terrible as Interviewer
- Die verlorene Tochter as Heinrich von Gems
2019
- Criminal: Germany as Steffen Marquardt
- Realm of the Volga as Narrator
- Hier spricht Berlin as Self
2018
- Talk aus Berlin as Self
- Beat as Richard Diemer
- What Doesn't Kill Us as Mark
- Scheidung für Anfänger as Christoph
2017
- MDR um 11 as Self
- Abendshow as Self
- In Wahrheit as Erich Kupka
- Redemption Road as Jonathan Roth
2016
- Ringlstetter as self
- Klamroths Konter as Self
- Elle as Robert
- NSU German History X as Amor
- Die Superpauker as Self
- Ein gefährliches Angebot as Michael Dithardt
2015
- Wer weiß denn sowas? as Self
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Udo
- Quizduell-Olymp as Self
- Trumbo as Otto Preminger
- Das Literarische Quartett as Self
- Anti-Social as Philip
- Dreamgirls as Herr Hegemann
2014
- MDR um 4 as Self
- Quizduell as Self
- Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight as Ernst Udet
- Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit as Pilot
2013
- Grill den Henssler as Self
- Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall as Dr. van der Meer
- Buddy as Dr. Küster
2012
- Roche & Böhmermann as Self
- Im Leben von … as Self
- Gottschalk Live as Self
2011
- Günther Jauch as Self
- Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell as Self
- The Man with the Bassoon as Heinrich Bockelmann
- Das dunkle Nest as Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg
- The Last Employee as David Böttcher
2009
- Inglourious Basterds as Proprietor Eric
- Leningrad as Vinkelmeyer
2008
- Markus Lanz as Self
- Valkyrie as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
- Flame & Citron as Hoffmann
- Miracle at St. Anna as Captain Eichholz
- Mogadischu as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
- Haber as Fritz Shimon Haber
2007
- Dickes B as Self
- Der andere Junge as Jakob Wagner
2006
- Der Kriminalist as Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann
- Black Book as General Käutner
- Helen, Fred und Ted as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
- Die Sturmflut as Helmut Schmidt
- Eine Frage des Gewissens as Martin Beltz
- Helen, Fred und Ted as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
2005
- Flightplan as Mortuary Director
- Thadeusz as self
- Fröhlich lesen as Self
- Star-Biathlon as Self
- Hitler's Final Days: The Movie 'Downfall' as Self
- Der Vater meiner Schwester as Dr. Klaus Merbold
- Hexenküsse as Herbert Zauner
2004
- Downfall as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
- Soundless as Lang
- Guys & Balls as Rudolf
- Feuer in der Nacht as Karl Winkler
2003
- ZIBB as Self
2002
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- NDR Kultur – Das Journal as Self
- Safe Conduct as Alfred Greven
- Erste Liebe as Rolf Drost
- Der Unbestechliche as Harald Kittler
2001
- The Experiment as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
2000
- Menschen der Woche as Self
- Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben as Dietrich
- Verzweiflung
- Halt mich fest! as Axel
1999
- maybrit illner as Self
- Volle Kanne as Self
- Your Best Years as Arzt
- Paradise Is a Trap as Rudi
- Sweet Little Sixteen as Thomas Reiner
- Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht as Richard
1998
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- Der letzte Zeuge as Helmut Gittel
- Die Cleveren as Alfons Kleiber
- Ein Herz für Kinder as Self
- Vickys Alptraum as John
- Tod auf Amrum as Rolf Spiekermann
- Single sucht Nachwuchs
1997
- Im Dialog as self
- Rossini as Weich
- Simones Entscheidung
- Lea Katz - Die Kriminalpsychologin: Einer von uns as Stelzer
1996
- Zimmer frei! as Self
- Der Mann ohne Schatten as Bruno Kuhlin
- Gates of Fire as Dr. Sander
- Lautlose Schritte as Simon Sundermann
1995
- A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft as Lefevre
- Spur eines Zweifels as Jens Kolberg
- Ich, der Boss as Victor Mazza
- Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann as Patrick Lajonne
- Ein Herz für Laura
1994
- Inspector Rex as Gregor Schell
- alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio as Self
- Ein starkes Team as Gerhard Brock
- Die Kommissarin as Walter Neumann
- Doppelter Einsatz as Sebastian van Leuyen
- Rosa Roth as Maiwald
- Air Albatros
- Die Gerichtsreporterin as Dr. Wegener
- Gute Referenzen
- Mutter, ich will nicht sterben! as Walter Gebhard
1993
- Bella Block as Thomas Engler
- Hecht & Haie as Dr. Frenkel
- Ein unvergeßliches Wochenende
- The Devil Kissed from Behind
- Das Schicksal der Lilian H. as Josef
1992
- Morgenmagazin as Self
- Riverboat as Self
1991
- DAS! as Self
- Ein toter Spieler verläßt den Tisch ... (Writer)
1990
- Kommissar Klefisch as Terboven
1989
- ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
- Der Bastard as Felix Dennison
1988
- Münchhausens letzte Liebe as Wilhelm
1987
- Wallenstein as Schwedischer Hauptmann
1985
- Wind von Südost as Gernot
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Das schöne irre Judenmädchen as Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin
1982
- Steckbriefe as Gerhard Hartung
- Frau Jenny Treibel as Leopold Treibel
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- A Case For Two as Bernd Marquart
1980
- Verstehen Sie Spaß? as Self
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
1978
- SOKO München
- New Year's Eve as The Young Man
1977
- The Old Fox as Mano Deller
- The Serpent's Egg as Student
- Eine Jugendliebe as Wolfgang
- Maiden's War as Karol Djudko
1976
- Kölner Treff as Self
1974
- Derrick as Jürgen Klose
1971
- Polizeiruf 110 as Max Ortheil
- Dalli Dalli as Self
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Uwe Pfandler
1948
- Bambi as Self