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
- Trügerische Sicherheit as Magnus Mittendorf
- Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!" as Narrator (voice)
- Die Akte Oppenheimer - Und ewig grüßt der Antisemit as Self
2021
- Furia as Minister Hardenberg
- Sportabzeichen für Anfänger as Bertram Dinkler
2020
- The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes as Louis Ziffer
- Die verlorene Tochter as Heinrich von Gems
- Enfant Terrible as Interviewer
2019
- Criminal: Germany as Steffen Marquardt
- Hier spricht Berlin as Self
- Realm of the Volga as Narrator
2018
- Beat as Richard Diemer
- Talk aus Berlin as Self
- 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
- NSU German History X as Amor
- Elle as Robert
- Klamroths Konter as Self
- Die Superpauker as Self
- Ein gefährliches Angebot as Michael Dithardt
2015
- Quizduell-Olymp as Self
- Wer weiß denn sowas? as Self
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Udo
- 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
- Business as Usual - Der Prophet fliegt mit as Pilot
- Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight as Ernst Udet
2013
- Grill den Henssler as Self
- Buddy as Dr. Küster
- Totenengel - Van Leeuwens zweiter Fall as Dr. van der Meer
2012
- Im Leben von … as Self
- Gottschalk Live as Self
- Roche & Böhmermann as Self
2011
- Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell as Self
- Günther Jauch 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
- Miracle at St. Anna as Captain Eichholz
- Flame & Citron as Hoffmann
- 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
- Die Sturmflut as Helmut Schmidt
- Helen, Fred und Ted as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
- Helen, Fred und Ted as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
- Eine Frage des Gewissens as Martin Beltz
2005
- Flightplan as Mortuary Director
- Thadeusz as self
- Fröhlich lesen as Self
- Star-Biathlon as Self
- Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang" as Self
- Der Vater meiner Schwester as Dr. Klaus Merbold
- Hexenküsse as Herbert Zauner
2004
- Downfall as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
- Guys & Balls as Rudolf
- Soundless as Lang
- 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
- Halt mich fest! as Axel
- Blondine sucht Millionär fürs Leben as Dietrich
- Verzweiflung
1999
- Volle Kanne as Self
- maybrit illner as Self
- Your Best Years as Arzt
- Sweet Little Sixteen as Thomas Reiner
- Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht as Richard
- Paradise Is a Trap as Rudi
1998
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- Der letzte Zeuge as Hans Leinen
- 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
- Ich, der Boss as Victor Mazza
- Spur eines Zweifels as Jens Kolberg
- Ein Herz für Laura
- Drei Frauen und (k)ein Mann as Patrick Lajonne
1994
- Inspector Rex as Gregor Schell
- Ein starkes Team as Gerhard Brock
- alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio as Self
- Die Kommissarin as Walter Neumann
- Rosa Roth as Maiwald
- Doppelter Einsatz as Sebastian van Leuyen
- 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
- Das Schicksal der Lilian H. as Josef
- The Devil Kissed from Behind
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
- A Case For Two as Bernd Marquart
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
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 Alex Sierich
1971
- Polizeiruf 110 as Max Ortheil
- Dalli Dalli as Self
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Uwe Pfandler
1948
- Bambi as Self