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Christian Berkel
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
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 t…
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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, 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
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2026
Block 10
Movie Dr. Maximilian Samuel
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2025
Assenheimers Promitalk
TV show Self
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2025
Ein Taxi für zwei
Movie Gregor Basil
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2024
Entführen für Anfänger
Movie Adam Lansky
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2024
Querschuss
Movie Andreas
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2023
The Blond Boy from the Casbah
Movie Sania
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2023
Black Box
Movie Erik Behr
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2023
Hijack
TV show Roland Murnau
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2022
California Dreaming - Modern Architecture In The Golden State
TV show Self - Presenter
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2022
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
Movie Narrator (voice)
- 2022
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2022
A Retribution
Movie Simon Wiesenthal
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2022
Voices of Liberation
TV show Self
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2022
Trügerische Sicherheit
Movie Magnus Mittendorf
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2021
Furia
TV show Minister Hardenberg
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2021
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
Movie Bertram Dinkler
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2020
Enfant Terrible
Movie Interviewer
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2020
Die verlorene Tochter
TV show Heinrich von Gems
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2020
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
Movie Louis Ziffer
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2019
Realm of the Volga
TV show Narrator
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2019
Hier spricht Berlin
TV show Self
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2019
Criminal: Germany
TV show Steffen Marquardt
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2018
Beat
TV show Richard Diemer
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2018
Talk aus Berlin
TV show Self
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2018
What Doesn't Kill Us
Movie Mark
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2018
Scheidung für Anfänger
Movie Christoph
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2017
Abendshow
TV show Self
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2017
In Wahrheit
TV show Erich Kupka
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2017
MDR um 11
TV show Self
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2017
Redemption Road
TV show Jonathan Roth
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2016
Ringlstetter
TV show self
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2016
Klamroths Konter
TV show Self
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2016
Die Superpauker
TV show Self
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2016
Elle
Movie Robert
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2016
Ein gefährliches Angebot
Movie Michael Dithardt
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2016
NSU German History X
TV show Amor
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2015
Trumbo
Movie Otto Preminger
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2015
Quizduell-Olymp
TV show Self
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2015
Das Literarische Quartett
TV show Self
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2015
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Movie Udo
