Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-10-28 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
Also known As
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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 mov...
2001
as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
2004
as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
2008
as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
2009
as Vinkelmeyer
2004
as Lang
2004
as Rudolf
2008
as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
2008
as Hoffmann
2022
as Narrator (voice)
2009
as Proprietor Eric
1977
as Student
2002
as Alfred Greven
2022
as Magnus Mittendorf
2011
as David Böttcher
2023
as Erik Behr
2022
as Simon Wiesenthal
1999
as Arzt
1999
as Thomas Reiner
2024
as Andreas
2005
as Herbert Zauner
2004
as Karl Winkler
2013
as Dr. Küster
1997
as Weich
2014
as Ernst Udet
2006
as General Käutner
1977
as Wolfgang
1977
as Karol Djudko
1982
as Leopold Treibel
1993
as Josef
1995
as Patrick Lajonne
1996
as Simon Sundermann
1998
as Rolf Spiekermann
1999
as Richard
2000
as Dietrich
2002
as Harald Kittler
2002
as Rolf Drost
2005
as Dr. Klaus Merbold
2007
as Jakob Wagner
2006
as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
2006
as Martin Beltz
2008
as Captain Eichholz
2011
as Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg
2024
as Adam Lansky
1998
as John
2000
as Axel
2023
as Sania
1994
as Walter Gebhard
1995
as Victor Mazza
2008
as Fritz Shimon Haber
1978
as The Young Man
2016
as Robert
2013
as Dr. van der Meer
1984
as Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin
1997
1987
as Schwedischer Hauptmann
2015
as Udo
1999
as Rudi
2015
as Philip
1985
as Gernot
1988
as Wilhelm
2015
as Herr Hegemann
2015
as Otto Preminger
2000
2016
as Michael Dithardt
1994
1996
as Dr. Sander
2018
as Mark
1995
as Jens Kolberg
2018
as Christoph
2014
2020
as Louis Ziffer
2020
as Interviewer
2005
as Mortuary Director
2021
as Bertram Dinkler
2025
as Gregor Basil
1991
as Director
1991
as Writer
2024
as Producer
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