Ulrich Mühe

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1953-06-20 (54 years old)

Deathday

2007-07-22

Place of Birth

Grimma, Germany

Ulrich Mühe

Biography

Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards. Curiously, events in Mühe's life were mirrored by the plot of the film, as he allegedly discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his...

Acting

2006

The Lives of Others

as Gerd Wiesler

1997

Funny Games

as Georg

1992

Benny's Video

as Georg, Benny's Father

2010

Nemesis

as Robert

2005

Snowland

as Knövel

1992

Schtonk!

as Dr. Wieland

2007

My Führer

as Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum

1998

Night Time

as Eschbach

2002

Amen.

as The Doctor

1997

1995

Rudy, the Racing Pig

as Dr. Heinrich Gützkow

1991

1986

Das Buschgespenst

as Siegfried Strauch

2006

1989

Spider's Web

as Theodor Lohse

1993

The Last U-Boat

as Gerber - Kommandant

1997

Little Angel

as Kommissar

1999

Einfach raus

as Manfred Reimann

2001

Goebbels und Geduldig

as Goebbels bzw. Geduldig

2004

Hunger auf Leben

as Jochen Hensel

1995

… nächste Woche ist Frieden

as Dr. Herbert Pieritz

1995

Nikolaikirche

as Pfarrer Ohlbaum

2006

Peer Gynt

as Der Knopfgiesser

1999

Straight Shooter

as Markus Paufler

1993

Das tödliche Auge

as Stefan Phillis

1985

1984

Die Poggenpuhls

as Sohn Leutnant Leo

1985

Hälfte des Lebens

as Friedrich Hölderlin

1996

Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles

as Dr. Jochen Schuster

1997

Sterben ist gesünder

as Hugo Wallner

1983

Olle Henry

as Junger Mann

1994

The Blue One

as Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski

2003

Alles Samba

as Gerd Wegener

2003

Spy Sorge

as Eugen Ott

2001

1991

Der kleine Herr Friedemann

as Johannes Friedemann

1987

Die erste Reihe

as Rudolf Schwarz

1995

Geschäfte

as Sturm

1989

Späte Ankunft

as Raoul Fürstenau

1983

Gespenster

as Osvald

2003

Hamlet_X

as Claudius Müller

1999

Todesengel

as Dr. Leon Stein

1998

Rider of the Flames

as Jacob Gontard

1997

Deadly Silence

as Christian Plache

1990

Longing

as Sieghart

1988

Nadine, meine Liebe

as Oberleutnant Stein

1990

Nathan der Weise

as Patriarch

2011

Jedermann Remixed

as Devil (archive footage)

1989

Production

2004

Der Auftrag

as Director

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