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