Christian Berkel
Acting
🎂 1957-10-28
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.
Cast credits(181)
Self
2014
Self
1991
Mano Deller
1977
Thilo Müller
1977
Hans Fänger
1977
Werner Kuziemsky
1977
Erik Falter
1977
Peter Aulan
1977
Hausmann
1977
Peter Larsen
1977
Harry Westphal
1977
Self
1996
Self
1981
self
1992
Self
2003
Self
1999
Gerhard Brock
1994
Max Ortheil
1971
Self
1948
1978
Self
1994
Alex Sierich
1974
Lussmann
1974
Jürgen Klose
1974
Dixi
1974
Andy Stein
1974
Rolf Laduhn
1974
Psychopath
1974
Manfred Kessler
1974
Uwe Pfandler
1970
Erik Steinbeck
1970
Rainer Wenisch
1970
Alfred Waller
1970
Doc Decker
1970
Bernd Marquart
1981
Self
2008
Self
2013
Self
2015
Self
1999
Self
1998
Self
1998
Self
2002
Gregor Schell
1994
Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann
2006
1994
self
2005
Thomas Engler
1993
self
2016
Self
1976
Self
2011
Self
2014
Walter Neumann
1994
Self
2012
Hans Leinen
1998
Helmut Gittel
1998
Self
2017
self
1997
Alfons Kleiber
1998
Self
1979
Sebastian van Leuyen
1994
Maiwald
1994
Self
2000
Self
2012
Self
2016
Proprietor Eric
2009
Self
2015
2015
Richard Diemer
2018
Minister Hardenberg
2021
Self
1992
Self
2022
Steffen Marquardt
2019
Self
2012
Self
2007
Amor
2016
Self
1989
Erich Kupka
2017
Self
1971
Self
1984
Terboven
1990
Self
2019
Heinrich von Gems
2020
Narrator
2019
Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
2008
Dr. Wegener
1994
Lefevre
1995
Self
2002
Self
2011
Felix Dennison
1989
Udo
2015
Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
2004
Mortuary Director
2005
Self
2018
Self
2005
Self
2017
Heinrich Bockelmann
2011
Gerhard Hartung
1982
General Käutner
2006
Bruno Kuhlin
1996
Robert
2016
Herr Hegemann
2015
Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
2001
1993
Otto Preminger
2015
Dr. Frenkel
1993
Hoffmann
2008
Self
2005
Captain Eichholz
2008
Jonathan Roth
2017
Self
2015
Louis Ziffer
2020
Simon Wiesenthal
2022
Helmut Schmidt
2006
Self
2016
Philip
2015
Vinkelmeyer
2009
Alfred Greven
2002
Lang
2004
Weich
1997
Student
1977
Interviewer
2020
Dr. Küster
2013
Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
2008
Rudolf
2004
Sania
2023
Magnus Mittendorf
2022
Jakob Wagner
2007
Mark
2018
John
1998
Michael Dithardt
2016
Rolf Spiekermann
1998
Wolfgang
1977
Martin Beltz
2006
Erik Behr
2023
Walter Gebhard
1994
Gregor Basil
2025
Arzt
1999
Karol Djudko
1977
Self
2005
Dietrich
2000
Bertram Dinkler
2021
Fritz Shimon Haber
2008
Narrator (voice)
2022
Herbert Zauner
2005
Dr. Klaus Merbold
2005
David Böttcher
2011
2000
Josef
1993
Rudi
1999
Leopold Treibel
1982
Christoph
2018
Gernot
1985
Thomas Reiner
1999
Patrick Lajonne
1995
Adam Lansky
2024
Pilot
2014
Richard
1999
Harald Kittler
2002
Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich
2006
1995
Schwedischer Hauptmann
1987
1997
Ernst Udet
2014
1993
Karl Winkler
2004
The Young Man
1978
Rolf Drost
2002
Wilhelm
1988
Dr. Sander
1996
Dr. van der Meer
2013
1994
Andreas
2024
Axel
2000
Simon Sundermann
1996
Victor Mazza
1995
Stelzer
1997
1998
Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin
1984
Self
2022
Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg
2011
Jens Kolberg
1995