Christian Berkel
Biography
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.
Movie Appearances
The Experiment
as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38
2001
Downfall
as Prof. Dr. Ernst-Günter Schenck
2004
Valkyrie
as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim
2008
Leningrad
as Vinkelmeyer
2009
Soundless
as Lang
2004
Guys & Balls
as Rudolf
2004
Mogadischu
as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt
2008
Flame & Citron
as Hoffmann
2008
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
as Self
2005
Unser Verein: "Eisern Union!"
as Narrator (voice)
2022
Inglourious Basterds
as Proprietor Eric
2009
The Serpent's Egg
as Student
1977
Safe Conduct
as Alfred Greven
2002
Trügerische Sicherheit
as Magnus Mittendorf
2022
The Last Employee
as David Böttcher
2011
Black Box
as Erik Behr
2023
A Retribution
as Simon Wiesenthal
2022
Your Best Years
as Arzt
1999
Simones Entscheidung
1997
Sweet Little Sixteen
as Thomas Reiner
1999
TV Appearances
Markus Lanz
as Self
2008
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
as Self
1989
Der Bastard
as Felix Dennison
1989
Scene of the Crime
as Uwe Pfandler
1970
Kommissar Klefisch
as Terboven
1990
Scene of the Crime
as Erik Steinbeck
1970
Die Kommissarin
as Walter Neumann
1994
Der Kriminalist
as Hauptkommissar Bruno Schumann
2006
Der Mann ohne Schatten
as Bruno Kuhlin
1996
Voices of Liberation
as Self
2022
Doppelter Einsatz
as Sebastian van Leuyen
1994
Rosa Roth
as Maiwald
1994