
Cast
Acting
Cast
Known for
Acting
Born
1957-10-28
From
Berlin, West Germany [now Germany]
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, DĂŒsseldorf, 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-GĂŒnther 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.

as Proprietor Eric

as Udo

as Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Quirnheim

as Prof. Dr. Ernst-GĂŒnter Schenck

as Mortuary Director

as General KĂ€utner

as Rolf Drost

as Robert Steinhoff, Prisoner Nr. 38

as Robert

as Wolfgang

as Captain Eichholz

as Louis Ziffer


as Hoffmann

as Adam Lansky

as Otto Preminger

as Student

as Vinkelmeyer



as Alfred Greven

as Pfarrer Dr. Gabriel Reinberg

as Jens Kolberg

as Michael Dithardt

as Dietrich

as Rolf Spiekermann


as Eduard 'Ted' Fröhlich

as Gregor Basil

as Bertram Dinkler

as Jakob Wagner

as Lang

as Friedrich, Graf von Schwerin

as Gernot

as Victor Mazza

as Weich

as Dr. Klaus Merbold

as Mark


as Interviewer

as Rudolf

as Karol Djudko

as Dr. Maximilian Samuel

as David Böttcher

as Christoph

as Dr. Sander

as The Young Man

as Magnus Mittendorf

as Philip

as Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt

as Dr. KĂŒster

as Ernst Udet

as Herr Hegemann

as Martin Beltz

as Sania

as John


as Self

as Dr. van der Meer

as Simon Sundermann

as Thomas Reiner

as Leopold Treibel

as Erik Behr


as Arzt

as Karl Winkler

as Herbert Zauner

as Axel

as Wilhelm

as Rudi

as Harald Kittler

as Schwedischer Hauptmann

as Self

as Fritz Shimon Haber

as Simon Wiesenthal

as Patrick Lajonne

as Richard

as Josef

as Andreas

as Narrator (voice)

as Pilot

as Walter Gebhard

as Stelzer