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