Christoph Waltz
Acting
Biography
Christoph Waltz (born October 4, 1956) is an Austrian actor who also holds German citizenship. He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS Colonel Hans Landa in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010.
Born: October 4, 1956
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Known For
The Sandman
Based on the classic 19th century tale by German writer/composer E.T.A. Hoffmann, the film investigates the tale's themes of obsession and madness, emphasizing expressionist imagery and theatrical style. The story relates the life of the young student Nathanael, whose childhood memories are haunted by a sinister man. As a child, Nathanael believed this dark figure to be the mythic Sandman, who puts children to sleep by stealing their eyes. When confronted by this same evil presence as an adult, he is pushed toward madness as he tries to confront his childhood fears.
Das jüngste Gericht
A series of cruel ritual murders puts Vienna in fear and terror. For the commissar Dorn the case will soon become very personal and has tragic consequences.
Bambi
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Most Dangerous Game
Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard accepts an offer to participate in a deadly game where he soon discovers that he’s not the hunter but the prey.
Only Murders in the Building
Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Django Unchained
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil
Christoph Waltz, the villain with the friendly face, has become an integral part of the international cinema landscape. His breakthrough came with his roles as an SS standard bearer and bounty hunter in films by Quentin Tarantino. His charming portrayal of evil breaks with all clichés and won him two Oscars.
The Mysterious Stranger
The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.
Filmography
as Self - Harlander
as Self
as Harlander
as Priest
as Danny Dolinski
as Self
as Humphrey Wells / John Wells Snr
as Regus Patoff
as Count Volpe (voice)
as Max Borlund
as Self (archive footage)
as Blofeld
as Bash Steed
as Death
as Narrator
as Christoph
as Himself
as Miles Sellars
as Self
as Ulrich Mott
as Dr. Dyson Ido
as Dusan Mirkovic
as Cornelis Sandvoort
as Self
as Captain Leon Rom
as Blofeld
as Self
as Himself
as Self - Guest
as Walter Keane
as Bert Hanson
as Christoph Waltz
as Menachem Begin (voice)
as Qohen Leth
as Mandrake (voice)
as Dr. King Schultz
as Theodor Herzl (voice)
as Alan Cowan
as Richelieu
as August Rosenbluth
as Chudnofsky
as Self
as COL. Hans Landa
as Sebastian Flies
as Hans Kortmann
as Peters
as Herbert Jahn
as Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast
as Dr. Helmut Bahr
as Self
as Paul Büttner
as Czerny
as Dr. Claudius Tressen
as Wolf Sevening
as Richard Benedek
as Richard Seemann
as Arzt
as Self
as Dr. Thilo Rylow
as Pföderl
as Michael Berg
as Rolf Steiner
as Martin Bach
as Self
as Analytiker
as Johannsen
as Johannes Böhmke
as Thomas Sell
as Dieter Cilov
as Ossama/Tarik
as Caspari
as Ben Samm
as Michael Vincey
as Finanzbeamter Fink
as Louis
as Peter
as Klaus Hermann
as Herzog Carl August
as Charly
as Becker
as Martin York
as Paul
as Kant
as Klaus Mandel
as Klaus Mandel
as Max, Maksymilian Gierymski
as Roy Black
as Mirovich
as Self
as self
as Stephan Görner
as Herbert Sobieski
as Christoph
as Morasch
as Martin Wolf
as Wietze
as Erwin Mikolajczyk
as Jan Bockelson
as Hartwig Klemmnitz
as Han-Joachim Dorfmann
as Jan Tytz
as Karl Emmanuel
as Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann
as German Spy
as Polizeichef
as Guy on Train (uncredited)
as Felix
as Franz Sigel
as Franz Sigel
as Friedrich Nietzsche
as Nathanael
as Ernst Wasserman
as Tristan
as Markus Dorn
as Alf
as Young Painter / New York Diner Youth
as Self
as Karl Albrecht Schlick
as Paramedic
as Günter Vesely
as Hans Baumeister
as Christian Kamp
as Self - Host
as Eberhard Bothe
as Schumann
as Dr. Grins
as Inspektor Passini
as Gerd Weißenbach
as Prof. Robert Henze
as Self - Presenter
as Self
as Self