Thomas Kretschmann
Acting
Biography
Thomas Kretschmann (born September 8, 1962) is a German actor best known for playing Leutnant Hans Von Witzland in the 1993 film Stalingrad, Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in The Pianist, Hermann Fegelein in Der Untergang, and Captain Englehorn in the 2005 remake of King Kong. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thomas Kretschmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: September 8, 1962
Place of Birth: Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Germany]
Known For
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 They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Dalli Dalli
The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Project Blue Book
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.
A Taxi Driver
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Westworld
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.
Downfall
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.
24
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
Gran Turismo
The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.
Filmography
as Thomas Kretschmann: Jakob Fugger 'The Bank of Europe'
as Nick
as Arnold Grant
as Thomas
as Father Saul
as Patrice Capa
as Colonel Weber
as Hendrichs
as Thresh
as Joseph Goebbels
as Grey Wolf (voice)
as Richard Goss
as Korporal
as Oscar Friedmann
as Lorentz Vogelmann
as Dr. Andre Mason
as Wernher von Braun
as Friedrich Berger
as Lieutenant Colonel Seidel
as Jürgen Hinzpeter
as Rayt Marius
as Grigory Barovsky
as Karl
as Gerald
as The Buyer
as Airplane Passenger
as Holtz
as Le Clerq
as Self
as Strucker
as Horst Dassler
as Marcel
as Friedrich Ritter (voice)
as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (uncredited)
as Abraham Van Helsing
as Kapitan Kan
as Lukas
as Dracula
as Kurt Brynildson
as Flemming
as Jens
as Professor Z (voice)
as Vater Klaus Kuegler
as Frizer
as Gregor Molotov
as Karl Dönitz
as Maximilian Schnell
as Thomas Kretschmann
as Harry Meyen
as Stefan Krieger
as Klaus Becker
as King Leopold
as Otto Ernst Remer
as Captain Jürgen Schumann
as Wolf Larssen
as Cross
as Max
as Myassa
as The Man
as Adolf Eichmann
as Mr. Smith
as Herr Slättberg
as Oliver Hartwin
as Gerber
as Wil
as Alexander Nikopol
as Pope John Paul II
as Captain Englehorn
as Aron
as Self
as Victor Helios
as SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein
as Major Cain
as Roscoe
as Major Thomas Bietrich
as Nikopol
as Ludwig Cremer
as Hermann M.
as Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
as Damaskinos
as Max
as Vanni delle Rondini
as Robert Fernau
as Capt. Lt. Gunther Wassner
as Johnny Krieger
as Robert Fowler
as Tim
as Philip Lanart
as Kurt Reiner
as König Xerxes
as Self
as The Owl
as Domenico
as Magnus Sieber
as Migal
as Migal
as Thagnar
as Cristopher
as Commander Tunis
as Joseph
as Gianni Tricarico
as Robert Michalke
as Alfredo Grossi
as Wolf Jensen
as Franck
as Junger Gustav Regler
as Stephan Richter
as Nançay
as Sven
as Lieutenant Hans von Witzland
as Lt. Maximillian Lüdt
as Mann in Zürich
as Heringsbändiger
as Dieter Koller
as Bankräuber
as Soldat
as Niko Waldkron
as Self
as Karsten Winterberg
as Eberhard Kraus
as Roland Ortner
as Self
as Self
as Bogislow Von Bonin