Born: 22-Mar-1941Birthplace: Zürich, SwitzerlandDied: 16-Feb-2019Location of death: Zürich, SwitzerlandCause of death: Cancer - ColonRemains: Buried, Friedhof Rehalp, Zrich, Switzerland
Gender: MaleRace or Ethnicity: WhiteSexual orientation: StraightOccupation: Actor
Nationality: SwitzerlandExecutive summary: Downfall
Wife: Sabine (m. 1965, separated, until his death, one son)Son: Daniel (b. 1972)Girlfriend: Ruth Walz (until his death)
French Legion of Honor
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR The Tobacconist (30-Sep-2018) The House That Jack Built (14-May-2018) The Party (13-Feb-2017) Remember (10-Sep-2015) In Order of Disappearance (10-Feb-2014) The Counselor (25-Oct-2013) Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (24-May-2013) Night Train to Lisbon (13-Feb-2013) Unknown (18-Feb-2011) · Ernst Jrgen The Reader (10-Dec-2008) The Dust of Time (22-Nov-2008) The Baader Meinhof Complex (16-Sep-2008) Youth Without Youth (20-Oct-2007) Vitus (2-Feb-2006) Downfall (8-Sep-2004) The Manchurian Candidate (22-Jul-2004) Luther (26-Sep-2003) Bread & Tulips (29-Feb-2000) · Fernando Eternity and a Day (23-May-1998) Saint-Ex (17-Nov-1996) Lumire and Company (20-Dec-1995) Faraway, So Close! (18-May-1993) The Last Days of Chez Nous (8-Oct-1992) Especially on Sunday (26-Sep-1991) Children of Nature (31-Jul-1991) The Architecture of Doom (13-Oct-1989) [VOICE] Strapless (14-May-1989) Wings of Desire (23-Sep-1987) · Damiel In the White City (Feb-1983) Circle of Deceit (15-Oct-1981) Lady of the Camelias (26-Feb-1981) The Girl from Lorraine (21-Jan-1981) Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (17-Jan-1979) The Boys From Brazil (5-Oct-1978) The Left-Handed Woman (May-1978) Knife in the Head (1978) The American Friend (24-Jun-1977) Marquise of O (19-May-1976) Lumire (24-Mar-1976)
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