Acting
Alexander Held
Biography
Gerald Alexander Held (born 19 October 1958) was a German actor. He was internationally best known for his historical depictions, as Walther Hewel in the 2004 film Der Untergang, Robert Mohr in the 2005 film Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage and as state prosecutor Siegfried Buback in the 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. During his school years, Held was a solo singer of the Regensburger Domspatzen, and played football for TSV 1860 München, winning five youth championships. He finished his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich, and then joined the Munich Kammerspiele. Further engagements at the Staatsschauspiel Hannover, the Freien Volksbühne Berlin, the Theater Basel, and the Salzburg Festival followed. In 1993, Held was cast by director Klaus Emmerich in Morlock in his first television film role. Since then he has appeared in numerous cinema and TV productions, including Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl - The Last Days, and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall. In the Sat.1 series Der Bulle von Tölz with Ottfried Fischer, he played a Social Democratic Party of Germany Bundestag member, who mostly has to look after his opponents in the "Bavarian Unity Party". In 2007, he starred alongside Iris Berben as the greedy villain Heinrich von Strahlberg in the two-part TV film Afrika, mon amour. In 2008, he played Alois Kugler, the opponent of Brandner Kaspar, in the film of the same name, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. In 2009, he played the politically tactical abbot Kuno in the Margarethe von Trottas film Vision alongside Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, and Hannah Herzsprung, and in the same year, he was seen in Sönke Wortmann's Pope Joan as the Frankish Emperor Lothar I. In 2010, he played the Attorney General Dr. Sasse alongside Ulrich Tukur in Dieter Wedel's two-part TV film Greed. Since 2010, he has starred in the crime series Stralsund as the head commissioner Karl Hidde. Since 2014, he has played the lead role of head commissioner Ludwig Schaller in the crime series München Mord. Held's father was actor José Held, who died in 1974. From December 2005, Held was married to German actress Patricia Gräfin Fugger von Babenhausen (1961–2014). Source: Article "Alexander Held" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies with Alexander Held
Schindler's List
1993
Downfall
2004
The Wave
2008
Before the Fall
2004
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
Pope Joan
2009
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
2005
Bibi Blocksberg
2002
Sanctuary
2015
Manitou's Shoe
2001
A Minute’s Silence
2016
Der Prediger
2014
Anatomy
2000
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
2010
My Blind Date with Life
2017
Nanga Parbat
2010
Leo & Claire
2002
Geheimkommando Familie
2023
Die Musterknaben
1997
Die Spesenritter
1999
Life Actually
2007
Getting a Life
2003
4 Days in May
2011
Sau sticht
1995
Todesengel
1999
Schwarzes Blut
1999
Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha
2000
Heimlicher Tanz
1999
OA jagt Oberärztin
1999
Crash Point: Berlin
2009
The Girl with Nine Wigs
2013
Strange Gardens
2003
Franziskas Gespür für Männer
2006
Between Today and Tomorrow
2009
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
2008
It Happened in Broad Daylight
1997
Burning Souls
2014
Alaska Johansson
2013
Maria Mafiosi
2017
Liebe und weitere Katastrophen
1999
Der große Schwindel
2013
Deathline
1996
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2009
Schon wieder Henriette
2013
Inzest - Ein Fall für Sina Teufel
1996
Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
2001
Trau niemals deiner Frau
2012
Jagd auf Amor
1999
Alleingang
2012
Wholetrain
2006
Friends of Friends
2002
Romeo
2001
Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht
2006
Storno: Todsicher versichert
2015
Dora Heldt: Kein Wort zu Papa
2012
Eine Sennerin zum Verlieben
2010
Public Enemies
2014
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
2002
Im Netz
2013
Emilia – Familienbande
2005
Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann
2004
Unverschämtes Glück
2015
Ich wollte nicht töten
2007
Der Masuren-Krimi - Fangschuss
2021
Zur Sache, Lena!
2008
Das Geheimnis des Lebens
2002
Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin
2008
Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze
2011
Die Kronzeugin - Mord in den Bergen
2013
Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Geld oder Leben
2015
Treibjagd
2003
In einem anderen Leben
2005
Im Tal des Schweigens
2004
Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund
2001
Der Nebelmörder - Schatten über der Stadt
2000
Mali
1997
Grüß Gott, Herr Anwalt
2007
Lena Fauch - Gefährliches Schweigen
2013
Genug ist nicht genug
2009
Bezaubernde Marie
2007
Der zweite Frühling - Im Tal des Schweigens 4
2008
Alle haben geschwiegen
1996
TV Shows with Alexander Held
Scene of the Crime
1970
The Old Fox
1977
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Derrick
1974
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
SOKO Wismar
2004
Markus Lanz
2008
Die Rosenheim-Cops
2002
SOKO München
1978
DAS!
1991
Murder in the Mountains
2001
Kölner Treff
1976
Vienna Crime Squad
2005
SOKO Leipzig
2001
SOKO Köln
2003
A Case For Two
1981
Wolffs Revier
1992
Abendschau
2000
Volle Kanne
1999
Das Traumschiff
1981
Der Staatsanwalt
2005
Ein starkes Team
1994
Wer weiß denn sowas?
2015
Vom Reich zur Republik
2009
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994
Die Chefin
2012
Goldene Kamera
1984
Weißblaue Geschichten
1984
SK Kölsch
1999
Letzte Spur Berlin
2012
Der Fahnder
1984
Bella Block
1993
Kommissarin Lucas
2003
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
1995
Kommissar Stolberg
2006
Nachtschicht
2003
For Heaven's Sake
2002
Blauer Panther
1989
Schnell ermittelt
2009
München Mord
2014
Der Ermittler
2001
Under Suspicion
2002
Rosa Roth
1994
Donna Leon
2000
Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt
1998
Pfarrer Braun
2003
Das Duo
2002
Doppelter Einsatz
1994
Stralsund
2009
Flemming
2009
HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
1998
Line of Separation
2015
Anwalt Abel
1988
Ärzte
1994
Faust
1994
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
1998
Mord in bester Gesellschaft
2007
Weißblaue Wintergeschichten
1994
Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie
2004
Zwei Brüder
1994
Die Sitte
2003
Die Anwälte
2008
Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell
2008
Genial oder Daneben?
2020
Gier
2010
Attempted Murder
2018
Afrika, mon amour
2007
Mali
1997
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
2010
Unterleuten: The Torn Village
2020
Sommer und Bolten: Gute Ärzte, keine Engel
2001
Morlock
1993
Wilder Kaiser
1999
Zwei am großen See
2004
M/S Gustloff
2008