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Michael Mendl
Born: 20th Apr 1944 Lünen, Germany
Dept: Acting
Michael Mendl (born 20 April 1944) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1975. He is best known internationally for his role in Downfall, the 2004 movie about Adolf Hitler's last months in power.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 195
Film: 116 (59%)
Television: 79 (41%)
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Filmography
Original title: Mission Santa – Ein Elf rettet Weihnachten
2025
An underdog elf, driven by his unwavering passion for the holidays, becomes the North Pole's only hope of saving Christmas from a vengeful hacker. ... view
Character:
Santa (voice)
2022
In the chaotic, highly emotional period after the First World War in 1918, the foreign ministers Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) and Aristide Briand (18 ... view
Character:
Aristide Briand
Mar 2021 (first aired)
The city of Schwerin is melting – it is the hottest summer in years. Detectives Lona Mendt and Frank Elling are on the trail of a serial murderer, w ... view
Character:
Klaus-Dieter Turn (8 ep.)
Original title: Stille
2020
Inspired by a few youngsters in a coffee bar talking about aging, a busy man sinks into the idyllic surrounding of a lake. At this place the man seems ... view
Character:
Man at the lake
May 2019 (first aired)
Chief Inspector Benedikt Beissl, who lives in Berchtesgaden with his wife Elisabeth and their three daughters Maria, Johanna and Eva, has been keeping ... view
Character:
Franz Gentner (1 ep.)
2019
Just as 16-year-old Miki Witt is about to steal a few beers, he witnesses Lebanese clan boss Ahmed Sayed shooting an LKA officer. Even though the teen ... view
Character:
Siegfried Brandt
2018
Simon Polt (Erwin Steinhauer) is no longer a gendarme. Arrived in retirement, he participates cheerfully in the Weinviertel on village life. When a co ... view
Character:
Otto Kurzbacher
Dec 2017 (first aired)
A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations. ... view
Character:
Bernd Doppler (4 ep.)
2017
Heligoland, April 18, 1947: Preparations for one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history are almost complete. The British want to raze the is ... view
Character:
Franz Schensky
2017
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss ... view
Character:
Bartender
2017
New York realtor Bella Castle's divorce is amicable and peaceful. But the news that her ex-husband Mick is going to be a father again throws Bella off ... view
Character:
Benjamin Ross
2016
Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten. ... view
Character:
Anton Lang / Kürtens Vater
Jan 2016 (first aired)
The duo of investigators, Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein, has to solve a case of a dead girl found on the river Main, while digging deeper in ... view
Character:
Dr. Josef Finkbeiner (2 ep.)
Original title: Halbe Brüder
2015
Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are bro ... view
Character:
Dr. Blöckers
2015
Vormärz in Germany: Gisela and Walther, a maid and a servant - a predestined path of life, which Gisela rebels against. Her free-thinking spirit puts ... view
Character:
Graf von Gehlen
2014
Lawyer Lea Jung has won a much-noticed process. Her client Nick Storm, accused of rape, was acquitted because Lena was able to prove the alleged victi ... view
Character:
Peter Jung
Original title: Liebe und Tod auf Java
2013
Hans and Fridel are a marriage that come to Java fleeing of the pursuit Nazi just before the Second World war comes untied. In this paradise Hans find ... view
Character:
Arthur Landgraf
2013
A Black Forest timber industrialist has to assert herself against male supremacy and economic difficulties in the first half of the 20th century. ... view
Character:
Anton Seitz
2013
Maria has been living in a retirement home in Vienna for almost two years, but she is far from finished with life. She tries to break up the monotonou ... view
Character:
Jakob Frankl
Original title: Lilly Schönauer: Liebe auf den zweiten Blick
2012
Sophie wants to marry Martin and change her traditional farm into a farm that produces biologically grown food (sheep cheese, ...) To be able to do th ... view
Character:
Franz Waldner
2012
Susanne works for an auction company, and founds out that a painting that they have been charged to sell is a copy. So she goes to Florence, where the ... view
Character:
Lorenzo Sabrini
Feb 2012 (first aired)
Morden im Norden is a German Police that has been broadcast by Das Erste. The show is set in Lübeck, Germany
Morden im Norden is part of a series of ... view
Character:
Ulrich Harmsen (1 ep.)
Original title: Mein Kampf mit Hitler: "Machtergreifung" 1933
2012
As a 25-year-old legal trainee Sebastian Haffner experienced the assumption of power of Hitler in Berlin in 1933. He became a witness of a dramatic up ... view
Character:
Vater
2011
German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Iron John“. ... view
Character:
Eisenhans
Original title: Männerherzen... und die ganz ganz große Liebe
2011
The sequel of the "Men in the city" movie which reunites all the characters. ... view
Character:
Helmut Ades
2011
"Der kleine Prinz" (The Little Prince) tells the story of a pilot who crash-lands in the Sahara desert and meets a young prince from another planet. T ... view
Character:
König
2011
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war. ... view
Character:
Aaron Kaplan
Jun 2011 (first aired)
Everyone in the Bavarian village of Frühling knows her: village volunteer Katja Baumann. Whether it’s milking cows or lending a helping hand to som ... view
Character:
Hendrik Söringer (1 ep.)
Original title: Hexe Lilli - Die Reise nach Mandolan
2011
Lilli is traveling to India, to solve a mystery. ... view
Character:
Nandi
2010
At the beginning of the weekend, the detective commissioner Tina Campenhausen wanted to spend with her family, she is called to a hotel in Travemünde ... view
Character:
Steffen Ahrends
2010
Geologist Lena receives the news that her father Gottfried, who abandoned her eight years ago, is terminally ill. With a heavy heart, she travels back ... view
Character:
Gottfried Simmerauer
2010
The film depicts the breakdown of a family that lost all its money to one of the Islamic investment companies that are very common in Europe. Metin in ... view
Character:
Karl Höffgen
2010
Jil has found great love in the landscape architect Marc. There is only a tiny problem: Marc is not a Jew, and Jil's devout Jewish family would never ... view
Character:
Benno Grüngras
Nov 2009 (first aired)
The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bi ... view
Character:
Dieter Bohm (1 ep.)
2009
Pat is working as an insurance detective for the large insurance company IVV in Bangkok. She is tasked to find the former co-worker Jan Hansen who has ... view
Character:
Dr. Andreas Giesel
2008
During demolition work in a village in northern Germany, a cemented-in corpse is discovered in the wall of a building. The autopsy leads the pathologi ... view
Character:
Kommissar Hagen Dudek
2008
The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings ... view
Character:
Cardinal Battaglia
Original title: Der Besuch der alten Dame
2008
In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with ... view
Character:
Alfred Ill
Mar 2008 (first aired)
Meine wunderbare Familie is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Klaus Kastner (1 ep.)
Feb 2008 (first aired)
A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but als ... view
Character:
Richard Bäumler (1 ep.)
Feb 2008 (first aired)
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end o ... view
Character:
Wilhelm Johannsen (2 ep.)
2007
Marie Gruber fights tooth and claw to keep her café open. And yet she should be facing her "arch-enemy" with pure hostility. But she unwittingly fall ... view
Character:
Gerd Fürst
2007
Zoologist Verena is supposed to pick up two small lions from South Africa. The consequences of an accident force her to stay longer at the animal stat ... view
Character:
Dr. George Hill
2007
Maria, Dana and Julie learn from their mother's diary that one of them has been adopted. ... view
Character:
Christian
2007
Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki. ... view
Character:
Himself
Original title: Eine Liebe in Kuba
2007
The real estate expert Jan Holzer travels to the Caribbean with a special assignment. Within a week, the businessman is to move the Cuban family Orteg ... view
Character:
Marquez
2007
Karla and Werner have 35 harmonious years of marriage behind them. But when it comes to vacations, the unity is over. A week of wellness is a dream co ... view
Character:
Werner
Mar 2007 (first aired)
A story of eternal romance and inevitable disaster recounting the tale of this once majestic city. ... view
Character:
Matteo (2 ep.)
2006
Ruth is an attractive, independent woman in her early 50s who has always lived for her daughter. But Lea, now in her mid-20s, is starting to break awa ... view
Character:
Robert Sturm
2006
Marianne is diagnosed with cancer. She doesn't dare confide in her stressed husband and two grown-up children. It is only when she meets her childhood ... view
Character:
Philipp Heide
Mar 2006 (first aired)
Agathe kann’s nicht lassen was an Austrian and German detective comedy television series which ran between 2005 and 2007. It was based upon Agatha C ... view
Character:
Abt (1 ep.)
2005
This melodrama about love in the third age focuses on the 65-year-old Mathilde living alone after the death of her husband. When she gets to know the ... view
Character:
Carlo Sturm
2005
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall' ... view
Character:
Self
2005
A situational family comedy, wordplay and a whole host of idiosyncratic characters are the ingredients for this both cheerful and emotional film about ... view
Character:
Charly
Original title: Barfuß
2005
A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient. ... view
Character:
Heinrich Keller
2005
The leather designer Vera Klunert can not believe it: her husband Andreas, with whom she is happily married, has simply kept secret her impending inso ... view
Character:
Andreas Klunert
Original title: Der Untergang
2004
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 fr ... view
Character:
General der Artillerie Helmuth Weidling
2004
Hamburg landscape architect Ulrike inherits a vineyard near Barcelona, where she falls in love with Pablo. Her fatherly friend Joe advises her to be c ... view
Character:
Joe
Jan 2004 (first aired)
Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive lands ... view
Character:
Sten Sörenson (1 ep.)
Peter Garpendahl (1 ep.)
Oct 2003 (first aired)
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Col ... view
Character:
Günther Reimann (1 ep.)
Original title: Mother Teresa
2003
The inspirational portrayal of Mother Teresa, a simple nun who became one of the most significant personalities of the 20th Century. Armed with a fait ... view
Character:
Van Exem
Oct 2003 (first aired)
In poverty-ravaged Calcutta, Sister Teresa, a teacher at a boarding school for wealthy girls, feels God's call to leave everything behind to devote he ... view
Character:
Van Exem (2 ep.)
2002
The action of the melodrama takes place in the late 19th century, in an idyllic mountain village. Behind the façade of law and morality there is stub ... view
Character:
Pfarrer Kleiber
2002
Successful husband, clever children, great job – the lawyer Eva lacks nothing. Except the erotic tingle that she and Richard, a writer have lost in ... view
Character:
Richard Thomé
Original title: Hiçbiryerde
2002
Sükran's son Veysel works in a factory. Suffering as a result of her husband's political actions, she tries to save her son from the same fate. ... view
Character:
Gerhard
Character:
Josef Klettenberg (1 ep.)
2002
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to ... view
Character:
Monsignore Hudal
2002
At a conference in Verona, the dutiful German family man falls under the spell of the Italian Elsa. As soon as he falls for her, she disappears withou ... view
Character:
Thomas Reuter
2002
The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope ... view
Character:
Mgr Domenico Tardini
Original title: Papa Giovanni - Ioannes XXIII
2002
This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope ... view
Character:
Tardini
Original title: So weit die Füße tragen
2001
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate l ... view
Character:
Dr. Heinz Stauffer
2001
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringin ... view
Character:
Richter
Nov 2001 (first aired)
When wealthy college student Richard Oetker is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom, state police officer Georg Kufbach becomes obsessed with bringin ... view
Character:
Richter (2 ep.)
Jan 2001 (first aired)
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast o ... view
Character:
Herbert Brand (1 ep.)
2001
The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of my ... view
Character:
wariat
Original title: Das Teufelsweib
2000
An adulterous woman draws a meticulous plan to murder her husband with the help of her lover, a much younger man. Committed the crime, they move to a ... view
Character:
Paul Hoffmann
Oct 2000 (first aired)
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film ... view
Character:
Maurizio Cataldo (1 ep.)
2000
Three women decide to turn the tables and fight back: Henriette, the feisty journalist of a women's magazine, the editor Anna and the beautiful salesw ... view
Character:
Leander
Original title: Die Diebin
1999
Diamonds are a girls best friends, so when an exhibition of the first diamonds ever discovered in Germany is announced, Lana thinks it is her duty to ... view
Character:
Hartmann
Original title: Bittere Unschuld
1999
Andreas Brandt is the head of the research department in a pharmaceutical company. He earns enough to build a future with his wife Monica and his daug ... view
Character:
Dr. Robert Larssen
1999
The wealthy Hamburg gallery owner Elaine Troost dies mysteriously on a stormy fall night and her body is subsequently found in the bathtub by her daug ... view
Character:
Hauptkommissar Hannes Bellmann
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1999
Since the death of her husband, ex-teacher Franziska has had to look after her son David and his disabled brother Bobby on her own. Their new neighbor ... view
Character:
Rainer Ackermann
1998
Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for the truth leads the psychiatric patient to the Ba ... view
Character:
Björn
Original title: Todfeinde – Die falsche Entscheidung
1998
Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. He and his friend Max cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug wo ... view
Character:
Peter Gerlach
Oct 1998 (first aired)
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In Fra ... view
Character:
Lambert Gruber (1 ep.)
Dr. Bruno Werner (1 ep.)
Dr. Bieler (1 ep.)
Franz Dobler (1 ep.)
Eugen Raimond (1 ep.)
Anselm Reuter (1 ep.)
Oct 1998 (first aired)
German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig. ... view
Character:
Joseph Bernau (1 ep.)
1998
Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to spend sometime with him in Berlin. While they wer ... view
Character:
Viktor Borokow
1998
Paula, a 26‑year‑old Berlin woman, plans to introduce her boyfriend Daniel to her parents on Mother’s Day—but the day turns chaotic when she d ... view
Character:
Martin
Mar 1998 (first aired)
Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German Bundeskrim ... view
Character:
Felix Nachtigal (2 ep.)
1998
Prince Tamino and his companions are chasing a magnificent boar. Caught up in the excitement of the hunt, Prince Tamino ignores all warnings and fails ... view
Character:
Monostatos (voice)
1997
Assistant Pastor Josef Mohr arrived in Oberndorf in 1818. In a time of political upheaval and economic hardship he writes a Christmas carol together w ... view
Character:
Hans Schlagerer
1997
Firefighters Stefan and Johannes and psychologist Marta Weber, Stefan's girlfriend, are targeted by the psychopathic arsonist Kovacz. Johannes is kill ... view
Character:
Kovacs
1997
A police psychologist saves a young woman from jumping to her death and takes the unstable stranger into her family. She soon becomes jealous of her b ... view
Character:
Apr 1997 (first aired)
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of t ... view
Character:
Günter Fuchs (1 ep.)
Original title: 14 Tage lebenslänglich
1997
Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public ... view
Character:
Viktor Czernetzky
1997
The rich Westerner embarks on a journey to find his daughter who vanished in Montreal and Zurich. The disappearance is linked to a sect that selects i ... view
Character:
Inspector Labrousse
Original title: Es geschah am hellichten Tag
1997
Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the kille ... view
Character:
Bauer Moser
1996
Journalist Katrin Tresko is on the trail of a criminal gang that is laundering money on a grand scale. But then she is murdered by their masterminds. ... view
Character:
Adi Franzen
1996
The annual sailing trip of four respectable men from Baden-Baden turns into a horror trip when a drug-addicted occasional prostitute is killed by one ... view
Character:
Walter Hägerle
Original title: Schlafes Bruder
1995
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered str ... view
Character:
Nulf
Mar 1995 (first aired)
The three-part miniseries portrays the rise of the unscrupulous Stefan Stolze. Stefan Stolze gets through life with the motto "smarter than the others ... view
Character:
Robert Korda (3 ep.)
Mar 1995 (first aired)
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring t ... view
Character:
Schröder (1 ep.)
Feb 1995 (first aired)
Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The ... view
Character:
Walter Moorwessel (1 ep.)
Oct 1994 (first aired)
Die Kommissarin is a German police TV series which aired on Das Erste. Its 66 episodes ran from 1994 till 2006.
The series, which takes place in Fran ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Mar 1994 (first aired)
The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the e ... view
Character:
Bruno Monsanto (1 ep.)
Jakob Bergmann (1 ep.)
Günther Berger (1 ep.)
1994
Shokov is the last cosmonaut of the "Mir" station. On board: the secret satellite weapon "Medusa". A corrupt minister wants to sell them abroad. Shoko ... view
Character:
Minister Tupulev
Character:
Rainer Kollberg (1 ep.)
Boris Romanow (1 ep.)
Original title: Kleine Haie
1992
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the a ... view
Character:
Prüfer Essen
Original title: Leise Schatten
1991
Linda is a headstrong woman. She marries and lives with her husband Paul in the Ruhr area. But 12 years of marriage do not make Linda happy. She dream ... view
Character:
1991
Tired of never having enough money to spend, Rita and Susanne throw all bourgeois moral concerns straight out of the window and simply become contract ... view
Character:
Herbert
Jan 1989 (first aired)
Peter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain s ... view
Character:
Gretzki (1 ep.)
Sep 1984 (first aired)
Der Fahnder is a German television krimi series which was aired between 1984 and 2005.
In the Netherlands the series was broadcast by the VARA from 3 ... view
Character:
Gessner (1 ep.)
Schanz (1 ep.)
Sep 1981 (first aired)
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Willi Neumann (1 ep.)
Alfred Salinger (1 ep.)
Horst Klein / Sitting Bull (1 ep.)
Dr. Roland Marx (1 ep.)
Feb 1981 (first aired)
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Jan 1978 (first aired)
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term " ... view
Character:
Armin Grützke (1 ep.)
Apr 1977 (first aired)
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together. ... view
Character:
Max Palm (1 ep.)
Abbi Wächter (1 ep.)
Carl Bockmayer (1 ep.)
Jakob Ballmann (1 ep.)
Michael Winter (1 ep.)
Fred Gantner (1 ep.)
Dec 1976 (first aired)
Notarztwagen 7 is a 1976-1977 German medical drama television series directed by Helmut Ashley. It is regarded as a cult television series in Germany. ... view
Character:
Goos (1 ep.)
Oct 1974 (first aired)
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detect ... view
Character:
Dr.Riemann (1 ep.)
Soost (1 ep.)
Schönbeck (1 ep.)
Ali Klais (1 ep.)
Wirt (1 ep.)
Nov 1970 (first aired)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels ... view
Character:
Wessel (1 ep.)
Koslowski (1 ep.)
Walter Kruse (1 ep.)
Karl Kaysser (1 ep.)
Gregor Claussen (2 ep.)
Rüdiger Stolze (1 ep.)
Stefan Kühn (1 ep.)
Martin Forssell (1 ep.)
Jan 1969 (first aired)
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-wh ... view
Character:
Schießbuden-Figur (1 ep.)
Apr 1959 (first aired)
Every year there was a Gala of the Stars at the Zirkus Krone in Munich. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Character:
Jonas Vogel (1 ep.)
Jan 1948 (first aired)
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 i ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)