Cast & creator
Ulrich Mühe
Best known for Scene of the Crime, Scene of the Crime, Volle Kanne
Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Gold, at Germany's most prestigious film awards, the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards. Curiously, events in Mühe's life were mirrored by the plot of the film, as he allegedly discovered in a Stasi file compiled on him that he had been under surveillance by his second wife, Jenny Gröllmann. Gröllmann denied this, and after an acrimonious and highly-publicized court case she succeeded in obtaining an injunction to prevent Mühe from repeating the allegation in a book. After leaving school, Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall. He then turned to acting, and from the late 1970s into the 1980s appeared in numerous plays, becoming a star of the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin. He was active in politics and denounced Communist rule in East Germany in a memorable address at the Alexanderplatz demonstration on 4 November 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. After German reunification he continued to appear in a large number of films, television programmes and theatre productions. In Germany he was particularly known for playing the lead role of Dr. Robert Kolmaar in the long-running forensic crime series Der letzte Zeuge (The Last Witness, 1998–2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Mühe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe
58
film credits
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television credits
81
1948–2011 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (82)
Showing 82 of 82 credits
Scene of the Crime
Peter Fuchs
1970Scene of the Crime
Friedel Hebbel
1970Volle Kanne
Self
1999The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self
1998
Polizeiruf 110
Kegel
1971
maybrit illner
Self
1999
Bambi
Self
1948German Film Award
Self
1951
Through the Night with...
Self
2002
Der letzte Zeuge
Robert Kolmaar
1998
Siska
Erich Branner
1998Blauer Panther
Self
1989Bavarian Film Awards
Self
1979
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
Self
1999Lebensläufe
Self
1998
The Lives of Others
Gerd Wiesler
2006Goldene Henne
Self
1995
Rosa Roth
1994
Funny Games
Georg
1997Telestar
Self
1983
My Führer
Prof. Adolf Israel Grünbaum
2007Stars präsentieren
Self
2005Langer Samstag
Self
2002
End of Innocence
Julian Green
1991
Amen.
The Doctor
2002
Benny's Video
Georg, Benny's Father
1992Dreimal Leben
Henri
2001
Nemesis
Robert
2010
In the Shadow of Power
Günther Gaus
2003Geschäfte
Sturm
1995… nächste Woche ist Frieden
Dr. Herbert Pieritz
1995
Peanuts - Die Bank zahlt alles
Dr. Jochen Schuster
1996
Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund
Dr. Grote
1987
Schtonk!
Dr. Wieland
1992Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde
Sergej
1996
Der Ausländer
2004
Deadly Silence
Christian Plache
1997
The Last U-Boat
Gerber - Kommandant
1993Todesengel
Dr. Leon Stein
1999Die gläserne Fackel
Maximilian Steinhüter
1989
The Castle
K
1997Das Geheimnis von St. Ambrose
Nicolas Cramer
2006
Straight Shooter
Markus Paufler
1999
Spy Sorge
Eugen Ott
2003
Hard Days, Hard Nights
Flimmer
1990Das tödliche Auge
Stefan Phillis
1993
Rudy, the Racing Pig
Dr. Heinrich Gützkow
1995Gespenster
Osvald
1983Der Mann und sein Name
Retzlow
1983
Night Time
Eschbach
1998
The Woman and the Stranger
Revolutionär
1985Hunger auf Leben
Jochen Hensel
2004
Rider of the Flames
Jacob Gontard
1998
Der kleine Herr Friedemann
Johannes Friedemann
1991
Snowland
Knövel
2005
Die Zeit ist aus den Fugen
1990Sterben ist gesünder
Hugo Wallner
1997
36 Stunden Angst - Ein Vater kämpft um sein Kind
Rudolph
1998
Späte Ankunft
Raoul Fürstenau
1989
Hamlet_X
Claudius Müller
2003
The Blue One
Karl 'Kalle' Kaminski
1994Nadja – Heimkehr in die Fremde
Sergej
1995
Jedermann Remixed
Devil (archive footage)
2011
Spider's Web
Theodor Lohse
1989
Peer Gynt
Der Knopfgiesser
2006
Nikolaikirche
Pfarrer Ohlbaum
1995Nadine, meine Liebe
Oberleutnant Stein
1988
Little Angel
Commissioner
1997
Einfach raus
Manfred Reimann
1999
Alles Samba
Gerd Wegener
2003
Die dritte Frau
1985
Die erste Reihe
Rudolf Schwarz
1987
Hälfte des Lebens
Friedrich Hölderlin
1985
Longing
Sieghart
1990
Jugend ohne Gott
Lehrer
1991
Goebbels und Geduldig
Goebbels bzw. Geduldig
2001Der Auftrag
Director
2004
Olle Henry
Junger Mann
1983
Das Buschgespenst
Siegfried Strauch
1986
Die Poggenpuhls
Sohn Leutnant Leo
1984Nathan der Weise
Patriarch
1990