Alexander Held

Gerald Alexander Held (born 19 October 1958) is a German actor. He is 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.

Known For	Acting
Most Rating	6.283
Birthday	1958-10-19
Place of Birth	Munich, Germany
Also Known As	Alexander G.Held, Gerald Alexander Held,

Downfall

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Vera Brühne

Der große Schwindel

Wholetrain

Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar

Life Actually

4 Days in May

Eine Sennerin zum Verlieben

Dora Heldt: Kein Wort zu Papa

Ich wollte nicht töten

Im Netz

The Girl with Nine Wigs

Alaska Johansson

Getting a Life

Bezaubernde Marie

M/S Gustloff

Before the Fall

Schon wieder Henriette

Die Kronzeugin - Mord in den Bergen

Deathline

Die Spiegel-Affäre

The Baader Meinhof Complex

The Wave

Alle haben geschwiegen

Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze

Mali

Romeo

OA jagt Oberärztin

Treibjagd

Strange Gardens

Alleingang

Franziskas Gespür für Männer

Sanctuary

Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha

Die Spesenritter

Burning Souls

Grüß Gott, Herr Anwalt

Trau niemals deiner Frau

Unverschämtes Glück

Storno: Todsicher versichert

Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Geld oder Leben

In einem anderen Leben

Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann

Zur Sache, Lena!

Lena Fauch - Gefährliches Schweigen

Crash Point: Berlin

Geschichten aus dem Nachbarhaus: Hoffest

Der Prediger

Im Tal des Schweigens

Genug ist nicht genug

Schwarzes Blut

Pope Joan

‎The Cold Sky‎

Todesengel

A Minute’s Silence

Maria Mafiosi

My Blind Date with Life

Die Musterknaben

Emilia - Familienbande

Liebe und weitere Katastrophen

Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund

Inzest - Ein Fall für Sina Teufel

Heimlicher Tanz

Der Nebelmörder - Schatten über der Stadt

Schindler's List

Friends of Friends

Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker

Sau sticht

Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin

Manitou's Shoe

Nanga Parbat

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

Der Masuren-Krimi - Fangschuss

Leo & Claire

It Happened in Broad Daylight

Das Geheimnis des Lebens

Geheimkommando Familie