Alexander Held

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Born: October 19, 1958 – May 12, 2026
From: Munich, Germany

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.

Works

82 films

Schindler's List

19938.6

Downfall

20047.9

The Wave

20087.5

Before the Fall

20047.0

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

20057.1

The Baader Meinhof Complex

20087.0

Pope Joan

20096.8

Bibi Blocksberg

20026.0

Manitou's Shoe

20016.8

My Blind Date with Life

20177.5

Nanga Parbat

20106.6

Anatomy

20006.1

Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht

20068.0

A Minute’s Silence

20165.5

Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha

200010.0

Geheimkommando Familie

20236.5

Life Actually

20076.0

Leo & Claire

20026.8

Schon wieder Henriette

20135.2

Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine

20105.2

Franziskas Gespür für Männer

20065.0

Sau sticht

19959.0

Sanctuary

20157.2

Liebe und weitere Katastrophen

19994.0

Heimlicher Tanz

19998.0

Deathline

19963.6

The Girl with Nine Wigs

20136.6

Todesengel

19994.6

OA jagt Oberärztin

19997.0

Trau niemals deiner Frau

20126.0

Der Prediger

20147.0

Der große Schwindel

20136.0

Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

20096.0

Die Spesenritter

19997.0

Getting a Life

20037.5

Inzest - Ein Fall für Sina Teufel

199610.0

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

20027.0

Between Today and Tomorrow

20093.1

Jagd auf Amor

19991.0

Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar

20086.6

4 Days in May

20116.1

Crash Point: Berlin

20096.0

Die Kronzeugin - Mord in den Bergen

20134.4

It Happened in Broad Daylight

19976.9

Strange Gardens

20037.4

Friends of Friends

20025.8

Eine Sennerin zum Verlieben

20106.0

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker

20017.0

Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Geld oder Leben

2015

Public Enemies

20144.9

Emilia – Familienbande

20058.0

Burning Souls

20146.5

Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin

20086.0

Schwarzes Blut

19998.0

Zur Sache, Lena!

2008

Das Geheimnis des Lebens

20029.0

Die Musterknaben

19977.0

Ich wollte nicht töten

2007

Maria Mafiosi

20175.7

Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund

20017.0

Wholetrain

20066.5

Dora Heldt: Kein Wort zu Papa

20126.0

Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann

20048.0

Lena Fauch - Gefährliches Schweigen

20135.0

Der Masuren-Krimi - Fangschuss

20216.3

Alle haben geschwiegen

19964.0

Mali

19974.7

Im Netz

20136.8

Alaska Johansson

20134.9

Der Nebelmörder - Schatten über der Stadt

20008.5

Treibjagd

20034.3

Genug ist nicht genug

2009

Bezaubernde Marie

20075.5

Alleingang

20126.0

Im Tal des Schweigens

20046.0

Storno: Todsicher versichert

20157.0

In einem anderen Leben

20057.0

Romeo

20019.0

Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze

2011

Grüß Gott, Herr Anwalt

20072.6

Unverschämtes Glück

20155.0

Der zweite Frühling - Im Tal des Schweigens 4

2008