
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Highest Rated: 100% Lola (1982)
Lowest Rated: 0% Holy Matrimony (1994)
Birthday: Dec 17, 1930
Birthplace: Tilsit, German Empire
An overnight success years in the making, Armin Mueller-Stahl spent the post-World War II era in East Berlin studying and playing the violin. The former music teacher made his stage acting debut at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm (home of the famous Berliner Ensemble) in 1953 and worked for more than two decades with another noted East Berlin company, Volksbuehne (People's Stage). After making a smooth transition from stage to screen in "Heimleche Ehe/The Secret Marriage" (1958), he became one of DEFA's (the state-run film conglomerate) outstanding young actors. His three-picture collaboration with director Frank Beyer culminated with "Jakob der Luegner/Jakob the Liar" (1974), the only DEFA picture to ever receive a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination, and he also consolidated his popularity with frequent television appearances. His decision to sign the Biermann Resolution, a manifesto critical of the government, however, led to his blacklisting in 1976. "When you lived in the G.D.R., you were political, even if you didn't want to be," he told Premiere (November 1990). "I felt I had a responsibility to the public."
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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47% | 37% | Knight of Cups | Fr. Zeitlinger (Character) | $558.4K | 2015 |
58% | 37% | The International | Wilhelm Wexler (Character) | $25.5M | 2009 |
37% | 57% | Angels & Demons | Cardinal Straus (Character) | $133.4M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 39% | Buddenbrooks | Johann "Jean" Buddenbrook (Character) | - | 2008 |
89% | 83% | Eastern Promises | Semyon (Character) | $17.1M | 2007 |
39% | 58% | Local Color | Nicolai Seroff (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 0% | I Am the Other Woman | Karl Winter (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 25% | Bustin' Bonaparte | Otto (Character) | - | 2004 |
9% | 57% | The Dust Factory | Grandpa Randolph (Character) | $8K | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 54% | The Long Run | Berry (Character) | - | 2000 |
67% | 58% | The Third Miracle | Werner (Character) | $736.6K | 1999 |
29% | 63% | Jakob the Liar | Kirschbaum (Character) | $5M | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jesus | Joseph (Character) | - | 1999 |
30% | 64% | The Thirteenth Floor |
Hannon Fuller/ |
$11.8M | 1999 |
20% | 26% | Inferno | Mac (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 20% | The Commissioner | Hans Koenig (Character) | - | 1998 |
66% | 72% | The X-Files | Conrad Strughold (Character) | $83.9M | 1998 |
75% | 84% | The Game | Anson Baer (Character) | $48.3M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 33% | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Rabbi Adam Heller (Character) | - | 1997 |
92% | 87% | 12 Angry Men | Juror 4 (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Assistant | Mr. Morris Bober (Character) | - | 1997 |
43% | 39% | The Peacemaker | Dimitri Vertikoff (Character) | $41.3M | 1997 |
0% | 19% | Theodore Rex | Elizar Kane (Character) | $53.3M | 1996 |
89% | 73% | The Ogre | Count von Kaltenborn (Character) | $49.2K | 1996 |
91% | 90% | Shine | Peter (Character) | $35.9M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | 47% | Taxandria |
Karol / |
- | 1995 |
0% | 53% | A Pyromaniac's Love Story | Mr. Linzer (Character) | $465.6K | 1995 |
0% | 25% | Holy Matrimony | Wilhelm (Character) | $616.9K | 1994 |
89% | No Score Yet | The Last Good Time | Joseph Kopple (Character) | $49.7K | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Movie Teller | Kinoerzähler (Movie Teller) (Character) | - | 1993 |
30% | 72% | The House of the Spirits | Severo del Valle (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Red Hot | Dimitri (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Far From Berlin | Otto Lindner (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Utz | Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz (Character) | - | 1992 |
75% | 91% | Night on Earth | Helmut Grokenberger (Character) | $2M | 1992 |
39% | 87% | The Power of One | Doc (Character) | $2.7M | 1992 |
52% | 73% | Kafka | Grubach (Character) | $57.6K | 1991 |
85% | 78% | Avalon | Sam Krichinsky (Character) | $14.9M | 1990 |
72% | 77% | Music Box | Mike Laszlo (Character) | $5.1M | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spider's Web | Baron von Rastchuk (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | 10% | Midnight Cop | Inspector Alex Glass (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Franza |
Dr. Leopold Jordan/ |
- | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Angry Harvest | Leon Wolny (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forget Mozart | Graf Pergen (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Colonel Redl | Thronfolger (Character) | - | 1985 |
57% | 67% | A Love in Germany | Mayer (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore | Gandhi (Character) | - | 1982 |
100% | 85% | Lola | Von Bohm (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Die Längste Sekunde | Viktor (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Third | Blinder (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Naked Among Wolves | André Höfel (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Five Cartridges | Pierre (Character) | - | 1960 |
TV
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75% | 94% | The West Wing | Israeli Prime Minister Efraim "Eli" Zahavy (Guest Star) | 2004 |
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