Armin Mueller-Stahl
Highest Rated: 100% Lola (1981)
Lowest Rated: 0% Theodore Rex (1995)
Birthday: Dec 17, 1930
Birthplace: Not Available
A musical prodigy, East Prussian-born Armin Mueller-Stahl was a noted concert violinist while still in his teens. Mueller-Stahl turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950, later launching a 25-year stint as a repertory performer at Theater aum Schiffbaurdamm. The winner of the GDR State Prize for his film work, Mueller-Stahl became persona non grata with the communist regime in 1977, due to his activism in protesting government suppression of performing artists. He relocated to the West in 1980, where he recouped his film stardom in such productions as Fassbinder's Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982) and Agnieszka Holland's Angry Harvest (1985), winning the Montreal Festival "Best Actor" prize for his performance in the latter. Most American viewers first became aware of Mueller-Stahl through his portrayal of Russian general Samanov in the controversial miniseries Amerika (1987). He then gained perhaps his greatest recognition to date by U.S. film fans for two radically different characterizations: aging Nazi war criminal Mike Laszlo in Costa-Gavras' The Music Box (1989) and Jewish grandpa Sam Krischinsky in Barry Levinson's Avalon (1990). He spent the rest of the decade working steadily in Hollywood and abroad, appearing in such films as Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth (1991), The X-Files (1998), and Jakob the Liar (1999). In 1996, he earned particular acclaim and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott's domineering father in Scott Hicks' Shine.He appeared in 2000's Mission to Mars, and followed that up the next year in The Long Run. He was away from screens for three years, reappearing in Bustin' Bonaparte and The Dust Factory, before landing the role of the scary patriarch of a crime family in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises. He appeared in the highly-successful Dan Brown adaptation Angels & Demons.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47% | Knight of Cups | Fr. Zeitlinger | $0.4M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | Ein Lord am Alexanderplatz (A Lord of Alexander Square) | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Nelken In Aspik | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Leningrad (Attack on Leningrad) | Actor | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Fünf Patronenhülsen (Five Cartridges) | Actor | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Dmitri Schostakowitsch - Dem kühlen Morgen entgegen | Actor | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | The Blind Director | Actor | — | 2011 |
| 36% | Angels & Demons | Cardinal Strauss | $133.4M | 2009 |
| 58% | The International | Wilhelm | $25.5M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Buddenbrooks | Actor | — | 2008 |
| 89% | Eastern Promises | Semyon | $17.2M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Ich Bin Die Andere (I Am the Other Woman) | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 35% | Local Color | Nicoli Seroff | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Bustin' Bonaparte | Otto | — | 2005 |
| 9% | The Dust Factory | Grandpa Randolph | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | The Long Run | Berry | — | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Jesus | Joseph | — | 2000 |
| 25% | Mission to Mars | NASA Chief | — | 2000 |
| 20% | Inferno (Pilgrim) | Actor | — | 2000 |
| 67% | The Third Miracle | Archbishop Werner | — | 1999 |
| 29% | Jakob the Liar | Kirschbaum | — | 1999 |
| 29% | The Thirteenth Floor | Hannon Fuller | — | 1999 |
| 89% | Der Unhold (The Ogre) | Count of Kaltenborn | — | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Inferno | Mac | — | 1999 |
| 65% | The X-Files - Fight the Future | Conrad Strughold | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | The Commissioner | Hans Konig | — | 1998 |
| 73% | The Game | Anson Baer | — | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Rabbi Adam Heller | — | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | The Assistant | Mr. Bober | — | 1997 |
| 92% | 12 Angry Men | Juror #4 | — | 1997 |
| 91% | Shine | Peter Helfgott | — | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | Taxandria | Virgilius/Karol | — | 1996 |
| 0% | Theodore Rex | Dr. Edgar Kane | — | 1995 |
| 89% | The Last Good Time | Joseph Kopple | — | 1995 |
| 0% | A Pyromaniac's Love Story | Mr. Linzer | — | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Holy Matrimony | Wilhelm | — | 1994 |
| 30% | The House of the Spirits | Severo | — | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Red Hot | Dimitri | — | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Utz | Baron Kaspar Von Utz | — | 1993 |
| 39% | The Power of One | Doc | — | 1992 |
| 75% | Night on Earth | Helmut | — | 1991 |
| 52% | Kafka | Insp. Grubach | — | 1991 |
| 83% | Avalon | Sam Krichinsky | — | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | The Spider's Web | Actor | — | 1989 |
| 72% | Music Box | Michael Laszlo | — | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | Midnight Cop | Inspector Alex Glas | — | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Lethal Obsession | Axel Baumgartner | — | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | Amerika | Gen. Petya Samanov | — | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | Momo | Chef der grauen Männer | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest) | Leon Wolny | — | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | Forget Mozart (Vergeßt Mozart) | Count Pergen | — | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | Oberst Redl (Colonel Redl) | Archduke Ferdinand | — | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | A Love in Germany (Eine Liebe in Deutschland) | Mayer | — | 1983 |
| 80% | L'homme blessé | Father | — | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | The Lite Trap (Der Westen Leuchtet!) | Actor | — | 1982 |
| 73% | Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss | Max Rehbein | — | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | An Uns Glaubt Gott Nicht Mehr | Actor | — | 1982 |
| 100% | Lola | Von Bohm | — | 1981 |
| 100% | Jakob, der Lügner (Jacob the Liar) | Roman | — | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | Der Dritte | Blind Man | — | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | Tödlicher Irrtum | Actor | — | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen) | Hofel | — | 1967 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 75% |
The West Wing 1999-2006 |
Israeli Prime Minister Eli Zahavy |
2004 |
QUOTES FROM Armin Mueller-Stahl CHARACTERS
Grandpa Randolph says: Dust is a funny thing. It's everywhere all at once, like a teeny, tiny snowstorm, in every ray of light. Even the moon is just a big dust ball. But you know, it's all in the way you look at it. Not this way or that way, not forways or backways. Just believe before you look. The man in the moon has a magic all his own.
Cardinal Strauss says: Religion is flawed because man is flawed.
Cardinal Strauss says: Mr. Langdon, thanks be to God for sending someone to protect His church.
Robert Langdon says: I don't believe He sent me, Father.
Cardinal Strauss says: Oh my son, of course He did...
Semyon says: [After rapping on a body stored in a freezer] Do you have hair dryer?
Semyon says: [after rapping on a body stored in a freezer] Do you have hair dryer?
Helmut Grokenberger says: I was a circus clown.
Helmut Grokenberger says: We have the same head.
Cardinal Strauss says: Religion is flawed because man is flawed.
Cardinal Strauss says: Cardinal Strauss: "Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. All men. Even this one."