
Heino Ferch
Highest Rated: 93% Run Lola Run (1998)
Lowest Rated: 7% Extreme Ops (2002)
Birthday: Aug 18, 1963
Birthplace: Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany
Powerful and limber, German actor Heino Ferch had an early career as a gymnast that prepared him for the physical demands of taut thrillers and kinetic action dramas. After landing an early lead role as a frenzied drug runner in the gritty urban dramedy "Wedding" (1990), he found something of a niche portraying shrewd, sometimes sympathetic German soldiers and citizens otherwise affected by wartime proceedings. In 1997, he starred in nine separate movies, breaking out with headlining roles in the rollicking a capella biopic "The Harmonists" and director Tom Tykwer's indelibly snow-covered revenge thriller "Winter Sleepers." He also appeared in Tykwer's much celebrated and manically entrancing time-and-space exercise "Run Lola Run" the following year. In the '00s, he starred as a swimmer attempting an escape over the Berlin Wall in the harrowing docu-drama "The Tunnel" and as Hitler's architect in the sterling "Downfall," an Oscar-nominated fly-on-the-wall account of the Nazi dictator's final days in a bunker. Those two highly praised films presaged Ferch's popularity as a frequent lead actor in a series of TV specials created for the express purpose of dramatizing events from Germany's history.








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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot Dog | Arno Hedmann (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conni & Co | Schuldirektor Möller (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fritz Lang | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anatomy of Surrender | Richard Brock (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mara and the Firebringer | Dr. Thurisaz (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Tigers | Michael (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sarajevo | Dr. Herbert Sattler (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Der Wagner-Clan. Eine Familiengeschichte | Houston Chamberlain (Character) | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | München 72 - Das Attentat | Dieter Waldner (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anatomy of Revenge | Richard Brock (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hanni and Nanni 2 | George Sullivan (Character) | - | 2012 |
64% | 78% | Vincent Wants to Sea | Robert Gellner - Vincents Vater (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 46% | Fist of the Reich | Max Machon (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 43% | Jerry Cotton | Klaus Schmidt (Character) | - | 2010 |
83% | 71% | Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen | Brother Volmar (Character) | $431.9K | 2009 |
85% | 80% | The Baader Meinhof Complex | Horst Herold Assistant (Character) | $476.3K | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Caesar Code | Manuel Aranda (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 50% | Messy Christmas | Jan (Character) | - | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cold Summer | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Ghetto | Gens (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 50% | About the Looking For and the Finding of Love | Hermes (Character) | - | 2005 |
No Score Yet | 55% | Hunt for Justice: The Louise Arbour Story | Keller (Character) | - | 2005 |
90% | 94% | Downfall | Albert Speer (Character) | $5.5M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le Lion | Julien Keller (Character) | - | 2003 |
7% | 28% | Extreme Ops | Mark (Character) | $4.8M | 2002 |
84% | 69% | The Seagull's Laughter | Björn Theódór (Character) | - | 2001 |
83% | 91% | The Tunnel | Harry Melchior (Character) | $10.9K | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tower of the First Born | Léon (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marlene | Unknown (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Unscarred | Johann (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Straight Shooter | Volker Bretz (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flames of Death | Peter Bender (Character) | - | 1999 |
81% | 87% | The Harmonists | Roman Cycowski (Character) | $491.1K | 1998 |
93% | 90% | Run Lola Run | Ronnie (Character) | $7.3M | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Widows | Unknown (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mortal Friends | Max Klausmann (Character) | - | 1998 |
76% | 79% | Winter Sleepers | Marco (Character) | $316.4K | 1997 |
74% | 66% | Lucie Aubrac | Barbie (Character) | $461.2K | 1997 |
89% | 73% | The Ogre | SS Officer Raufeisen (Character) | $49.2K | 1996 |
TV
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33% | No Score Yet | Total Recall 2070 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |