Alexander Held
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-10-19
- Died:
- 2026-05-12
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Geheimkommando Familie
Der Masuren-Krimi - Fangschuss
Genial oder Daneben?
Unterleuten: The Torn Village
Attempted Murder
Maria Mafiosi
My Blind Date with Life
A Minute’s Silence
Wer weiß denn sowas?
Sanctuary
Storno: Todsicher versichert
Engel der Gerechtigkeit: Geld oder Leben
Unverschämtes Glück
Line of Separation
Burning Souls
Public Enemies
München Mord
Der Prediger
Lena Fauch - Gefährliches Schweigen
Alaska Johansson
Schon wieder Henriette
Im Netz
The Girl with Nine Wigs
Der große Schwindel
Die Kronzeugin - Mord in den Bergen
Trau niemals deiner Frau
Letzte Spur Berlin
Die Chefin
Alleingang
Dora Heldt: Kein Wort zu Papa
Das Ende einer Maus ist der Anfang einer Katze
4 Days in May
Eine Sennerin zum Verlieben
Restless Heart: The Confessions of Augustine
Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire
Gier
Nanga Parbat
Flemming
Pope Joan
Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Crash Point: Berlin
Genug ist nicht genug
Between Today and Tomorrow
Schnell ermittelt
Baltic Crime Watch
Vom Reich zur Republik
Liesl Karlstadt und Karl Valentin
Die Geschichte vom Brandner Kaspar
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Markus Lanz
Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell
Zur Sache, Lena!
The Wave
M/S Gustloff
Die Anwälte
Der zweite Frühling - Im Tal des Schweigens 4
Ich wollte nicht töten
Grüß Gott, Herr Anwalt
Bezaubernde Marie
Life Actually
Mord in bester Gesellschaft
Afrika, mon amour
Franziskas Gespür für Männer
Kommissar Stolberg
Wholetrain
Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht
Vienna Crime Squad
Emilia – Familienbande
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
In einem anderen Leben
Der Staatsanwalt
SOKO Wismar
Downfall
Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann
Before the Fall
Zwei am großen See
Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie
Im Tal des Schweigens
SOKO Köln
Getting a Life
Treibjagd
Pfarrer Braun
Strange Gardens
Nachtschicht
Die Sitte
Kommissarin Lucas
Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch
Das Geheimnis des Lebens
Bibi Blocksberg
Under Suspicion
Friends of Friends
Leo & Claire
Das Duo
Die Rosenheim-Cops
For Heaven's Sake
Murder in the Mountains
Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker
Manitou's Shoe
Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund
Der Ermittler
Sommer und Bolten: Gute Ärzte, keine Engel
Leipzig Homicide
Romeo
Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha
Donna Leon
Abendschau
Der Nebelmörder - Schatten über der Stadt
Anatomy
Wilder Kaiser
Heimlicher Tanz
Volle Kanne
Jagd auf Amor
OA jagt Oberärztin
Schwarzes Blut
Todesengel
Liebe und weitere Katastrophen
SK Kölsch
Die Spesenritter
HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin
Medicopter 117 – Jedes Leben zählt
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari
Die Musterknaben
Mali
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Mali
Alle haben geschwiegen
Deathline
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Inzest - Ein Fall für Sina Teufel
Sau sticht
Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall
Zwei Brüder
Rosa Roth
Doppelter Einsatz
Im Namen des Gesetzes
Ein starkes Team
Ärzte
Faust
Weißblaue Wintergeschichten
Bella Block
Schindler's List
Morlock
Wolffs Revier
DAS!
Blauer Panther
Anwalt Abel
Weißblaue Geschichten
Der Fahnder
Goldene Kamera
Das Traumschiff
A Case For Two
SOKO München
The Old Fox
Kölner Treff
Derrick
Polizeiruf 110
Scene of the Crime