Miguel Herz-Kestranek
Birthday: Born in 1948-04-03 in St.Gallen, Switzerland
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Die liebe Familie
Character: Miguel von Amberg
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Agathe kann’s nicht lassen
Character:
Agathe kann’s nicht lassen was an Austrian and German detective comedy television series which ran between 2005 and 2007. It was based upon Agatha Christie's Miss Marple....
Mord in bester Gesellschaft
Character: Gunnar Larsson
Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series....
Der letzte Zeuge
Character: Professor Donsbach
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Der letzte Zeuge
Character: Ruben Donsbach
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Lena Lorenz
Character: Simon Schrozmayr
Lena Lorenz is a captivating drama series that follows the life of a talented and ambitious midwife, Lena Lorenz, who returns to her idyllic hometown in the Bavarian Alps after working for several years in a bustling city hospital. Seeking a quieter and more meaningful life, Lena embarks on a journey of self-discovery, as she navigates the challenges and joys of her new profession in the picturesque rural village....
Meiberger - Im Kopf des Täters
Character: Lorenzo Meiberger
Through the eyes of psychologist Thomas Meiberger, we examine the mental, social and psychological factors of how and why criminal acts are committed. Even in cases that seem unsolvable, Meiberger is able to follow a thread back to the suspect by interpreting the sequence of events, the victim's behavior and subtle details that are invisible to others....
Im Tal der wilden Rosen
Character: Seidenhändler Jerry
The vast, unspoiled Valley of the Wild Roses, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is the scenery for separate stories of Western life, family drama and romance. People arrive, leave, return in search of love(rs), riches, redemption, revenge... ...
Das Traumhotel
Character: Thilo Krüger
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Wagner
Character: Hans von Bülow
A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth....
Vorstadtweiber
Character: Gabriel Morena
Vienna suburb. Better society. Appearance and reality. A golden cage. But is everything that glitters really gold? Actually, the five "suburban women" of the title couldn't be doing any better in their supposedly perfect, affluent world – could they?...
Inga Lindström
Character: Harald Bengtsson
Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive landscapes, all of which are shot on location in Sweden. Series has no continuous storyline, and each episode is filled with new characters....
Klinik unter Palmen
Character: Viktor Staufer
Klinik unter Palmen is a German television series....
Mit Herz und Handschellen
Character: Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Albert Metz
Mit Herz und Handschellen is a German television series....
Mit Herz und Handschellen
Character: Dr. Albert Metz
Mit Herz und Handschellen is a German television series....
SOKO München
Character:
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
SOKO München
Character: Bruder Michael
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
SOKO München
Character: Prof. Ralf Schümann
SOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in 1978 on 2 January. SOKO is an abbreviation of the term "Sonderkommission" in German....
Doctor's Diary
Character: Dr. von Westmark
Doctor’s Diary is a German-Austrian medical drama, that aired for three seasons from 2008 to 2011 on RTL in a coproduction with ORF. The focus of the series is the young doctor Margarete "Gretchen“ Haase, who wants to make a career in a hospital. It was directed by Bora Dağtekin and shown from the June 23, 2008 to February 14 2011 on German television, RTL Television. In Canada, it was shown starting August 31, 2010 on Séries+ television. In France, from June 8, 2011 on TF1 television and start...
SOKO Donau
Character: Dr. Heinz Wagner
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series....
Donna Leon
Character: Salvatore Martucci
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations....
SOKO Leipzig
Character: Herr Maybach
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1....
Heiter bis tödlich - Fuchs und Gans
Character: Peter Papst
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Ein starkes Team
Character: Wilfried Hamacher
The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former co...
Wilde Engel
Character: Jakobi
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Tatort
Character: Ullmann
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Kommissar Rex
Character: Stanok
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger....
Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Hessel
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Die Rosenheim-Cops
Character: Georg Huber
A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer....
Wenn das die Nachbarn wüßten
Character: Kaufinteressent
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Radetzkymarsch
Character: Kaiser um 40
At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that...
Schlosshotel Orth
Character: Walter Schwarzkopf
Schlosshotel Orth is an Austrian television series....
Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei
Character: Bruno DeFranco
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia....
Derrick
Character: Herr Heimeran
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Der Fürst und das Mädchen
Character: Conrad Graf Lichtenthal
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Der Bibelcode
Character: Christian Bachmann
Bible scholar Bachmann is murdered in front of his daughter Johanna. Together with his assistant Simon, a French religious scholar, the young policewoman sets out to find her father's murderer. In the process, they stumble upon the trail of the mysterious Bible code, which is said to be able to prophesy the future of mankind. Pursued by the powerful Cardinal Rhades, Johanna and Simon become involved in a murder plot against the Pope in the Vatican. But not only his life is in danger - the existe...
Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
Character: Daniel Blum
In Paris, Maxi Ardel, in her elegant forties, successfully and firmly runs a haute couture house bearing her name. In Florence, she is about to take over a textile company that belonged to an old Italian aristocratic family, the di Falco. She has, indeed, a revenge to take on them. Count Massimo di Falco had stolen her child twenty years earlier. Driven by a desire for revenge, Maxi wants to destroy this family at all costs, but she has to count on Countess Bianca, who is ready to defend herself...
Weißblaue Wintergeschichten
Character: Wolfgang Rogalla
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Weißblaue Wintergeschichten
Character: Dr. Neumeier
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DAS!
Character: Self
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Die Patriarchin
Character: Arno Onyango geb. Vandenberg
The life of Nina Vandenberg, wife of Gero Vandenberg, whose family owns a successful coffee roasting company, is a disaster. First, she burns down the family villa in an alcohol intoxication and almost dies in the process, a little later Gero dies in a plane crash. But that's not all: A large amount of cash was found in the wreckage of the plane, from which no one knows where it came from - at the same time the company is missing 40 million euros, and it looks as if someone here has black money ...
Abendschau
Character: self
The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin....
Rosamunde Pilcher: The Other Wife
Character: Steven Henderson
Rebecca Kendall has it all: a stunning house, two wonderful daughters and a handsome, loving husband. When Richard dies in a plane crash, Rebecca slowly learns the full extent of her husband’s lies and deceit....
Sotto il cielo di Roma
Character: Pater Pfeiffer
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Movie Credits
Sass
Character: Leon Weiss
Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his hands full. In the meantime, the police have also become aware of the brothers. Pursued by Detective Fabich, they get deeper and deeper into criminal circles. A man called Adolf demands that the Sass brothers work for him. He blackmails them and has their father beaten to death. The brothers then agree to work together. However, Adolf plans to have the...
Klimt
Character: Dr. Stein
A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century....
Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty
Character: Narrator (German Version)
Schönbrunn is a world of marvels and mystery, of public glamour and curious secrets. The wealth of its building and landscape architecture, the grand views and hidden details, the wildlife, tamed nature as well as its past and present human population supply more stories and images than even the most insatiable camera can record.Schönbrunn in the protean succession of the seasons, of light and shadow, day and night is presented by Sir Peter Ustinov and was broadcasted in the “ORF-UNIVERSUM”-seri...
The Poet
Character: Hartmann
A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past....
Kalkuliertes Risiko
Character:
Secret service ace Ben risks his life every day. But the job pays badly. Ben can't even pay the lawyer who has to fight for custody of his daughter. Then the agent receives a lucrative offer: for one million marks, he is to crack the security system of armaments magnate Otto Hardenberg......
The Great World Theatre - Salzburg and Its Festival
Character: Hugo von Hofmannsthal
A documentary about how the Salzburger Festspiele came to be and evolved almost 100 years ago....
Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht
Character: Siggi Hölder
Scientists try to simulate the Big Bang and the experiment gets out of control. While satellites come down and chaos arises, the stories of several people trying to survive is told....
The Angel Maker
Character: Benedikt Lynsky
A child death in a small german town dismay its inhabitants, who start to think that the death is related with an old leyend....
Uprising
Character: Simon Altman
In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis....
Zwei Seiten der Liebe
Character: Dieter Martin
Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a relationship with the much younger lawyer Tobias Volperius for six years. Deeply shaken by this discovery, she withdraws from the outside world and tries to drown her sorrow in alcohol. When she attempts suicide, it is Tobias who finds and saves her. As a result, the two become friends, and Tobias is able to help Carola save her late husband's furniture...
Der Bestseller: Millionencoup auf Gran Canaria
Character: Horst Rogner
Crime novelist Leo Leitner tries to overcome his creative crisis on Gran Canaria. His lively roommate Bianca puts him on the trail of a real crime. The imprisoned millionaire fraudster Horst Rogner is said to have hidden his loot on the island. The money is being chased by prosecutor Anja Krüger, inspector Eva Kollek and police chief Miguel Gonzales. For Leitner, all three are suspects....
Johanna – Köchin aus Leidenschaft
Character: Wolfgang Bergmann
Johanna and Arnold Melzer are a well-coordinated team. He takes care of the kitchen, and she looks after the guests of their picturesque inn on the southern Styrian wine route. When Arnold runs off with the young kitchen assistant Valentina, leaving behind a mountain of debt, Johanna is shocked. Savings bank manager Josef Kappl grants her another loan, but he has some ulterior motives....
Utta Danella - Tanz auf dem Regenbogen
Character: Roman Rusnak
Eva Habermann plays a bright, young woman who has to choose between two very different men. Miguel Herz-Kestranek embodies the charismatic singer Roman and Gunther Gillian the nature-loving veterinarian Christian. The other roles are brilliantly cast with Christina Plate and Antje Hagen. Director Peter Weissflog shot in and around Munich as well as against the background of the picturesque scenery on the Tegernsee....
Drei Tage Angst
Character: Frank Weber
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'38 - Vienna Before the Fall
Character:
The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we encounter the couple in the lovely springtime weather their future is full of promise. They are determined to stay clear of politics. Yet in the climate of the time, nobody of her prominence or his religion can remain apolitical. Although Marti...
Alles Glück dieser Erde
Character: Hans Friedrich
To their big surprise, the capable waitress Gundula Kirchner receives from the estate owner Xaver Schönborn the offer to manage his stud as managing director. Gundula, who has some qualifications, seizes the opportunity and has the business under control after only a short time. But Xavers spoiled daughter Helen and especially the ambitious, but incompetent son-in-law René try by all means to drive the dedicated Gundula from the court. No one, least of all Gundula herself, suspects that Xaver is...
The Perjured Farmer
Character: Karl Bruckner
The wealthy farmer Karl Bruckner and his fiancée Anna are about to marry when Karl is killed in a car accident. While a world collapses for Anna, Charles' stepbrother Franz takes the opportunity to take possession of the family-owned farm. He lets Charles's will, in which Anna had been considered, disappear and swears a perjury that there was never a probate document. Anna is chased from the yard and leaves the village with her little daughter. Years later, she returns to finally bring the truth...
Liebe unter weißen Segeln
Character: Kapitän Gregor Simonis
The marine doctor Dr. med. Karen Stendal is assigned to the sailing training ship Albatros, which heads her great love Gregor Simonis as captain. But contrary to expectations Gregor behaves emphatically cool and dismissive to the attractive doctor. During a trip ashore in Lisbon, Karen indulges in an affair with the charming journalist Thomas Sand. But when Karen learns the reason for Gregor's peculiar restraint, she knows he needs her more than ever....
Alpenglühen zwei - Liebe versetzt Berge
Character: Dr. Alois Tischler
Seven months after marrying and settling on Rosa’s Alpine pasture, fishmonger Hannes flees back to Hamburg. Furious, Rosa follows him to the Hanseatic city....
Die Ketzerbraut
Character: Kardinal Cajetanus
Genoveva’s 16th‐century Munich family is murdered and her home burned. Violated by masked killers, she vows vengeance. She turns to friend Ernst, unaware he aids her family’s traitors, and to Walpurga, whose true motives shock her. Can she still enact her revenge?...
Ausgerechnet Afrika
Character: Conrad Voss
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Das doppelte Lottchen
Character: Doctor
Lotte and Louise meet at a summer camp. Everyone who sees the two falls open in surprise, the girls look so much alike. It doesn't take long before they find out that they are actually twins....
A Pirate's Heart
Character: Hermann Preen
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. Only thanks to the loyal monk Wigbold Klaus managed to survive the shock. A few years later Klaus Störtebeker finds his brother Jan and his long-time friend Elizabeth Pren in Hamburg. From her, he learns that she is expected to marry Simon von Wa...
Drei in fremden Betten
Character: Professor Herbert-Karl Mayer
Hoteliers Otto and Ludwig König run a luxury hotel at Munich's Viktualienmarkt. They are surprised by a visit from their rich sister Nane, owner of the Hotel Sacher in Vienna: she wants to marry for the fifth time and this immediately causes alarm among the brothers. The future husband, Dr. Brösel, is put under the microscope....
König der Herzen
Character: Alois Gschnitzer
Florian König is in his early 20s and lives with his mother. He assists her whenever he can. In the weekly newspaper "Alt Ausseer Bote" he reports on a foundling that has been handed in at the baby hatch of Bad Aussee hospital, and is subsequently dismissed by editor-in-chief Anton Grimmeisen. But when the editor Caroline Moosbichler hears about it, she demands Florian's immediate reinstatement. He is to stay on the story. In the process, he finds out that the mother acted out of pure desperatio...
Fräulein Else
Character: Sohn Paul
Else is the pretty daughter of a Viennese lawyer. The young lady has been invited by her aunt to spend a few days on a summer holiday in San Martino. There she receives an express letter from her mother requesting her to ask the wealthy art dealer Dorsday for a much-needed loan. Her father is facing bankruptcy due to embezzlement. Else approaches Dorsday and describes the difficult family situation. Dorsday is willing to lend the necessary money, but stipulates that Else must expose herself to h...
Herzdamen
Character: Josef Lieblich
Three seasoned women, successful and in the prime of their years, have had enough of the masters of creation. Maria finally leaves her husband Josef, to whom she led the common starred restaurant in Vienna in spite of his affairs during the marriage. The family judge Steffi wants to find a new beginning after their early retirement, and the pharmacist Carola is tired of being the eternal lover of her married friend. The trio travel from Vienna to Saxony, where Maria inherited a small castle-like...
Rose unter Dornen
Character: Stavros Konstantinidis
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Ein Schatz fürs Leben – Abenteuer in Panama
Character: Wilhelm Brock
Dr. Wilhelm Brock, a seasoned but never successful Precolombian treasure hunter, is on the trace of the legendary, elusive Oromec treasure in Panama. Finding the missing clue gives him a cardiac crisis. His bossy daughter Johanna tries to sell the boat he got to pay for his surgery. Lacking buyers, she joins his foster-son Michael and historian Christian o the treasure hunt. But Wilhelm's rich former partner Carlos Ortega has got wind of his luck, and stops at nothing....
Girls on Top 2
Character: Sebastians Vater
Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize on its own, the girls decide to kill all three birds with one stone for the sake of simplicity. The solution: they need rich, nice boys with suitable living space - and they need them now! But until then, horrendous rents, false identities and s...
Patrick
Character: Mark
Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the same person with two conflicting identities: a life in Paris filled with parties, drugs, and promiscuity and a new rural life in Portugal, where he feels obliged to reconnect with a broken family....
Nanga Parbat
Character: Diplomat
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died....
Der richtige Mann
Character: Goroncy
Karl Hirnschall is in his thirties and is a member of a Viennese avant-garde theatre group in the early seventies. When he is finally fed up with acting for low fees, he goes back to his former life. He becomes the "right man" for a grocery firm whose products he sells with great success. The neo-salesman manages to acquire a furnished appartment for himself and his young girlfriend, Traude. When his income does not keep pace with his expenditures, Karl resorts to shady business deals....
Rosamunde Pilcher: Möwen im Wind
Character: Michael Merchenson
Dr. David Douglas is about to start his own private clinic and marry architect Jane Merchenson. Then his father dies, leaving debts from a real estate fraud he fell victim to, so selling the mortgaged Cornish family estate Oaktree isn't nearly enough. David cancels the wedding and sells to John Tyson, a friend of Jane's father Michael, who starts renovating it, employing her. Later David discovers Jane gave birth to their son, Nicky, without telling him....