Matthias Schweighöfer
Birthday: Born in 1981-03-11 in Anklam, Germany
Deathday: Alive
Matthias Schweighöfer (born March 11, 1981) is a German actor and filmmaker. He is best known for portraying Ludwig Dieter in Army of Thieves (2021) and Army of the Dead (2021).
TV Credits
Weihnachten mit Joko & Klaas
Character: Himself
Joko & Klaas celebrate Christmas...
Tatort
Character: Jacky Bräutigam
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....
Polizeiruf 110
Character: Daniel Cross
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite....
Siska
Character: Benny Daum
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska. Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, Ru...
Siska
Character: Sebastian Freese
Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska. Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, Ru...
Ärzte
Character:
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Dr. Stefan Frank - Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen
Character: Ingo Taschke
Dr. Stefan Frank – Der Arzt, dem die Frauen vertrauen is a German television series....
Circus Halligalli
Character:
A late night talk show, hosted by Joko and Klaas....
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character: Self - Guest
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York....
Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?....
Tatort
Character: Balthasar Staupen
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....
You Are Wanted
Character: Lukas Franke
Lukas Franke finds himself a victim of a hacking attack, his online information altered to implicate him as having masterminded a cyber-attack on Berlin resulting in a city-wide blackout. Suspected as a terrorist, Lukas scrambles to find out why he's been targeted, as even his family and friends begin to doubt his innocence....
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character: Self
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York....
Spuk im Reich der Schatten
Character: Torsten
Spuk im Reich der Schatten is a German television series....
Joko & Klaas gegen ProSieben
Character: Self
Joko and Klaas are teaming up against ProSieben. In this game show, the duo must duel against various team-ProSieben celebrities to gain an advantage in the final round. If Joko & Klaas emerge victorious, they can do whatever they want the following day for 15 minutes at 8:15pm, during prime time. If they lose the finale, their channel can decide on an adequate punishment - funny, embarrassing, or annoying....
Die beste Show der Welt
Character: Self
Two hosts attempt to create the best show of the world in front of a live audience who can cancel it at anytime. The hosts alternate between their shows and try to get the best approval rating. Each episode is comprised of 6-8 shows....
Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
Character: Self
Klein gegen Groß – Das unglaubliche Duell is a family game show that has been broadcast on the first channel since 2011, on ORF 1 since March 2017 and on SRF 1 since November 2020. The format is produced by i&u TV. Kai Pflaume acts as host and moderator....
Late Night Berlin
Character: Self
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Wer stiehlt mir die Show?
Character: Self
Three celebrities and a wildcard candidate quiz their way through this show to win the ultimate prize: the show itself....
Inas Nacht
Character: Self
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Krömer - Die internationale Show
Character: Self
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Bambi-Verleihung
Character: Self
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods ...
Zimmer frei!
Character: Self
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Markus Lanz
Character: Self
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics....
Kölner Treff
Character: Self
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TV total
Character: Self
TV total is a German late-night television comedy talk show. The set of TV total includes a floating interview stage that can be moved from one studio corner to the other. The show featured buttons with sounds and clips before Craig Ferguson's The Late Late Show....
DAS!
Character: Self
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NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Beckmann
Character: Self
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show....
Taff
Character: self
Taff is a tabloid news magazine airing on the German television network, ProSieben....
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Character: Self
Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and everyday people who are beacons of hope in their communities....
Movie Credits
Eight Miles High
Character: Rainer Langhans
Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads i...
Valkyrie
Character: SS-Soldat im Erschießungskommando
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer....
Family Switch
Character: Rolf
When the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to normal will bring them closer together than they ever thought possible....
Off Beat
Character: Crash
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams....
Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
Character: Felix
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town...
The Young Schiller
Character: Friedrich Schiller
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Rabbit Without Ears
Character: Moritz
Rainbow press reporter Ludo is sentenced to 8 months, but is released on probation. But he has to work 300 hours for a local daycare center and meets Anna who has unfinished business with him....
The Red Baron
Character: Baron Manfred von Richthofen
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war....
Soloalbum
Character: Ben
Ben is a young editor for a famous german music magazine in the mid 90's. His life is falling apart after his girlfriend breaks up with him. From now on he decides to go solo......
Friendship!
Character: Tom
A young man from East Germany travels to San Francisco to search for his father, who fled 12 years ago. Together with his best friend, he starts the journey from New York with no money and the only word they ever learned in english-lessons: "friendship"....
Combat 16
Character: Daniel
16 year-old Georg is forced to leave his home in the West, which means saying goodbye to his two loves; his girlfriend, and his Taekwondo team, something that is all-important to him. Now living in Cottbus, an economically depressed place where the people are not too fond of things like American culture and foreigners living in their country, Georg soon falls in with a group of angry mates. Together the group delves further into a nationalist way of thinking, and soon they are shaving their head...
Nachts im Park
Character: Hansen
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Baal
Character: Baal
Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business....
The Architect
Character: Jan Winter
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of...
12 Paces without a Head
Character: Gödeke Michels
The era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon. However, Störtebeker is badly wounded in the attempted capture and the pirates suffer ignominious defeat. Not only their ship is down the drain - Störtebeker himself is suddenly plagued by anxiety and doubt about his very existence as a pirate. He is drawn to the beautiful country girl Bille, while Michels gets rebuffed by th...
Polly Blue Eyes
Character: Ronald 'Ronny' Helske
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Woman in Love
Character: Alex Honk
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie....
Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Mein Leben
Character: Marcel Reich-Ranicki
The film tells the early life story of Marcel Reich-Ranicki, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland in 1920. During the Third Reich, the family was in great danger. Nevertheless, he returned to Germany with his wife....
3nity
Character: Christl
Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convince him that mankind is worth saving with the help of a beautiful striptease dancer....
What a Man
Character: Alex
What a man is a comedy that tells the story of a young professor, Alex (Matthias Schweighofer), which after being left by his girlfriend Caroline (Mavie Hörbiger), begins a journey to know himself. But how do you overcome the difficulties of a man today? Or rather what is it that makes a man a man?...
Heart Over Head
Character: Dirk Bachmann
Jakob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish Au-Pair, Wanda, and falls in love with her. But there are several disappointments on both sides......
Friends of Friends
Character: Gregor
Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001....
Fata Morgana
Character: Daniel
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Heart of Stone
Character: Jack of Hearts
An intelligence operative for a shadowy global peacekeeping agency races to stop a hacker from stealing its most valuable — and dangerous — weapon....
Russendisko
Character: Wladimir Kaminer
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties....
Break Up Man
Character: Paul Voigt
BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future “ex”-partners. To complete his most important mission he is confronted with an unwanted partner, Toto, who spoils more or less everything and makes Henri’s life a nightmare....
Kokowääh 2
Character: Matthias Schweighöfer
Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…...
Verbotenes Verlangen - Ich liebe meinen Schüler
Character: Ben Simon
(Television) melodrama about an established, happily married teacher who falls in love with one of her pupils and becomes pregnant by him....
An Old Maid
Character: Felix
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Rabbit Without Ears and Two-Eared Chick
Character: Fuchs
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Joy of Fatherhood
Character: Felix
A sperm donor becomes impotent - and so he searches for the woman, who got his sperm, to become a father after all......
Frau Ella
Character: Sascha
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital....
Kiss Me Frog
Character: Prinz Dietbert
Modern version of The Frog King. Out of an impulse, 15-year-old Anna kisses a frog which then turns into a prince. But the curse is not solved that easily....
Male Mistakes
Character: Partygast
Daniel and Thomas are two friends who are trying to catch girls in various therapy groups....
Rabbit Without Ears 2
Character: Moritz
Two years have passed. There is a normal life, but handsome Ludo meets his old love, and Anna is very jealous......
Cold Spring
Character: Ben Lüders
A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness....
Oppenheimer
Character: Werner Heisenberg
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....
The Manny
Character: Clemens
Young industrialist Clemens Klina doesn't have time for his children and accidentally hires a man who actually came to him, seeking revenge, as a nanny for them....
Bibi & Tina: Bewildered and Bewitched
Character: Prinz Charming
When robbers hit Falkenstein castle, teen witch Bibi and pal Tina hunt for the crooks, then devise a plan to save the neighbors' failing ranch....
Night Train
Character: Frankie
Two Passengers (Sobieski and Zahn) and the conductor (Glover), discovered that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they decide to keep for themselves......
Girl You Know It's True
Character: Frank Farian
Dancers Pilatus and Morvan rise to fame in the late 80's who become stars with No.1 hits and won a Grammy. The duo never sang a word in their songs and when the truth was revealed they starred one of the biggest scandals in music history....
Four Against the Bank
Character: Max
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back....
Spuk aus der Gruft
Character: Torsten
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Babykram ist Männersache
Character: Malte
Arne and his younger brother Malte run the scrapyard they inherited from their parents on the outskirts of Hamburg and live a rather disoriented existence. One day, Malte finds an abandoned baby. He immediately takes the little one to his heart and wants to look after the child until he finds the birth mother. His brother Arne doesn't like the idea at all, but Malte wants to go through with the plan and even threatens to sell his brother the scrapyard. Disgruntled, Arne finally agrees and, as Ma...
The Most Beautiful Day
Character: Andi
The overambitious pianist Andi and the more laid back Benno have one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide to have the most awesome day before its too late....
Robinson Crusoe
Character: Robinson Crusoe (voice)
On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot lives with his quirky animal friends in paradise. However, Tuesday can't stop dreaming about discovering the world. After a violent storm, Tuesday and his friends wake up to find a strange creature on the beach: Robinson Crusoe. Tuesday immediately views Crusoe as his ticket off the island to explore new lands. Likewise, Crusoe soon realizes that the key to surviving on the island is through the help of Tuesday and the other animals. It isn't ...
Hamlet_X
Character: Osric
A great mosaic, a labyrinth of scenes, dialogue splinters, interviews, portraits of people surrounding Hamlet and wanting to be part of his story....
Happy End
Character:
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Hot Dog
Character: Theo Ransoff
A pair of Tactical Units Police Officers from different walks of life come together to rescue an ambassador's daughter....
Hut in the Woods
Character: Matze
Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence....
FearDotCom
Character: Dieter Schrader
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious Department of Health researcher Terry Huston to uncover the cause behind their violent and inexplicable deaths. The only common factor shared by the victims? Each died exactly 48 hours after logging onto a website called feardotcom....
Bullyparade: The Movie
Character:
A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade"....
Kursk
Character: Pavel Sonin
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts....
Die Helene Fischer Show 2017
Character: Self
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Vielmachglas
Character: Erik Ruge
Marleen is in her early 20s, works in a movie theater, still lives at home and is somehow aimless. Her parents torment her with questions about her future and her brother is a high-flyer who has already traveled halfway around the world. When a tragic accident plunges her into sheer endless grief, Marleen just wants to get away. Equipped with the bare essentials, she sets off on a journey into the unknown....
Mein Vater die Tunte
Character: Jan Quinn
A homosexual couple in Berlin, one of whom has a fervent desire to adopt, discovers that the other already has a son. They are able to track him down near Lübeck, but meeting his biological father, the owner of a travesty club, is initially a disappointment for the young man, a sportsman with professional dreams. Only slowly and with great difficulty do the two of them come closer together and consider a solution to all their problems....
100 Things
Character: Anton Katz
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A story about contemporary materialism and the quest for the truly important things in life....
Friends
Character: Speedy
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Changing Skins
Character:
Inspired by West German terrorists, two pupils kidnap a teacher in East Germany....
Must Love Death
Character: Fan 2
Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be unscrupulous killers looking for a willing victim. A comical and macabre fight against death begins....
Lulu
Character: Jack
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Resistance
Character: Klaus Barbie
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II....
Army of the Dead
Character: Ludwig Dieter
Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted....
Army of Thieves
Character: Ludwig Dieter
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse....
The Swimmers
Character: Sven
From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use....
Creating an Army of the Dead
Character: Self
Zack Snyder and his Army of the Dead team dive into the film's wild stunts, groundbreaking effects and the evolution of the zombie genre....
Hinterland
Character: Josef
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Perso...