Biography
Born in Heidelberg; a curious and shy boy; found the key for his world through passion for music, dance and theater; Richard studied music and drama in Germany, acting and direction in France and method acting with Susan Strasberg and Francesca de Sapio in Italy. He first went on stage in 1981 at the local theater Hildesheim, then, from 1983 in France on independent stages, at national theaters and in the streets. In 1989 he moved to Italy and met Susan Strasberg: His cinema debut was in 1990 st...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Rich Flu
2024
as Von Willebrand
A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires ...

The Order of Time
2023
as Viktor
A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting...

Neneh Superstar
2023
as Victor Max
Born to dance, Neneh is a 12-year-old black girl who dreams of entering the Paris Opera Ballet School. Despite her enthusiasm, she will have to redoub...

Je t'aime, filme-moi !
2022
as Tramp
This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads ...

Gate to Heaven
2022
as Robert Sternvall
Robert Sternvall, a German journalist, returns to Artsakh in 2016 to cover the war which has been reignited after a 22-year ceasefire. In the result o...

Baden gegen Württemberg
2021
as Gebhard Müller
A journey back to the middle of the 20th century: the story of Baden-Württemberg's beginnings 70 years ago.

Spencer
2021
as Prince Philip
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charl...

Margrete: Queen of the North
2021
as Raberlin
1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margret...

Avant-garde
2021
as Felix
1984, Franco-German border. A Berlin gallery owner transports the flagship sculpture from his collection for a major exhibition. Faced with the object...

Baumbacher Syndrome
2021
as Bruno Frik
Late-night talk show host Max Baumbacher turns world-famous after waking up with an unusually deep, almost magical voice.

The Conductor
2018
as Karl Muck
United States, 1926: Dutch 24-year-old Willy Wolters has immigrated to the American continent with her parents as a child. She dreams of becoming a co...

The Delegation
2018
as Capo Delegazione
In 1990, a European delegation comes to Tirana to monitor the reforms of the communist regime. A government official is sent on a mission to a faraway...

Adieu Bohème
2017
as Professeur Turrell
Once the show is over at Bastille Opera's 6th basement, Professor Turrel and his team open their shop. The service offers the opportunity for couples ...

The Confessions
2016
as Ministro tedesco
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that...

Outside the Box
2015
as Sergeant Mallach
Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues wil...

French Dolls
2014
as Benoît
Louise, Sam, Lili. Three women who don't know each other but whom will be forced to meet, get together, and compare themselves to each other by the wi...

Covert Operation
2014
as Greenberg
A bounty hunter trapped in Asia, is promised his freedom in return for a rescue mission. On his search for the missing British secret service agent, h...

Colt 45
2014
as Major
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field briga...

Road 47
2014
as SGT. Mayer
During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that se...

3 Days to Kill
2014
as The Wolf
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughte...

Beauty and the Beast
2014
as Le tenancier
Forced to face the cruel side of life, a devastated, bankrupt merchant chances upon the enchanted castle of a hideous creature, the mere sight of it c...

Der zweite Mann
2013
as Antoine de Crassie
A young financial auditor, promoted to his first serious position, soon finds himself following in the fatal footsteps of his predecessor.

Tour de Force
2013
as Müller
François decides to participate in the Tour de France alone, inspiring a wave of media enthusiasm, much to the chagrin of the Tour's pros.

Roxana's Hands
2013
as Joachim Berger
Roxana Orlac, a famous violinist, loses the use of her hands in a terrible lift accident. Her career as a virtuoso seems to be over until Professor Ch...

Company of Heroes
2013
as Beimier
American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they se...

It Happened in Saint-Tropez
2013
as Monsieur Künze
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. Th...

Apartment in Athens
2012
as Captain Kalter
Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple wh...

The Third Half
2012
as Spitz
Spitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of B...
The Berlin Project
2011
as Alexander
An actor pursues his ex-mentor throughout Berlin in order to kill him.

Werner - Eiskalt!
2011
as Hermann Seidel
Werner and Holgi are friends, but also lifelong rivals. Now Werner finally has enough of being the eternal second and is planning his revenge. With hi...

Sniper: Reloaded
2011
as Colonel Ralf Jäger
Marine Sgt. Brandon Beckett, son of the U.S. Marine Corps' deadliest sniper, Thomas Beckett, must turn to his father's former protégé (Billy Zane) to ...

My Words, My Lies - My Love
2009
as Riegler
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-sel...

This Is Love
2009
Set in Vietnam and Germany, This Is Love centers on Chris and the nine-year-old Jenjira on the run from the mafia. Together with his friend Holger, Ch...

Inglourious Basterds
2009
as SGT. Rachtman
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throug...

Phantom Pain
2009
as Chief doctor
Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a l...

Dicke Liebe
2008
as Richard

Ett enklare liv
2008
as Schulman
A successful stockbroker gets in trouble and has to escape from Hamburg in Germany to Vänersborg in Sweden with his two children.

Fallen from the Sky
2008
as Hans
While France is occupied, Louise (70) tries not to give in to despair and continues to open the doors of her small provincial bar every day. The milit...

Lady Blood
2008
as Henri Latour
15 years after giving birth to a bloodthirsty monster, Yanka is attempting to move on with her new life. But a series of inexplicable murders will lea...

L'Occupant
2008

At a Glance
2008
as Svensson
Adrian is a talented young sculptor eager to assert himself in the art world. His first exhibition in the Capital catches Gloria's eye. She's an art s...

Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo
2008
as Self
Short behind the scenes making-of documentary about the filming of the sinking house palazzo and the Venetian piazza chase from the James Bond movie C...

Email to Bill Gates
2007
as Dr. Wolfgang Gardner
Young German boy whose father tells him that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates can solve anything. His father dies and the little boy makes a trip to S...

Casino Royale
2006
as Gettler
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his win...

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
2006
as Moeller
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow s...
Feuer in der Nacht
2004
as Mr. Kramer
A live broadcast TV-thriller by Kai Wessel.

Princesse Marie
2004
as Officier SS
The story of Napoleon Bonaparte's grandniece, the famous Princess Marie, her friendship and her work with Sigmund Freud.
Wolfpack
2004
as Colonel Steiner
Croatia 1993. A young girl is killed in strange circumstances by the military who are part of UN forces. The victim's parents can't obtain any further...

MA 2412 - Die Staatsdiener
2003
The film deals with questions that have long tormented us: Who was the first civil servant? How has the civil service developed over the course of his...

Jean Moulin
2002
as Klaus Barbie
The life (and death under torture) of Jean Moulin, head of the French Interior Resistance movements during WWII.

Le Puits
2002
as Jürgen
When the Big war started, the 2nd of August 1914, Louis is one of those first mobilized. He has to leave Marie and his village in Corsica for the plai...

La victoire des vaincus
2002
as Le capitaine
In June 1940, in a village of Franche-Comté occupied by the Germans, five children decide to join the resistance in their own way, against the German ...

The Nest
2002
as Winfred
Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with...

Safe Conduct
2002
as Richard Pottier
During the Nazi occupation of France as two filmmakers attempt to navigate their careers without compromising their ideals. Facing pressure from the V...

The Man Who Cried
2000
as German Officer Pianist
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.

Taxi
1998
as German Gangster #1
In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police ...

Life Is Beautiful
1997
as German Lieutenant at Station
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abr...

Anna Oz
1996
as L'Inconnu
This taut psychological chiller tells the twisted story of Anna, a woman living in Paris, whose dreams of her Venetian counterpart, a secretive young ...

The Horseman on the Roof
1995
as Franz
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

Les Miserables
1995
as Le caporal allemand du Jura
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see ...

Caccia alle mosche
1993
as Riccardo

The Sect
1991
as Truck Driver
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and take...
Piccolina bella
N/A
as Giuseppe
L'Automne
N/A
as Richard