Biography
Claude-Oliver Rudolph was born on November 30, 1956 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He is an actor and writer, known for Das Boot (1981), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Cargo (2009). He is married to Sabine von Maydell. They have two children.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Tschugger - Der Lätscht Fall
2024
as Rolf
The two cult cops from Valais have to deal with a simple sprayer case while the rest of the department has to solve the discovery of a charred body. A...
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
2021
as Self
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II....
Die Liebe des Hans Albers
2021
Idea
He is considered to be one of the greatest German film stars, Hans Albers, known as "Der blonde Hans", a man made for the cinema. He was an actor, sin...
Breakdown Forest
2019
as Rupprecht Knochenhauer
When an outcast cop receives a lead to the location of a notorious assassin, he sets out to find him but walks directly into a trap. Beat up and knock...
Zersetzt - Ein Fall für Dr. Abel
2018
as Burkjanov
Alice - The Darkest Hour
2017
as The doctor
Mann im Spagat
2017
as Teufel vom Hermannplatz
Cowboy has a vision. He wants to save the planet with his movement of Free Swingers. That's why he applies for a grant at The Central Agency, who then...
Harro #KillThemAll
2015
as Förster
Robin Hood: Ghosts of Sherwood
2012
as Guy of Gisbourne
After selling his soul to a sorceress Robin is killed in battle. Distraught over these horrific turn of events Marian and Little John attempt to resus...
Fahr zur Hölle
2011
as Gabriel
Gegengerade
2011
as Dr. Hennings
It is FC St. Pauli's most important match and the fans flock to Hamburg's Millerntor Stadium in droves to support their heroes for ninety minutes. Fin...
Topper gibt nicht auf
2010
as Til Topper
Cargo
2009
as Igor Prokoff
The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while...
Beam me Up! – Die große Star Trek Show
2009
as Admiral Peck
German comedy-documention that reviews 40 years of Star Trek history
Kopf oder Zahl
2009
as Schrotthändler Karl
Two young crooks steal fabric, which is of course sorely missed. In addition to the former owners, an investigative journalist and a bad cop who smell...
Chaostage - We Are Punks!
2009
as Kommissar Brunner
CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...
Chaostage - We Are Punks!
2009
Producer
CHAOSTAGE is the first real german Punk movie. part fictional, part documentary it tells the story of some young punks...
Amundsen der Pinguin
2003
as Kullmann
Dirty Sky
2003
as Polizist
"Dirty Sky" tells a gruesome tale of our time with a double finale: once the eternally classic love story of Romeo and Juliet in the guise of Bonnie a...
Dirty Sky
2003
Screenplay, Director
"Dirty Sky" tells a gruesome tale of our time with a double finale: once the eternally classic love story of Romeo and Juliet in the guise of Bonnie a...
Novaks Ultimatum
2003
as Ziegler
Der Verleger
2001
as Franz Radtke
"The Publisher" is about the success story of a visionary man who begins after 1945 with a rickety car and a stack of novels. With his charismatic per...
The Unemployment Club
2001
as Un touriste allemand
In Differdange, in the South of Luxembourg, six unemployed men decide to create the "Dole Club", whose rules forbid its members to work, even in the v...
The World Is Not Enough
1999
as Colonel Akakievich
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress fro...
Die Angst in meinem Herzen
1999
as Hardy
The 3 Postal Robbers
1998
as Krummer Otto
Two rival children groups are trying to find a three postal robbers who kidnapped a young girl.
Liebe mich bis in den Tod
1998
as Uwe Fedder
Doctor Lydia shares a scalpel and a bed with the head of a clinic in Bochum. Until one night the brash steelworker and karate fighter Uwe turns up in ...
Und tschüss! Ballermann Olé
1998
as Achmed
Funeral director Zombie and his buddy Jürgen fly into Mallorca to transfer a deceased woman to Germany. But the routine undertaking turns into a chase...
Tresko – Amigo Affäre
1996
as Thomas Golling
Journalist Katrin Tresko is on the trail of a criminal gang that is laundering money on a grand scale. But then she is murdered by their masterminds. ...
Alles nur Tarnung
1996
as Schleimer
After trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend Marlies also end up in jail. While Harry is billeted with...
Deathline
1996
as Milan
Conny works at the hospital. But she earns the real money together with her friend Bibi in a telephone sex agency. She has a special relationship with...
Der schwarze Fluch
1995
as Gangster
A reporter becomes embroiled in a deadly game when researching a series of murders on a South American island.
In uns die Hölle
1995
as George Pappas
Ebbies Bluff
1993
Director
Rudy actually wanted to become one of the greats as a boxer - but when he gets knocked out again and the money is so tight that he has to drive out eg...
The Wonderbeats
1991
Director, Writer
Hamburg 1962, you dream in English and only understand German. The four boys in Claude-Oliver Rudolph's film "The Wonderbeats" work as lifeguards or i...
Ex und hopp – Ein böses Spiel um Liebe, Geld und Bier
1991
as Dieter Seibert
The brewery manager Heinrich Hartholz does not shy away from driving independent beer publishers into ruin in order to take over their property. Marku...
The Voice
1989
A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.
Autumn Milk
1989
as Kreisleiter
With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich year...
The Agression
1988
as Jakob Winkler
Kinder aus Stein
1987
as Joe
The Fat Rebel
1987
Director
Though a relatively conventional documentary portrait, compared to HIGHFALUTIN, this film by Claude-Oliver Rudolph (better known as an actor, thanks t...
Die Reise
1986
as Rolf Schröder
An unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.
Der Fehler
1986
as King
A couple of prison inmates seem to have a communication problem.
Alpha City
1985
as Frank
The beautiful Raphaela is the dream girl of Alpha City, a decadent metropolis. The rather naive Frank falls in love with this very woman, who shows no...
Hure
1983
as Blue
A night in the cold trade of prostitution. Blue goes out on the streets. His "working day" begins at eleven o'clock at night and ends at dawn. Then, w...
Operation Leo
1981
as Willy
The Baader-Meinhof connected terrorist Norbert Kröcher builds a terrorist cell in Stockholm. They plan to kidnap Swedish migrant minister Anna-Greta L...
Das Boot
1981
as Ario
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while ...
Palermo or Wolfsburg
1980
as Mann
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels throu...