Biography
Ulrich Tukur (born Ulrich Scheurlen, July 29, 1957 in Viernheim) is a German actor and musician. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ulrich Tukur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Köln 75
2025
as Dr. Brandes
Behind one of the best-selling jazz records of all time, Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Köln Concert, how it almost didn’t happen, and how one formidable German...
The Three Investigators and The Carpathian Dog
2025
as Mr. Prentice
A call for help from gallery owner Mr. Prentice leads the three detectives into a new adventure: his apartment is said to be haunted. When the Carpath...
Martin Reads the Quran
2024
as Professor Dr. Neuweiser
Martin visits a professor of Islamic Studies to tell him about an attack he has initiated. Can the professor show Martin a passage from the Quran that...
Die Geschichte der Menschheit - leicht gekürzt
2022
as Erik der Rote
In order to leave a lasting impression in space, Dr. Georg Friedle and his team of researchers include a condensed version of world history with the 1...
Bis zum letzten Tropfen
2022
as Dr. Rainer Gebhard
It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny
2021
as Güldenberg
The successful writer Paul and the sought-after voice actress Emilia were always considered to be the absolute dream couple by friends: Harmonious, ha...
Die Unschuldsvermutung
2021
as Marius Atterson
Anticipation in Salzburg Festival: the new production of "Don Giovanni" is in its final rehearsals and the arrival of the famous conductor Marius Atte...
MuM Calls It Quits
2021
as Paul
Carla Michelsen has had enough. Each of her three children will get 250,000 euros if they sign a contract she’s drawn up to disown them. Will they go ...
Meeresleuchten
2021
as Thomas Wintersperger
Thomas Wintersperger, a man who has to learn to deal with his grief, sees his loss as an opportunity to reorganize his life.
Ökozid
2020
as Victor Graf
The consequences of the climate catastrophe are dramatic in 2034. Drought and floods destroy the livelihoods of millions of people. After the third st...
Open Season
2020
as Hans Werner Brockmann
As CFO, Alexander Meier fights for the survival of the long-established Walser company – dutifully, quickly and perfectionist to the point of self-aba...
Der Schauspieler Ulrich Tukur - Träumer und Suchender
2019
as Himself
This film portrait shows Ulrich Tukur on the stage of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus, where his career began, on the stage of the Elbphilharmonie concer...
Verteidiger des Glaubens
2019
as Narrator
As Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger wanted to lead the Church back to its former strength, but instead he plunged it into a deep crisis. He reacted...
Adults in the Room
2019
as Wolfgang Schäuble
A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dic...
Und wer nimmt den Hund?
2019
as Georg Lehnert
After 26 years of marriage there is a divorce on the way between Georg and Doris. While Georg is having some fun with a much younger co-worker, Doris ...
As Green As It Gets
2018
as Richard von Zeydlitz
Georg "Schorsch" Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town, working day-in, day-out in his nursery, which is facing bankruptcy. He doesn't like t...
In the Fade
2017
as Jürgen Möller
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Original Bliss
2016
as Eduard Gluck
Helen Brindel is trapped in a violent marriage and the prison of her faith when she falls in love with a scholar, Professor Eduard Gluck. But he’s a s...
Herr Lenz reist in den Frühling
2016
as Herr Lenz
Holger Lenz tried to do everything right in life and is still faced with the shards of his existence. His wife Ilona cheats, his son Linus mocks him o...
The Chosen Ones
2014
as Simon Pistorius
In the late 70s, young Petra Grust begins teaching at the progressive Odenwald School. She is flattered by the trust placed in her by its widely respe...
Week-ends
2014
as Ulrich
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go,...
Pinocchio
2013
as Mangiafuoco
The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor ...
Exit Marrakech
2013
as Heinrich
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque c...
Der Tote im Eis
2013
as Thomas Gruber
Houston
2013
as Clemens Trunschka
A German corporate headhunter travels to Houston, Texas, in pursuit of a renowned oil company CEO, only to have his life fall apart.
Moon Man
2012
as President (voice)
One night, a shooting star appears, whizzing through outer space towards the moon. Moon Man seizes his chance, grabs the speeding comet by the tail an...
Rommel
2012
as Erwin Rommel
The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
The Second Execution of Romell Broom
2012
as Reader
On September 15, 2009, the State of Ohio tried to execute Romell Broom and failed. Ohio claims it has a right to try again. This film explores the leg...
Zettl
2012
as Urs Doucier
A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.
When Pigs Have Wings
2011
as UN official
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he...
Jedermann Remixed
2011
as Jedermann (archive footage)
Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-histori...
Largo Winch II
2011
as Dwight Cochrane
Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proc...
Eichmanns Ende
2010
as Willem Sassen
Adolf Eichmann, one of the Third Reich's worst war criminals escapes to Argentina. With his wife and three sons he lives undiscovered in a German comm...
Cabaret-Berlin, the Wild Scene
2010
as voice
Structured as a cabaret show and composed entirely of rare visual and sound archival material, Cabaret-Berlin, The Wild Scene explores Berlin during t...
The Day of the Cat
2010
as Dr. Stotzer / Pfiff
The Swiss President, called by all only "big hangover", is in trouble: the election is coming and according to surveys his chances are not very good. ...
Kill Daddy Good Night
2009
as Jonas Shtrom
The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to Ame...
The White Ribbon
2009
as The Baron
An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year ...
Within the Whirlwind
2009
as Dr. Anton Walter
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everythi...
John Rabe
2009
as John Rabe
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.
Eden Is West
2009
as Nick Nickelby
Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by...
North Face
2008
as Henry Arau
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Séraphine
2008
as Wilhelm Uhde
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painte...
Die Frau aus dem Meer
2008
as Karl Kress
Der Mann, dem die Frauen vertrauten
2008
as Horst David
Hand of the Headless Man
2007
as Peter
Eva, a 25-year-old woman, is an Olympic diver: a champion. Her father, Peter, is her coach. During a competition, Eva climbs up to the 10-meter platfo...
Mein alter Freund Fritz
2007
as Prof. Dr. Harry Seidel
Earth
2007
as Narrator (voice)
An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, awaits you in EARTH. Disneynature brings you a remar...
Runaway Horse
2007
as Klaus
Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, han...
42plus
2007
as Georg
When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhik...
Une famille parfaite
2006
as Harald Beckmann
Martha is 30 years old in 2031. She spent a happy childhood in a family not quite like the others since she was adopted by two men. Now, one of them i...
Das Schneckenhaus
2006
as Dr. Lucas Bator
Katharina Giano tries to start a new life after a personal tragedy, but moves into a mysterious apartment building with her daughter Laura.
The Lives of Others
2006
as Anton Grubitz
In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes un...
Heute heiratet mein Mann
2006
as Dr. Agatz
Dornröschen erwacht
2006
as Prof. Seebaldt
After three years in a coma, Juliane Maybach suddenly wakes up, but doesn't remember the last months before the accident that caused her critical cond...
Die Nacht der großen Flut
2005
as Helmut Schmidt
The major flood disaster on February 17, 1962 hit Hamburg completely unprepared. It left 315 dead and 10,000 people homeless. Almost a fifth of Hambur...
The Ax
2005
as Hutchinson
A chemist loses his job to outsourcing. Two years later and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
Mein Vater, meine Frau und meine Geliebte
2004
as Dr. Mohrauer
Great feelings about a selfless young doctor on the wrong path of passion: On the eve of the First World War, Ernst is betrayed and betrayed by the tw...
Die fremde Frau
2004
as Alexander Brandenburg
Alexander, son and creative head of the traditional Brandenburg jewelry dynasty, is happily married to the lawyer Konstanze. One day, Helen Berg, a my...
Operation Valkyrie
2004
as Henning v. Tresckow
In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a meeting wi...
Die Dreigroschenoper
2004
as Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and ...
Solaris
2002
as Gibarian
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Taking Sides
2002
as Helmut Rode
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was ...
Amen.
2002
as Kurt Gerstein
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that...
Probieren Sie’s mit einem Jüngeren
2000
as neuer Mann
Anna Haslböck, writing as Karina Norden, hires young drummer Nicolas Auer to pose as her lover and boost sales for her new book on dating younger men....
Ulrich Tukur – Bühnenstar und „Rhythmusboy“
2000
as Self
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
2000
as Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his lif...
Hunters in the Snow
2000
as Franz
The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire fo...
Warten ist der Tod
1999
as Jürgen Venske
Annaluise & Anton
1999
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother...
Das Böse
1998
as Johannes Lenz
Blutige Scheidung
1997
as Bernd
Free Fall
1997
as Werner März
Edgar Wurlitzer is on his way home when a woman suddenly jumps in front of his car. He quickly drives on and enlists the help of his friend Werner for...
Ein Vater sieht rot
1997
as Matthias Heller
Charm's Incidents
1996
Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about...
Beim nächsten Kuß knall ich ihn nieder
1996
as Conrad Veidt
Reinhold Schünzel is one of the most sought-after actors and directors of cinema of the Weimar Republic. When the National Socialists come to power in...
Nikolaikirche
1995
as Rechtsanwalt Schnuck
The story of a Leipzig family from 1987 to the Monday demonstrations in 1989. After the death of her father, a high-ranking officer in the People's Po...
Geschäfte
1995
as Dr. Weiß
Tears of Stone
1995
as Ernst Züchner
About Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married th...
My Mother's Courage
1995
as SS-Offizier
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing to coi...
Der Mörder und sein Kind
1995
as Martin Dreyer
On the outside, Martin Dreyer looks like the nice neighbor next door. He lovingly looks after his paralyzed brother and his friends have never noticed...
Felidae
1994
as Francis (voice)
A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
Rotwang Must Go!
1994
as Bruno's Friend
A comedy directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
Maus und Katz
1993
as Fred Tonndorf
The Last U-Boat
1993
as Röhler - 1. Wachoffizier
Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news arrive...
Wenn ich sonntags in mein Kino geh'...
1992
as Self
A documentary about the 75th birhday of the UFA film studios directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
1992
as Siegfried Emmler
The Democratic Terrorist
1992
as Siegfried Maak
The West German security police, Verfassungsschutz, need help to infiltrate a group connected to the Rote Arme Fraktion. The Swedish James Bond, Carl ...
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
1990
as (voice)
Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resul...
Das Milliardenspiel
1989
as Gerd Asselt
The young toolmaker Gerd Asselt knows how to exploit his acquaintance with the influential Albrecht Maybach for a breathtaking career: With pumped mon...
Julius Caesar
1988
as Mark Anthony
Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brut...
Let's Kiss and Say Goodbye
1988
as Self
A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El groupie, an old man reciting poetry, two young wom...
Felix
1988
as Felix
Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On Syl...
The Lenz Papers
1986
as Friedrich Engels
Four-part german limited serial about the baden revolution in 1848 and 1849.
The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial
1986
as Andreas Baader
Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff...
Kaltes Fieber
1984
as Michael
Pierre earns his money in an unusual way. Together with Dr. Schumann, he helps people die. Schumann is the agent, and Pierre takes care of the jobs. B...
Die Story
1984
as Alexander
The young Munich sensational reporter Raoul Miller has attacked a lot of people in his cocaine report, who now take terrible revenge: they kill his gi...
Dear Melanie
1983
The Swing
1983
as Lhombre
Garden parties, music and dancing characterize the lives of a family of German aristocrats in the days leading to World War I.
The White Rose
1982
as Willi Graf
During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government. T...
Rita und Hans
N/A
as Hans