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Michael Brandner
Born: 22nd Nov 1951 Augsburg, Germany
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 186
Film: 85 (46%)
Television: 101 (54%)
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Filmography
Original title: Die Akademie
2025
Jojo, a young art student, discovers the microcosm of an art academy with all of its opportunities and contradictions. ... view
Character:
Professor König
2024
After a life-threatening operation, Hubert and Girwidz try to clear their minds on a mountain hike. At boundary marker 147, they come across two bodie ... view
Character:
Reimund Girwidz
2021
Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future aft ... view
Character:
Foreman
2021
The self-sacrificing mother Anne has lost her happiness somewhere between family and work. She receives little support with her children and she loses ... view
Character:
Kurt Merlinger
May 2020 (first aired)
Menzinger, an easy-going mechanic, is appointed as a juror by the Munich District Court. With no way to avoid the assignment and no possibility of neg ... view
Character:
Anton Waldmoser (1 ep.)
2020
In court for violations of the Foreign Trade and Payments Act and the War Weapons Control Act, the managers of HSW try to wriggle out of the trial whi ... view
Character:
Kurt Weisgerber
2018
During the Christmas holidays, Hubert and Staller investigate the demise of an elderly pensioner who died suspiciously but unnoticed a year earlier. ... view
Character:
Reimund Girwidz
2018
When the rich brewer Dillinger wants to withdraw 100,000 euros in cash, Gerhard Schwegler, head of the Volkskassen, refuses to pay out the money: Dill ... view
Character:
Robert Dillinger
2017
In 1916, the officer of the German secret service Elsbeth Schragmüller trains the end-of-career exotic dancer Mata Hari as secret agent. Schragmülle ... view
Character:
Pierre Bouchardon
2017
After some faked medicine is found, an Interpol agent searches for evidence against high rank chairmen of medical companies. ... view
Character:
Rainer Schmid
2016
The quirky bestselling author Paul Legert suspects that his lost novel has been published by a competitor. In order to convict him of plagiarism, Lege ... view
Character:
Paul Legert
2015
Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable wea ... view
Character:
Kurt Weisgerber
2014
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape m ... view
Character:
Dentist
2013
Hubert and Staller find the first body in the forest, the second practically falls into their laps. The trail leads to a retirement home, of all place ... view
Character:
Reimund Girwidz
2013
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 pe ... view
Character:
Lutz Bornhak
Original title: Mein Mann, ein Mörder
2013
Minette and Paul are married and seem to lead a happy family life. But when Paul began gradually to move away from his wife, it decides to spin and ma ... view
Character:
Anwalt
2012
Nina is married to the conservative mayor Robert von der Heyden. The lawyer finally wants to step out of Robert's shadow. Now she learns from the tele ... view
Character:
Eduard Frings
Nov 2011 (first aired)
A show about two Bavarian police officers, Franz Hubert and Johannes Staller, who sometimes work a bit differently. Where Franz wants to follow regula ... view
Character:
Reimund Girwidz (198 ep.)
2011
Hansi Haller was a successful pop singer in the 1980s. But now that he only performs in Bauhaus and his fame has faded, he is struggling with life. Ev ... view
Character:
Horst Büggel
2011
Maria needs sex like others need air to breathe. Thanks to their attractiveness , there is always a willing bed play. Maria's 17 -year-old son Laurin ... view
Character:
Raimund
Original title: Mein eigen Fleisch und Blut
2011
Franziska had to release her newborn son for adoption on pressure from her parents as she was a teenager. Now 25 years later she has a successful care ... view
Character:
Dr. Lammer
2011
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war. ... view
Character:
Alexi
Original title: Die Wanderhure
2010
Constance, 1410. Marie, daughter of the richest bourgeois of the city, is on the eve of marrying a prestigious lawyer, son of an earl. Although the co ... view
Character:
Graf von Keilburg
Apr 2010 (first aired)
Der letzte Bulle is a German television series that was first aired in 2010. The series is about a cop from the 1980s put into a modern police departm ... view
Character:
Rolf Ziller (1 ep.)
Apr 2010 (first aired)
Danni Lowinski is a former hairdresser who has graduated in law. When she does not get a job at a law firm, she starts to give legal advice from the b ... view
Character:
Heinz Strecker (1 ep.)
Original title: Crashpoint - 90 Minuten bis zum Absturz
2009
After a mid-air collision, an uncontrollable passenger plane with 90 souls on board speeds through the skies over Germany. The impact point for the in ... view
Character:
Innenminister Horst Kathöfer
Jul 2009 (first aired)
Geld.Macht.Liebe is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Will Stern (20 ep.)
2009
On her 35th birthday of all days, Hanna catches her boyfriend Robert in flagrante delicto. Hanna would like to be done with her life. But after a rath ... view
Character:
Kupizki
2009
Jan wants to come clean, break up with his friend and business partner Tom and confess to his partner Karla that he's having an affair. But then he su ... view
Character:
Arto
2009
During the day Paul works in a Berlin pet shop and in the evening he works on his career as a comedian. Things are going really badly until he cracks ... view
Character:
Heinz König
2008
No one takes the clumsy Max Klopstock seriously. Even the gluttonous goat makes fun of him. Max wants to prove his worth to his father and lovely Lott ... view
Character:
Wirt
2008
In the Austrian Alps have found the body of a young woman who died in a skiing accident eight years earlier. Dr. Marc Pelletier decides to return to t ... view
Character:
Bürgermeister Raymond Lutz
Oct 2008 (first aired)
Istanbul police commissioner Mehmet Özakin is in charge of serious crime, mainly murder investigations, mostly in the Turkish metropolis. A very mode ... view
Character:
Erkan (1 ep.)
2008
Dette is chubby and her boss won't move her to the counter until she loses a few kilos. Dette doesn't think about it and goes to a hypnotist. Afterwar ... view
Character:
Walter Heinsen
May 2008 (first aired)
Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Rudolf Fiebig (1 ep.)
2008
Pretty Floriane does not believe in love anymore, since she has learned that her boyfriend is really married and does not even think about leaving his ... view
Character:
Wilhelm 'Willi' Brunner
2008
Finally out again. The attempt to cheat his boss out of a truckload cost haulage driver Oswald a year of his life and his job. Now it's back home to t ... view
Character:
Bruno Franke
Feb 2008 (first aired)
A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but als ... view
Character:
Jochen Meierling (1 ep.)
2007
A woman dies in the morning in a mysterious accident on an empty highway. Her son survives seriously injured. Since the mother had taken out a large l ... view
Character:
Hombach
2007
Eva, a single mother of two children, like many job seekers before her, falls victim to a fraudster who talks her into buying a knitting machine. What ... view
Character:
Hendrik Heinichen
Original title: Kein Bund für's Leben
2007
The movie deals with a guy who gets to join the German Bundeswehr involuntarily because a colleague loses his denial papers in order to get the chance ... view
Character:
Musterungsarzt
Character:
Peter Kampschulte (1 ep.)
Feb 2007 (first aired)
Mord in bester Gesellschaft is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Gustl Wildgruber (1 ep.)
Character:
Sandvoss
Nov 2006 (first aired)
The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the co ... view
Character:
Hermann Göring (2 ep.)
Oct 2006 (first aired)
Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other cont ... view
Character:
Horst Hansen (1 ep.)
Jan 2006 (first aired)
M.E.T.R.O. – Ein Team auf Leben und Tod is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Nov 2005 (first aired)
Alles außer Sex was a German "dramedy" television series which aired on the TV station ProSieben between 2005 and 2006. The German television premier ... view
Character:
Theo Morgenroth (1 ep.)
Oct 2005 (first aired)
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series. ... view
Character:
Konrad Dobler (1 ep.)
Leo Lorant (1 ep.)
2005
The tale of Siegfried, a fearless dragon slayer who wins the heart of Celtic beauty Kriemhild. ... view
Character:
Mime
2005
Paul, a former concert pianist, lives in the picturesque town of Krems with his adopted son Rico. Since the accidental death of his wife Anna, he has ... view
Character:
Markus Niederlander
2004
A dog who was named after the Beatles album, inherits his master's fortune. His owner's two children, however, devise a plan to make off with his weal ... view
Character:
Bernd Bauer
2004
In 1989, Jenny Ecker, an 18-year-old daughter of an entrepreneur, flees from Hildesheim to the east - out of love. The teenager has fallen hopelessly ... view
Character:
Hans Ecker
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Prinzessin macht blau
2004
A princess falls in love with a paparazzo who is using her to become famous. ... view
Character:
Herr Kunze
Original title: Der Untergang
2004
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr ... view
Character:
H. Fritzche
Original title: Mädchen Mädchen 2
2004
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 desper ... view
Character:
Karl Heinz
Character:
Jan 2004 (first aired)
Series written by Christiane Sadlo about writer and journalist under the pseudonym "Inga Lindström" and her family. Characterized by impressive lands ... view
Character:
Petter Palme (1 ep.)
Oct 2003 (first aired)
The SOKO Köln investigates the cathedral city with humor and often with hard work. Their cases take them into a variety of environments, from the Col ... view
Character:
Helmut Krause (1 ep.)
Andreas Keulen (1 ep.)
Jupp Schnitzler (1 ep.)
Original title: Tigeraugen sehen besser
2003
Judith leads a busy life with her daughter Lissi and her job as statistician. ... view
Character:
Vorberg
2003
Sabrina learns that she cannot be the biological mother of her daughter. As soon as the youth welfare office learns of the result, they will take Laur ... view
Character:
Stefan Maurer
Nov 2002 (first aired)
Der Tod ist kein Beinbruch is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Klaus Pelzer (6 ep.)
Oct 2002 (first aired)
Mit Herz und Handschellen is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Norbert Köhler (1 ep.)
Sep 2002 (first aired)
A funny comedy about a various adventures of Körner (Grains) family and their dog. ... view
Character:
Friedrich Falk (2 ep.)
Aug 2002 (first aired)
Detective Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague Langner investigate cases of civil servant crime and internal disciplinary matters. From the little ... view
Character:
Dr. Erhard Schöler (1 ep.)
2002
The well-known and successful fitness trainer Vic has the world of women at his feet, but actually none of them are good enough for him. Any blemish w ... view
Character:
Manni
Original title: Leo und Claire
2002
In 1933 Nuremberg, successful Jewish businessman Leo Katzenberger owns an apartment building and runs a shoe store. A devoted family man, he has a goo ... view
Character:
Fritz Haeberlein
2002
Horrifying certainty about the date of his death drives one man crazy. ... view
Character:
Willi
Original title: Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht
2002
Frustrated with their lazy new intern, a trio of offbeat builders decide to teach him a lesson with a series of escalating pranks. ... view
Character:
Ernst Wiesenkamp
Jan 2002 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Erich Brandl (1 ep.)
Volker Feisler (1 ep.)
Jan 2002 (first aired)
Sister Hanna is a spirited, witty, resolute, warm-hearted, and - attractive nun. With her wit and street cred, she takes charge of Kaltenthal Cloister ... view
Character:
Manfred Pfaff (1 ep.)
2002
Nice gift: Shortly before Christmas loses parcel delivery Wolfgang Paschke the debit card, the driver's license and his job. Famously, he also stumble ... view
Character:
Rolli Wisotzki
2002
Forensic scientist Jakob Schaller leads a happy life with his family. Until the day a brutal killer of girls turns up. The desperate Jakob hunts down ... view
Character:
Stolzfuß
Nov 2001 (first aired)
SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the reno ... view
Character:
Hans Seebacher (1 ep.)
Josef Fexer (1 ep.)
Roland Suntinger (1 ep.)
Klaus Weghagen (1 ep.)
2001
After years of absence 26-year old Kay returns to her home town. Her soccer coach died and the girls from the team all gather for the funeral. The sto ... view
Character:
Ernst
Mar 2001 (first aired)
Bronski und Bernstein is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Theo Micklitz (13 ep.)
Mar 2001 (first aired)
Instead of pharmacy, Axel prefers to study life and women. Much to the chagrin of his foster father, Uncle Hubert, who generously finances his nephew' ... view
Character:
Alois Zenthuber (5 ep.)
Jan 2001 (first aired)
SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast o ... view
Character:
Karsten Wittkamp (1 ep.)
Dr. Manfred Woernle (1 ep.)
Dr. Manfred Wörnle (1 ep.)
Oct 2000 (first aired)
Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film ... view
Character:
Pietro Malfatti (1 ep.)
May 2000 (first aired)
The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: ’Ne günstige Gelegenheit
1999
Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets, nothing on their minds and nothing but trouble to ... view
Character:
Gerd Steinbach
1999
Six-year-old Lukas is growing up in chaotic family circumstances and wants nothing more than a real father. He finds one in Janosch, his teenage mothe ... view
Character:
Harry König
1999
Criminal psychologist David Bornett is investigating a series of murders in which a police pen is stuck in the victim's ear. The team includes his god ... view
Character:
Max
1999
"Einfach raus!" is the wish that 18-year-old Andreas has had for a long time. Simply get out of the GDR and go to the West to realize his life's dream ... view
Character:
Dieter Korn
Character:
Koslowski (1 ep.)
1998
Claire suffers from memory loss, but is constantly tormented by fragmentary memories. The search for the truth leads the psychiatric patient to the Ba ... view
Character:
Hansen
Oct 1998 (first aired)
HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Dr. Tollmann (1 ep.)
1998
A policewoman is put on a man with organized crime connections to gain access to a trafficking ring. However, she does not know that he is a hit man f ... view
Character:
Gruber
1998
In a perfect commercial style we are introduced to a beautiful woman working for spiritual welfare. A man who has turned on the gas, calls her for hel ... view
Character:
Vincent
Jan 1998 (first aired)
Die Verbrechen des Professor Capellari is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Hellberg (1 ep.)
Apr 1997 (first aired)
Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of t ... view
Character:
Thomas Henningsen (1 ep.)
Jan 1997 (first aired)
Solo für Sudmann is a German television series. ... view
Character:
Mario Körner (1 ep.)
1996
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. ... view
Character:
Oct 1996 (first aired)
Stockinger is an Austrian-made police television drama, with fourteen 45-minute episodes first aired from 1996 to 1997.
The series is a spin-off from ... view
Character:
Herbert Maschen (1 ep.)
Mar 1996 (first aired)
A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia. ... view
Character:
Ewald Gerber (1 ep.)
Klaus Renner (5 ep.)
Gerald Ossendorf (1 ep.)
Nov 1995 (first aired)
Schwurgericht (also known as The Murder Film ) is a crime film series produced by Sat.1 from 1995 to 1997. The series depicts criminal cases from the ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1995
The ambitious young Ina Littmann is an investigative journalist for the TV talk show "Eye in Eye". Her current subject is Henry Kupfer, who wrote a be ... view
Character:
Hermann Krieger
1995
Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have o ... view
Character:
Karl-Heinz Schadletzki
Mar 1995 (first aired)
Balko is a German prime time television series broadcast on the private TV channel RTL. It is a police detective story with comical twists featuring t ... view
Character:
Ole Rennli (1 ep.)
Gerd Brandowski (1 ep.)
Nov 1994 (first aired)
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the s ... view
Character:
Prohaska (1 ep.)
Oct 1994 (first aired)
Die Kommissarin is a German police TV series which aired on Das Erste. Its 66 episodes ran from 1994 till 2006.
The series, which takes place in Fran ... view
Character:
Häftling (1 ep.)
Sep 1994 (first aired)
Doppelter Einsatz is a German television series about the cases of two female detectives of the Hamburg police. ... view
Character:
Oberstaatsanwalt Kemmer (1 ep.)
Michael Fromm (1 ep.)
Apr 1994 (first aired)
Alles außer Mord was a German crime television series which aired on the TV station ProSieben between 1993 and 1995. 14 episodes were produced. The s ... view
Character:
Hans-Dieter Neubert (1 ep.)
Mar 1994 (first aired)
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 e ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Nordkurve
1993
Drinking, fighting, sex and soccer matches - on Saturday, the people in the Nordkurve have nothing but pleasure on their minds. It's all about lust at ... view
Character:
Hartmut Halbroth
Jan 1993 (first aired)
Adelheid und ihre Mörder was a German comedy-drama television series broadcast between 1992 and 2006 by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 65, 50 minute episode ... view
Character:
Dietmar Brinkmann (1 ep.)
Jan 1991 (first aired)
Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Self (1 ep.)
Sep 1990 (first aired)
Abenteuer Airport was a German television series broadcast in 1990. It was an airport adventure series; 12 episodes were produced. ... view
Character:
Gangster (1 ep.)
Jan 1989 (first aired)
Peter Strohm is a private detective with radical methods. His work begins where police work ends; he takes on sensitive cases that require a certain s ... view
Character:
BKA-Beamter Harms (1 ep.)
Sep 1988 (first aired)
Anwalt Abel is a German television film series, broadcast on ZDF between 1988 and 2002. 20 television films were produced, based on the detective nove ... view
Character:
Rechtsanwalt Wilke (1 ep.)
1988
A young hitchhiker is picked up by an ageing gangster on his journey south and slowly becomes familiar with his mysterious past. But their journey tog ... view
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Dec 1986 (first aired)
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg. ... view
Character:
Arndt Björnsen (1 ep.)
Horst Boje (1 ep.)
Sep 1981 (first aired)
Ein Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF. The series, located in Frankfurt am Main, features two ... view
Character:
Lotze (1 ep.)
Rogner (1 ep.)
Chuck Schenker (1 ep.)
Harald Kirchner (1 ep.)
Oberkommissar Semmer (1 ep.)
Reinhard Ziegler (1 ep.)
Barmann (1 ep.)
Jan 1978 (first aired)
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 " ... view
Character:
Andreas Beer (1 ep.)
Siegfried Mayerbach (1 ep.)
Apr 1977 (first aired)
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together. ... view
Character:
Manfred Brandl (1 ep.)
Erich Reinhardt (1 ep.)
Jun 1971 (first aired)
Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Re ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Michael Drechsler (1 ep.)
Vater Gruneberg (1 ep.)
Nicola Wallner (1 ep.)
Günter Hoffmann (1 ep.)
Fred Fink (1 ep.)
Nov 1970 (first aired)
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 ... view
Character:
Struppek (1 ep.)
Dirk Hinderksen (1 ep.)
Wolf-Dieter Lachner (1 ep.)
Ludwig Thaller (1 ep.)
Wolfgang Kunert (1 ep.)
Rechtsanwalt Thies Nissen (1 ep.)
Jan 1948 (first aired)
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 i ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)