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Udo Samel
Born: 25th Jun 1953 Trier-Eitelsbach, Germany
Dept: Acting
Udo Samel (born 25 June 1953) is a German actor. He has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1977. He starred in the 1994 film Back to Square One, which was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 98
Film: 80 (82%)
Television: 18 (18%)
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Filmography
2025
Daniel is a singer who became famous overnight thanks to one song. But for the aspiring artist, the dream of fame was short-lived: his song turned out ... view
Character:
Helmut
2023
Water pipe burst and bomb alarm - Berlin in a state of emergency: Dorn and Gerald don't know where their heads are. The routes for the garbage collect ... view
Character:
Boris
Original title: Serviam – Ich will dienen
2022
An all-girl Catholic boarding school near Vienna for the wealthy Austrian elite and their children. The school is thriving, but faith is declining and ... view
Character:
Man
Original title: Rivale
2021
Young Roman and his mother Oksana leave Ukraine and go to Germany, where she works illegally while they both live with Gert, an old widower who tries ... view
Character:
Schwarz
Original title: A feleségem története
2021
A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in. ... view
Character:
Private Detective
Original title: Allmen und das Geheimnis der Dahlien
2019
Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from ... view
Character:
Severin Erlbaum
Original title: Wie ich lernte, bei mir selbst Kind zu sein
2019
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and hum ... view
Character:
Tibor Silberstein
Original title: Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse
2018
The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage can ... view
Character:
Tate Moishe Wolkenbruch
2018
The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum r ... view
Character:
Grundherr
2017
Randolph Tiefenthaler and his wife Rebecca have bought a beautiful 1920s house and move in with their children. The only condition for the sale was th ... view
Character:
Tiberius
Oct 2017 (first aired)
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicent ... view
Character:
Ernst Gennat (26 ep.)
Apr 2017 (first aired)
Headstrong but successful Chief Inspector Ann Kathrin Klaasen and her team use unorthodox methods to investigate cases against the backdrop of the bea ... view
Character:
Prof. Freimut Diebold (1 ep.)
Original title: Kommissar Dupin - Bretonische Flut
2017
Myths of the sunken city of Ys leads to the murder of a young couple. ... view
Character:
Präfekt Locmariaquer
Original title: Kommissar Dupin - Bretonischer Stolz
2017
An eccentric former actress finds a body which disappears into thin air. ... view
Character:
Präfekt Locmariaquer
Original title: Die Nacht der 1000 Stunden
2016
When the ambitious Philip takes over the running of the family business from his father, he finds himself confronted by the mysterious reappearance of ... view
Character:
Polizist
Original title: Tschick
2016
Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life chang ... view
Character:
Teacher
2016
Beate Zschäpe has broken her silence, but her statements raise doubts. The docudrama shows how interrogators tried to find out the truth from her in ... view
Character:
BKA-Mann Humburg
2014
Witnesses about to testify at the Nuremberg War Trials needed a safe place to wait. All under one roof, each with their own secrets. And the countess ... view
Character:
Heinrich Hoffmann
Apr 2014 (first aired)
When war broke out in Europe in 1914, most people thought the conflict would be over by Christmas; they could not imagine how wrong they were. An atta ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (8 ep.)
2013
The catastrophe is perfect: Gustav Klimt's world-famous "kiss" was stolen from the museum. What is a problem for some is a salvation for others. For t ... view
Character:
Albert Wolf
Original title: Blutsbrüder teilen alles
2012
Set in the midst of World War II and interspersed with beautiful choir music, the horrors of the war unfold when the Germans realized one of the boys ... view
Character:
Choirmaster
Original title: Mein bester Feind
2011
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed ... view
Character:
Jakob Kaufmann
2010
Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the ... view
Character:
Heribert Pilch
2010
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 ... view
Character:
Bruno Kreisky
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:
Erik Danzer (1 ep.)
Original title: Domaine
2009
Nadia is in her late 30s and begins a serious relationship with a teen named Pierre. ... view
Character:
Le directeur de sanatorium
2008
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful c ... view
Character:
Banker
2006
Depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert. This is the shortened theatrical version of the miniseries, rele ... view
Character:
Franz Schubert
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:
Stefan Neisse (1 ep.)
2006
Daniel Käfer's time out in Ausseerland is coming to an end. He has to focus on his new career. But his journey ends in Hallstatt. His acquaintance wi ... view
Character:
Eustach Schiller
2005
Jan Landers made it: Grown up in East Berlin, he quickly made his career after the turnaround: from the weatherman of a local station to the newsreade ... view
Character:
Charlie Grundmann
Original title: Unkenrufe
2005
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the cal ... view
Character:
Vielbrand
2005
Editor-in-chief Daniel Käfer is unemployed. His magazine "Intelligence" was discontinued due to "too high a standard". Now he wants to think about hi ... view
Character:
Eustach Schiller
Original title: Alles auf Zucker!
2004
Germany director Dani Levy filmed this comedy about Jewish life in today’s Germany along side the familiar east-west conflict. With it great success ... view
Character:
Samuel
2004
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentric ... view
Character:
Festspielpräsident
2003
Glyndebourne's pulsating new production of the Waltz King's much-loved comic operetta. Its story centers on a magnificent masked ball, given by a Ru ... view
Character:
Frosch
2003
The love of his life, Svetlana, chose suicide twelve years ago. At that time, Stein resigned from the Federal Intelligence Service. Since then, the ex ... view
Character:
Mooser
2002
Is a home for the blind hiding a murderer's nest? Shortly before his myste-rious death, millionaire Stuart changed his will and disinherited the loca ... view
Character:
Reverend Dearborn
2001
Gendarmerie inspector Simon Polt in the Weinviertel region finds it too much of a coincidence when crook Riebel is killed in a motorcycle accident and ... view
Character:
Willi
Original title: La Pianiste
2001
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her. ... view
Character:
Dr. George Blonskij
Original title: Der Vulkan
1999
A singer flees from Nazi Germany, travels to Paris and befriends a young writer, his lover and a professor. ... view
Character:
Professor Benjamin Abel
1999
The relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great German writer, and Christiane Vulpius, a village girl, is one of the instantaneous and ... view
Character:
Original title: Im Namen der Unschuld
1997
The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender. ... view
Character:
Robert Kunze
1997
Each is dependent on the other. He breaks into the passport office to get a passport. He is surprised and ends up back in prison, where he is trained ... view
Character:
Bürgermeister Obermüller
1997
The security guard at a pawn shop in a small port town, the seasick scion of a family of sailors, falls in love with the mistress of one of his best c ... view
Character:
Kleiner
Original title: Kondom des Grauens
1996
In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to h ... view
Character:
Luigi Mackeroni
1996
Nurse Hedi Zoll is overwhelmed and kidnapped in the parking lot of her clinic. After a week, she reports to the police intact, but she can't remember ... view
Character:
Jörg 'Bohne' Bohnart
Original title: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls
1995
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve. ... view
Character:
Paul Brunner
1995
Leo Strobl, called "Turbo-Leo", is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to cover it. Then a you ... view
Character:
Turbo Leo
1994
Second part of Hölderlin-trilogy with Udo Samel and Otto Sander in cast. ... view
Character:
Younger Hölderlin
Original title: Alles auf Anfang
1994
Movie-making cliches are parodied in this German comedy which features to warring actresses, meddling producers, indulgent directors, and an ignored w ... view
Character:
Victor Rote
Original title: Der Kinoerzähler
1993
Germany in the Thirties. A movie teller realizes that his profession is not longer needed. Silent movies are not produced any longer. Telling stories ... view
Character:
Herr Lange
Original title: Die Rebellion
1993
The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he g ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
1993
In May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows nothin ... view
Character:
Daumer
Original title: In weiter Ferne, so nah!
1993
A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, an ... view
Character:
Security Guard
Original title: Das letzte U-Boot
1993
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 ... view
Character:
Dr. Falke
1992
The stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment" marked Polish film director Andrzej Wajda's return to the theater. Following the pl ... view
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1992
An experimental documentary film about Friedrich Hölderlin. In the middle of the film, there is a short excerpt from a Nazi propaganda film: O. E. Ha ... view
Character:
Apr 1991 (first aired)
End of Innocence is a two-part television film that focuses on the work of the German Uranium Association during World War II.
At Farm Hall in Englan ... view
Character:
Kurt Diebner (2 ep.)
1990
Before Ernst Winckelmann, a sales representative for hair products, calls on hairdressing salons and chemist's shops, he rehearses what he intends to ... view
Character:
Rüdiger
Original title: Der siebente Kontinent
1989
Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent c ... view
Character:
Alexander
1989
17-year-old Paul kills someone. His father decides to flee with him to the south of France. Their relationship is put to the test there. While Paul fr ... view
Character:
Original title: z.B. ... Otto Spalt
1988
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film. ... view
Character:
Edgar
1987
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention. ... view
Character:
Oct 1986 (first aired)
A three-part Austrian television film about the life of composer Franz Schubert. The title of the film is a quote from Erstarung (Immobilization), the ... view
Character:
Franz Schubert (3 ep.)
Original title: Caspar David Friedrich – Grenzen der Zeit
1986
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus. ... view
Character:
Gerichtsgehilfe
Original title: Der Tod des weißen Pferdes
1985
This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions im ... view
Character:
Pater Andreas, Benediktinermönch
Original title: Variation - oder Daß es Utopien gibt, weiß ich selber!
1983
The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher. ... view
Character:
Peter
Original title: Klassen Feind
1983
Berlin-Kreuzberg in the early 1980s. The film is essentially a one-set piece, taking place in a beat-up, graffiti-decorated schoolroom where six teen- ... view
Character:
Vollmond
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:
Kommissar (1 ep.)
Wolfgang Fischer (1 ep.)
Original title: Groß und Klein
1980
Follows a woman, Lotte, who travels through Germany and seeks human connections, but is unsuccessful as every person she encounters is locked into his ... view
Character:
1980
The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise, h ... view
Character:
Lehrer Köwel
Original title: Das Ende des Regenbogens
1979
Uwe Friessner’s first feature, At the End of the Rainbow, follows the exploits of a West Berlin teenager named Jimmi who ekes out a living through p ... view
Character:
Dieter
Original title: Messer im Kopf
1978
One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent t ... view
Character:
Schurig
1977
After rehab, Manfred Burger seems to have got his alcohol addiction under control and is trying to reorganize his life. Although he is now sober, he s ... view
Character:
Oct 1974 (first aired)
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detect ... view
Character:
Thomas Randel (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:
Wolly Deutz (1 ep.)
Trachtenfels-Lissé (1 ep.)
Dr. Markus Seitz (1 ep.)
Character:
Self (1 ep.)