Benjamin Sadler
Birthday: 1971-02-12 | Place of Birth: Toronto, CanadaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Benjamin Sadler (born February 2, 1971) is a German actor who was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of a German graphic designer and a British teacher. He lived in Canada until he was five. In 1976 he moved with his parents to Germany. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, his career as actor started in 1994 with roles in German thrillers such as Wolffs Revier and SK-Babies. In 2001 he appeared in the German-Italian film Maria Magdalena in the role as John the Baptist beside Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Danny Quinn. In 2002 he worked on two further religious films: The Bible - The Apocalypse with Richard Harris and Luther with Joseph Fiennes and Sir Peter Ustinov. He also appeared as the young emperor Augustus (Peter O'Toole was the emperor in later life). In 2006 he played the part of a physician in the film Dresden. In 2007 he starred as a lawyer and father of a thalidomide-handicapped daughter, for which he received a Bambi Award in 2007. He explained in an interview that he was proud to be a part of the film, which influenced the German parliament to pass a law giving greater financial compensation for victims of thalidomide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Sadler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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as Andreas Müller
as Fritz Dreesen
as Sebastian Blumberg
as Clemens
as Leopold Garten
as Matthew
as Tom Pohlmann
as Heinz Rosenfeld
as Jan Brenner
as Ronald Kärger
as Thomas Block
as Gunnar
as Heinrich Verhoeven
as Jacob
as Jure Pokovic
as Gunnar
as Prof. Jonas Schwarz
as Jan
as Simon Dreher
as Dr. Jeremy Brock
as Jean-Luc Laboetie
as Rolf Koch
as Simon Dreher
as André Chabanais
as Henry Bergmann
as Michael Rosch
as Ugolino
as Ugolino
as Aleksej Karenin
