Otto Sander

Otto Sander (born 30 June 1941 in Hanover) is a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service as a navy reserve officer and then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. He is married to the actress Monika Hansen and is stepfather to the actors Ben Becker and Meret Becker. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. Because of his warm, strong voice, which earned him the sobriquet "The Voice" (the English term is used), he has been used frequently as narrator for television documentaries, and numerous talking books in the 1990s. In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He has two brothers, the lawyer Adolf Sander, the scientist Christian (Chris) Sander, and a sister, the book dealer Marianne Sander. He also played a professor in the movie: The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otto Sander, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Hanover, Germany, 1941-06-30

Died: 2013-09-12

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Ludwig	Ludwig	55
2	1970	Sonnabend, der 1.		0
3	1970	Nicht fummeln, Liebling		70
4	1970	Sonntags am Meer	Fritzchen	0
5	1971	Die Mutter		0
6	1972	The Ignoramus and the Madman		0
7	1973	Prinz Friedrich von Homburg	Obrist Kottwitz	0
8	1974	Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt		0
9	1974	One or the Other of Us	Rulle Ruhlsdorff	48
10	1974	Die Bakchen	Tiresias	0
11	1975	Meine Sorgen möcht' ich haben	Harald Bornemann	0
12	1975	Berlin 10. 11. 74 - 28. 1. 75: Exercises in 9 Pieces	Himself	0
13	1975	Lehmanns Erzählungen	Lehmann	0
14	1975	About Narration		0
15	1976	Summer Guests	Pjotr Suslov	63
16	1976	The Marquise of O	Brother, Forstmeister	65
17	1976	Four Against the Bank	Eberhard Winter	0
18	1977	Heinrich Zille		0
19	1978	Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk		0
20	1979	Plastikfieber	Wilfried	0
21	1979	Phantom		0
22	1979	Trilogie des Wiedersehens	Richard	0
23	1979	The Tin Drum	Meyn	69
24	1980	Palermo or Wolfsburg	Staatsanwalt	58
25	1980	Die Ursache		0
26	1981	Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe		0
27	1981	Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten	Kalfisch	0
28	1981	Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren		0
29	1981	Strike Back	Kowalski	58
30	1981	Das Boot	Phillip Thomsen	81
31	1981	Wer spinnt denn da, Herr Doktor?	Nummer Sieben	80
32	1981	Der Mann im Pyjama	Rudi	65
33	1982	Gedächtnis: Ein Film für Curt Bois und Bernhard Minetti	Self	10
34	1983	A Love in Germany	Narrator	49
35	1984	Der Mord mit der Schere	Inspector Spalt	0
36	1986	Eine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin	Rezitation	0
37	1986	Rosa Luxemburg	Karl Liebknecht	65
38	1986	Wahnfried	Richard Wagner	50
39	1986	Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars	Loan officer Grop	0
40	1986	Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich	Gerichtsgehilfe	66
41	1987	Wings of Desire	Cassiel	78
42	1988	The Case of Mr. Spalt	Otto Spalt	93
43	1989	Wie du mir..	Markus Petarka	0
44	1989	The Break	Erwin Lubowitz	47
45	1990	Vorwärts		0
46	1990	Time of Vengeance	Robert	0
47	1990	Werner - Beinhart!	Erzähler (voice)	66
48	1992	Bescheiß kein Kind!	Vater	0
49	1992	Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland		0
50	1993	Schlusschor		0
51	1993	Inge, April und Mai		20
52	1993	Faraway, So Close!	Cassiel	69
53	1993	The Olympic Summer	Sprecher	10
54	1993	The Film Narrator	Salzmann	0
55	1994	Three Sisters	Vershinin	0
56	1994	Movie Days	Maður á hesti	60
57	1994	The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang	Prof. Hinzelmann	90
58	1995	Das Loch	Der Mann	0
59	1995	Bauernschach	Dr. Gerold Stadler	40
60	1995	The Promise	Professor Lorenz	65
61	1995	Nikolaikirche	kirchlicher Superintendent	45
62	1995	Matulla und Busch	Korte	0
63	1995	Lumière & Company	Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")	63
64	1996	The Killer Condom	Mr. Higgins	53
65	1997	Liebe Lügen	Vater	0
66	1997	Conversation with the Beast	Adolf Hitler Double	0
67	1997	The Harmonists		67
68	1998	Am I Beautiful?	David	67
69	1998	Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust	Walker	0
70	1999	Der Kuß des Vergessens	Herr Jelke	0
71	1999	Männer sind wie Schokolade	Vater Lano	50
72	1999	Girls under investigation	Staatsanwalt Baldur Meixner	0
73	1999	E-m@il an Gott	Petrus	0
74	2000	Marlene	Bühnenmanager	57
75	2000	The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld	Professor Steinach	56
76	2001	Sass	Vater Sass	55
77	2001	100 Pro	Narrator	35
78	2002	Happy Too	Himself / Gert Bastian	0
79	2002	Atlantic Affairs	Maitre de Plaisir on Stage	0
80	2002	Tödliches Vertrauen	Bernd Kortens	30
81	2003	Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us	Self	83
82	2003	Werner - Gekotzt wird später!	Erzähler (voice)	59
83	2003	The Danube	Franz	50
84	2003	Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre	Voice	0
85	2004	Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef	Narrator (voice)	0
86	2007	Little King Macius	Erasmus (voice)	40
87	2007	The Heart Is a Dark Forest	Helmut	58
88	2008	Krabat	Narrator (voice)	59
89	2010	Life Is Too Long		50
90	2012	Die Schuld der Erben	Leonhard Asmussen	20
91	2012	Fly Away	Eckehardt Tiedgen	57
92	2013	Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter	Himself	64
93	2021	Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story	Self	66

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Grimme-Preis-Verleihung	Self	0
2	1967	Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst	Kunsträuber	83
3	1967	Titel, Thesen, Temperamente	Self	60
4	1970	Scene of the Crime	Manfred Enders	62
5	1970	Scene of the Crime	Otto Androsch	62
6	1971	Polizeiruf 110	Ludwig Stolze	64
7	1971	Polizeiruf 110	Lansky	64
8	1971	Polizeiruf 110	Richard Lansky	64
9	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
10	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
11	1981	Das Traumschiff	James Korthals	43
12	1981	Das Traumschiff	Johannes Lippelt	43
13	1984	Der Fahnder	Bähr	69
14	1985	Das Boot	Kapitänleutnant Philipp	86
15	1991	DAS!	Self	42
16	1992	Wolffs Revier	Schenk	34
17	1995	A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft	Freddy Klinke	0
18	1995	Kulturzeit	self	35
19	1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self	70
20	1996	Zimmer frei!	Self	62
21	1996	Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord	Rainer Kleinhundert	0
22	1997	Tietjen und Bommes	Self	0
23	1998	Die Johannes B. Kerner Show	Self	40
24	1998	The Shop		45
25	2000	Les Misérables	Monseigneur Bienvenu	69
26	2000	Preußen – Chronik eines deutschen Staates	Self (Narrator)	0
27	2002	Das Jahrhundert des Theaters	Narrator	0
28	2002	Gero von Boehm begegnet...	Self	0
29	2002	Through the Night with...	Self	80
30	2002	Ein roter Teppich für....	Self	0
31	2004	Leute am Donnerstag	himself	0
32	2005	Vienna Crime Squad	Conrad Ribarski	45
33	2006	Unter kaiserlicher Flagge	Erzähler / Narrator	0