Personal Info

Birth date

1931-01-19 (94 Years)

Day of death

2020-04-26

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Stolp, Pomerania, Germany (now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland)

Also known as

Отто Меллис

Otto Mellies

Biography

Otto Mellies was a German actor on stage, in film and television, and a voice actor. He was known for his performance of the title role of Lessing's Nathan the Wise on stage 325 times.

Filmography

Polizeiruf 110

6.4

Overview:

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

In aller Freundschaft

6

Overview:

German soap opera about the staff of the fictional hospital "Sachsenklinik" in the city of Leipzig.

Scene of the Crime

6.1

Overview:

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 of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall

4.8

Overview:

Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall is a German crime detective television series starring Wolfgang Stumph as detective Stubbe. It is being broadcast on ZDF, the second German public television channel since 1995.

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

1

Overview:

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort was an East German television series.

Bella Block

2.6

Overview:

Bella Block is a long-running German detective television series starring Hannelore Hoger, first broadcast in 1994 on ZDF. In 2010 the 30th series was produced.

ZIBB

NYR

Overview:

Bloch

5.3

Overview:

Bloch is a German television series.

KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst

6.8

Overview:

Cologne P.D.

6.7

Overview:

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 Cologne clique to the terraced housing estates on the outskirts of the city.

Riverboat

4

Overview:

Finn Zehender

6

Overview:

SOKO Wismar

6.1

Overview:

Deutscher Filmpreis

6

Overview:

Geheime Spuren

NYR

Overview:

Three members of the National Committee Free Germany form a secret commando that comes to Berlin from Minsk to take up the fight against the SS in the last days before the end of the war.

Drei reizende Schwestern

6.8

Overview:

Drei reizende Schwestern is a German television series.

Geheimkommando Spree

NYR

Overview:

Donna Leon

7.222

Overview:

Murder, Venice, relationships...it's a delicious concoction in the hands of crime novelist Donna Leon. Venice provides the backdrop for the lush film versions of the bestselling novels, which features the indelible Commissario Guido Brunetti, canal boat rides instead of car chases, fine cuisine and crime investigations in one of Europe’s most beautiful locations.

Jede Stunde deines Lebens

NYR

Overview:

Dr. Schlüter

NYR

Overview:

Scorpion Hour

4.2

Overview:

In the 21st century, a global socialist security organization is concerned over a new energy source, of possible alien origin, falling into the hands of one of the last remaining capitalist countries and turned into a super-weapon.

Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie

NYR

Overview:

Schauspielereien

NYR

Overview:

The film is set in the 1930s in Germany. Maria Rheine and Mark Löwenthal, two young actors working in a small theater, are in love with each other. Their love affair is interrupted by Nazi racial policies; Mark is no longer allowed to perform in German theaters because he is a Jew. In order to continue acting, he joins the newly formed Jewish Theater in Berlin. Maria, who is not Jewish, faces no restrictions on her career, and she becomes a successful actress at a big theater in Munich. But her love for Mark eventually leads her to decide to sacrifice both career and security to remain close to him. She fakes a suicide, assumes a Jewish identity and, as Manja Löwenthal, joins the Jewish Theater.

Stopped on Track

7.073

Overview:

Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.

Back on Track

7.3

Overview:

A former Olympic champion wants to compete in the Berlin Marathon one last time.

Superstau

6.7

Overview:

Every year, many Germans are preparing to spend their vacations in the sunny south. And they all have to use the same highways. And every year everything ends in a big traffic jam.

Die Gipfelstürmerin

6

Overview:

Dr. Sonja Martin is a neurosurgeon at a large clinic in Leipzig. She loves her job. But she has bigger plans: She wants to become a clinic director. She pursues this career goal with ambition. But she has lost sight of the important things in life. Sonja gradually realizes this when she involuntarily has to put up her grandchildren Clarissa, Paula and little Benedikt in her apartment for a few days.

Public Enemies

5.2

Overview:

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.

Die Neue

4.2

Overview:

Eva is a passionate teacher. After the death of her mother, she tries to find a new direction in life. Then Sevda, a Turkish girl, joins her class. She is smart, self-confident and wears a headscarf out of conviction. She demands her right to religious freedom without restriction. Rolf, the principal of the grammar school, believes that peace at school is at risk and wants to ban Sevda from wearing the headscarf. Eva, on the other hand, wants to take the more sustainable path and persuade her. But then the conflict at the school comes to a head.

In the Shadow of Karakorum

NYR

Overview:

In 1954, a German-Austrian expedition led by Mathias Rebitsch set off for the difficult-to-access Karakoram Mountains, geographically north of the Himalayas. They come across the Hunza, a people who live in the valley of the same name and believe they are descended from the soldiers of Alexander the Great. The documentary conveys impressions of the poor life of the Hunza people, the harvest, a court hearing, festivals and the children's everyday school life. Finally, the expedition sets off again and sets up its main camp on the moraine ridge of a glacier, where they measure the glacier and the earth's magnetic field. Finally, some men from the research community set off for a sub-peak of Batura.

Acting

2015Die Neue as Evas Vater

2014Public Enemies as Konrad Adenauer

2013Back on Track as Rudolf

2013Knocked Up as Riemkötter

2011Stopped on Track as Ernst

2011Mord in bester Familie as Reinhard Lorenz

2011Finn Zehender (1 Episode) as Jürgen Döbbelin

2010Der Uranberg as Professor Schmitz

2007According to Plan as Wolf

2007Die Gipfelstürmerin as Professor Dr. Markus Braun

2007KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst (1 Episode) as Ernst Graguleit

2004SOKO Wismar (1 Episode) as Herbert Isbanner

2004Mord am Meer as Unknown

2004Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie (1 Episode) as Walter Merker

2003ZIBB (1 Episode) as Self

2003Cologne P.D. (1 Episode) as Günter Warschko

2002Bloch (1, 1 Episode) as Cornelius, Professor Cornelius

2002Gefährliche Nähe und Du ahnst nichts as Dr. Hans Falkenberg

2001Das Staatsgeheimnis as Krassnitz

2000Donna Leon (1 Episode) as Bewohner Seniorenstift

1998In aller Freundschaft (1 Episode) as Lorenz Grigoleit

1997Changing Skins as Schuldirektor Rottmann

1996Natascha - Wettlauf mit dem Tod as Dr. Glowalla

1995Stubbe – Von Fall zu Fall (1 Episode) as Justus Moritz

1993Bella Block (1 Episode) as Arthur Vogt

1992Riverboat (2 Episodes) as Self

1991Jugend ohne Gott as Julius Cäsar

1991Superstau as Erich Pippig

1990Wie ein Vogel im Schwarm as Dr. Smolianski

1990Risiko as Jürgen Holzhäuser

1990Nathan der Weise as Nathan

1989Schulmeister Spitzbart as Schulmeister Spitzbart

1989Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes as Friedrich

1989Ein brauchbarer Mann as Gerhard Zeim

1989Narrenweisheit as Graf Girardin

1988Der Geisterseher as Kardinal

1987Die letzte Begegnung as Albrecht Berger

1986Driving School as Benno Hempel

1984Drei reizende Schwestern (1 Episode) as Alfons Persicke

1984Klassenkameraden as Helmuth Grohmann

1983Die traurige Geschichte von Friedrich dem Großen as Minister von Grumbkow

1982The Girl and the Boy as Herr Lessow

1982Zahl bar, wenn du kannst as Gerhard Eisner

1979Marta, Marta as Chefarzt Dr. Maurer

1979Des Drachens grauer Atem as Mister Warren

1978Schauspielereien (1 Episode) as Unknown

1978Einer muß die Leiche sein as Dr. Egon Kunack

1977Trampen nach Norden as Herr Tatze

1977The Faithful Robot as Mr. Klempner

1977Goldene Zeiten - Feine Leute as Unknown

1977Die Liebe und die Königin as Gilbert

1976Sein letzter Fall as Packebusch

1975Mord im märkischen Viertel as Dr. Kiebaum

1973Die klugen Dinge as Unknown

1971Der Unfallzeuge as Arnold Shawn

1971Polizeiruf 110 (1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Kurt Bare, Prof. Siegfried Preckwinkel, Heinz Caster, Dr. Mauser, François Bormann

1970Scene of the Crime (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Otto Imberger, Detlef Brüggemann, Werner Weinkauf, Wolfgang Baermann, Konstantin Baumeister, Gerd Böhnke

1970Folge einem Stern as Patjom

1970Berlin - Hauptstadt der DDR I as Narrator (voice)

1969Jede Stunde deines Lebens (3 Episodes) as Erich

1969Geheime Spuren (3 Episodes) as Bernd Roland

1969Adelsnest as Lawretzkij

1968Scorpion Hour (3 Episodes) as Michail Kostja

1968Der Kristallspiegel as Wojtek

1968Geheimkommando Spree (2 Episodes) as Oberleutnant Bernd Roland

1967Credo: Martin Luther - Wittenberg 1517 as Narrator (voice)

1967Heimweh nach der Zukunft. Max Steenbeck erzählt as Narrator (voice)

1965Dr. Schlüter (5 Episodes) as Dr. Martin Schlüter

1965Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort (1, 1 Episode) as Wolf-Dietrich Metzner, Gerald Norden