Personal Info
Birth date
1956-10-04 (68 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Vienna, Austria
Also known as
Кристоф Вальц
كريستوف فالتز
克里斯托弗·瓦尔兹
크리스토프 발츠
クリストフ・ヴァルツ
คริสทอฟ วัลซ์
크리스토프 왈츠
克里斯多夫·華茲
کریستف والتس
Christoph Waltz
Biography
Christoph Waltz (born October 4, 1956) is an Austrian actor who also holds German citizenship. He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS Colonel Hans Landa in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2009 and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2010.
Filmography
The Graham Norton Show
7.185
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.8
Overview:
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.Real Time with Bill Maher
6.038
Overview:
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.Dracula
6.323
Overview:
The story of 15th century Prince Vladimir who curses God following the death of his beloved wife and is turned into a vampire. Later, in 19th century London, he discovers his wife’s doppelgänger and dooms himself by pursuing her.Saturday Night Live
6.953
Overview:
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.Inglourious Basterds
8.215
Overview:
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.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.Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
5
Overview:
PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of actors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.The Late Late Show with James Corden
5.281
Overview:
Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and has its own bits. And of course, it's all hosted by James Corden.The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.669
Overview:
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.Django Unchained
8.184
Overview:
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.Derrick
6
Overview:
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.Der Alte
6
Overview:
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.Polizeiruf 110
6.3
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.Alita: Battle Angel
7.243
Overview:
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.Die Harald Schmidt Show
7
Overview:
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.Wetten, dass..?
5.3
Overview:
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.No Time to Die
7.4
Overview:
Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.The Oscars
6.96
Overview:
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.Spectre
6.56
Overview:
A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.Inspector Rex
7.2
Overview:
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.A Case For Two
5.2
Overview:
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 main characters who solve crimes: a defense attorney and a private investigator. Josef Matula, a former German police officer, has gone into private business. His method of investigation is very effective and direct, and he sometimes even resorts to dirty tricks. Claus Theo Gärtner has portrayed the role since the start of the series.Downsizing
5.375
Overview:
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.Horrible Bosses 2
6.178
Overview:
Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.The Consultant
6.771
Overview:
After an unspeakable tragedy at CompWare, a games studio based in downtown Los Angeles, a mysterious consultant, Regus Patoff, blows into town and takes charge.Bambi-Verleihung
9
Overview:
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 international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
8.049
Overview:
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.Acting
TBAEvery Note Played as Richard
TBAGilded Rage as Thomas Gilbert Sr.
TBAWilder & Me as Billy Wilder
2025Frankenstein as Harlander
2025Dracula as Priest
2024Old Guy as Danny Dolinski
2023The Portable Door as Humphrey Wells / John Wells Snr
2023The Consultant (8 Episodes) as Regus Patoff
2022Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema as Self
2022Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Count Volpe (voice)
2022Dead for a Dollar as Max Borlund
2021The French Dispatch as Paul Duval
2021Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil as Self (archive footage)
2021No Time to Die as Blofeld
2020Rifkin’s Festival as Death
2020Little Berlin as Narrator
2020Staged (1 Episode) as Christoph
2020Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years as Himself
2020Most Dangerous Game (27 Episodes) as Miles Sellars
2019Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre as Self
2019QT8: The First Eight as Self
2019Georgetown as Ulrich Mott
2019Alita: Battle Angel as Dr. Dyson Ido
2017Downsizing as Dusan Mirkovic
2017Tulip Fever as Cornelis Sandvoort
2016Clique Talk (1 Episode) as Self
2016The Legend of Tarzan as Captain Leon Rom
2015Spectre as Blofeld
2015Oh du mein Österreich as Self
2015The Making of Big Eyes as Himself
2015The Late Late Show with James Corden (1, 1 Episode) as Self, Self - Guest
2014Big Eyes as Walter Keane
2014Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (1 Episode) as Self
2014Der Meisterfälscher (1 Episode) as Self
2014Horrible Bosses 2 as Bert Hanson
2014Muppets Most Wanted as Christoph Waltz
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1 Episode) as Self
2013The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers as Menachem Begin (voice)
2013The Zero Theorem as Qohen Leth
2013Epic as Mandrake (voice)
2013Ode to Joy as The Man
2012Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz
201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief as Self
2012It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl as Theodor Herzl (voice)
2012Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (1 Episode) as Self
2011Carnage as Alan Cowan
2011The Three Musketeers as Richelieu
2011Water for Elephants as August Rosenbluth
2011The Green Hornet as Chudnofsky
2010Conan (1 Episode) as Self
2009Inglourious Basterds as COL. Hans Landa
2008Todsünde as Sebastian Flies
2008Das Geheimnis im Wald as Hans Kortmann
2008Das jüngste Gericht (2 Episodes) as Peters
2008Die Anwälte (1 Episode) as Herbert Jahn
2008Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (1 Episode) as Self
2007Die Zürcher Verlobung - Drehbuch zur Liebe as Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast
2007Die Verzauberung as Dr. Helmut Bahr
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2006Franziskas Gespür für Männer as Karl Löwen
2006Kommissar Stolberg (1 Episode) as Paul Büttner
2006Lapislazuli - Im Auge des Bären as Czerny
2005G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten (1 Episode) as Self
2005Der Staatsanwalt (1 Episode) as Dr. Claudius Tressen
2005Die Patriarchin (3 Episodes) as Wolf Sevening
2004Schöne Witwen küssen besser as Jean-France
2004Mörderische Suche as Richard Benedek
2004Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie (1 Episode) as Richard Seemann
2004Scheidungsopfer Mann as Benedikt von Arn
2003Berlin Blues as Arzt
2003Tiger Eyes See Better as Dr. Thilo Rylow
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (1 Episode) as Self
2003Jennerwein as Pföderl
2003Two Days of Hope as Michael Berg
2003Dorian as Rolf Steiner
2003Der Mörder ist unter uns as Martin Bach
2003Dienstreise - Was für eine Nacht as Klaus-Dieter Lehmann
2003Real Time with Bill Maher (1 Episode) as Self
2003Jagd auf den Flammenmann as Brisky
2003Angst as Analytiker
2003Gun-shy as Johannsen
2002Weihnachtsmann gesucht as Johannes Böhmke
2002Under Suspicion (1 Episode) as Thomas Sell
2001Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker as Dieter Cilov
2001Rieke's Love as Trainer Peter Karlhoff
2001Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express as Ossama/Tarik
2001Engel sucht Flügel as Caspari
2001Queen's Messenger as Ben Samm
2001She Who Must Be Obeyed as Michael Vincey
2000The Beast as Finanzbeamter Fink
2000Falling Rocks as Louis
2000Ordinary Decent Criminal as Peter
1999Dessine-moi un jouet as Klaus Hermann
1999German Television Award (1 Episode) as Self
1999Die Braut as Herzog Carl August
1998Love Scenes from Planet Earth as Charly
1998Night Time as Becker
1998Der letzte Zeuge (1 Episode) as Martin York
1998Vickys Alptraum as Johnny
1998Das Finale as Kant
1998Einsteins Ende as Unknown
1998Rache für mein totes Kind as Paul
1998Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten as Moritz Fink
1997Schimanski (1 Episode) as Klaus Mandel
1997Our God's Brother as Max, Maksymilian Gierymski
1996You Are Not Alone - The Roy Black Story as Roy Black
1996Catherine the Great as Mirovich
1995Die Harald Schmidt Show (3 Episodes) as Self
1995Kulturzeit (1 Episode) as self
1995Die Staatsanwältin (3 Episodes) as Andreas Doepke
1995The Tourist as Stephan Görner
1995Ein Anfang von etwas as Herbert Sobieski
1995Man in Search of Woman as Christoph
1995Prinz zu entsorgen as Roman Hertz
1994Jacob as Morasch
1994Inspector Rex (1 Episode) as Martin Wolf
1994Rosa Roth (1 Episode) as Wietze
1994Tag der Abrechnung - Der Amokläufer von Euskirchen as Erwin Mikolajczyk
1994Faust (1 Episode) as Gerhardt Schulze-Leitner
19925 Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom as Hartwig Klemmnitz
1992Die Angst wird bleiben as Manfred
1991The Gravy Train Goes East (4 Episodes) as Han-Joachim Dorfmann
1991St. Petri Schnee as Unknown
1991Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe as Jan Tytz
1990The Gravy Train (4 Episodes) as Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann
1990Romy Award (1 Episode) as Self
1989Goldeneye as German Spy
1989Quicker Than the Eye as Polizeichef
1989The Mortal Fortune as Guy on Train (uncredited)
1989Blauer Panther (1 Episode) as Self
1988The Alien Years (3 Episodes) as Stefan Mueller
1987Das andere Leben as Stefan
1987Der einsame Weg as Felix
1986The Lenz Papers as Franz Sigel
1986Wahnfried as Friedrich Nietzsche
1985Die Wupper as August Puderbach, Färber
1983The Sandman as Nathanael
1982The Mysterious Stranger as Ernst Wasserman
1982Dr. Margarete Johnson as Rainer
1982Fire and Sword as Tristan
1982Headstand as Markus Dorn
1981A Case For Two (1 Episode) as Alf
1981The World Machine as Young Painter / New York Diner Youth
1981Wetten, dass..? (1 Episode) as Self
1979Parole Chicago (13 Episodes) as Ede
1979Feuer! as Karl Albrecht Schlick
1979Breakthrough as Paramedic
1978Die goldene Rose von Montreux as Unknown
1977Der Einstand as Günter Vesely
1977Der Alte (1, 1 Episode) as Hans Baumeister, Christian Kamp
1975Saturday Night Live (1 Episode) as Self - Host
1975Am dam des (1 Episode) as Self
19743 nach 9 (1 Episode) as Self
1974Derrick (1, 1 Episode) as Eberhard Bothe, Schumann
1971Polizeiruf 110 (1 Episode) as Dr. Grins
1970Scene of the Crime (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Inspektor Passini, Gerd Weißenbach, Prof. Robert Henze
1964Grimme Awards Ceremony (2 Episodes) as Self
1953The Oscars (1 Episode) as Self - Presenter
1948Bambi-Verleihung (1 Episode) as Self
Production
2023The Consultant (8 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
2022Dead for a Dollar ... Executive Producer
2013The Zero Theorem ... Co-Producer