Personal Info
Birth date
1953-06-25 (71 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Trier-Eitelsbach, Germany
Also known as
-Udo Samel
Biography
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. Source: Article "Udo Samel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
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.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.Scene of the Crime
6.092
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.Babylon Berlin
7.756
Overview:
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.Kommissar Stolberg
1
Overview:
Stolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The series is more serious and less flashy than other contemporary German detective series.Danni Lowinski
5.3
Overview:
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 basement of a shopping mall.Ostfriesenkrimis
5.8
Overview:
Headstrong but successful Chief Inspector Ann Kathrin Klaasen and her team use unorthodox methods to investigate cases against the backdrop of the beautiful and tranquil landscape of the North Sea coast.14: Diaries of the Great War
7.6
Overview:
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 attack in Sarajevo ended up becoming a snowball that swept the world: a new kind of warfare had begun, waged with techniques and means never seen before. By November 1918, ten million people had died and the political map of the planet had been redrawn.The Piano Teacher
7.3
Overview:
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.End of Innocence
5
Overview:
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 England, the ten German nuclear scientists interned there as part of Operation Epsilon learn of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. In flashbacks, the development of the German uranium project is recapitulated chronologically from the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn to the work of Kurt Diebner at the Heereswaffenamt to the experiments of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under Werner Heisenberg and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Haigerloch research reactor in spring 1945.Goodbye Berlin
6.685
Overview:
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 changing experiences during the eventful journey.Faraway, So Close!
6.9
Overview:
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.The Killer Condom
5.216
Overview:
In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and flees, which sets the detective off on a quest to stop the predatory prophylactic once and for all.The Seventh Continent
7.5
Overview:
Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.Carlos
6.972
Overview:
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 before being caught by the French police.71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
7
Overview:
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
5.993
Overview:
The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.The Story of My Wife
5.849
Overview:
A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.Silentium
7.278
Overview:
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 eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.Rival
6.9
Overview:
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 to befriend Roman, who struggles for his mother's attention and sees Gert as a rival.My Best Enemy
5.8
Overview:
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 SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.Acting
2023Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Arbeit am Limit as Boris
2022Serviam – I Will Serve as Man
2021Rival as Schwarz
2021The Story of My Wife as Private Detective
2019Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias as Severin Erlbaum
2019How I Taught Myself to Be a Child as Tibor Silberstein
2018The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch as Tate Moishe Wolkenbruch
2018Life Guidance as Grundherr
2017Angst as Tiberius
2017Babylon Berlin (26 Episodes) as Ernst Gennat
2017Ostfriesenkrimis (1 Episode) as Prof. Freimut Diebold
2017Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Tide as Präfekt Locmariaquer
2017Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Pride as Präfekt Locmariaquer
2017Bubis - Das letzte Gespräch as Bubis
2016Night of a 1000 Hours as Polizist
2016Goodbye Berlin as Teacher
2016Letzte Ausfahrt Gera: Acht Stunden mit Beate Zschäpe as BKA-Mann Humburg
2014Das Zeugenhaus as Heinrich Hoffmann
201414: Diaries of the Great War (8 Episodes) as Narrator (voice)
2013Alles Schwindel as Albert Wolf
2012Friends Forever as Choirmaster
2012Rechtsanwalt Vernau (1 Episode) as Hans-Jörg Hellmer
2011My Best Enemy as Jakob Kaufmann
2010Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus as Heribert Pilch
2010Carlos as Bruno Kreisky
2010Danni Lowinski (1 Episode) as Erik Danzer
2009Domain as Unknown
2008Palermo Shooting as Banker
2008A Night at the Grand Hotel as Petersen
2006Notturno as Franz Schubert
2006Kommissar Stolberg (1 Episode) as Stefan Neisse
2006Daniel Käfer - Die Schattenuhr as Eustach Schiller
2005Die Nachrichten as Charlie Grundmann
2005The Call of the Toad as Vielbrand
2005Daniel Käfer - Die Villen der Frau Hürsch as Eustach Schiller
2004Go for Zucker as Samuel
2004Silentium as Festspielpräsident
2004Der Auftrag as Antoine
2003Strauss II: Die Fledermaus as Frosch
2003Treibjagd as Mooser
2002Das Haus der toten Augen as Reverend Dearborn
2001Blumen für Polt as Willi
2001The Piano Teacher as Dr. George Blonskij
1999Sturmzeit (5 Episodes) as Tom Wolff
1999The Volcano as Professor Benjamin Abel
1999Die Braut as Unknown
1999Woyzeck as Woyzeck
1998Hundert Jahre Brecht as Flüchtling
1997In the Name of Innocence as Robert Kunze
1997Der Hauptmann von Köpenick as Bürgermeister Obermüller
1997Liebe Lügen as Kleiner
1996The Killer Condom as Luigi Mackeroni
1996Angst hat eine kalte Hand as Jörg 'Bohne' Bohnart
199571 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance as Paul Brunner
1995Auf Teufel komm raus as Turbo Leo
1995Ich bin unschuldig - Ärztin im Zwielicht as Klaus Kreutzer
1994Hölderlin-Comics as Younger Hölderlin
1994Back to Square One as Victor Rote
1994Faust (1 Episode) as Dr. Hannsen
1993The Film Narrator as Herr Lange
1993Kaspar Hauser as Daumer
1993Faraway, So Close! as Security Guard
1993Durchreise – Die Geschichte einer Firma (6 Episodes) as Max Salomon
1993Hecht & Haie (1 Episode) as Bredemeyer
1993The Last U-Boat as Dr. Falke
1993Der Showmaster as Regisseur
1993Die Elefantenbraut as Sulzbecker
1992Schuld und Sühne as Unknown
1992Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland as Unknown
1991End of Innocence (2 Episodes) as Kurt Diebner
1991Der einsame Weg as Direktor Reumann
1990Winckelmanns Reisen as Rüdiger
1990Vorwärts as Otto Treber
1989The Seventh Continent as Alexander
1989Der Mitwisser as Unknown
1989Blauer Panther (1 Episode) as Self
1988The Case of Mr. Spalt as Edgar
1987Close Up as Unknown
1986Mit meinen heißen Tränen (3 Episodes) as Franz Schubert
1986Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich as Gerichtsgehilfe
1985The Death of the White Stallion as Pater Andreas, Benediktinermönch
1984Der Mord mit der Schere as Unknown
1983Variation as Peter
1983Class Enemy as Vollmond
1981A Case For Two (1, 1 Episode) as Kommissar, Wolfgang Fischer
1980Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe as Unknown
1980Big and Little as Unknown
1980Die Kinder aus Nr. 67 as Lehrer Köwel
1979The End of the Rainbow as Dieter
1979Liebe, Tod und Heringshäppchen as Justus
1978Knife in the Head as Schurig
1977Rückfälle as Unknown
1974Derrick (1 Episode) as Thomas Randel
1970Scene of the Crime (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Wolly Deutz, Trachtenfels-Lissé, Dr. Markus Seitz
1964Grimme Awards Ceremony (1 Episode) as Self
1951Deutscher Filmpreis (1 Episode) as Self