Alexander Held

Gerald Alexander Held is a German actor. He is best known for his role as Walther Hewel in the 2004 film Der Untergang and as Robert Mohr in the 2005 film Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage.

Alexander Held
Alexander Held (left) and Stipe Erceg in a shooting break
Born
Gerald Alexander Held

(1958-10-19) October 19, 1958
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
EducationOtto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts
OccupationActor
Years active1993–present
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Spouse(s)
Patricia Gräfin Fugger von Babenhausen
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(
m. 2005; died 2014)
Parents
  • José Held (father)
  • Erné Held (mother)
AwardsBavarian TV Awards

Life

Alexander Held in school was a solo singer of the Regensburger Domspatzen and a talented soccer player, part of the soccer club TSV 1860 München, who won youth championships five times.

He finished his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich.[1] Then Held began at the Munich Kammerspiele. Further engagements at the Staatsschauspiel Hannover, the Freien Volksbühne Berlin, the Theater Basel, and the Salzburg Festival followed.

In 1993, Held was cast by director Klaus Emmerich in Morlock for the first time for a television film. Since then he has appeared in numerous well-known cinema and TV productions, including Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl - The Last Days, and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall.

Likely also because of his distinctive voice, the ability to give his characters a double-faced face that quietly exudes a dangerous unpredictability, and his accurate, sharp pronunciation, Held embodied Nazi officials several times, as in Downfall. His most famous role is that of Gestapo officer Robert Mohr, who conducted the interrogations of Sophie Scholl. In Before the Fall, however, he was also seen as a Nazi opponent.

In the Sat.1 series Der Bulle von Tölz with Ottfried Fischer, he worked many times as an SPD Bundestag member, who mostly has to look after his opponents in the "Bavarian Unity Party".

In 2007, he starred alongside Iris Berben as the greedy villain Heinrich von Strahlberg in the two-part TV film Afrika, mon amour. In 2008, he was the opponent of Brandner Kaspar, Alois Kugler, in the film of the same name, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. In 2009, he embodied the politically tactical abbot Kuno in the Margarethe von Trottas film Vision alongside Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, and Hannah Herzsprung, and in the same year, he was seen in Sönke Wortmann's Pope Joan as the Frankish Emperor Lothar I. In 2010, he played the figure of the Attorney General Dr. Sasse alongside Ulrich Tukur in Dieter Wedel's two-part TV film Gier. Since 2010, he starred in the crime series Stralsund as the head commissioner Karl Hidde. Since 2014, he embodied the lead role of head commissioner Ludwig Schaller in the crime series München Mord, who angers his boss with his unconventional methods, but solves his cases.

His father was the actor José Held, who died in 1974. From December 2005, he was married to German actress Patricia Gräfin Fugger von Babenhausen (1961–2014).[2]

Selected Filmography
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Awards
  • 2014: Bavarian TV Awards as best actor in the category Series and Film Series for his role in München Mord (ZDF)
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References
  1. "Alexander Held - Munzinger Biographie". www.munzinger.de. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  2. "Patricia Fugger". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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