Alexander Held

Known for ActingBorn 1958-10-19Died 2026-05-12Munich, Germany

Gerald Alexander Held (born 19 October 1958) was a German actor. He was internationally best known for his historical depictions, as Walther Hewel in the 2004 film Der Untergang, Robert Mohr in the 2005 film Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage and as state prosecutor Siegfried Buback in the 2008 film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. During his school years, Held was a solo singer of the Regensburger Domspatzen, and played football for TSV 1860 München, winning five youth championships. He finished his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich, and then joined 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 in his first television film role. Since then he has appeared in numerous cinema and TV productions, including Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl - The Last Days, and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall. In the Sat.1 series Der Bulle von Tölz with Ottfried Fischer, he played a Social Democratic Party of Germany 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 played Alois Kugler, the opponent of Brandner Kaspar, in the film of the same name, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. In 2009, he played 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 Attorney General Dr. Sasse alongside Ulrich Tukur in Dieter Wedel's two-part TV film Greed. Since 2010, he has starred in the crime series Stralsund as the head commissioner Karl Hidde. Since 2014, he has played the lead role of head commissioner Ludwig Schaller in the crime series München Mord. Held's father was actor José Held, who died in 1974. From December 2005, Held was married to German actress Patricia Gräfin Fugger von Babenhausen (1961–2014). Source: Article "Alexander Held" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie

Die Rückkehr des schwarzen Buddha

Inzest - Ein Fall für Sina Teufel

Weißblaue Wintergeschichten

Afrika, mon amour

Das Geheimnis des Lebens

Romeo

Sommer und Bolten: Gute Ärzte, keine Engel

Sau sticht

Der Nebelmörder - Schatten über der Stadt

Schindler's List

Mozart - Ich hätte München Ehre gemacht

Emilia – Familienbande

Ich will laufen! Der Fall Dieter Baumann

Pfarrer Braun

Schwarzes Blut

Heimlicher Tanz

Downfall

Wer weiß denn sowas?

Line of Separation

For Heaven's Sake

My Blind Date with Life

The Wave

Getting a Life

HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin

Strange Gardens

Unterleuten: The Torn Village

Sanctuary

Donna Leon

Attempted Murder

SOKO Köln

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Storno: Todsicher versichert

Der Prediger

Im Namen des Gesetzes

Der Fahnder

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

Mord in bester Gesellschaft

In einem anderen Leben

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Before the Fall

Die Sitte

Der Bestseller - Mord auf italienisch

Die Bergwacht - Duell am Abgrund

Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker

OA jagt Oberärztin

Die Spesenritter

Im Netz