Otto Sander
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1941-06-30
Deathday 2013-09-12 (72 years old)
Place of Birth Hanover, Germany
Otto Sander
Biography
Otto Sander (born 30 June 1941 in Hanover) is a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service as a navy reserve officer and then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. He is married to the actress Monika Hansen and is stepfather to the actors Ben Becker and Meret Becker. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. Because of his warm, strong voice, which earned him the sobriquet "The Voice" (the English term is used), he has been used frequently as narrator for television documentaries, and numerous talking books in the 1990s. In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He has two brothers, the lawyer Adolf Sander, the scientist Christian (Chris) Sander, and a sister, the book dealer Marianne Sander. He also played a professor in the movie: The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Otto Sander, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Himself
as Eckehardt Tiedgen
as Leonhard Asmussen
as Narrator (voice)
as Helmut
as Erasmus (voice)
as Erzähler / Narrator
as Conrad Ribarski
as Narrator (voice)
as himself
as Franz
as Erzähler (voice)
as Bernd Kortens
as Maitre de Plaisir on Stage
as Himself / Gert Bastian
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Vater Sass
as Professor Steinach
as Bühnenmanager
as Self (Narrator)
as Monseigneur Bienvenu
as Petrus
as Staatsanwalt Baldur Meixner
as Vater Lano
as Herr Jelke
as Walker
as David
as Self
as Adolf Hitler Double
as Vater
as Self
as Mr. Higgins
as Rainer Kleinhundert
as Self
as Korte
as Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
as kirchlicher Superintendent
as Professor Lorenz
as Dr. Gerold Stadler
as Der Mann
as Self
as self
as Freddy Klinke
as Prof. Hinzelmann
as Maður á hesti
as Vershinin
as Salzmann
as Sprecher
as Cassiel
as Vater
as Schenk
as Self
as Erzähler (voice)
as Robert
as Erwin Lubowitz
as Markus Petarka
as Otto Spalt
as Cassiel
as Gerichtsgehilfe
as Loan officer Grop
as Richard Wagner
as Karl Liebknecht
as Kapitänleutnant Philipp
as Inspector Spalt
as Bähr
as Narrator
as Rudi
as Nummer Sieben
as Phillip Thomsen
as Kowalski
as James Korthals
as Johannes Lippelt
as Self
as Staatsanwalt
as Meyn
as Richard
as Wilfried
as Self
as Eberhard Winter
as Brother, Forstmeister
as Pjotr Suslov
as Lehmann
as Harald Bornemann
as Tiresias
as Rulle Ruhlsdorff
as Obrist Kottwitz
as Ludwig Stolze
as Lansky
as Richard Lansky
as Fritzchen
as Manfred Enders
as Otto Androsch
as Self
as Kunsträuber
as Ludwig
as Self