×
Loading in progress
  • BIRTH 30/06/1941
  • DEATH 12/09/2013
  • Country Germany
  • SHOWS 5
  • MOVIES 18

Otto Sander

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.    

Otto Sander

Shows (5)

Tatort
Tatort
Manfred Enders / Otto Androsch
Les Misérables (2000)
Les Misérables (2000)
Monseigneur Bienvenu
The Love Boat (DE)
The Love Boat (DE)
James Korthals / Johannes Lippelt
Aktenzeichen XY ... ungeloest
Aktenzeichen XY ... ungeloest
Kunsträuber
Police Call 110
Police Call 110
Lansky / Ludwig Stolze / Richard Lansky

Movies (18)

Das Boot
Das Boot
Phillip Thomsen
Der Himmel über Berlin
Der Himmel über Berlin
Cassiel
Comedian Harmonists
Comedian Harmonists
Die Blechtrommel
Die Blechtrommel
Meyn
Kondom des Grauens
Kondom des Grauens
Mr. Higgins
Krabat
Krabat
Narrator (voice)
Die Marquise von O...
Die Marquise von O...
Brother, Forstmeister
z.B. ... Otto Spalt
z.B. ... Otto Spalt
Otto Spalt
Das Boot – Welterfolg aus der Tiefe
Das Boot – Welterfolg aus der Tiefe
Self
Der Einstein des Sex
Der Einstein des Sex
Professor Steinach
Der kleine König Macius - Der Film
Der kleine König Macius - Der Film
Erasmus (voice)
Lumière et Compagnie
Lumière et Compagnie
Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
Vier gegen die Bank
Vier gegen die Bank
Eberhard Winter
Werner - Beinhart!
Werner - Beinhart!
Erzähler (voice)
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
Erzähler (voice)
Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald
Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald
Helmut
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
In weiter Ferne, so nah!
In weiter Ferne, so nah!
Cassiel