Götz George was a German actor, the son of actor couple Berta Drews and Heinrich George. His arguably best-known role is that of Duisburg detective Horst Schimanski in the TV crime series Tatort.
Horst Tappert was a German film and television actor best known for the role of Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama Derrick.
Mathieu Carrière is a German stage and screen actor with strong French connections. He has appeared in around 250 films worldwide and in 4000 hours of television. Carrière is also a director and a writer and is known as an advocate for the rights of fathers.
Bernhard Wicki was an Austrian-Swiss actor, film director and screenwriter. He was a key figure in the revitalization of post-war German-language cinema, particularly in West Germany, and also directed several Hollywood films.
Gottfried John was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in nine of the filmmaker's projects between 1975 and 1981, the year before Fassbinder's death, including Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun, and Berlin Alexanderplatz. His distinctive, gaunt appearance saw him frequently cast as villains, and he is best known to audiences for his role as the corrupt General Arkady Ourumov in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, and for his comedic turn as Julius Caesar in Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar, the latter for which he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ursula Karven, previously Ursula Karven-Veres is a German actress, writer, model and yoga instructor.
Ulrich Tukur is a German actor and musician. He is known for his roles in Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Steven Soderbergh's Solaris, the docudrama North Face based on the 1936 Eiger climbing disaster in Switzerland, and as Wilhelm Uhde in Martin Provost's biopic Séraphine.
Helmuth Lohner was an Austrian actor, theatre director, and from 1997 to 2006 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt.
Cayetano Neven du Mont, known professionally as Sky du Mont, is a German-Argentine actor.
Lisa Kreuzer is a German television and film actress with credits for appearances in over 120 films and television series.
Robert Atzorn is a German television actor. He was born in Bad Polzin, Pomerania, Germany, now Połczyn-Zdrój, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Matthias Habich is a German actor who has appeared in more than 110 film and television productions since 1965. Habich was born in Danzig and lives in Paris.
Werner Kreindl was an Austrian television actor.
Rudolf Ernst Paul Schündler was a German actor and director. He played "Karl" in The Exorcist (1973).
Raimund Harmstorf was a German actor. He became famous as the protagonist of a German TV mini series based on Jack London's the Sea-Wolf and starred later on successfully in another German TV series based on Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff.
Vadim Glowna was a German actor and film director. Since 1964, he appeared in more than 150 films and television shows.
Gert Haucke (1929–2008) was a German film and television actor.
Rolf Hoppe was a prolific German stage, cinema, and television actor, who played in more than 400 films in a career which spanned over six decades.
Arthur Brauss is a German actor, perhaps best known for his work in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron.
Rolf von Sydow was a German film director and author.
