Otto Sander
Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was 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 in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander 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. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. 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 The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.
125 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 125
Scene of the Crime
1970
DAS!
1991
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
NDR Talk Show
1979
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Wetten, dass..?
1981
Vienna Crime Squad
2005
Das Traumschiff
1981
Wolffs Revier
1992
Zimmer frei!
1996
Der Fahnder
1984
Tietjen und Bommes
1997
Kulturzeit
1995
Grimme Award
1964
Das Boot
1981
Through the Night with...
2002
The Tin Drum
1979
Wings of Desire
1987
Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst
1967
Das Boot
1985
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
Les Misérables
2000
A.S. Gefahr ist sein Geschäft
1995
Leute am Donnerstag
2004
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002
Ein roter Teppich für....
2002
Werner and the Wizard of Booze
1990
The Killer Condom
1996
Faraway, So Close!
1993
The Shop
1998
Krabat
2008
Lumière & Company
1995
Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
2003
Friedemann Brix - Eine Schwäche für Mord
1996
Am I Beautiful?
1998
Marlene
2000
The Promise
1995
Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter
2013
Sass
2001
The Heart Is a Dark Forest
2007
The Harmonists
1997
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003
Rosa Luxemburg
1986
Nikolaikirche
1995
Unter kaiserlicher Flagge
2006
A Love in Germany
1983
Life Is Too Long
2010
Movie Days
1994
The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
2000
Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
1986
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
2021
Atlantic Affairs
2002
No Pawing, Darling
1970
Preußen – Chronik eines deutschen Staates
2000
Conversation with the Beast
1997
Remembrance: Film for Curt Bois
1982
Im Schlaraffenland. Ein Roman unter feinen Leuten
1981
The Marquise of O
1976
Three Sisters
1994
One or the Other of Us
1974
The Film Narrator
1993
Fly Away
2012
Wahnfried
1986
The Break
1989
Summer Guests
1976
The White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang
1994
Wie du mir..
1989
Ermittlungen gegen Unbekannt
1974
Who's Going Crazy Here, Doctor?
1981
100 Pro
2001
Boundaries of Time - Caspar David Friedrich
1986
Gesucht wird... Drei Geschichten um nicht ganz ehrenwerte Herren
1981
Four Against the Bank
1976
Die Bakchen
1974
Palermo or Wolfsburg
1980
Die Mutter
1971
Stan Becker - Auf eigene Faust
1998
Die Schuld der Erben
2012
Bauernschach
1995
Little King Macius
2007
Vorwärts
1990
Majestät brauchen Sonne
1999
Lehmanns Erzählungen
1975
Schlusschor
1993
The Olympic Summer
1993
Liebe Lügen
1997
Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
1973
E-m@il an Gott
1999
The Case of Mr. Spalt
1988
Plastikfieber
1979
Heinrich Zille
1977
Girls under investigation
1999
Inge, April und Mai
1993
Ludwig
1964
Strike Back
1981
Kaluoka'hina: The Enchanted Reef
2004
The Danube
2003
Die Ängste des Dr. Schenk
1978
Der Mann im Pyjama
1981
Time of Vengeance
1990
Close Up
1987
About Narration
2025
Der Mord mit der Schere
1984
Hölderlin-Comics
1994
Tödliches Vertrauen
2002
The Ignoramus and the Madman
1972
Männer sind wie Schokolade
1999
Aus Liebe zu Deutschland - Eine Spendenaffäre
2003
Drei Schwestern
1986
Die Ursache
1980
Lyrische Suite. Das untergehende Vaterland
1992
Meine Sorgen möcht' ich haben
1975
Der Mond scheint auf Kylenamoe
1980
Happy Too
2002
Matulla und Busch
1995
Berlin 10. 11. 74 - 28. 1. 75: Exercises in 9 Pieces
1975
Sonnabend, der 1.
1970
Sonntags am Meer
1970
Der Kuß des Vergessens
1999
Eine Reise wert… Der Dichter Günter Kunert (be)sucht Berlin
1986
Phantom
1979
Trilogie des Wiedersehens
1979
Bescheiß kein Kind!
1992
Das Loch
1995