Til Schweiger

Highest Rated: 89% Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Lowest Rated: 0% Head Full of Honey (2018)

Birthday: Dec 19, 1963

Birthplace: Freiburg, Germany

Handsome German actor Til Schweiger was voted one of the Most Erotic Male Actors in a 2000 poll in Germany's Cinema magazine. After his film debut in the comedy Manta, Manta, he won an award for Best Young Actor at the 1993 Max Ophüls Festival. He has since built up acting credits in dozens of German and international movies, in addition to work as a writer, director, and producer. On the small screen, he has appeared on some of Germany's most popular TV series and appeared as himself on Pop 2000. After his first starring role in Maybe...Maybe Not in 1994, he stuck with comedies until he found a place for himself in action-thrillers and dramas. He combined genres for the road movie Knockin' on Heaven's Door in 1997; he co-authored the screenplay and won an award from the Moscow Film Festival for his lead performance. The next year he stayed behind the scenes to direct Der Eisbär (The Polar Bear). Returning to acting, he quickly gained international appeal with Bandyta and eventually ended up in Hollywood for small roles in The Replacement Killers, Judas Kiss, and SLC Punk. He went on to star in the comedy Magicians, the action-thriller Driven, and What to Do in Case of Fire. In 2003, he stuck with Hollywood for U-Boat, Sea Devils, and Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2. Over the coming years, Schweiger would continue to remain active on screen, appearing in films like Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and Inglorious Basterds.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
11%	Berlin, I Love You	Director	—	2019
0%	Head Full of Honey	Director	—	2018
79%	Atomic Blonde	Actor	$51.6M	2017
80%	Muppets Most Wanted	German Cop	$46.5M	2014
No Score Yet	Honig im Kopf	Screenwriter Director Niko Producer	—	2014
No Score Yet	Not My Day (Nicht mein Tag)	Producer	—	2014
27%	Charlie Countryman	Darko	—	2013
No Score Yet	Keinohrhase Und Zweiohrkuen	Director Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Grobstadtklein	Producer	—	2013
No Score Yet	Kokowääh 2	Screenwriter Actor Producer Director	—	2013
No Score Yet	Keinohrhase Und Zweiohrkuken	Director Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	The Courier	FBI-Agent	—	2012
26%	This Means War	Heinrich	$54.8M	2012
No Score Yet	Schutzengel	Director Screenwriter Max Fischer Producer	—	2012
No Score Yet	Männerherzen... und die ganz ganz große Liebe (Men in the City 2)	Jerome Ades	—	2012
7%	New Year's Eve	James Schwab	$54.6M	2011
26%	The Three Musketeers	Cagliostro	$20.4M	2011
No Score Yet	Kokowääh	Director Producer Henry Screenwriter	—	2011
No Score Yet	Tatort - Nie wieder frei sein	Actor	—	2011
No Score Yet	Rabbit Without Ears 2 (Zweiohrküken)	Director Ludo Dekker Producer Screenwriter	—	2009
No Score Yet	Men in the City (Männerherzen)	Jerome Ades	—	2009
89%	Inglourious Basterds	Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz	$120.6M	2009
No Score Yet	Body Armour	John Ridley	—	2009
No Score Yet	Phantomschmerz (Phantom Pain)	Marc	—	2009
No Score Yet	Phantom Pain	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	1 1/2 Ritter - Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde	Ritter Lanze Producer Director	—	2008
No Score Yet	Far Cry	Jack Carver	—	2008
20%	The Red Baron (Der rote Baron)	Werner Voss	—	2008
No Score Yet	Already Dead	The Man	—	2008
No Score Yet	Keinohrhasen (Rabbit Without Ears)	Producer Ludo Decker Director Screenwriter	—	2007
No Score Yet	Wo Ist Fred? (Where Is Fred!?)	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	One Way	Producer Eddie Schneider	—	2006
9%	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo	Heinz Hummer	$22.3M	2005
No Score Yet	Barefoot	Screenwriter Nick Keller Director Producer	—	2005
No Score Yet	Les Dalton (The Daltons)	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	In Enemy Hands	Jonas Herdt	—	2004
No Score Yet	Dreamship Surprise: Period 1	Rock Fertig Aus	—	2004
31%	King Arthur	Cynric	$51.8M	2004
24%	Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life	Sean	$65.8M	2003
No Score Yet	Investigating Sex	Monty	—	2002
No Score Yet	Joe and Max	Max Schmeling	—	2002
50%	What to Do in Case of Fire (Was tun, wenn's brennt?)	Tim	—	2001
14%	Driven	Beau Brandenburg	—	2001
No Score Yet	Knockin' on Heaven's Door	Martin Brest Producer Screenwriter	—	2000
No Score Yet	Magicians	Max	—	2000
No Score Yet	Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding	Actor	—	1999
No Score Yet	Bandyta (Brute)	Actor	—	1998
43%	Judas Kiss	Ruben Rubenbauer	—	1998
63%	SLC Punk	Mark	—	1998
38%	The Replacement Killers	Ryker	—	1998
No Score Yet	A Girl Called Rose Marie	Nadler	—	1996
50%	Maybe, Maybe Not	Axel	—	1996
No Score Yet	Maennerpension	Ruediger Steinbock	—	1996
No Score Yet	Maybe...maybe Not	Actor	—	1994
No Score Yet	Inthierryview	Actor	—

Quotes from Til Schweiger's Characters

Martin Brest:

You've never seen the ocean? Don't you know what happens when you get to heaven? In heaven, all they talk about is the ocean. How gorgeously beautiful it is. And all the sunsets that they saw. How you could feel the sun lose its strength. And how the cool water splashed forward and the only fire left was the fire in their souls. And you? You can't say a thing, because you've never been there. Up there, you'll be nothing but a fucked-up outsider

Martin Brest:

Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	Say "auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	Say 'auf Wiedersehen' to your Nazi balls.

Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	And at this range, i'm a real Frederick Zoller
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	And at this range, I'm a real Frederick Zoller.

Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	Say ''Auf wiedersehen'' to your nazi balls!
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	Say ''Auf wiedersehen' to your nazi balls!

Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:

I will put this pistol in your Nazi balls.

Major Hellstrom:	I must say I grow weary of these monkeyshines. [cocks pistol] Did you hear that? That was the sound of my Walther. Pointed right at your testicles.
Lt. Archie Hicox:	Why do you have your Walther pointed at my testicles?
Major Hellstrom:	Because you've just given yourself away, Captain. You're no more German than that scotch.
Lt. Archie Hicox:	Well Major, that makes two of us. I've had a gun pointed at your balls since you sat down.
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	[points a gun Hellstrom's crotch] That makes three of us. And at this range, I'm a real Frederick Zoller.
Major Hellstrom:	Looks like we have a bit of a sticky situation here.
Lt. Archie Hicox:	What's going to happen, Major... you're going to stand up and walk out that door with us.
Major Hellstrom:	No, no, no, no, no, no. I don't think so. I'm afraid you and I, we both know, Captain, no matter what happens to anybody else in this room, the two of us aren't going anywhere. Too bad about Sergeant Wilhelm and his famous friends. If any of you expect to live, you'll have to shoot them too. Looks like little Max will grow up an orphan. How sad.
Lt. Archie Hicox:	[in English] Well, if this is it, old boy, I hope you don't mind if I go out speaking the King's.

Lt. Archie Hicox:	There's a special rung in hell reserved for people who waste good scotch. Seeing as how I may be rapping on the door momentarily. [drinks scotch] I must say, damn good stuff. Now, about this pickle... we find ourselves in. It would appear there's only thing left for you to do.
Lt. Archie Hicox:	[picks up his glass of scotch] There's a special rung in hell reserved for people who waste good scotch. Seeing as how I may be rapping on the door momentarily... [drinks his scotch] I must say, damn good stuff, Sir. [sets his glass down and smokes his cigarette] Now, about this pickle... we find ourselves in. It would appear there's only thing left for you to do.
Major Hellstrom:	And what would that be?
Lt. Archie Hicox:	Stiglitz.
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	Say "auf Wiedersehen" to your Nazi balls. [fires his gun into Hellstrom's crotch]
Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz:	Say 'auf Wiedersehen' to your Nazi balls. [Stiglitz fires his gun into Hellstrom's crotch]

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