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Josef Bierbichler
Highest Rated: 93% Heart of Glass (1976)
Lowest Rated: 71% The Farewell (2000)
Birthday: Apr 26, 1948
Birthplace: Ambach, Bavaria, Germany
Bavaria is often called "Germany's California," due to its appearance and its laid-back lifestyle--and also because of the thriving film industry in its main city of Munich. That production hub fueled the career of Josef Bierbichler, one of the country's most respected theater, film, and TV actors. Not long after he started acting onscreen in 1975, he appeared in the first of many collaborations with friend and former roommate Herbert Achternbusch. This was "The Atlantic Swimmers" (1976), the latter's film about several improbable cross-ocean water rats. That same year, Bierbichler took a key role (as the narrator Hias) in the strange 18th-century fable "Heart of Glass," from celebrated director Werner Herzog. Following this, the actor went through a traditional rite of passage for German thespians by playing a guest role on the decades-long cop show "Tatort" (1977). The remainder of Bierbichler's career was spent mostly in the theater, followed by film roles, then TV. As for movies, his most prominent appearances were in such films as 2009's Cannes Film Festival award-winning "White Ribbon." He also appeared in several other efforts from Achternbusch and Herzog, notably the latter's "Woyzeck" (1979), a story of military cruelty starring Klaus Kinski.
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Josef Bierbichler
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Merkel | Horst Seehofer (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Look at Me That Way | Ivas Vater (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Life For Football | Kurt Landauer (Character) | - | 2014 |
No Score Yet |
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Exit Marrakech | Unknown (Character) | - | 2013 |
85% |
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The White Ribbon | The Steward (Character) | $2.2M | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bone Man | Löschenkohl (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bone Man | Löschenkohl (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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A Year in Winter | Max Hollander - Maler (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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The Architect | Georg Winter (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet |
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Winter Journey (Winterreise) | Unknown (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hierankl | Lukas (Character) | - | 2003 |
71% |
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The Farewell | Bertolt Brecht (Character) | $11.0K | 2000 |
76% |
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Winter Sleepers | Theo (Character) | $316.4K | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Straight Through the Heart | Dr. Armin Thal (Character) | - | 1984 |
86% |
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Woyzeck | Drum Major (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bierkampf | Herberts Schwager (Character) | - | 1977 |
93% |
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Heart of Glass | Hias (Character) | - | 1976 |