
Benjamin Sadler
Actor · b. 1971 · Toronto, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Benjamin Sadler (born February 2, 1971) is a German actor who was born in Toronto, Canada, the son of a German graphic designer and a British teacher. He lived in Canada until he was five. In 1976 he moved with his parents to Germany. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, his career as actor started in 1994 with roles in German thrillers such as Wolffs Revier and SK-Babies. In 2001 he appeared in the German-Italian film Maria Magdalena in the role as John the Baptist beside Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Danny Quinn. In 2002 he worked on two further religious films: The Bible - The Apocalypse with Richard Harris and Luther with Joseph Fiennes and Sir Peter Ustinov. He also appeared as the young emperor Augustus (Peter O'Toole was the emperor in later life). In 2006 he played the part of a physician in the film Dresden. In 2007 he starred as a lawyer and father of a thalidomide-handicapped daughter, for which he received a Bambi Award in 2007. He explained in an interview that he was proud to be a part of the film, which influenced the German parliament to pass a law giving greater financial compensation for victims of thalidomide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Benjamin Sadler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Passion
2013 · 464 votes
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2003 · 342 votes
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Pinocchio
2013 · 18 votes
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2012 · 75 votes
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2025 · 1 votes
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2014 · 2 votes
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The Hustle
2000 · 8 votes
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2009 · 19 votes
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2015 · 4 votes
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2004 · 3 votes
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2017 · 6 votes
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TV6.2DramaCrimeTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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1999 · 7 votes
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1991 · 6 votes
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2003 · 1 votes
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3 nach 9
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1992 · 7 votes
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TV4.8CrimeRosa Roth is a German television series.
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1994 · 5 votes
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2021 · 119 votes
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Faust
1994 · 2 votes
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1995 · 1 votes
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Im Leben von …
2012
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Ostfriesenkrimis
2017 · 5 votes
TV5.8Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyImpact is a mini-series about a meteor shower which eventually sends the moon on a collision course with Earth. The two-part mini-series premiered February 14 and 15, 2009 on the Canadian premium television channel Super Channel and was also shown on ABC on June 21 and 28, 2009 and on Alpha TV on September 2011 .
Impact
2009 · 95 votes