Acting
Frank Kessler
Born
1961-12-14 (64)
Place of birth
Ratingen, Germany
Known for
Acting
Credits
38 titles
Frank Kessler (born December 14, 1961, in Ratingen) is a German actor. Frank Kessler grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg and initially completed an apprenticeship as an electrical machine builder. Alongside various professional occupations, he was successfully active in martial arts for many years. Among other achievements, he competed as a member of the national Taekwondo squad and in the Karate Bundesliga, winning numerous national and international titles between 1980 and 1992. In 2004, he attained the rank of Grandmaster (6th Dan) in Taekwondo and founded the first Berlin Taekwondo Association—now known as the TVBB. He also worked as a coach and examiner. Kessler entered the acting professio…
Known for
6.2Tatort 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.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.2A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.
Die Rosenheim-Cops
2002
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
5.9SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
Leipzig Homicide
2001
5.8Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.
Küstenwache
1997
6.0The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
SOKO Stuttgart
2009
Film credits
2020s · 10 titles
5.7Cookie manufacturer Bertram Dinkler with his old-fashioned know-it-all attitude triggers an unexpected fighting spirit not in the teenagers, but in single mother Stefanie Eckhoff. Stefanie challenges Bertram. She wants him to do a sports badge and try to do better than her. Right from the first training session, the rivals realize that they may have gone a little too far. Fortunately, their stubbornness helps both of them to unleash unexpected energy.
Sportabzeichen für Anfänger
2021
7.5Werner Träsch, who has just moved into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz, surprises her with a trip to Fuerteventura on the second anniversary of their meeting. However, this proves to be difficult to implement...
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Die Streunerin
2021
5.0"Captain" Werner Träsch is quite astonished: the fresh wind of social change is also blowing among the tradition-conscious Berlin garbage workers. His boss, Dorn, has got it into his head that women should finally be employed as refuse collectors.
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - (K)eine saubere Sache
2022
6.0During their tour, Werner and his colleagues Tarik and Ralle get in the way of a young man who wants to "steal" expired groceries from a supermarket container
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Zu gut für die Tonne
2022
6.0Water pipe burst and bomb alarm - Berlin in a state of emergency: Dorn and Gerald don't know where their heads are. The routes for the garbage collectors have to be reworked due to numerous road closures, chaos rages.
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Arbeit am Limit
2023
9.0During their tour, Werner Träsch and his colleagues Ralle Schieber and Tarik Büyüktürk arrive at a housing estate where the businessman Waselitzki draws their attention to graffiti. Waselitzki plans to rent out the apartments in order to then rent them out again at a higher price. Träsch and his colleagues want to prevent this with all their might.
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Operation Miethai
2021
5.5Garbage manager Rüdiger Dorn wants to move into his parents' house after the death of his mother - but that has to be brought into shape first. It goes without saying that Werner pitches in.
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Altlasten
2023
5.5Werner Träsch moves into an apartment with his great love Gabi Hertz. However, he can hardly help with the furnishing of her apartment because he is campaigning to save his favorite restaurant "Zur Traube".
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Kassensturz
2020
6.0A trained theologian with a truck driver's license joins Werner Träsch's team. Former pastor Matthias is surprisingly good at tackling difficult tasks. But he can't hide the fact that he is in trouble for long: His ex-girlfriend Anna makes it impossible for him to see their five-year-old daughter Lotte, despite having joint custody.
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Der Neue
2025
7.3The three garbage collectors accidentally get on the trail of a protection racket in the Neukölln neighborhood: Snack bar owner Mohammed has to fend off an aggressive gang of youths and eventually resorts to drastic measures - but Werner discovers that the situation is not quite as clear-cut as it seems. Meanwhile, Tarik's extreme jealousy puts his relationship with Werner's daughter Annika at risk.
Die Drei von der Müllabfuhr - Schutzgeld
2025
2010s · 4 titles
7.417-year-old Cyril is funny, smart and an all-round good guy. Just his somewhat overlarge nose spoils the picture. On a school trip to Berlin with Roxy, a stunning new classmate, Cyril is not the only one taken with her. Benno, the class Casanova has his eye on the girl too and makes a nasty wager. Roxy is more interested in the introverted Rick, who is not only shy but also slow. Cyril hastens with his spoken word skills to Rick's aid, and falls head over heels in love with Roxy himself. So whose brave heart will win the fair lady?
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
2018
6.7Marthe is a girl with a special gift: she can cure illnesses. But the time she lives in is marked by superstition and godliness. When Marthe can not help the burgrave's wife from her village, the girl has to flee. Your path crosses that of Ritter Christian, who moves eastward into the Mark Meissen with a group of Frankish settlers. In the Middle Ages an unimaginably long and arduous way. Christian has a hard time avoiding the fascination of Marthe, but their diverse backgrounds make a relationship impossible and the settlers are afraid of the weird girl.
Secret of the Midwife
2016
6.2Johannes is a loner who wants a better job. And then he meets Ana. Ana is attractive and even though her job is even less prestigious than Johannes's, he falls for her. And then she quits her job to be with him (and be dependent on him) and suddenly things become much more serious. She has fallen for him. But does he still love her? Did he ever? Enter Sarah. Sarah is the daughter of Johannes's boss. He and she have a past. Will Sarah and what she represents be his future, and Ana just a memory, something he'd like to erase?
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
2011
6.0The police psychologist Jo is supposed to help catch the sex offender Molesch. Since the hotel is fully booked, she stays with her old college friend Vera and her husband Bruno. It turns out that Vera and Jo used to be in love with the same man. The two women's musings are interrupted when Molesch suddenly appears in the garden.
Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around
2011
1990s · 2 titles
6.0Professional diver Sven has a guilty conscience: his job means he has too little time for his family. He even almost misses the cruise ship on which he is supposed to look after their daughter while his wife does research for an article about the ship. But then terrorists take over the MS SeaStar and take Sven's wife and daughter hostage. They threaten to blow up the entire ship.
Countdown at Sea
1999
A right-wing radical, who is not quite aware that he is one, goes around with his buddies beating people up and taking part in scene events. Things look bad at home. His mother is in the hospital because her husband beat her up. The drunken father has long since brought in a replacement, a homeless woman. The teenager lives in eternal stress with the alcoholic, but gains respect from his father through his right-wing radical friends. From now on, his home becomes the main meeting place of the clique. When one of the antisocial outings of the clique ends fatally for one of the victims, the father offers his son and his friends first an alibi, later a hiding place..
Hass im Kopf
1994
Series credits
6.2Tatort 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.
Scene of the Crime
1970
6.2A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.
Die Rosenheim-Cops
2002
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
6.6A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
5.9SOKO Leipzig is a German police procedural television programme, a spin-off of the earlier German police programme SOKO 5113. It was first broadcast on 31 January 2001, on German television channel ZDF. On 12 November 2008, the first part of a two-part crossover between SOKO Leipzig and British police procedural The Bill was aired, with the same version being shown on both ZDF and British television channel ITV1.
Leipzig Homicide
2001
5.8Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.
Küstenwache
1997
5.8Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.
Küstenwache
1997
6.0The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital. The exciting cases of the series lead them to bizarre crime scenes and to different milieus.
SOKO Stuttgart
2009
No synopsis available yet.
Die Wache
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Im Namen des Gesetzes
1994
3.7Wolffs Revier is a German television series.
Wolffs Revier
1992
5.0The unlikely police pair Verena Berthold and Otto Garber are part of a special task force investigating organized crime in Berlin. He comes from the east, she from the west of Berlin. He's a redneck, she's from a better background. This causes conflict. Over time, things start to sizzle between the two. Their team includes the agile German-Turkish Yücsel and the sluggish Georg, who, like Verena and Otto, are constantly bickering. The department manager is Lothar Reddemann. Sputnik is a former colleague of Otto's from the People's Police and is constantly coming up with new business ideas for stores and pubs where the team meets.
Ein starkes Team
1994
5.7The exciting stories about the cheeky chimpanzee Charly, who finds a new home with a Berlin vet family.
Unser Charly
1995
5.4Morden im Norden is a German Police that has been broadcast by Das Erste. The show is set in Lübeck, Germany Morden im Norden is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".
Murder in the North
2012
5.4No synopsis available yet.
Der Staatsanwalt
2005
6.7Hausmeister Krause – Ordnung muss sein is a German sitcom with Tom Gerhardt in the title role, shown from 1999 through 2010 on Sat.1. The series parodies typical German "squareness". Half-day janitor Dieter Krause is the embodiment of the German "square"; he is pernickety, blindly follows order, denounces others, is nosy, consistently puts his own interests above all else, acts subservient to his superiors and is brutish and unjust to those he deemes below him. Many plot elements — mishaps, misunderstandings, and frequent cases of mistaken identity — originate from Boulevard theatre. The characters in the series borrow heavily from those in Tom Gerhardt's film Voll normaaal, in many cases sharing names. In Voll normaaal, Tom Gerhardt played the roles of both Dieter and Tommie Krause; in Hausmeister Krause, Tommie was played by Axel Stein. Daughter Carmen is played by Janine Kunze. Other characters from Voll normaaal, such as Tommie's friend Mario, are relegated to the status of background characters. The scope of action also changed.
Hausmeister Krause – Ordnung muss sein
1999
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Nord Nord Mord
2011
6.0No synopsis available yet.
SOKO Hamburg
2018
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Friesland
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mila
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Die NDR Quizshow
2010
5.2With its expert and attractive crime squad run by these two, Barcelona can be proud of its homicide team: Xavi, independent, impulsive, enigmatic, with a well-functioning network of contacts on the city‘s dark side; and his charming partner Fina, a single mother and self-confident beauty. They‘re never far behind the plotters and schemers who prefer to do their dark dealings after sunset. Their cases take them throughout the Catalan metropolis – out to its suburbs and deep into the heart of the medieval city. With puzzling mysteries waiting to be solved, Xavi and Fina have lots to do before crimes are mercilessly stopped.
Barcelona Crime
2017