Acting
Harald Schmidt
Born
1957-08-18 (69)
Place of birth
Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, West Germany [now Germany]
Known for
Acting
Credits
56 titles
Harald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, comedian, television presenter, and author, best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows. The son of refugees who fled the Sudetenland (now the Czech Republic) in 1945, Schmidt spent his youth in the Swabian town of Nürtingen. Due to his strict Catholic upbringing, he became actively involved in the Roman Catholic Church, serving as a choirmaster and playing the organ. At the age of 21, Schmidt moved to Stuttgart, where he attended drama school for three years. Subsequently, he gained stage experience at the *Städtische Bühne* (Municipal Theater) in Augsburg. His first role was that of the Second Mamluk in Lessing’s *Nathan the Wise*…
Known for
4.7Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Volle Kanne
1999
7.4The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Leute heute
1997
4.3The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Abendschau
2000
5.0The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
Das Traumschiff
1981
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.4He is considered one of the most important athletes in football history. Franz Beckenbauer was the shining light of German football, won everything there was to win in club football as a player and coach, became world champion as a player and coach and, as the father of the "Summer Fairy Tale", brought the 2006 World Cup to Germany. He was also a pioneering advertising icon and an occasional singer and actor. The man whom everyone in his home country simply calls “Kaiser” shaped the image of the Federal Republic of Germany like no one else. The legendary footballer seems like a national treasure today, but little is known about the person behind the ball artist. Public knowledge of his private life is shaped by his long-term relationships with four women. The documentary, completed shortly before his death, uses archive material and prominent contemporary witnesses from sports, politics and entertainment to weave both facets into a look at a life's work with light and shadow.
Beckenbauer
2024
7.0A crazy Facebook deal and trouble over the "Gruscheln": studiVZ rose at an incredible pace in the 2000s to become Germany's largest social network. This drove its US competitor Facebook crazy. So much so that studiVZ founder Ehssan Dariani and his co-founders met Mark Zuckerberg in Silicon Valley and were presented with an offer that would go down in history. But a rise in ecstasy was followed by a dramatic fall - of the network and its most important founder. The documentary is about scandals, personal stories of loss and the question: did the studiVZ founders just steal everything?
Gruschel mich! Die studiVZ-Story
2025
2010s · 6 titles
7.1The devil tricks a little boy off his laughter in exchange for assured wins in all his bets. It depicts his journey after the deal with the devil, how he loses his soul bit by bit with each win.
The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter
2017
6.8Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Stopped on Track
2011
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Rosamunde Pilcher: Ein Doktor und drei Frauen
2016
6.0Eleven-year-old outsider Stephan arrives at Castle Schreckenstein, an all-boys boarding school, where he learns about life within a community and soon finds himself being part of a funny 'pranks-competition' the boys are currently fighting against the neighboring girls of Castle Rosenfels. When the girls have no choice but to move to Schreckenstein after a failed prank, life at school is suddenly nothing like it used to be...
Schreckenstein Castle
2016
3.8A man had a donkey that had carried the sacks to the mill for many years, but whose strength was now coming to an end, so that he became increasingly unfit for work.
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
2010
4.5A social satire in which a chauffeur accidentally becomes the editor of an online newspaper.
Zettl
2012
2000s · 4 titles
5.5The Seven Dwarves live deep within a female-free-zone of the Enchanted Forest, but they cannot resist the innocent charms of Snow White when she enters their world. So when the evil queen abducts her, it is up to the dwarves to save her life.
7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald
2004
4.7Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.
About the Looking for and the Finding of Love
2005
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Frei:Gespielt - Mehmet Scholl - Über das Spiel hinaus
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Best of Harald Schmidt - Respektlos und Rezeptfrei
2000
1990s · 4 titles
5.0Leo the foreign legionnaire, Wilhelm the priest and Charly the brothel owner are unequal brothers. Wilhelm is determined to have Charly's brothel closed down. When Charly kidnaps Wilhelm to his brothel, he recognizes his brother - and promptly pretends to be him. And then Leo comes along as well.
Nich' mit Leo
1995
5.6Hannes Engel is a successful radio presenter in the countryside. By chance, he is heard by program director Conrad Scheffer one night, who immediately recognizes the potential of the cheeky presenter and wants to sign him up as the new figurehead for his late show, which is in a ratings slump. But this proves to be more difficult than planned. First of all, they have to get rid of the old show host, then Engel's wife has just been thrown out of one of the station's productions, and Engel is also being pursued by a sensationalist tabloid journalist who never misses a chance to drag Engel through the mud....
Late Show
1999
5.7A new case for "The Model Boys": The two Cologne commissioners Docker and Dretzke to take the next 14 days a journalist to their missions.
Die Musterknaben 2
1999
A short film adaption of the novel "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.
Die Samsas
1998
Series credits
4.7Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991
4.7Every evening at 6:45 p.m. sharp, a prominent guest takes a seat on the red sofa—and DAS! provides daily updates on what's hot in the north.
DAS!
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Volle Kanne
1999
7.4The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Leute heute
1997
4.3The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin.
Abendschau
2000
5.0The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
Das Traumschiff
1981
5.0The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
Das Traumschiff
1981
4.5Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
Beckmann
1999
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Nachtcafé
1987
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen bei Maischberger
2003
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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
1994
9.0The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Bambi
1948
9.0The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Bambi
1948
9.0The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Bambi
1948
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen der Woche
2000
5.6A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Wetten, dass..?
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
2007
No synopsis available yet.
Sabine Christiansen
1998
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Goldene Kamera
1984
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Kulturplatz
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ringlstetter
2016
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Boulevard Bio
1991
No synopsis available yet.
Die Pyramide
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Münchner Runde
2000
4.7No synopsis available yet.
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
1980
No synopsis available yet.
Blauer Panther
1989
No synopsis available yet.
Mitternachtsspitzen
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Romy Award
1990
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause
2020
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Kurzstrecke mit Pierre M. Krause
2020
No synopsis available yet.
Erlesen
2010
Musikantenstadl is a live television entertainment program broadcast in the German language throughout Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It features Austrian, Swiss, and German popular folk music, international pop and folk music as well as interviews and comedy. As a production of Eurovision, is co-produced by the Österreichischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Schweizer Fernsehen. Aside from the live television broadcasts it also tours in Austria and Germany as live concerts. It is currently hosted by Andy Borg and its location of broadcast varies between towns in different regions in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. The show could be compared to being a much larger German version of the UK 1970's entertainment show The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. However Musikantenstadl consists of a large ski lodge Set construction and not a Social Club.
Musikantenstadl
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Pssst ...
1990
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Deutscher Fernsehpreis
1999
8.0A "children's birthday party" for adults. Each show featured a celebrity guest who had to take part in crazy, silly and often deliberately "moronic" games. Both presenters had to compete against the respective guest in various games.
Alles Nichts Oder?!
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Die Gruaberin
2025