Age: 67
male
Ulrich Matthes was born in Berlin. He studied acting in the early 1980's in Berlin under Else Bongers. Ulrich Matthes studied German and English, because he really wanted to become a teacher, so he also took private acting lessons during his studies. His first engagement brought him to the Vereinigte Bühnen in Krefeld, where he played the title role in "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg". Later he came to Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Bavarian State Theatre, the Munich Studio Theater and the Schaubühne place. Since the 2004/2005 season, he is member of the ensemble at Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the 2004 movieThe Ninth Day, he plays Fr. Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest imprisoned at Dachau. In 2005 he was voted "Actor of the Year" by 'Theater heute' magazine for his performance in Edward Albees' "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". Ulrich Matthes has also dubbed many American actors such as Kenneth Braga, Malcom McDowell, Charlie Sheen, Ralph Fiennes, and Richard Thomas. Description above from the Wikia site Hitler Parody, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikia.
Ulrich Matthes
Michael Duwald
for Michael Duwald in Cold Files ( Die Kalten Akten )
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi
Cold Files is a surreal German crime mystery set in the early 2000s. Johann Stolz, a disgraced 50-year-old former detective, returns to the police force as a nobody in the archives. His job is to read unsolved cold cases and file them away. Until every file becomes a door. Johann has to go to the actual crime scene, and once he steps onto the location, the world shifts. Like an invisible spirit, he sees the murder with brutal clarity. Time rewinds around him. Footsteps. Voices. The killer’s route. The victim’s final moments. It all plays out in front of his eyes. The first presence to find him is Lydia Finkel, a rape and murder victim who becomes his guide. She pulls Johann toward scenes no one wants reopened, showing him details that never made it into reports. Johann has to turn what he witnessed into real evidence before anyone labels him unstable. Case by case, he exposes killers the system missed, until a pattern points back to a legend from the East Germany era under Soviet control. A faceless murderer known as Der Gesichtlose. When Johann reaches Lydia’s file, he returns to her crime scene and relives everything. And there, in the sharpest vision of all, he learns the truth. The man he’s been hunting is the one who killed her. Now Johann isn’t sorting old failures. He’s being pulled straight toward the most dangerous case of his life.
