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Otto Sander (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈzandɐ]; June 30, 1941 – September 12, 2013) was a German film, theater, and voice actor. Sander grew up in Kassel, where he graduated in 1961 from the Friedrichgymnasium. After leaving school he spent his military service in 1961/62 with the Bundesmarine and left as reserve fenrik. Sander then studied theatre science, history of art and philosophy. In 1965 he made his acting debut at the Düsseldorfer chamber plays. After his first film work in the same year he abandoned his studies in 1967, and went to Munich to become a full-time actor. His career is closely connected with the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin under the direction of Peter Stein. From 1980 onwards Sander appeared on several of Berlin's theatre stages, among others at the Schillertheater in 1981, at the Freie Volksbühne in 1985 and in 1989 at the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm. More recently he starred in Hauptmann von Köpenick at the Schauspielhaus Bochum (2004). In 1990, he was a member of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. Among his best-known film roles are the angel Cassiel in Wings of Desire and its sequel Faraway, So Close! by Wim Wenders, and a shell-shocked U-boat commander, Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen, in Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot. Sander also appeared in The Tin Drum (1979) as a trumpeter and in Comedian Harmonists, a biopic about the musical group of the same name. He also played a professor in the movie The Promise about the division of Berlin by the wall. In 1999 he played a role in Rosa von Praunheim's movie The Einstein of Sex.
as Eckehardt Tiedgen
as Leonhard Asmussen
as Narrator (voice)
as Helmut
as Erasmus (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Franz
as Erzähler (voice)
as Bernd Kortens
as Maitre de Plaisir on Stage
as Himself / Gert Bastian
as Narrator
as Vater Sass
as Professor Steinach
as Bühnenmanager
as Petrus
as Kaiser Wilhelm II (voice)
as Staatsanwalt Baldur Meixner
as Vater Lano
as Herr Jelke
as Walker
as David
as Adolf Hitler Double
as Vater
as Mr. Higgins
as Korte
as Cassiel (segment "Wim Wenders")
as kirchlicher Superintendent
as Professor Lorenz
as Dr. Gerold Stadler
as Der Mann
as Prof. Hinzelmann
as Maður á hesti
as Vershinin
as Salzmann
as Sprecher
as Cassiel
as Vater
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Robert
as Erwin Lubowitz
as Markus Petarka
as Otto Spalt
as Cassiel
as Professor Spalt
as Gerichtsgehilfe
as Alexander Ignatjewitsch Werschinin
as Loan officer Grop
as Richard Wagner
as Karl Liebknecht
as Inspector Spalt
as Narrator
as Rudi
as Nummer Sieben
as Phillip Thomsen
as Kowalski
as Staatsanwalt
as Meyn
as Richard
as Wilfried
as Eberhard Winter
as Brother, Forstmeister
as Pjotr Suslov
as Lehmann
as Harald Bornemann
as Tiresias
as Rulle Ruhlsdorff
as Obrist Kottwitz
as Fritzchen
as Ludwig
