Acting

Mario Adorf

Born September 8, 1930 · Zürich, Switzerland

Died April 8, 2026 · aged 95

Mario Adorf (born 8 September 1930) was an Italian-German film and stage actor, best known for his lead role in the 1978 film The Tin Drum and The Italian Connection.

Known For

The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum · 1979

MovieDramaHistory

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Apache Gold

Apache Gold · 1963

MovieWesternAdventure

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert · 1981

Lion of the Desert

MovieHistoryWar

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

The Red Tent

The Red Tent · 1969

MovieAdventureDrama

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow · 1997

Smilla's Sense of Snow

MovieDramaThriller

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.

Fedora

MovieDramaMystery

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.

The Specialists

The Specialists · 1969

The Specialists

Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum · 1975

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Filmography

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The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum · 1979

MovieDramaHistory

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Alfred Matzerath

Apache Gold

Apache Gold · 1963

MovieWesternAdventure

The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the construction supervisor to re-rout the planned railroad straight through Apache land. Old Shatterhand, who works as a measurement technician, discovers the evil plan and searches contact with the Apaches in an effort to avert war.

Frederic Santer

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert · 1981

Lion of the Desert

MovieHistoryWar

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

(uncredited)

The Red Tent

The Red Tent · 1969

MovieAdventureDrama

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Giuseppe Biagi

Smilla's Sense of Snow

Smilla's Sense of Snow · 1997

Smilla's Sense of Snow

MovieDramaThriller

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.

Capt. Sigmund Lukas

Fedora

MovieDramaMystery

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.

Corfu Hotel Manager

The Specialists

The Specialists · 1969

The Specialists

Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.

El Diablo

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum · 1975

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Kommissar Beizmenne

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage · 1970

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

MovieHorrorMystery

An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

Berto Consalvi

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio · 1972

The Adventures of Pinocchio

MovieFantasyDrama

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.

Lola

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.

Schuckert

Major Dundee

Major Dundee · 1965

MovieWesternWar

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.

Sergeant Gomez

Momo

MovieComedyFantasy

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Nicola

Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren

Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren · 2014

Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren

13 people between the end of 60 and the middle 80: they have already experienced many things in their lives. Everyone has their own hopes, desires, conflicts and problems. What unites them is the longing for closeness — for a loving partner and the somewhat unusual way they have chosen to escape their loneliness: speed dating.

Johann Schäfer

I Knew Her Well

I Knew Her Well · 1965

I Knew Her Well

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

Emilio Ricci, aka Bietolone

Ten Little Indians

Ten Little Indians · 1965

Ten Little Indians

MovieCrimeMystery

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one.

Joseph Grohmann

Disobedience

Disobedience · 1981

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let himself die. He is saved by Edith who tries to introduce him to sex. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.

Padre di Luca

Pinocchio

Pinocchio · 2013

MovieDramaFantasy

The world's most loved fairy tale is back in a whole new fantastic imagining in Pinocchio. When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures from joining the circus to visiting the inside of whale! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.

Geppetto

Devil's Paradise

Devil's Paradise · 1987

Devil's Paradise

MovieDramaAdventure

At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.

Schomberg

Vorsicht Mister Dodd

Vorsicht Mister Dodd · 1964

Vorsicht Mister Dodd

Buddy Herman

The Holcroft Covenant

The Holcroft Covenant · 1985

The Holcroft Covenant

MovieActionThriller

A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.

Erich Kessler / Jürgen Mass

The Italian Connection

The Italian Connection · 1972

The Italian Connection

MovieCrimeAction

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

Stunts

Morale 63

Morale 63 · 1963

MovieComedyDrama

The young Marion is arrested by the police for pimping, prostitution and indecent exposure. Reporter Axel Rottmann sense a lucrative story for his newspaper. He makes a deal with Marion, to tell her story.

Axel Rottmann, Reporter

The Camp Followers

The Camp Followers · 1965

The Camp Followers

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Castagnoli

The Cave of the Golden Rose

The Cave of the Golden Rose · 1991

The Cave of the Golden Rose

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

The king desires nothing more than a male heir. But his wife gives birth to a girl Fantaghirò. When she refuses to marry years later, she is sent in the forest where she learns how to ride and fight like a man. She appears disguised in a duel with Prince Romualdo, the son of her father's adversary. Both fall in love, but their marriage brings no peace to the united kingdom. Evil forces are trying to seize power.

the king

Marco Polo

Marco Polo · 1982

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

Giovanni

Smiley's People

Smiley's People · 1982

Smiley's People

SeriesDramaMystery

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

Claus Kretzschmar

Rosa Roth

Rosa Roth · 1994

Rosa Roth is a German television series.

Waffenhändler Willem van Kleve

Kir Royal

Kir Royal · 1986

SeriesDramaComedy

A six-part television series, a parody of the Munich newspaper, its gossip reporter Michael Graeter, and its publisher Anneliese Friedmann. The series centres around the tabloid reporter Baby Schimmerlos, who plays in the Munich "Schicki-Micki" scene of the 1980s.

Generaldirektor Heinrich 'Heini' Haffenloher

Schmidteinander

Schmidteinander · 1990

Schmidteinander

The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio · 1972

The Adventures of Pinocchio

SeriesComedyFamily

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

Direttore del circo

Die Affäre Semmeling

Die Affäre Semmeling · 2002

Die Affäre Semmeling

Die Affäre Semmeling was a 2002 German teleplay, broadcast on ZDF. It starred Mario Adorf as Walter 'Beton-Walter' Wegener, Robert Atzorn as Dr. Klaus Hennig, Heinz Hoenig as Axel Ropert, Stefan Kurt as Sigi Semmeling and Heike Makatsch as Silke Semmeling.

Walter „Beton-Walter“ Wegener

Les aventuriers du Rio Verde

Les aventuriers du Rio Verde · 1992

Les aventuriers du Rio Verde

SeriesAction & Adventure

Gert Bauer

Pirates: Blood Brothers

Pirates: Blood Brothers · 1999

Pirates: Blood Brothers

SeriesAction & Adventure

Two brothers fell in love with the same woman, who was nearly killed by one of them in an accident. After the two men parted in anger, they meet years later when one is a famous pirate and the other one is a soldier who needs to hunt him down...

Coda / Teufelskralle

Kleiner Dodo

Kleiner Dodo · 2007

SeriesAnimation

Onkel Darwin (voice)

Oceano

Damian Centeno

Via Mala

Via Mala · 1985

A family who lives in the Swiss Alpes at the end of the 1920s is abused by a tyrannical drunkard.

Jonas Lauretz

Die Kaltenbach-Papiere

Die Kaltenbach-Papiere · 1991

Die Kaltenbach-Papiere

SeriesCrimeDrama

Three nuclear warheads, the ultimate weapon for terror, blackmailing and mass destruction, are on their way to their final destination in North Africa. Two journalists, Tom Severin and his wife Eva, together with Sharon, weapon dealer Kaltenbach’s daughter, try to stop the deadly cargo.

Istvan Kaltenbach

Die Flucht ohne Ende

Die Flucht ohne Ende · 1985

Die Flucht ohne Ende

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

War veteran Franz Tunda tells his life story.

Wormser

Pinocchio

Pinocchio · 2013

SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy

When a piece of pine-wood falls into the hands of the poor old toy maker, Geppetto, he carves it into a puppet which he names Pinocchio. To Geppetto's delight, Pinocchio comes to life - and like most little boys, he's full of reckless whims and wild ideas! His crazy escapades lead him into a series of madcap adventures! Along his journey, and throughout all the fun, Pinocchio learns to be considerate and courageous and learns what it takes to become a real boy.

Geppetto

Kanzleramt

Kanzleramt · 2005

Kanzleramt is a German television series based on the template of the American tv series The West Wing. It is primarily set in the office of fictional Chancellor of Germany Andreas Weyher, telling stories about the German head of government's political career and private life as a widower and father of a teenage daughter. It was neither a critical nor ratings success, and was cancelled after twelve episodes.

Friedrich Stern

Der Schattenmann

Der Schattenmann · 1996

Der Schattenmann

Jan Herzog

A King for Burning

A King for Burning · 1993

A King for Burning

In 1534, the legendary Jan van Leyden, an Anabaptist, preaches in Münster, causing Catholics and Protestants alike to defect in droves—especially women. This leads to a bloody power struggle between the Anabaptists, the Church, the nobility, and the citizens, which ends in a long siege of Münster by the prince-bishop Franz von Waldeck.

Franz Graf Waldeck

Mino

Mino was the eighth ZDF-Weihnachtsserie, and aired in 1986. The series was broadcast in Germany on ZDF, and consisted of 6 episodes. Broadcasting in Germany began on December 25, 1986. The series was also broadcast in Italy, and consisted of 4 episodes. Broadcasting in Italy began on December 28, 1986. The series was an Italian-German co-production. It was inspired by the Italian novel The little Alpino by Salvator Gotta.

Maggiore Lupo

Der große Bellheim

Der große Bellheim · 1993

Der große Bellheim

SeriesDramaFamily

When the long-established family business is threatened with bankruptcy, the former head of the department store chain leaves his retirement home and attempts to get the business back on track. Together with three friends who are also retired, all of whom are experts in their fields, he declares war on the banks, speculators, and a supermarket chain.

Peter Bellheim

Vera - Die Frau des Sizilianers

Vera - Die Frau des Sizilianers · 2005

Vera - Die Frau des Sizilianers

Carlo Scalli

Der letzte Patriarch

Der letzte Patriarch · 2010

Der letzte Patriarch

Konrad Hansen