Credits

• 2025 · Frankenstein as Harlander
• 2025 · Dracula: A Love Tale as Priest
• 2024 · Old Guy as Danny Dolinski
• 2023 · The Portable Door as Humphrey Wells / John Wells Snr
• 2023 · The Consultant as Regus Patoff
• 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema as Self
• 2022 · Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio as Count Volpe (voice)
• 2022 · Dead for a Dollar as Max Borlund
• 2021 · The French Dispatch as Paul Duval
• 2021 · Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil as Self (archive footage)
• 2021 · No Time to Die as Blofeld
• 2021 · Only Murders in the Building as Bash Steed
• 2020 · Rifkin’s Festival as Death
• 2020 · Staged as Christoph
• 2020 · Most Dangerous Game as Miles Sellars
• 2019 · QT8: The First Eight as Self
• 2019 · Georgetown as Ulrich Mott
• 2019 · Alita: Battle Angel as Dr. Dyson Ido
• 2017 · Downsizing as Dusan Mirkovic
• 2017 · Tulip Fever as Cornelis Sandvoort
• 2016 · Clique Talk as Self
• 2016 · The Legend of Tarzan as Captain Leon Rom
• 2015 · Spectre as Blofeld
• 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self
• 2015 · The Late Late Show with James Corden as Self - Guest
• 2014 · Big Eyes as Walter Keane
• 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
• 2014 · Horrible Bosses 2 as Bert Hanson
• 2014 · Muppets Most Wanted as Christoph Waltz
• 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
• 2013 · The Zero Theorem as Qohen Leth
• 2013 · Epic as Mandrake (voice)
• 2013 · Ode to Joy as The Man
• 2012 · Django Unchained as Dr. King Schultz
• 2012 · 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief as Self
• 2012 · It Is No Dream: The Life Of Theodor Herzl as Theodor Herzl (voice)
• 2012 · Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee as Self
• 2011 · Carnage as Alan Cowan
• 2011 · The Three Musketeers as Richelieu
• 2011 · Water for Elephants as August Rosenbluth
• 2011 · The Green Hornet as Chudnofsky
• 2010 · Conan as Self
• 2009 · Inglourious Basterds as COL. Hans Landa
• 2008 · Todsünde as Sebastian Flies
• 2008 · Das Geheimnis im Wald as Hans Kortmann
• 2008 · Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis as Self
• 2007 · Die Zürcher Verlobung - Drehbuch zur Liebe as Frank 'Büffel' Arbogast
• 2007 · Die Verzauberung as Dr. Helmut Bahr
• 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
• 2006 · Franziskas Gespür für Männer as Karl Löwen
• 2006 · Kommissar Stolberg as Paul Büttner
• 2006 · Lapislazuli - Im Auge des Bären as Czerny
• 2005 · G&G – Gesichter und Geschichten as Self
• 2005 · Der Staatsanwalt as Dr. Claudius Tressen
• 2004 · Schöne Witwen küssen besser as Jean-France
• 2004 · Der Elefant: Mord verjährt nie as Richard Seemann
• 2003 · Berlin Blues as Arzt
• 2003 · The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• 2003 · Tiger Eyes See Better as Dr. Thilo Rylow
• 2003 · Jennerwein as Pföderl
• 2003 · Dorian as Rolf Steiner
• 2003 · Dienstreise - Was für eine Nacht as Klaus-Dieter Lehmann
• 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
• 2003 · Jagd auf den Flammenmann as Brisky
• 2003 · Angst as Analytiker
• 2003 · Gun-shy as Johannsen
• 2002 · Under Suspicion as Thomas Sell
• 2001 · Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express as Ossama/Tarik
• 2001 · Engel sucht Flügel as Caspari
• 2001 · Queen's Messenger as Ben Samm
• 2001 · She Who Must Be Obeyed as Michael Vincey
• 2000 · The Beast as Finanzbeamter Fink
• 2000 · Falling Rocks as Louis
• 2000 · Ordinary Decent Criminal as Peter
• 1999 · Dessine-moi un jouet as Klaus Hermann
• 1999 · German Television Award as Self
• 1999 · Die Braut as Herzog Carl August
• 1998 · Night Time as Becker
• 1998 · Der letzte Zeuge as Martin York
• 1998 · Vickys Alptraum as Johnny
• 1997 · Schimanski as Klaus Mandel
• 1996 · Catherine the Great as Mirovich
• 1995 · Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
• 1995 · Kulturzeit as self
• 1995 · Prinz zu entsorgen as Roman Hertz
• 1994 · Jacob as Morasch
• 1994 · Inspector Rex as Martin Wolf
• 1994 · Rosa Roth as Wietze
• 1994 · Faust as Gerhardt Schulze-Leitner
• 1992 · 5 Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom as Hartwig Klemmnitz
• 1990 · Romy Award as Self
• 1989 · Goldeneye as German Spy
• 1989 · Blauer Panther as Self
• 1986 · The Lenz Papers as Franz Sigel
• 1982 · Headstand as Markus Dorn
• 1981 · A Case For Two as Alf
• 1981 · Wetten, dass..? as Self
• 1979 · Feuer! as Karl Albrecht Schlick
• 1979 · Breakthrough as Paramedic
• 1977 · Der Alte as Hans Baumeister
• 1977 · Der Alte as Christian Kamp
• 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• 1974 · 3 nach 9 as Self
• 1974 · Derrick as Eberhard Bothe
• 1974 · Derrick as Schumann
• 1971 · Polizeiruf 110 as Dr. Grins
• 1970 · Scene of the Crime as Inspektor Passini
• 1970 · Scene of the Crime as Gerd Weißenbach
• 1970 · Scene of the Crime as Prof. Robert Henze
• 1964 · Grimme Award as Self
• 1953 · The Oscars as Self - Presenter
• 1948 · Bambi as Self
• Future · Wilder & Me as Billy Wilder
• 1998 · Das Finale as Kant
• 1997 · Our God's Brother as Max, Maksymilian Gierymski
• 1995 · The Tourist as Stephan Görner
• 1995 · Ein Anfang von etwas as Herbert Sobieski
• 1991 · The Gravy Train Goes East as Han-Joachim Dorfmann
• 1987 · Der einsame Weg as Felix
• 1985 · Die Wupper as August Puderbach, Färber
• 1982 · The Mysterious Stranger as Ernst Wasserman
• 1982 · Dr. Margarete Johnson as Rainer
• 1982 · Fire and Sword as Tristan
• 1981 · The World Machine as Young Painter / New York Diner Youth
• Future · Gilded Rage as Thomas Gilbert Sr.
• 2020 · Little Berlin as Narrator
• 2020 · Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years as Himself
• 2019 · Polanski, le travail à l'oeuvre as Self
• 2015 · Oh du mein Österreich as Self
• 2015 · The Making of Big Eyes as Himself
• 2014 · Der Meisterfälscher as Self
• 2013 · The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers as Menachem Begin (voice)
• 2008 · Das jüngste Gericht as Peters
• 2008 · Die Anwälte as Herbert Jahn
• 2005 · Die Patriarchin as Wolf Sevening
• 2004 · Mörderische Suche as Richard Benedek
• 2004 · Scheidungsopfer Mann as Benedikt von Arn
• 2003 · Two Days of Hope as Michael Berg
• 2003 · Der Mörder ist unter uns as Martin Bach
• 2002 · Weihnachtsmann gesucht as Johannes Böhmke
• 2001 · Der Tanz mit dem Teufel - Die Entführung des Richard Oetker as Dieter Cilov
• 2001 · Rieke's Love as Trainer Peter Karlhoff
• 1998 · Love Scenes from Planet Earth as Charly
• 1998 · Einsteins Ende as
• 1998 · Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten as Moritz Fink
• 1998 · Rache für mein totes Kind as Paul
• 1996 · You Are Not Alone - The Roy Black Story as Roy Black
• 1995 · Die Staatsanwältin as Andreas Doepke
• 1995 · Man in Search of Woman as Christoph
• 1994 · Tag der Abrechnung - Der Amokläufer von Euskirchen as Erwin Mikolajczyk
• 1992 · Die Angst wird bleiben as Manfred
• 1991 · St. Petri Schnee as
• 1991 · Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe as Jan Tytz
• 1990 · The Gravy Train as Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann
• 1989 · Quicker Than the Eye as Polizeichef
• 1989 · The Mortal Fortune as Guy on Train (uncredited)
• 1988 · The Alien Years as Stefan Mueller
• 1979 · Parole Chicago as Ede
• Future · Every Note Played as Richard
• 1987 · Das andere Leben as Stefan
• 1986 · Wahnfried as Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1983 · The Sandman as Nathanael
• 1978 · Die goldene Rose von Montreux as
• 1977 · Der Einstand as Günter Vesely
• 1975 · Am dam des as Self