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Armin Mueller-Stahl
17 December 1930
Armin Mueller-Stahl played in 17 movies in the Drama, Comedy, Music, Romance, Action, Family, Fantasy, War, Biography, Music, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi genres.
Armin Mueller-Stahl got succeed with average imdb rating 6.5.
A harmonious intellect, East Prussian-born Armin Mueller-Stahl was a noted concert violinist while still in his teens. Mueller-Stahl turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950, later launching a 25-year be stingy as a tautologies performer at Theater aum Schiffbaurdamm. The champ of the GDR State Prize in spite of his film guide, Mueller-Stahl became persona non grata with the communist regime in 1977, owed to his activism in protesting government quelling of performing artists.
<... p> He relocated to the West in 1980, where he recouped his film stardom in such productions as Fassbinder's Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982) and Agnieszka Holland's Angry Garner (1985), pleasing the Montreal Fete "Most successfully Actor" haul for his performance in the latter. Most American viewers beginning became aware of Mueller-Stahl middle of his portrayal of Russian familiar Samanov in the controversial miniseries Amerika (1987). He then gained peradventure his greatest attention to obsolescent by U.S. film fans benefit of two radically original characterizations: aging Nazi antagonistic bad guy Mike Laszlo in Costa-Gavras' The Music Surround (1989) and Jewish grandpa Sam Krischinsky in Barry Levinson's Avalon (1990). He fatigued the interlude of the decade working steadily in Hollywood and far, appearing in such films as Jim Jarmusch's Edge of night on Soil (1991), The X-Files (1998), and Jakob the Liar (1999). In 1996, he earned particular acclaim and a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of pianist David Helfgott's domineering father in Scott Hicks' Rub up.
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