Line #36 Creator/TilSchweiger


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3	->''"I just fooled around in front of the camera and earned money for it. Every policeman, every soldier, every nurse - they all do more for society. I just rent my face."''
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5	Tilman Valentin Schweiger (born December 19, 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau, then-UsefulNotes/WestGermany), shortened to Til Schweiger, is probably UsefulNotes/{{Germany}}'s best-known modern actor internationally, as well as a director and producer.
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7	He is the most commercially successful director on the nation's movie market. With over 51 million admissions and counting, no other German filmmaker has put more butts in theater seats in his native country than him. He runs his own production company, Barefoot Films, based in UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}}.
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9	Interestingly, as an actor he is more internationally known for his "tough guy" action roles, whereas at home he's best known for playing in comedies and dramas.
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11	!!His works include:
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13	* ''Film/KnockinOnHeavensDoor'' (1997) as Martin Brest
14	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' (1997) as Hercules (German dub)
15	* ''Film/JudasKiss'' (1998) as Ruben Rubenbauer
16	* ''Film/SLCPunk'' (1998) as Mark
17	* ''Film/TheReplacementKillers'' (1998) as Ryker
18	* ''Film/BangBoomBang'' (1999) as Brown
19	* ''Film/{{Driven}}'' (2001) as as Beau Brandenburg
20	* ''[[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life]]'' (2003) as Sean
21	* ''Film/InEnemyHands'' (2004) as Capt. Jonas Herdt
22	* ''Film/{{King Arthur\|2004}}'' (2004) as Cynric
23	* ''Film/LuckyLukeAndTheDaltons'' (2004) as ComicBook/LuckyLuke
24	* ''Film/AgnesAndHisBrothers'' (2004) as the library girl's boyfriend
25	* ''Film/RedBaron'' (2008) as Leutnant Werner Voss
26	* ''Film/FarCry'' (2008) as Jack Carver
27	* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'' (2009) as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz
28	* ''Film/NewYearsEve'' (2011) as James Schwab
29	* ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers\|2011}}'' (2011) as Cagliostro
30	* ''Film/{{This Means War\|2012}}'' (2012) as Karl Heinrich
31	* ''Series/{{Tatort}}'' (since 2013) as Kriminalhauptkommissare Nikolas "Nick" Tschiller
32	* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'' (2014) as the German cop
33	* ''Film/FourAgainstTheBank'' (2016) as Chris Hoffman
34	* ''Film/AtomicBlonde'' (2017) as the Watchmaker
35	* ''Film/{{Medieval}}'' (2022) as Henry III of Rosenberg
36	* ''Film/TheMinistryOfUngentlemanlyWarfare'' (2024) as Heinrich Luhr
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38	!!Tropes and trivia in his works:
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40	* TheCameo: He has made very short appearances in a number of films (such as ''Agnes and his Brothers'', ''Bang Boom Bang'' and ''Atomic Blonde'').
41	* ContractualPurity: He's made it a point of his career to refuse any role in which he would be wearing a UsefulNotes/{{Nazi\|Germany}}[=/=]UsefulNotes/WorldWarII [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] uniform. He agreed to appear in ''Inglourious Basterds'' and wear such a uniform because the character, Hugo Stiglitz, is a rebellious German soldier who [[SociopathicHero kills plenty of his own kind and joins the Allies]].
42	* [[invoked]]DirectedByCastMember: Starred in and directed ''The Polar Bear'', ''Barfuss'', ''Rabbit Without Ears'', ''Rabbit Without Ears 2'', ''1½ Knights – In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde'', ''Kokowääh'', ''Kokowääh 2'', ''Schutzengel'' and ''Head Full of Honey''.
43	* TheQuietOne: One of his most notable traits is his hard to understand voice that always sounds as if he were barely opening his mouth while speaking.
44	* StageDad: His three daughters have all been acting since childhood, almost exclusively in his own projects, and it's hard to find a Schweiger film that doesn't star at least one of them.
45	* [[invoked]]ThoseTwoActors: He has frequently starred alongside Creator/MatthiasSchweighofer.
46	* TheUnintelligible: His mumbling delivery is often parodied in German comedy.

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