- Lived three years in the Canadian mountains and worked in a mine.
- Played the role of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höß in two completely unrelated productions: Sophie's Choice (1982) and War and Remembrance (1988).
- Attended acting lessons at the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule in Munich from 1967 to 1969.
- His father was a lawyer.
- He was dubbed by David de Keyser in "Gandhi".
- Popular on television in the title role of Anwalt Abel as a lawyer taking on seemingly hopeless cases.
- Usually plays men of action, sometimes shady characters on the wrong side of the law.
- First acted on stage with the Bayerische Staatsschauspiel, then, from 1969 to 1974 with the Munich Kammerspiele.
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