| rdfs:comment | - Gerald Alexander Held (born 30 November 1957, München) is a German actor. His father was Erné Held, an actor, and his wife was a tailor. He joined and graduated from the Otto Falckenberg Drama School in Munich, afterwards at the Munich Chamber Theatre. Other notable performances were at the State Theatre in Hanover, Berlin, the Free People's Stage, Theater Basel and the Salzburg Festival.
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| abstract | - Gerald Alexander Held (born 30 November 1957, München) is a German actor. His father was Erné Held, an actor, and his wife was a tailor. He joined and graduated from the Otto Falckenberg Drama School in Munich, afterwards at the Munich Chamber Theatre. Other notable performances were at the State Theatre in Hanover, Berlin, the Free People's Stage, Theater Basel and the Salzburg Festival. Held appeared in the film for the first time in 1993, in Morlock, directed by Klaus Emmerich. Afterwards, he began to appear in many other TV productions. Due to his clear cut voice, he has been often cast to play Nazi characters, such as Schindler's List, where he played a SS Bureaucrat, Sophie Scholl - The Final Days, where he played the Gestapo officer Mohr, along with André Hennicke and Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel, where he played Walther Hewel. He also starred in many famous crime TV series, such as Tatort. In 2007, he played alongside Iris Berben the greedy villain Henry of Beam mountain in the TV two-parter Africa, mon amour. In 2008, he was the opponent of Brandner Kaspar Alois Kugler in the eponymous film by Joseph Vilsmaier. In 2009, he appeared in Margarethe von Trotta's film Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen beside Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung about the political beating time abbot Kuno, and in the same year he starred in Sönke Wortmann's Pope Joan as Lothar. In 2010 he played the character of the public prosecutor Dr. Sasse alongside Ulrich Tukur in Dieter Wedel TV two-parter Gier.
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