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Richard Sammel

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Richard Sammel
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. SPENCER is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.



Directed by Pablo Larraín

Written by Steven Knight  Starring Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins
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Spencer (2021)
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An artist of international range and reputation, Richard Sammel is fluent, and has acted in, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. He has starred in some forty films and sixty television films, shot on locations ranging from Sweden to Italy, Portugal to Slovakia, England to the Balkans, but also Canada, South Africa, and the United States, for such directors as Quentin Tarantino, Luc Besson, Martin Campbell, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Lelouche, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Roberto Begnini, Dario Argento, McG and Michel Hazanavicius. He has acted, danced and directed for the stage in theaters all over Europe, Russia and Canada.

The prolific actor has recently completed "A Day Like a Week", a supernatural thriller in which Sammel stars opposite Armand Assante for director Kader Ayd. Sammel returns for the seventh season of "The French Village", an enormously popular French TV series in which he has had a leading role since its beginning. Sammel also stars as 'Thomas Eichhorst' in the hit FX series "The Strain", for director Guillermo Del Toro and Carlton Cuse.

Sammel made his professional acting debut in 1981 on stage in Hildesheim, Germany. From 1983, he worked in France, as a musician, dancer and actor where his breakthrough came in 1987, with an acclaimed performance in Catch, by the Company Nelson Dumont. Beginning in 1989, he worked in Rome with theater director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, and met Susan Strasberg, who assisted him in securing his film debut, the lead role in Il Piacere Delle Carni, for director Barbara Barni. In 1993, Sammel moved to Paris and landed the lead role in the musical film version of the Brecht-Eisler opera The Lindberghs Flight. An indelible performance in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in 2009 brought Sammel international recognition. In 2012, he won "Best Actor" at the Syracuse International Film Festival for his performance in Ruggero Dipaola's Apartment in Athens.

His other film credits include Les Miserable du XX Siècle for director Claude Lelouche; Life is Beautiful for director Roberto Begnini; the original Taxi written by Luc Besson; Casino Royale for director Martin Campbell; Beauty and the Beast opposite Vincent Cassel and Léa Seydoux for director Christophe Gans; and most recently McG's Three Days to Kill opposite Kevin Costner.

Richard Sammel was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied music, especially the violin, and then went on to follow his true passion, which was acting. He studied both music and acting in Hildesheim, Germany; acting and directing in Aix en Provence; and acting with both Susan Strasberg and Francesca de Sapio in Rome. He is drawn to roles that require physical play, rhythm and timing, a reflection of his dance training; and those that require a deep emotional inner life, a reflection of his intense training in method acting. He lives in Paris and Berlin.
BornOctober 13, 1960
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Richard Sammel at an event for The Strain (2014)
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Richard Sammel in The Strain (2014)
Rupert Everett and Richard Sammel in The Name of the Rose (2019)
Julie Engelbrecht and Richard Sammel in The Strain (2014)
Julie Engelbrecht and Richard Sammel in The Strain (2014)
Julie Engelbrecht and Richard Sammel in The Strain (2014)
Julie Engelbrecht and Richard Sammel in The Strain (2014)
Richard Sammel and Ruta Gedmintas in The Strain (2014)

Known for

Brad Pitt, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz, and Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Inglourious Basterds
8.3
  • Sgt. Rachtman
  • 2009
Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (2006)
Casino Royale
8.0
  • Adolph Gettler
  • 2006
Kevin Costner in 3 Days to Kill (2014)
3 Days to Kill
6.2
  • The Wolf
  • 2014
The Strain (2014)
The Strain
7.3
TV Series
  • Thomas Eichorst

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  • Stealing McCloud
    • Pre-production
  • L'ordine del tempo
    • Post-production
  • Piccolina bella
    • In Development
  • Pierrot le fou
    • In Production
  • A Day Like a Week
    • Completed
  • Richard Sammel, Fleur Geffrier, and Florian Boulay in Double Je (2022)
    Double Je
  • Je t'aime, filme-moi! (2022)
    Je t'aime, filme-moi!
  • Neneh Superstar (2022)
    Neneh Superstar
  • Dominic Cooper and Douglas Booth in That Dirty Black Bag (2022)
    That Dirty Black Bag
  • Avant-garde
  • Faking Hitler (2021)
    Faking Hitler
  • Baden gegen Württemberg - Männer, Macht und Frauenfunk
  • Maradona: Blessed Dream (2021)
    Maradona: Blessed Dream
  • Kristen Stewart in Spencer (2021)
    Spencer
  • La Corde (2021)
    La Corde
  • Trine Dyrholm in Margrete: Queen of the North (2021)
    Margrete: Queen of the North
  • César Wagner (2020)
    César Wagner
  • Mikko Nousiainen, Irina Björklund, Richard Sammel, Louise Peterhoff, Kardo Razzazi, and Bouzan Hadawi in Peacemaker (2020)
    Peacemaker
  • Anke Engelke in The Last Word (2020)
    The Last Word
  • John Lynch, Richard Sammel, Alexandre Willaume, Tomohisa Yamashita, Álvaro Morte, Sandra Andreis, Laura Bach, and Katharine O'Donnelly in The Head (2020)
    The Head

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Trailer originale italiano [OV]
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On Tonight
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"Fight or Die"

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