David Bennent

David Bennent

Born: September 9, 1966
in Lausanne, Switzerland
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David Bennent (born September 9, 1966) is a Swiss actor.

He was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His parents are actor Heinz Bennent and former dancer Diane Mansart. His sister Anne is also an actress.

He has lived in Germany and France as well as Switzerland and speaks fluent French and English.

When he was 12 he starred in The Tin Drum, which caused much controversy because David was allegedly shown in sex scenes with an adult. Aged 19, he starred as Honeythorn Gump in the movie Legend, co-starring alongside Tom Cruise and Mia Sara.

Bennett has appeared in such plays as Peer Gynt (2004), Die Juden (2003), Michael Kramer (2003), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2002).

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Spuk unterm Riesenrad
Title: Spuk unterm Riesenrad
Character: Rumpelstilzchen
Released: February 22, 2024
Type: Movie
Tammi is annoyed. Instead of traveling to Formentera and presenting her followers with dreamy photos, her mother Simone takes her to the middle of nowhere to attend the funeral of her grandfather Jackel, a complete stranger. There she also met her aunt Britta and her children. There isn't even cell phone reception in the boring amusement park, and Tammi has little or nothing to do with her cousin Umbo and Cousin Cookie. But suddenly something incredible happens: During a thunderstorm, three worn-out ghost train characters come to life - the witch, the giant and Rumpelstiltskin. Tammi recognizes them as perfect allies to wreak havoc and finally escape this boring wasteland. But unfortunately she did the math without her own family and the stubbornness of the spirits. Suddenly everyone has claimed the amusement park for themselves and a wild chaos ensues.
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The Universal Theory
Title: The Universal Theory
Character: Kommissar Arnold
Released: October 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets Karin, a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know more about him than she can know. Suddenly, mysterious deaths begin to pile up and Johannes tries to uncover the secret under the mountain.
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To Stage the Music - Heiner Goebbels
Title: To Stage the Music - Heiner Goebbels
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Heiner Goebbels, an eclectic composer who, in his fifty-year career, has experimented with everything, is also the main figure in this film, which goes over the creative process that led him to conceive A House of Call, his latest symphony.
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Title: Dogs of Berlin
Character: Späti
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: TV
A politically sensitive murder forces two disparate detectives into a battle with the Berlin underworld and a confrontation with their own corruption.
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Happy as Lazzaro
Title: Happy as Lazzaro
Character: Swiss engineer
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
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The Invisible Film
Title: The Invisible Film
Character: Podsneznikow
Released: October 19, 2017
Type: Movie
The famous director Sandro is shooting invisible films with faith in the purity of his work. Having promised the leading role of his new film to his big love, he has to face the fact that there is nothing to see in his films.
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Das schaffen wir schon
Title: Das schaffen wir schon
Character: Lukas Grasser
Released: September 7, 2017
Type: Movie
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Planetarium
Title: Planetarium
Character: Juncker
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1930s France, two sisters who are thought to be able to communicate with ghosts meet a visionary producer while performing in Paris.
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Fog in August
Title: Fog in August
Character: Oja
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what was happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than five thousand children died in the Nazi euthanasia program.
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A Dangerous Fortune
Title: A Dangerous Fortune
Character: Amish Bowles
Released: January 25, 2016
Type: Movie
A shocking secret behind a young boy's death leads to three generations of treachery in the midst of the wealth and decadence of Victorian England.
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Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Gold
Title: Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Gold
Character: Paul Daeron
Released: March 19, 2015
Type: Movie
A journalist bites off more than she can chew investigating a deadly secret.
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Title: Shades of Guilt
Character: Bernhard Strelitz
Released: February 20, 2015
Type: TV
In the final analysis, it all comes down to guilt, different shades of guilt that one assumes in a single moment of thoughtlessness or in months of premeditated planning. Defence Attorney Friedrich Knonberg knows he must tip legal scales of justice in favour of his client for crimes that are never black and white and what they may seem. In German with subtitles.
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Therapy for a Vampire
Title: Therapy for a Vampire
Released: December 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa.
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Title: Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
Character: César
Released: August 14, 2013
Type: Movie
In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy and prosperous family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, this pious, upstanding man raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.
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Title: Was wurde aus...?
Character: himself
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: TV
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Ulzhan
Title: Ulzhan
Character: Shakuni
Released: June 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or glory. He's looking for a way to heal his wounded soul. He's looking for love. Ulzhan felt it the first time she laid eyes on him.
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Traumschatten
Title: Traumschatten
Character: Tristan
Released: October 4, 2005
Type: Movie
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She Hate Me
Title: She Hate Me
Character: Herman Schiller
Released: July 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
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Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
Title: Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
Released: May 7, 2003
Type: Movie
A series of poems.
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Title: Beckmann
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1999
Type: TV
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
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Bennent mal vier
Title: Bennent mal vier
Character: Self
Released: December 6, 1998
Type: Movie
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Legend
Title: Legend
Character: Honeythorn Gump
Released: August 28, 1985
Type: Movie
Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.
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Dog Day
Title: Dog Day
Character: Chim
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.
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The Tin Drum
Title: The Tin Drum
Character: Oskar Matzerath
Released: May 2, 1979
Type: Movie
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Kölner Treff
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: TV
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Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient
Title: Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient
Character: Manfred Wurster
Released: December 18, 1975
Type: Movie
The somewhat indolent father Traugott Wurster looks after his six sons while his wife works in a butcher's shop. One day, when Traugott falls into a mysterious prolonged sleep, mother Wurster is forced to give the children to relatives. Markus is sent to the stuffy Uncle Theodor, who turns into a childhood friend under his influence. Mother Wurster also "rents" the sleeping Traugott to a furniture store, which uses him to advertise mattresses in the shop window.
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Title: III nach neun
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Derrick
Character: Heinz Weik
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Die Eltern
Title: Die Eltern
Character: David
Released: January 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Ann, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the sole heir of millions from her grandmother. Ann's parents, who are short of money and have lost all hope of a bright future try to manipulate Ann's imagination in such a way that she loses her mind.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Jörn Weig
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Sigi Kempe
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.