Armin Mueller-Stahl
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Armin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a leading German film actor. He was born in Tilsit, Germany, now Russia.
East Prussian-born Armin Mueller-Stahl was a noted concert violinist while he was a teenager. He turned to film acting in East Berlin in 1950. He was a successful film and stage actor in East Germany, but being blacklisted by the government he emigrated to West Germany in 1980. His talent found ample work in the West German film industry. He appeared in such films as Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola (1981) and Veronika Voss (1982), and played in Andrzej Wajda's A Love in Germany (1984), Angry Harvest and Colonel Redl (both 1985) (the latter about Alfred Redl).
He broadened his film career with his US film debut as Jessica Lange's father in Music Box (1989), and subsequently took strong character parts in Kafka and Night on Earth (both 1991) from Jim Jarmusch.
He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor in the 1992 Berlinale for his performance in Utz, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Shine (1996).
In the new millennium, Mueller-Stahl gained applause for his acting of Thomas Mann in a German historic film production about the Mann family (Thomas Mann, his brother Heinrich Mann, and others) called Die Manns.
In 2004, he made a rare foray onto American television, guest-starring for four episodes on the television drama The West Wing.
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