
August Diehl
Known for Acting · 81 credits
- Born
- 1976-01-04 (age 50)
- Place of birth
- West Berlin, West Germany [now Berlin, Germany]
Biography
August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, known for playing the Gestapo Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt.
Description above from the Wikipedia article August Diehl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
TV Shows (15)

Scene of the Crime
1970
as Robert Frost

Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self

Leute heute
1997
as Self

NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
3 nach 9
1974
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self

Documentary Now!
2015
as Dieter Daimler
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self

Pagan Peak
2019
as Stefan Polt

Furia
2021
as Jan
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self

Perfume
2018
as Moritz de Vries

Close to the Enemy
2016
as Dieter Koehler

Bauhaus: A New Era
2019
as Walter Gropius
The Boys from Brazil
as Johann-Friedrich Meinhardt
Movies (66)

Inglourious Basterds
2009
as Major Hellstrom

The King's Man
2021
as Vladimir Lenin

Salt
2010
as Mike Krause

Allied
2016
as Hobar

Fatherland
2026
as Klaus Mann

Kursk
2018
as Anton Markov

The Master and Margarita
2024
as Woland

A Hidden Life
2019
as Franz Jägerstätter

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
2024
as Martin Niemoller

Munich - The Edge of War
2021
as Franz Sauer

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
2025
as Josef Mengele

The Counterfeiters
2007
as Burger

Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Young Jorge O'Kelly

The Rays and Shadows
2026
as Otto Abetz

The Ice Tower
2025
as Max

The Young Karl Marx
2017
as Karl Marx

Tattoo
2002
as Marc Schrader

The Emperor of Paris
2018
as Nathanaël

The Last Vermeer
2019
as Alex De Klerks

Distant Lights
2003
as Philip

23
1998
as Karl Koch

A Woman in Berlin
2008
as Gerd

Plan A
2021
as Max

The Perfumier
2022

Love the Hard Way
2003
as Jeff

I Am the Other Woman
2006
as Robert Fabry

The Birdcatcher
2019
as Herman

Dr. Alemán
2008
as Marc

Buddenbrooks
2008
as Christian Buddenbrook

Love in Thoughts
2004
as Günther Scheller

Anatomy 2
2003
as Benny

The Robber Hotzenplotz
2022
as Petrosilius Zwackelmann

Sidonie in Japan
2024
as Antoine Perceval
Control

Dark Diamond
2016
as Gabi Ulmann

Mouth to Mouth
2005
as Tiger

Head Under Water
2007
as Martin Wegner

Come What May
2015
as Hans

Layla Fourie
2013
as Eugene Pienaar

The Husband
2014
as Karl "Rusty" Rost

Kalt ist der Abendhauch
2000
as Hugo Wimmer (jung)

Nichts als Gespenster
2006
as Felix

If Not Us, Who?
2011
as Bernward Vesper

Haider lebt - 1. April 2021
2002
as A.M. Kaiser

The Coming Days
2010
as Konstantin Richter

Die Braut
1999
as Fritz von Stein

Shores of Hope
2012
as Andreas Hornung
The Noise of Time
as Dimitri Shostakovich

The Ninth Day
2004
as Untersturmführer Gebhardt

The Birch-Tree Meadow
2003
as Oskar

Frau Ella
2013
as Klaus

The Adventures of Huck Finn
2012
as Alter Finn

Confession of a Child of the Century
2012
as Desgenais

Cover
as Raphael Leblanc

Slumming
2006
as Sebastian

Mr. Kuka's Advice
2008
as Lothar

The Disappearing Illusionist
2015
as Dirk Ohm
Schöne Seelen
2026
as Freddy

Kabale und Liebe
2005
as Ferdinand von Walter
Olde Boys

23 - Der mysteriöse Tod eines Hackers
2023
as Self

Midnight Confession
2017
as Kurt
Feuer in der Nacht
2004
as Lukas Stein

Sauerdogs
2022
as Hans
Hamburg Lectures
2006
as (voice)

Shagging
2001
as Alex
About August Diehl
August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, known for playing the Gestapo Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds and Michael "Mike" Krause, Evelyn Salt's husband, in the movie Salt. Description above from the Wikipedia article August Diehl, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. With 81 credits spanning from 1951 to 2026, August Diehl has appeared in 66 films and 15 TV shows.
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Most Popular August Diehl Movies
- Inglourious Basterds (2009) — as Major Hellstrom
- The King's Man (2021) — as Vladimir Lenin
- Salt (2010) — as Mike Krause
- Allied (2016) — as Hobar
- Fatherland (2026) — as Klaus Mann
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