RICHARD COLLECT BIOGRAPHY

Richard Sammel (born October 13, 1960) is a German actor best known for his role as Thomas Eichhorst in the FX television series The Strain (2014-2017). In 2012, he won the “Best Actor” award at the Syracuse International Film Festival for his performance in Ruggero Dipaola’s apartment in Athens.

Sammel is an internationally renowned actor who has acted fluently in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Richard has been a star in more than forty movies and sixty TV movies shot in different places like Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, England, Balkan, Canada, South Africa and United States. United. He has worked with many directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Luc Besson, Martin Campbell, Bertrand Tavernier, Claude Lelouche, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Roberto Begnini, Dario Argento, McG and Michel Hazanavicius.

Sammel recently starred in ‘A Day Like a Week’, a supernatural thriller alongside Armand Assante. He has just returned for the seventh season of “The French Village”. He has played a leading role in this extremely popular French television series since its debut.

Sammel is attracted to roles that require physical play, rhythm and timing reflecting his dance training and those that require a deep emotional inner life reflecting his intense training in the method.

RICHARD COLLECT CAREER

Sammel began his professional acting career 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 Nelson Dumont Company.

From 1989, he worked in Rome with the director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti and met Susan Strasberg, who helped him make his film debut, the lead role in Il Piacere Delle Carni, for director Barbara Barni. In 1993, Sammel moved to Paris and played the lead role in the musical film version of Brecht-Eisler’s opera The Lindberghs Flight. An indelible performance in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds in 2009 earned Sammel international recognition.

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

RICHARD COLLECT YOUNG

Richard was born in Heidelberg, Germany. He studied music, especially the violin, and then continued to follow his true passion, which was acting. He studied music and theater in Hildesheim, Germany; acting and staging in Aix en Provence; and acting with Susan Strasberg and Francesca de Sapio in Rome. He is drawn to roles that require physical acting, rhythm and timing, a reflection of his dance training; and those that require a deep emotional inner life, reflecting his intense training in the method. He lives in Paris and Berlin.

RICHARD COLLECTS THE STUMP

The Strain is an American horror drama television series that aired on FX from July 13, 2014 to September 17, 2017. The series was created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, based on their new trilogy of the same name. Carlton Cuse serves as executive producer and showrunner. Del Toro and Hogan wrote the pilot episode, “Night Zero,” directed by del Toro. A thirteen-episode first season was ordered on November 19, 2013. The pilot episode premiered at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas in early June 2014.

On August 6, 2014, FX renewed The Strain for a 13-episode second season. The episode premiered on July 12, 2015. On August 7, 2015, FX renewed The Strain for a 10-episode third season which premiered on August 28, 2016. FX renewed the series for a fourth and final season on August 27. September 2016, which premiered on July 16, 2017. Over the course of the series, 46 episodes of The Strain aired across four seasons.

The show centers on Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, head of the CDC’s New York-based Canary Project, who is called in to investigate a plane landing where everyone on board is dead. What his team uncovers is a viral outbreak that bears similarities to an ancient strain of vampirism. The virus begins to spread and Goodweather works with his team and a group of town residents to wage a war to save humanity.

RICHARD COLLECT CASINO ROYALE

Adolph Gettler played by Sammel was a fictional agent of the considerable criminal organization. He portrayed the rogue character in the 2006 James Bond film. The literary character first appeared in Ian Fleming’s 1953 novel Casino Royale. The character of Adolph Gettler later appeared in the 2008 video game Quantum of Solace which incorporated scenes from the 2006 James Bond film.

RICHARD COLLECT INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

The German action drama and drama centers on Germany’s occupation of France where, in their first year, Allied officer Lt. Aldo Raine played by Brad Pitt assembles a team of Jewish soldiers to commit violent acts of reprisal against the Nazis, including the taking of their scalps. He teams up with a German actress and undercover agent, Bridget Von Hammersmark to bring down the leaders of the Third Reich. They meet Shosanna Dreyfus, a theater owner who promises revenge on the Nazis, executing her family.

RICHARD PICKING UP A TAXI

Sammel is featured in the 1998 film, Taxi as a German gangster leader. The film is directed by Gerald Pires and written by Luc Besson.

RICHARD SAMMEL GATE TO HEAVEN KARABAKH

Richard will star in a new English film, ‘Gate to Heaven’. The film, Gate to Heaven, is about Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). It was produced by Jivan Avetisyan, an Armenian filmmaker.

RICHARD COLLECT AGE

Sammel was born on October 13, 1960 in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He turns 59 in October 2019.

RICHARD COLLECT FAMILY

Sammel was born and raised in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Details of his family are still under review.

RICHARD COLLECT WIFE/GIRLFRIEND

Sammel currently lives in Paris and Berlin with his girlfriend and son. He also has two daughters. The identity of his girlfriend is not yet revealed.

RICHARD COLLECT HEIGHT

Sammel is 1.79 meters tall.

FILMS AND TV SERIES BY RICHARD SAMMEL

• The Name of the Rose (TV show)
• The Strain (TV show)
• 3 days to kill (movie)
• Inspector de Luca (TV show)
• Inspector De Luca (TV show)
• Inglourious Basterds (Movie)
• Casino Royale (movie)
• Oss 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies (Movie)
• Safe Conduct (Movie)
• The Nest (movie)
• The Man Who Wept (movie)
• Life is Beautiful (movie)
• The Rider on the Roof (movie)
• Inglourious Basterds (TV show)