Waldemar Kobus
Waldemar Kobus (born 1966 in Szczytno [Ortelsburg], Poland) is a German actor.
Waldemar Kobus immigrated to Germany from Poland in 1970 as an ethnic German repatriate and grew up in Düren. Following his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, he secured engagements at renowned theaters in Frankfurt, Bochum, Stuttgart, Zurich, Vienna, and Cologne. Since the early 1990s, he has worked regularly in film and television, with his focus shifting increasingly toward on-camera work starting in 2001.
Kobus gained widespread recognition primarily through his role as the police officer Viktor Schimanek in the RTL comedy series *Alles Atze*. He garnered international attention for his portrayal of the SS officer Günther Franken in *Black Book*. He played other notable roles in films such as *Lissi und der wilde Kaiser*, *Speed Racer*, and *Valkyrie*, as well as the role of the Viking chieftain Halvar in *Vicky the Viking* and its sequel.
In addition to his acting work, Kobus also performs as a popular entertainer during the Cologne Carnival. He lives in Berlin with his wife, the actress Traute Hoess.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8259 |
| Birthday | 1966-04-16 |
| Place of Birth | Szczytno, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland |
| Also Known As |
2010
Nemesis
4.2/2
Claire and Robert spend most of their time in a house they own in the beautiful and remote countryside in Italy. Their life seems to be perfect. But w...
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Nemesis
2007
Lissi and the Wild Emperor
5.91/205
The plot concerns a yeti who makes a pact with the devil to kidnap the most beautiful girl in the world. This turns out to be the Princess Lissi, who...
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Lissi and the Wild Emperor
2006
Waiter
6.2/50
Edgar works as a waiter in 'Het Westen', a restaurant. He is married and has a lover. His neighbors terrorize him with loud music and garbage. One day...
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Waiter
2009
Wickie the Mighty Viking
5.752/163
One morning our little Viking village of Flake is raided by frightening looking spooky demons who kidnap all the children… except for Wickie, who was...
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Wickie the Mighty Viking
2006
Die Österreichische Methode
6.5/2
In this film, the stories of five women who are by no means weak intersect.
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Die Österreichische Methode
2006
Black Book
7.445/1278
Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Ne...
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Black Book
2007
Beautiful Bitch
5.3/6
The story opens with Bica, a solvent abusing waif, trying in vain to evade the Romanian police with her infant brother in tow. Separated from her sibl...
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Beautiful Bitch
2009
Beloved Berlin Wall
6.389/18
Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's...
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Beloved Berlin Wall
2010
Hochzeitspolka
6/3
Frieder Schulz has turned from a laid-back type into a provincial in three years, taking care of his cottage, garage and career. As he prepares a wedd...
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Hochzeitspolka
2011
Alive and Ticking
6.396/53
Eva lives a happy life with her father, an unsuccessful but always optimistic car salesman, her consumerist mother, and her quirky grandmother. But...
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Alive and Ticking
2004
Das Zimmermädchen und der Millionär
6.75/8
In his own Hotel Ritz, Sophie mistakes Johannes for the expected temporary waiter and is quickly trained in the supposed task. Johannes gets involved...
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Das Zimmermädchen und der Millionär
2009
Killerjagd. Töte mich, wenn du kannst
5.8/4
A young woman (Alexandra Neldel) begins to work collecting emergency calls when get one that puts she on the trail of a serial murderer who, for some...
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2022
The Magic Flute
6.304/140
A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forg...
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The Magic Flute
2006
Das Leben der Philosophen
0/0
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Das Leben der Philosophen
2009
Hinter Kaifeck
5.9/8
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Hinter Kaifeck
2005
Arnies Welt
6/2
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Arnies Welt
2011
Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods
5.602/83
When the mighty Viking Halvar suddenly disappears, his clever but timid son Wickie must lead the Vikings on a dangerous journey to rescue his father f...
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Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods
2012
Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion
6.281/32
Victor is both thrilled and mystified when his family moves into his grand-uncles somber mansion filled with African masks, taxidermy crocodile mounts...
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Victor and the Secret of Crocodile Mansion
2014
Die Fahnderin
5.7/3
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Die Fahnderin
2022
Klabautermann
0/0
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Klabautermann
2007
The Vow
3.8/4
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The Vow
2008
Miracle at St. Anna
6.103/402
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Miracle at St. Anna
2006
Als der Fremde kam
6/1
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Als der Fremde kam
2005
Die Bullenbraut
8/1
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Die Bullenbraut
2007
Alma Investigates - Tango and Death
0/0
While out Nordic walking at night, Alma observes a young woman being choked and thrown into the Isar.
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Alma Investigates - Tango and Death
2014
The Black Brothers
6.6/33
Up until the middle of the 19Th century, poverty stricken mountain farmers from the Ticino area of Switzerland frequently sold their children to Milan...
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The Black Brothers
2005
Der Vater meiner Schwester
8/2
Only at the age of 19 does Paul learn from his mother that his father Klaus Merbold did not die in India, but rather lives in the same city. Paul want...
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Der Vater meiner Schwester
2008
Verrückt nach Emma
6/1
The beautiful Emma is not only a notorious kleptomaniac, but also walking proof of the chaos theory: although she usually only has good things in mind...
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Verrückt nach Emma
2005
For Love or Money
3.7/3
Thomas has a problem: the single man has crashed a borrowed Ferrari into the wall without insurance and now needs a lot of money to pay for the damage...
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For Love or Money
2023
Das Märchen von der Zauberflöte
5.5/2
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Das Märchen von der Zauberflöte
2008
Schade um das schöne Geld
5/2
In a town by the North Sea, Mirabel dreams of a better life while toiling in the fish factory. When the village syndicate wins the lottery, the hittin...
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Schade um das schöne Geld
2012
Eine Hand wäscht die Andere
4.2/4
Chlodwig Pullmann is a tax inspector and is involved in a thousand little deals and tricks - with the knowledge of Mayor Karsten Leimer, who has a lot...
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Eine Hand wäscht die Andere
2014
Schlaflos in Istanbul
5.5/3
Can people from two different cultures be happy? "Yes! Yes! Yes!", believe Didem and Jakob and shortly afterwards they are no longer a couple: the liv...
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Schlaflos in Istanbul
2001
Die heimlichen Blicke des Mörders
4/3
The death of a young woman who offered online sex and is murdered by a stranger, with her death being retrieved on the internet, calls the homicide sq...
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Die heimlichen Blicke des Mörders
2014
Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf
6.8/10
A peaceful island will do anything to ward off the reputation of 'vacation paradise.'
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Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Surf
2005
Zwei Wochen für uns
5.5/4
Ina and Klaus Heller have sent their twins to vacation camp and are looking forward to a romantic and loving time together. But their mutual friends h...
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Zwei Wochen für uns
2004
Liebe in der Warteschleife
6/2
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Liebe in der Warteschleife
2008
Die Schnüfflerin - Peggy kann's nicht lassen
6/1
The best friend of bright flower seller Peggy comes under suspicion of having murdered her husband. Although detectives Schiller and Mauser want to cl...
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Die Schnüfflerin - Peggy kann's nicht lassen
1999
Sonnenallee
6.702/129
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and W...
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Sonnenallee
2007
Head Under Water
5.1/9
Something terrible is about to happen in a small town in Germany. Nobody knows the reason why, except one person: Rico Bartsch. The 15-year old gramma...
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Head Under Water
2011
The Secret of the Ark
6.5/10
A research vessel finds a sunken Crusader ship off the Turkish Mediterranean coast. The ship sank in 1369 en route from Cyprus to Armenia .
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The Secret of the Ark
2004
Ein Zwilling ist nicht genug
6.5/4
Katharina and Maria are identical twins. They were separated as babies and have no idea about each other. Katharina is a single mother of three childr...
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Ein Zwilling ist nicht genug
2016
Der Athen Krimi: Trojanische Pferde
2/1
Having just arrived at his new post at the Athens homicide division, Chief Inspector Max Richter is immediately called to duty: a young musician has b...
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Der Athen Krimi: Trojanische Pferde
2006
Die Bullenbraut 2 - Der Tod hat 17 Karat
0/0
A taxi driver is found dead. Since Paula should actually have driven the tour, she feels responsible and investigates the case on her own.
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Die Bullenbraut 2 - Der Tod hat 17 Karat
2008
Mordshunger
8/1
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Mordshunger
2002
Der Freund von früher
10/1
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Der Freund von früher
2017
Wendy - Der Film
6.7/21
Twelve-year-old Wendy is not at all happy that she has to spend her summer vacation with her parents at her grandma Herta's run-down riding stables. W...
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Wendy - Der Film
2023
Seneca
5/30
Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him,...
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Seneca
2019
A Hidden Life
7.17/811
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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A Hidden Life
2006
Lasko - Death Train
5/7
A peace-seeking monk must save a train full of pilgrims from terrorists intending to unleash a deadly virus.
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Lasko - Death Train
2004
Meet Your Star
6/4
The film is about Steven who falls in love with Dana. But she only has eyes for the pop star Marc, whom his manager sends back to school because he th...
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Meet Your Star
2007
GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
4.5/1
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GG 19 – Deutschland in 19 Artikeln
2017
The Zookeeper's Wife
7.319/1590
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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The Zookeeper's Wife
2017
Teenosaurus Rex
5.3/43
She was sweet, she was cute. But just before her 14th birthday, Daddy’s little princess mutates into a petulant pubescent nightmare. Journalist Hannes...
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Teenosaurus Rex
2016
Radio Home
6.089/28
Four teenage friends - Frank, Spüli, Mücke, and Pommes - try to have their first contact with the opposite gender. Not so easy in the Ruhr region of t...
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Radio Home
1995
The Threepenny Opera
9/1
The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to cre...
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The Threepenny Opera
2017
A Gentle Noise Between the Lines
0/0
George is in his 40s, a family man, on the fast track in his job - until one day a stranger claims ownership of 2m² of his house, enters the home, set...
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A Gentle Noise Between the Lines
2018
The Captain
7.208/524
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate...
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The Captain
2004
Die Stunde der Offiziere
8.375/4
A well documented re-enaction of the July 20th, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler, aka Operation Valkyrie.
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Die Stunde der Offiziere
2015
Sesamstrasse präsentiert: Der Schatz des Käpt'n Karotte
0/0
Wolle and Pferd receive a mysterious call for help from friendly sailor, Captain Karotte, who is stuck on an island. The two friends have to face thei...
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Sesamstrasse präsentiert: Der Schatz des Käpt'n Karotte
2004
Ein Mann für den 13ten
4.333/3
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Ein Mann für den 13ten
2009
Sleeping Songs
4.5/2
Martin, a nu-jazz trumpet player with a unique style, is fighting against convention and mediocrity. He will not accept any compromise, neither in his...
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Sleeping Songs
2003
Fools
5.714/7
Man goes to live in Cologne to be closer to his grandmother, who is on the verge of death, gets a job, starts a new routine and witnesses an act of vi...
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Fools
2009
The Wild Chicks and Life
6.008/65
The Wild Chicks are slowly growing out of their youthful gang years and have to face the worries of growing up on the sidelines of a big class trip be...
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The Wild Chicks and Life
1992
Four Junior Detectives
5.556/9
The four young snoopers Tim, Karl, Kloesschen and Gaby by chance discover a hidden cave near an old castle. In it there's a board that seems to descri...
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Four Junior Detectives
2009
Jakobs Bruder
0/0
Jakob and Lorenz are brothers who couldn't be more different: While Jakob is a successful, dogged star chef, Lorenz is not particularly successful in...
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Jakobs Bruder
2012
Russendisko
5.358/67
Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their cha...
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Russendisko
2004
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
6.238/566
Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the plan...
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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2018
Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung
6.938/8
During the Christmas holidays, Hubert and Staller investigate the demise of an elderly pensioner who died suspiciously but unnoticed a year earlier.
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Hubert und Staller – Eine schöne Bescherung
2007
Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig
6.1/20
Up to now, Nickel (9) and his single dad Thomas have been managing very well together. Then Nickel goes on a school excursion and brings the little pi...
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Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig
2015
Aus der Kurve
4.5/2
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Aus der Kurve
2005
Zwei gegen zwei
8/2
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Zwei gegen zwei
2020
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
5.795/44
Vlad has just moved and joined one of the most famous magical schools in the world, where he meets fairies, witches, trolls and dwarfs. Him and his fa...
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The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes
2008
Speed Racer
6.386/1857
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the poli...
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Speed Racer
2021
Goldjungs
5.7/13
Cologne in the 1970s. To all appearances, things could hardly go better for Iwan Herstatt and his bank. Above all, a group of young currency traders e...
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Goldjungs
2016
Fake
4/1
An intelligent woman keeps falling for the wrong guy. With her latest lover David and a kilo of cocaine in her purse she barely escaped an arrest. Bac...
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Fake
2008
Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
7/1
The first half shows the cast being interviewed in character and provides movie plot back story. The second half shows behind-the-scenes filming, incl...
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Speed Racer: Wonderful World of Racing - The Amazing Racer Family
2025
Manitou's Canoe
6.617/192
Abahachi, the Apache chief, and his white blood brother Ranger fight tirelessly for peace and justice - but a new, up-and-coming gang is making life p...
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Don't Be A Stranger
0/0
Seventeen-year-old Charles from New York is supposed to do an exchange with a family of musicians in Berlin at the request of his two mothers. But ins...
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Don't Be A Stranger
2020
Null Komma Null
0/0
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2026
Fatherland
7.2/20
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-contr...
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