- Films
- 15
- Avg rating
- 6.83
- Peak run
- 2001’08
- 7+ run
- 3 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Udo by the numbers
Average
6.83
13 rated films
Vote weighted
6.86
bigger films count more
Median
6.9
half are better
Consistency
±0.64
rating spread
Career
44y
1978 to 2021
Total votes
161K
across every film
Best
7.6
The Seventh Continent
Worst
6.6
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Newest first
Filmography
| 2021 | The Story of My Wife | Herr Voss | 6.2 | 3,532 |
| 2018 |  The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch | Tate Moishe Wolkenbruch | 6.6 | 5,336 |
| 2016 |  Goodbye Berlin | Herr Wagenbach | 6.9 | 12,248 |
| 2011 | My Best Enemy | Jakob Kaufmann | 6.8 | 1,561 |
| 2008 | Palermo Shooting | · | 6.1 | 3,387 |
| 2005 | The Goebbels Experiment | Narrator | 7.3 | 1,053 |
| 2004 | Go for Zucker | Samuel Zuckermann | 6.7 | 2,933 |
| 2004 | Silentium | Festspielpräsident | 7.4 | 3,639 |
| 2001 |  The Piano Teacher | Dr. George Blonskij | 7.5 | 83,252 |
| 1996 | Killer Condom | Luigi Mackeroni | 5.4 | 3,727 |
| 1994 |  71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance | Paul Brunner | 7.1 | 9,778 |
| 1993 | Kaspar Hauser | Daumer | · | 527 |
| 1993 |  Faraway, So Close! | · | 7.2 | 9,922 |
| 1989 |  The Seventh Continent | Alexander | 7.6 | 19,460 |
| 1978 | Knife in the Head | Ernst Schurig | · | 780 |
Better together?
Udo Samel's regulars
- Michael HanekeDirector and actor · 3 films · 7.40 avg▲+0.38
- Wolfgang MurnbergerDirector and actor · 2 films · 7.10 avg▲+0.05
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Michael Haneke and Udo Samel movies · Wolfgang Murnberger and Udo Samel movies
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