Ralf Richter (actor)

Ralf Richter (born 17 August 1957 in Essen) is a German actor. He debuted as the crude sailor "Frenssen" in the Academy Award-nominated 1981 film Das Boot and frequently appeared in German TV series. He played main roles in German films such as Bang Boom Bang (1999), Fußball ist unser Leben (1999) or If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer (2002).

His younger brother Frank is known as musician FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten).

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1981	Tour de Ruhr	Wölfchen	Reinhard Schwabenitzky	TV miniseries
1981	Das Boot	Frenssen	Wolfgang Petersen
1983	Rote Erde	Otto Schablowski	Klaus Emmerich	TV miniseries
1984	Decoder		Muscha
	Abwärts	Otto	Carl Schenkel
	Pogo 1104	Rick	Wigbert Wicker	TV miniseries
	Moving Targets	Strotzki	Volker Vogeler
1987	Losers [de]	Richie	Bernd Schadewald [de]	TV film
1987	The Crack Connection [de]	Sandrowski	Hajo Gies [de]	Schimanski-film
1988	The Cat	Britz	Dominik Graf
1991	Superstau [de]	Hermann Pacholke	Manfred Stelzer [de]
1992	Cosimas Lexikon [de]	Klaus Borgmann	Peter Kahane [de]
1996	Peanuts – The Bank Pays Everything [de]	Mario	Carlo Rola [de]
1999	The Cry of the Butterfly	Tom	Frank Strecker [de]
1999	Bang Boom Bang	Kalle Grabowski	Peter Thorwarth [de]
2000	Fußball ist unser Leben	Mike	Tomy Wigand [de]
2001	Suck My Dick [de]	Hyde	Oskar Roehler
2002	If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer	Kalle	Peter Thorwarth [de]
2004	Cowgirl	Peter Blessing	Mark Schlichter [de]
2006	Goldene Zeiten	Bullet Harry Grabowski	Peter Thorwarth [de]
2009	Kopf oder Zahl [de]	Ron	Benjamin Eicher, Timo Joh. Mayer [de]

Selected filmography