Harald Schmidt

Actor

Born: August 18, 1957 (age 68)
From: Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, West Germany [now Germany]

Harald Franz Schmidt is a German actor, comedian, television presenter, and author, best known as the host of two popular German late-night shows. The son of refugees who fled the Sudetenland (now the Czech Republic) in 1945, Schmidt spent his youth in the Swabian town of Nürtingen. Due to his strict Catholic upbringing, he became actively involved in the Roman Catholic Church, serving as a…

Filmography (16)

Gruschel mich! Die studiVZ-Story (2025)
Self (archive footage)
Beckenbauer (2024)
Self - Interviewee
The Legend of Timm Thaler: or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter (2017)
Racecourse speaker
Schreckenstein Castle (2016)
Graf Schreckenstein
Rosamunde Pilcher: Ein Doktor und drei Frauen (2016)
lord Hurrleton
Zettl (2012)
Conny Scheffer
Stopped on Track (2011)
Himself
Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (2010)
Rooster (voice)
Frei:Gespielt - Mehmet Scholl - Über das Spiel hinaus (2007)
Himself
About the Looking for and the Finding of Love (2005)
Psychotherapeut
7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald (2004)
Jester Candidate
Best of Harald Schmidt - Respektlos und Rezeptfrei (2000)
Die Musterknaben 2 (1999)
Himself
Late Show (1999)
Conrad 'Conny' Scheffer
Die Samsas
Die Samsas (1998)
Nich' mit Leo (1995)
Bishop