Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#95994
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Reinhard Kolldehoff works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Reinhard Kolldehoff appears in 4 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Reinhard. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, screen presence, drama. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for war, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Paul Verhoeven, Luchino Visconti, Jacques Tati and others, Reinhard Kolldehoff helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966) as German Corporal (uncredited) · PlayTime (1967) as German Businessman · The Damned (1969) as Konstantin von Essenbeck
Career snapshot
Ranked #95994 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
4
1966–1977
Career length
11 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Average Nutevio score
7.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.9
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Most frequent director
Paul Verhoeven
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Paul Verhoeven
Most common genre
War
2 titles
Average runtime
2h 18m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.9
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.6
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
1960s
7.3 average MV
The 1960s are where the work and the material meet. The Damned, PlayTime, Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1960s
7.3
Across 3 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1960s
7.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1960s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Damned, PlayTime, Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!.
Most productive era
1960s
3 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 1960s | 1970s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.71 film |
| Thriller | — | 6.71 film |
| Comedy | 7.42 films | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Highest rated performance · Career peak
1966Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Where our catalogue meets this career, as German Corporal (uncredited). 7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as SS-Sturmbannführer Geisman.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
4 of 4 films
as German Corporal (uncredited)
Directed by Gérard Oury
as German Businessman
Directed by Jacques Tati
as Konstantin von Essenbeck
Directed by Luchino Visconti
as SS-Sturmbannführer Geisman
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
German Corporal (uncredited)
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. German Corporal (uncredited) gives Reinhard Kolldehoff a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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German Businessman
PlayTime (1967)
Performance score7.2
PlayTime asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. German Businessman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Konstantin von Essenbeck
The Damned (1969)
Performance score6.8
The Damned asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Konstantin von Essenbeck is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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SS-Sturmbannführer Geisman
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Performance score6.6
Soldier of Orange asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. SS-Sturmbannführer Geisman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as German Corporal (uncredited)
Start here. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! is the clearest statement of what Reinhard Kolldehoff does — accessible, 132 minutes, and rated 7.6 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Reinhard at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
PlayTime (1967)
Keeps the comedy register of Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Damned (1969)
A deliberate change of key after PlayTime — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Keeps the drama register of The Damned but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Gérard Oury
Director
1 film together
Notably Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
Jacques Tati
Director
1 film together
Notably PlayTime
Luchino Visconti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Damned
Paul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together
Notably Soldier of Orange
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Gérard Oury
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!Jacques Tati
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
PlayTimeLuchino Visconti
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DamnedPaul Verhoeven
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Soldier of OrangeSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
The Damned
as Konstantin von Essenbeck
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Reinhard Kolldehoff has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
War Legend
Awarded
2 catalogue titles in war, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
The Damned
as Konstantin von Essenbeck
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Soldier of Orange
as SS-Sturmbannführer Geisman
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Soldier of Orange
as SS-Sturmbannführer Geisman
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!
as German Corporal (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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