Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#4212
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Til Schweiger represents the rare performer whose career became more ambitious with every decade — 28 years in, and Til is still choosing the harder script.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Til Schweiger appears in 23 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Til. Inglourious Basterds is the clearest case: a film rated 8.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for action, thriller, drama. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with David Lipper, Jared Cohn, Guy Ritchie and others, Til Schweiger 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.
Inglourious Basterds (2009) as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz · Desperate Journey (2025) as Officer Kurt · The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) as Heinrich Luhr
Career snapshot
Ranked #4212 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
23
1998–2026
Career length
28 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.4
Inglourious Basterds
Average Nutevio score
6.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
Desperate Journey
Most frequent director
Til Schweiger
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Til Schweiger
Most common genre
Action
14 titles
Average runtime
1h 44m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
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
6.4
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
1990s
6.6 average MV
The 1990s are where the work and the material meet. SLC Punk, The Replacement Killers — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
1990s
6.6
Across 2 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
1990s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
1990s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. SLC Punk, The Replacement Killers.
Most productive era
2020s
10 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 | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.91 film | 6.74 films | 6.41 film | 4.94 films |
| Action | 6.31 film | 6.04 films | 6.24 films | 5.95 films |
| Thriller | 6.31 film | 8.41 film | 6.23 films | 4.84 films |
| Comedy | 6.91 film | — | 6.24 films | 6.15 films |
| Crime | 6.31 film | — | 6.31 film | — |
| Romance | — | — | 6.23 films | 6.31 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
1998SLC Punk
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Mark.
Highest rated performance
8.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026On the Hunt
The current state of the argument.
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.
23 of 23 films
as Officer Kurt
Directed by Unknown
as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
as Werner Voss
Directed by Unknown
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
Officer Kurt
Desperate Journey (2025)
Performance score8.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Officer Kurt gives Til Schweiger a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Performance score8.1
Inglourious Basterds asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. SGT. Hugo Stiglitz is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rožmberk
Medieval (2022)
Performance score7.1
Medieval asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rožmberk is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Werner Voss
The Red Baron (2008)
Performance score7.1
The Red Baron asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Werner Voss 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 Officer Kurt
Start here. Desperate Journey is the clearest statement of what Til Schweiger does — accessible, 108 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Til 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.
The Red Baron (2008)
Same director as Desperate Journey, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Keeps the war register of The Red Baron but asks for a colder reading of it.
Medieval (2022)
Keeps the drama register of Inglourious Basterds but asks for a colder reading of it.
Neglected (2026)
Keeps the action register of Medieval but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Til Schweiger
Director
3 films together
Notably The Salvation Of The World As We Know It
Antoine Fuqua
Director
2 films together
Notably King Arthur
James Merendino
Director
1 film together
Notably SLC Punk
Renny Harlin
Director
1 film together
Notably Driven
Jan de Bont
Director
1 film together
Notably Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Quentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together
Notably Inglourious Basterds
Paul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together
Notably The Three Musketeers
Garry Marshall
Director
1 film together
Notably New Year's Eve
McG
Director
1 film together
Notably This Means War
James Bobin
Director
1 film together
Notably Muppets Most Wanted
David Leitch
Director
1 film together
Notably Atomic Blonde
André Erkau
Director
1 film together
Notably God, You’re Such a Prick
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Jared Cohn
Director
1 film together
Notably On the Hunt
David Lipper
Director
1 film together
Notably Neglected
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Til Schweiger
Director
3 films together · 5.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Salvation Of The World As We Know ItAntoine Fuqua
Director
2 films together · 6.3 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
King ArthurQuentin Tarantino
Director
1 film together · 8.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Inglourious BasterdsGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareJames Merendino
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SLC PunkDavid Lipper
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
NeglectedDavid Leitch
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Atomic BlondeAndré Erkau
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
God, You’re Such a PrickJames Bobin
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Muppets Most WantedMcG
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
This Means WarGarry Marshall
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
New Year's EvePaul W. S. Anderson
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Three MusketeersJan de Bont
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of LifeRenny Harlin
Director
1 film together · 5.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
DrivenJared Cohn
Director
1 film together · 4.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
On the HuntSix 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
Inglourious Basterds
as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Charlie Countryman
as Darko
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Inglourious Basterds
as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Muppets Most Wanted
as German Cop
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Desperate Journey
as Officer Kurt
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. Til Schweiger 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.
Career Achievement
Awarded
28 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
14 catalogue titles in action, 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
Desperate Journey
as Officer Kurt
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Inglourious Basterds
as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Charlie Countryman
as Darko
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Replacement Killers
as Ryker
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Inglourious Basterds
as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Three Musketeers
as Cagliostro
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
SLC Punk
as Mark
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Inglourious Basterds
as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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