---
name: "Burkhard Driest"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/burkhard-driest"
fi1m_id: "burkhard-driest"
imdb_id: "nm0237897"
tmdb_id: 21833
wikidata_id: "Q105664"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 April 1939"
died: "28 February 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:14:31.421320+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Burkhard Driest

## Identity

Burkhard Driest

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/burkhard-driest
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** burkhard-driest
- **IMDb ID:** nm0237897
- **TMDB ID:** 21833
- **Wikidata ID:** Q105664
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkhard_Driest, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105664, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21833

Actor. Born 28 April 1939 in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]. Died 28 February 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 April 1939, Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
- **Died:** 28 February 2020
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkhard_Driest, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105664, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0237897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21833

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Stroszek*](https://film.one/film/stroszek.md) (82)

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## Biography

Burkhard Driest was a German actor, writer and director. Born on 28 April 1939 in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland), he died in Berlin in February 2020. He appeared as Pimp #2 in Werner Herzog's *Stroszek* (1977) and played Schütze Maag in Sam Peckinpah's *Cross of Iron* (1977). Other acting credits include the role of Mario in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's *Querelle* (1982).

Driest also wrote screenplays, including for *Querelle* and the autobiographical film *Die Verrohung des Franz Blum* (1974), based on his own novel about prison life. He had studied law before serving time for bank robbery and later collaborated with directors such as Reinhard Hauff on several projects. He received an award at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2019.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Stroszek* (1977), Fi1m 82, as Pimp #2 — [page](https://film.one/film/stroszek.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Toni Costa - Kommissar auf Ibiza: Küchenkunst* (2012), Novel
- *Toni Costa: Kommissar auf Ibiza - Der rote Regen* (2011), as El Cubano
- *Lasko – Die Faust Gottes* (2009), series, as Patrizius
- *Hamlet_X* (2003), as Observer
- *I Love You, Baby* (2000), as Decker
- *Callboys - Jede Lust hat ihren Preis* (1999), as Busch
- *Schande* (1999), Writer
- *SK Kölsch* (1999), series, as Michael Kosslow
- *Night Time* (1998), as Lasinger
- *Sanfte Morde* (1997), Writer
- *Ex* (1995), as Priest
- *Private Life Show* (1995), as Host
- *Wolffs Revier* (1992), series, as Raoul Verdoux
- *The Democratic Terrorist* (1992), as Horst
- *Die Männer vom K3* (1988), series, as Fritz Holler
- *Taxi to Cairo* (1987), as Policeman 1
- *Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles* (1986), as Narrator (voice)
- *Cold in Colombia* (1985), Actor
- *Der Fahnder* (1984), series, as Nagel
- *The Shipwrecker* (1984), as Sterling Hayden
- *The Story* (1984), as Actor
- *Annas Mutter* (1984), Director, Screenplay
- *The Roaring Fifties* (1983), as Major Assimov
- *Querelle* (1982), as Mario · Co-Producer, Screenplay
- *A Case For Two* (1981), series, as Malik
- *Slow Attack* (1980), as Nick Dellmann · Writer
- *Son of Hitler* (1979), as Muller · Writer, Producer
- *Stroszek* (1977), as Pimp #2 — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/stroszek.md)
- *Cross of Iron* (1977), as Schütze Maag
- *Paule Pauländer* (1976), Writer
- *Derrick* (1974), series, as Arthur Dribald
- *Fuses* (1974), as Arthur Bidulski · Screenplay
- *The Brutalization of Franz Blum* (1974), as Walter „Tiger“ Kuul · Screenplay
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Herbert Rull, Rudloff, Manfred Dernedde
- *The Commissioner* (1969), series, as Hartmut Stimmel

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