---
name: "Elmar Wilms"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elmar-wilms"
fi1m_id: "elmar-wilms"
imdb_id: "nm0932874"
tmdb_id: 2317
wikidata_id: "Q95868046"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:44:35.970457+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."
---

# Elmar Wilms

## Identity

Elmar Wilms

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elmar-wilms
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elmar-wilms
- **IMDb ID:** nm0932874
- **TMDB ID:** 2317
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95868046
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95868046, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932874/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2317

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95868046, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932874/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2317

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Wings of Desire*](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Elmar Wilms is a German actor and sound engineer. He played A Sad Man in Wim Wenders' *Wings of Desire* (1987). His other acting credits include the television film *Schafe in Wales* (1988) as Robert and *Abbuzze! Der Badesalz Film* (1996).

Wilms has worked in sound departments on numerous productions, frequently credited with his brother Arno Wilms as Gebrüder Wilms. Credits include *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000) and *Liegen lernen* (2003).

*Sources: imdb.com, lobid.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Fi1m 88, as A Sad Man — [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Go for Zucker* (2004), Sound
- *I'm The Father* (2002), Sound
- *The Princess and the Warrior* (2000), Sound
- *Verliebt in eine Unbekannte* (1999), Sound
- *Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten* (1992), series, Sound
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), as A Sad Man — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)

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