---
name: "Urs Althaus"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/urs-althaus"
fi1m_id: "urs-althaus"
imdb_id: "nm0022786"
tmdb_id: 2376
wikidata_id: "Q121213"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 February 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T19:48:03.361684+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."
---

# Urs Althaus

## Identity

Urs Althaus

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/urs-althaus
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** urs-althaus
- **IMDb ID:** nm0022786
- **TMDB ID:** 2376
- **Wikidata ID:** Q121213
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022786/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2376

Actor. Born 25 February 1956 in Herrliberg, Switzerland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 February 1956, Herrliberg, Switzerland
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121213, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0022786/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2376

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Name of the Rose*](https://film.one/film/the-name-of-the-rose.md) (77)

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## Biography

Urs Althaus is a Swiss actor. Born on 25 February 1956 in Herrliberg, he grew up in Altdorf in the canton of Uri. He began his career as a model in the 1970s, becoming the first Black model to appear on the cover of the American edition of GQ in 1977, and worked for designers including Yves Saint Laurent, Calvin Klein and Armani.

Althaus moved into acting in the early 1980s. He played the Brazilian footballer Aristoteles in the Italian comedy *L'allenatore nel pallone* (1984) and its 2008 sequel, and appeared as Venantius in Jean-Jacques Annaud's *The Name of the Rose* (1986). Other credits include *Arrapaho* (1984) and *Warrior of the Lost World* (1983). He has also worked as a modelling agent and published an autobiography, *Ich der Neger*, in 2009.

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, it.wikipedia.org, themoviedb.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Name of the Rose* (1986), Fi1m 77, as Venantius — [page](https://film.one/film/the-name-of-the-rose.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Il Bar del Cult* (2025), as Sé stesso
- *Dog Men* (2015), Actor
- *Simplify Your Soul* (2014), as Ray
- *L'allenatore nel pallone 2* (2008), as Aristoteles
- *Vienna Crime Squad* (2005), series, as Oskar von Wecker
- *The Name of the Rose* (1986), as Venantius — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-name-of-the-rose.md)
- *Warbus* (1986), as Ben
- *L'allenatore nel pallone* (1984), as Aristoteles
- *Arrapaho* (1984), as Arrapaho
- *The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian* (1984), as Un archer
- *Warrior of the Lost World* (1983), as Mercenary
- *Beyond the Door* (1982), as Tunisian (uncredited)
- *The New York Ripper* (1982), as Sex Show Performer #2 (uncredited)
- *Das Traumschiff* (1981), series, as Frank Cullem

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