---
name: "Urs Rechn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/urs-rechn"
fi1m_id: "urs-rechn"
imdb_id: "nm0714455"
tmdb_id: 1457026
wikidata_id: "Q2501346"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "18 January 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:54:25.886331+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 Rechn

## Identity

Urs Rechn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/urs-rechn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** urs-rechn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0714455
- **TMDB ID:** 1457026
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2501346
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Rechn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2501346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1457026

Actor. Born 18 January 1978 in Halle an der Saale, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 18 January 1978, Halle an der Saale, Germany
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urs_Rechn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2501346, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1457026

## Biography

Urs Rechn is a German actor. He was born on 18 January 1978 in Halle an der Saale and trained at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig, graduating in 2004. He has worked extensively in German theatre, including periods at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, Landestheater Tübingen and Theater Chemnitz.

Rechn is known for his role as Oberkapo Biederman in the 2015 Hungarian film *Son of Saul*, directed by László Nemes, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His other screen credits include *Eight Miles High* (2006), *Run Boy Run* (2013), *Inside Man: Most Wanted* (2019) and appearances in series such as *Outlander* and *The Capture*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Son of Saul* (2015), Fi1m 87, as Eli Biederman — [page](https://film.one/film/son-of-saul.md)

## Complete filmography (44)

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

- *Red Sonja* (2025), as Captain Ranjokan
- *The Franchise* (2024), series, as Horst Sommer
- *Hounds of War* (2024), as Hollywood
- *Oderbruch* (2024), series, as Martin Seigfried
- *Hammarskjöld: Fight for Peace* (2023), as Kirov
- *Ze Network* (2022), series, as Kommissar Comberg
- *Am Ende einer Reise - Der Usedom-Krimi* (2022), as Matthias Kessler
- *The Death of My Mother* (2022), Actor
- *The Ipcress File* (2022), series, as Housemartin
- *Otto Fröhliche - Advent, Advents mit Otto und Friends* (2021), as Dr. Weihnachtsmann
- *Die Heimsuchung* (2021), as Kommissar Nolting
- *Catweazle* (2021), as Prince
- *Waiting for Anya* (2020), as Hans
- *Rookies* (2020), series, as Marcel John
- *Inside Man: Most Wanted* (2019), as Maynar Schmidt
- *The Capture* (2019), series, as Gabor
- *Blame Game* (2019), as Arne
- *Dogs of Berlin* (2018), series, as Gert Seiler
- *Fette Kumpelz* (2018), as Undercover Cop
- *Sunset* (2018), as Ismael
- *Instrument of War* (2017), as Klaus Schmidt
- *My foreign girlfriend* (2017), as Christian
- *The Invisible Film* (2017), as Denis
- *Erlebnis Geschichte* (2017), series, as Moderator
- *Papa Bär* (2016), as Tomasso
- *Die Informantin* (2016), Actor
- *Was kostet die Liebe? - Ein Großstadtmärchen* (2016), as Christian May
- *Son of Saul* (2015), as Eli Biederman — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/son-of-saul.md)
- *Rentnercops* (2015), series, as Martin Nowak
- *The King's Surrender* (2014), as Jenne
- *Outlander* (2014), series, as Gerhard Mueller — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/outlander.md)
- *Kommissarin Heller* (2014), series, as Paul Rottmann
- *Die Chefin* (2012), series, as Vincent Bachmeier
- *GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben* (2007), series, as Sebastian Hartmann
- *Eight Miles High* (2007), as Boxer
- *Aufrecht stehen* (2006), Actor
- *Hunger auf Leben* (2004), Actor
- *Der Ermittler* (2001), series, as Ole
- *Bronski und Bernstein* (2001), series, as Leo
- *SOKO Leipzig* (2001), series, as Frank Moltke
- *Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police* (1996), series, as Robert Schischek
- *Unser Charly* (1995), series, as Tassilo
- *Polizeiruf 110* (1971), series, as Ralf Gellert, Paul Funke
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Bademeister, Gerhard Ellinger

## Gallery

- ![Urs Rechn](https://film.one/media/person/122734/gallery-13aa9a8245e4.jpg) Urs Rechn — Walter schoenenbroecher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Port_urs_rechn.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Baltic Sea, on the way to regatta (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/122734/gallery-c56b208e3a09.jpg) Baltic Sea, on the way to regatta (2014) — Alexandermaerz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Urs_Rechn.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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