Christopher Buchholz

Captain Bluntschli

Christopher was born in Los Angeles and was educated in the U.S., England and France. After graduation, he decided to become an actor, winning an award for best actor prize in Italy for his first film role as the Pope’s assassin Ali Agca in The Plot to Kill the Pope. He has since worked with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Peter Yates, Claire Denis, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Virgil Widrich and Alessandro Colizzi.

He has worked as a director for the stage, and made short films including Amours de Russie, Happy Birthday and Bad Boys’ Garden. He also directed the documentary Horst Buchholz’ my papa that has had rave revues and won many prizes world wide.

His many film and TV credits include Three Sisters Made in Germany, Les Rois Maudits; Milady; Stauffenberg; Fino a Farti Male; Luther; Der Seerosenteich; Eros, Segment: “The Dangerous Thread of Things”; L’Impéro, Les Aliénés, Brighter Than the Moon; Abiamo Solo Fatto l’Amore; Cresceranno i Carciofi a Mimongo; Dien Bien Phu; No Fear, No Die; The House on Carroll Street, etc.

Christopher played I Hate Hamlet with his father at Vienna’s English Theatre in 1991 and is now playing the same part his father played here in 1985.