Thomas Douglas (actor)

Thomas Douglas , also Thomas R. Douglas , (born October 29, 1972 in Lusaka , Zambia ) is a German-British film and theater actor .

Life

Thomas Douglas grew up bilingual (German and English) in Zambia , Iran and Germany. He completed his acting studies in 1999 at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg with a diploma. Permanent engagements at Theater Neumarkt Zurich (1999–2001, direction: Crescentia Dünsser and Otto Kukla) and at Theater Basel (2001–2005, direction: Stefan Bachmann and Lars-Ole Walburg ) took him to Switzerland. From 2006 to 2012 Thomas Douglas was a member of the independent theater group Capriconnection. In 2012 he played alongside Klaus Maria Brandauer in the Cold War espionage film Manipulation . He also regularly takes on assignments as a speaker in English and German. Thomas Douglas has been a freelance worker since 2005 and lives with his family in Zurich.

Filmography (selection)

Movie

• • 2019: Moscow Easy
  • 2019: The sad ballad of Isabelle K. (short film)
  • 2019: Parasomniac
  • 2018: Zwingli
  • 2018: I'm Good (short film)
  • 2018: Sew Torn (short film)
  • 2017: The Coachmen
  • 2012: manipulation
  • 2010: For two
  • 2008: Blowing up dwarves
  • 2008: Miss miracle
  • 2008: In the wake of the night
  • 2006: autopilot
  • 2005: Love makes the little soul big
  • 2005: Handyman
  • 2003: Tilt
  • 1998: Ran an den Speck (short film)

watch TV

• 2019: Freddy, the kindergarten teacher
• 2019: Tatort (Freiburg)
• 2019: peace
• 2019: Overland
• 2018: For Heaven's Sake (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2017: WaPo Bodensee (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2017: Gurlitt's Shadow (TV movie)
• 2017: The Undertaker , episodes 4-6
• 2017: Zwiespalt (TV movie)
• 2017: Wilder (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2014: Crime scene: defenseless
• 2014: Crime scene: winter fog
• 2012: Europe's last summer (TV movie)
• 2012: The Road to Power (TV movie)
• 2011: Counterrevolution (TV movie)
• 2011: Spetzlwirtschaft
• 2009: The Nun and the Commissioner - Angel of Death
• 2007: Emergency Call Hafenkante (TV series, 1 episode)
• 2007: In the Valley of the Wild Roses: Heart in the Wind (TV series)
• 1999: Two men at the stove (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1998: Bella Block (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1998: The Rooster is Dead (TV Movie)
• 1998: The Pirate (TV movie)
• 1997: Mission Hamburg Süd (TV series, 1 episode)

Theater (selection)

• 2019 Odipus REC, Gare du Nord, Till Wyl von Ballmoos
• 2019 Tonhalle, A music-theatrical self-assertion, Lucerne Festival / Lucerne Theater
• 2018: Tonhalle, A Music Theatrical Assertion , Music Biennale, Munich
• 2017: The Black Spider. A grusical based on Jeremias Gotthelf , Lucerne Theater , Lucerne
• 2016: The Unyielding , The Story of Louis Carlos Prestes and Olga Benario Even Theater , Zurich
• 2015: The bat
• 2013–19: Staged readings at the Zurich Chamber Orchestra
• 2013: We are Family, Winkelwiese Theater, Stadttheater Chur, Lokremise St.Gallen
• 2013: Elegant Nullity / Richard Wagner, Theater am Neumarkt Zurich
• 2012: Expats, Theater am Neumarkt, Zurich
• 2012: Endless fun, HAU Berlin
• 2012: We are Family, Theater Winkelwiese, Stadttheater Chur, Lokremise St.Gallen
• 2012: Utopia, Theater Basel
• 2012: Waiting for the barbarians, Gessnerallee Zurich, City Theater Chur
• 2011: The Big Bang, Capriconnection, Kaserne Basel, Rote Fabrik Zurich, HAU Berlin
• 2011: Zwergnase, Schauspielhaus Zurich
• 2011: Ars Moriendi, Capriconnection, Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallee Zurich, Maillard Strasbourg, HAU 1 Berlin, Rundfunksaal Köln
• 2010: Three Sisters, Theater Basel
• 2010: Orpheus Descending, Theater Basel
• 2009: Become a healer, Capriconnection, Kaserne Basel, Gessnerallee Zurich, CCD Workstation Beijing
• 2009: In Amrein's World, Lucerne Theater
• 2009: Slaughter plates, Rote Fabrik Zurich, Reithalle Bern, Center Culturel Paris
• 2009: Guilt and Atonement, Lucerne Theater
• 2008: Heart of Darkness, Gessnerallee Zurich
• 2008: The Clerk, Lucerne Theater
• 2008: Mr. Defender, Capriconnection, Kaserne Basel, Südpol Luzern, HAU Berlin
• 2007: Princesses' dramas, Schauspiel Frankfurt
• 2007: Amphibian: Gessnerallee Zurich, Kaserne Basel, Stadttheater Chur
• 2007: Lautlos: Schauspiel Hannover, Opera Festival MUC, State Opera Stuttgart
• 2006: If one is called Dolores, it doesn't have to be beautiful by a long shot, Schauspielhaus Zürich
• 2006: Dead flies spoil good ointments, project, Gare Du Nord, Basel / HAU 3, Berlin,
• 2006: Othello, Theater Freiburg

Radio plays (selection)

• Readings and radio plays for SRF and SWF
• 2017: u. a. Kilroy and audio guides for the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern
• 2010: Cousin Pons , SRF

Awards

• 1998: Award of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
• 1998: Sponsorship award from the Federal Ministry of the Interior for drama students on the occasion of the drama meeting in Munich.
• 1998: State winner in the competition for young actors of the Vereins- und Westbank Hamburg.
• 2005: Audience Award for Sugar at the Galaoshots Short Film Festival in Berlin
• 2010: For two : Awarded the Zurich Film Prize
• 2017: Zwiespalt : Best TV film in German-speaking countries 2017, awarded by the Academy of Performing Arts, Baden-Baden

Web links

• Thomas Douglas website
• Thomas Douglas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Thomas Douglas at schauspielervideos.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ manipulation. In: swissfilms.ch. Swiss Films Genève, accessed January 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Zurich Film Prize 2010. In: stadt-zuerich.ch. City of Zurich Presidential Department, November 2, 2010, accessed on January 27, 2018 . 
3. ↑ SRF Swiss film "Zwiespalt" wins the main prize at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival. SRF Medien News detailed information. In: srf.ch. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .