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David Bennent

ActorBorn September 9, 1966 (58 years)
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David Bennent (born September 9, 1966) is a Swiss actor.

He was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. His parents are actor Heinz Bennent and former dancer Diane Mansart. His sister Anne is also an actress.

He has lived in Germany and France as well as Switzerland and speaks fluent French and English.

When he was 12 he starred in The Tin Drum, which caused much controversy because David was allegedly shown in sex scenes with an adult. Aged 19, he starred as Honeythorn Gump in the movie Legend, co-starring alongside Tom Cruise and Mia Sara.

Bennett has appeared in such plays as Peer Gynt (2004), Die Juden (2003), Michael Kramer (2003), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2002).

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
  • Planetarium
  • Dog Day
  • Therapy for a Vampire

Known For

  • Legend
  • The Tin Drum
  • Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
  • Planetarium
  • Fog in August
  • Dog Day
  • The Universal Theory
  • Ulzhan
  • Why me?
  • Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me
  • Spuk unterm Riesenrad
  • Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient
  • Das schaffen wir schon

Filmography

2025
Why me? (TV Series) · as Eddie
2024
Hagen · as Alberich
2024
Spuk unterm Riesenrad · as Rumpelstilzchen
2023
The Universal Theory · as Kommissar Arnold
2018
Dogs of Berlin (TV Series) · as Späti
2018
Happy as Lazzaro · as Swiss Engineer
2017
Das schaffen wir schon · as Lukas Grasser
2016
Planetarium · as Juncker
2016
Fog in August · as Oja
2016
Zurich Crime (TV Series) · as Jürg Dolmas
2016
A Dangerous Fortune · as Amish Bowles
2015
2015
Shades of Guilt (TV Series) · as Bernhard Strelitz
2014
2014
Kommissar Dupin (TV Series) · as Paul Daeron
2013
2007
Ulzhan · as Shakuni
2004
She Hate Me · as Herman Schiller
2003
1985
Legend · as Honeythorn Gump
1984
Dog Day · as Chim
1979
The Tin Drum · as Oskar Matzerath
1975
1974
Derrick (TV Series) · as Heinz Weik
1970
Tatort (TV Series) · as Jörn Weig
1969
The Commissioner (TV Series) · as Sigi Kempe

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