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Acting

Otto Waalkes

Career

Active from 1973 to 2025, busiest in 2021 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles
19
top three billing
Average score
GoodWatch score48/100
Highest rated
Poster for Otto - The Movie
Otto - The Movie
GoodWatch score64/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 18 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Energy: 3.7 versus catalog average 4.6EnergyHeart: 4.6 versus catalog average 4.2HeartHumor: 5.5 versus catalog average 2.6HumorWorld: 5.0 versus catalog average 5.6WorldCraft: 4.4 versus catalog average 5.3CraftStyle: 5.0 versus catalog average 5.9Style
Otto Waalkes Catalog average

Rarely in their work

  • Psychological
    2.2, average 5.5
  • Melancholy
    2.0, average 4.7
  • Tension
    3.6, average 6.0
  • Class & Capitalism
    1.2, average 3.3

Main genres

Select a genre to see those titles.

Recurring tags

  • Cult Classic Humor 2
  • German Comedy 2
  • Family-Friendly Adventure 2
  • Wholesome Entertainment 2
  • Magical Realism 2
  • German Cinema 2
  • Light-hearted Escapism 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

29
Type
Role
Score
Decade
Genre
Group by

2020s

4 titles · average score 52
Seiler und Speer: A schware Partie 25
Seiler und Speer: A schware Partie 25 (2025)

as Otto Waalkes

Catweazle
Catweazle (2021)
GoodWatch score 55

as Catweazle

Help, I Shrunk My Friends
Help, I Shrunk My Friends (2021)
GoodWatch score 48

as Otto Leonhard

Otto Fröhliche - Advent, Advents mit Otto und Friends
Otto Fröhliche - Advent, Advents mit Otto und Friends (2021)

as Various

2010s

8 titles · average score 41
Help, I Shrunk My Parents
Help, I Shrunk My Parents (2018)
GoodWatch score 51

as Otto Leonhard

Geheimakte Otto Waalkes - Harry Hirsch auf Spurensuche
Geheimakte Otto Waalkes - Harry Hirsch auf Spurensuche (2018)

as Harry Hirsch

Potato Salad: Don't Ask!
Potato Salad: Don't Ask! (2015)
GoodWatch score 19

as Notrufbeantworter

The Time Carousel
The Time Carousel (2015)

as Wilhelm Tell (voice)

Help, I Shrunk My Teacher
Help, I Shrunk My Teacher (2015)
GoodWatch score 54

as Spirit of the school founder Otto Leonhard

The 7th Dwarf
The 7th Dwarf (2014)
GoodWatch score 29

as Bubi (voice)

Otto's Traum
Otto's Traum (2014)

as Otto

Otto's Eleven
Otto's Eleven (2010)
GoodWatch score 51

as Otto

2000s

8 titles · average score 48
Lissi and the Wild Emperor
Lissi and the Wild Emperor (2007)
GoodWatch score 49

Thanks

7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough
7 Dwarves: The Forest Is Not Enough (2006)
GoodWatch score 49

as Bubi

Siegfried
Siegfried (2005)
GoodWatch score 40

as Grille (voice)

7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald
7 Zwerge - Männer allein im Wald (2004)
GoodWatch score 52

as Bubi

Crazy Race 2 - Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel
Crazy Race 2 - Warum die Mauer wirklich fiel (2004)
GoodWatch score 34

as Scientist

Genial daneben
Genial daneben (2003)
GoodWatch score 65

TV show

Kommando Störtebeker
Kommando Störtebeker (2001)

as Bruno Bommel / Papagei

Otto - The Disaster Movie
Otto - The Disaster Movie (2000)
GoodWatch score 47

as Otto, Baby-Otto, Otti, Großvater

1990s

4 titles · average score 65
Otto – The Series
Otto – The Series (1995)

TV show · as Verschiedene

Ottifants
Ottifants (1993)

TV show · as Baby Bruno Bommel

RTL Samstag Nacht
RTL Samstag Nacht (1993)
GoodWatch score 77

TV show

Otto - The Romance Film
Otto - The Romance Film (1992)
GoodWatch score 53

as Karl/Otto/Amor

1980s

4 titles · average score 59
Otto – The Alien from East Frisia
Otto – The Alien from East Frisia (1989)
GoodWatch score 57

as Otto / Benno Gross

Otto – The New Movie
Otto – The New Movie (1987)
GoodWatch score 57

as Otto

Otto - The Movie
Otto - The Movie (1985)
GoodWatch score 64

as Otto / Otto's Father (voice) / Otto's Mother (voice) / Mr. Astrid (voice)

Ronny’s Pop Show
Ronny’s Pop Show (1982)

TV show · as Ronny (voice)

1970s

1 title
The Otto-Show
The Otto-Show (1973)

TV show · as Otto Waalkes