Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 9, 1966
Place of Birth:
Lausanne, Switzerland
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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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Year | Movie | Role |
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2024 | Spuk unterm Riesenrad | Rumpelstilzchen |
2024 | Der Zürich-Krimi: Borchert und die Stadt in Angst (1) | Jürg Dolmas |
2023 | To Stage the Music - Heiner Goebbels | Self |
2023 | The Universal Theory | Kommissar Arnold |
2018 | Happy as Lazzaro | Swiss engineer |
2017 | Das schaffen wir schon | Lukas Grasser |
2017 | The Invisible Film | Podsneznikow |
2016 | A Dangerous Fortune | Amish Bowles |
2016 | Fog in August | Oja |
2016 | Planetarium | Juncker |
2015 | Inspector Dupin: Brittany's Gold | Paul Daeron |
2014 | Therapy for a Vampire | |
2013 | Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas | César |
2007 | Ulzhan | Shakuni |
2005 | Traumschatten | Tristan |
2004 | She Hate Me | Herman Schiller |
2003 | Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me | |
1998 | Bennent mal vier | Self |
1985 | Legend | Honeythorn Gump |
1984 | Dog Day | Chim |
1979 | The Tin Drum | Oskar Matzerath |
1975 | Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient | Manfred Wurster |
1974 | Die Eltern | David |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2018 | Dogs of Berlin | Späti |
2015 | Shades of Guilt | Bernhard Strelitz |
2011 | Was wurde aus...? | himself |
1999 | Beckmann | Self |
1979 | NDR Talk Show | Self |
1976 | Kölner Treff | Self |
1974 | Derrick | Heinz Weik |
1974 | 3 nach 9 | Self |
1970 | Scene of the Crime | Jörn Weig |
1969 | Der Kommissar | Sigi Kempe |