Name	Michael Mendl
Height
Naionality	German
Date of Birth	20-April-1944
Place of Birth	Luenen, Germany
Famous for	Acting

Michael Mendl is a German actor. He is considered one of the most popular character actors of his generation. He began his acting career during his 14-year school as an extra at the National Theatre Mannheim. He performed at various theaters in Germany. He had engagements at the State Theater in Darmstadt, at the State Theatre in Stuttgart and at the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich.

In the 1980s he played at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, among other Tillmann in The Villa of Tancred Dorst (premiered in 1980, directed by Günter Krämer), Lambacher in the dusty rainbow of Hans Henny Jahnn (1982, directed by Hans Günther Heyme), George is Who? Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1983, directed by Thomas Schulte-Michels) and the main man in Woyzeck (1986, directed by Jossi Wieler). From 1988 to 1993 he was a permanent member of the Bavarian State Theatre. Among his roles there, among other things, Garcin in No Exit (1988), Marat in The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as by the spectacle of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1988), Boris in Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky (1989), Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author (1990), Saranieff in The Marquis of Keith by Frank Wedekind (1991) and Burleigh in Mary Stuart (1991), all each under the direction of Thomas Schulte-Michels.

Since the 1980s, he also worked, at first rather sporadically, as a film and television actor, including in 1989 the scene of the crime thriller The Last of Ulrike Folkerts, 1991, he succeeded with Sönke Wortmann's Dogfish breakthrough in the medium of film. He played in the first work of Sherry Hormann Silent Shadow (with the 1992 Max Ophüls Prize awarded). Shortly before, he had the Residenz Theater Munich terminated. In 1994 he decided to work only as a film and television actor.