Person Details

Birthday: 1990-01-23 10:36:57

Aliases: Joel Basmann

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Zürich, Switzerland

Homepage: http://www.joelbasman.ch/

Movie Involvements: 38

TV Involvements: 15


Most Famous Work

Biography

Joel Basman (born 23 January 1990) is a Swiss-Israeli actor. Basman was born in Zurich to a Swiss mother and an Israeli father, both of whom were tailors in the Swiss fashion industry. He grew up in the neighbourhood of Aussersihl and was raised bilingual (speaking Swiss German and Hebrew). He has one older sister who now lives in Israel. Basman is Jewish. In 2004 he started his career and played a bold teenager named Zizou for the weekly soap opera Lüthi und Blanc. In 2007 director Tobias Ineichen gave the main part to Joel for his film Jimmie. There he played an autistic boy. In February 2008 he got the prize Shooting Star for his part as a Russian teenager on the film Luftibus, written by director Dominque de Rivaz. In September 2008 Joel received the Schweizer Fernsehpreis (Swiss TV-Prize) in the category film. In October 2008 he got the prize for the best main part from Cinema Tous Ecrans. At the Schauspielhaus Zürich Joel Basman acted 2003 for a youth-theatre project. In 2004 and 2005 he played with students, who were at their final project. He finished his studies at the"European Film Actor School" in October 2008. In 2012 Basman got a part as Bertel in the three-piece TV film Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (Our mothers, our fathers). He also played Pascal in the Swiss TV-film Ziellos (Aimless). Joel Basman played as Sebastien Leclercq in a game called ‘Late Shift’ in 2016. In 2018, Basman played the lead role in Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Journey Into the Arms of a Shiksa, picked up by Netflix. Source: Article "Joel Basman" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Famous Work

Scene of the Crime
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6

Scene of the Crime

(1970) Tim König
Deutscher Filmpreis
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6

Deutscher Filmpreis

(1951) Self
The Old Fox
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6

The Old Fox

(1977) Leo Münster
SOKO Wismar
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6

SOKO Wismar

(2004) Mike
Police Call 110
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7

Police Call 110

(1971) Dennis Kuscinsky
Generation War
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8

Generation War

(2013) Bartel
Rosa Roth
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6

Rosa Roth

(1994) Matthis Block
Glanz & Gloria
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4

Glanz & Gloria

(2005) Self

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Peter
2023 Bruno Reiter
2022 Daniel Kowalski
Walter Stürm
2021 Harry Jandorf
Gavrilo Princip
Klaus Brasch
Barkeeper Willem
Hermann Hesse
Paling
N/A
Edward Teller
2019 Military Trainee
Tim
Patrick "Sigi" Signer
2018 Leo
Chris (voice)
Rudolf Höß
Motti
2017 Kondor
Maturette
Lubliner
2016 Rainer Maria Rilke
Sébastien Leclercq
2015 Mausekönig
Helmut Morbach
Rudolfo
Elisha
Mark
2014 Robbie
Valentin
Pascal Saner
German Soldier at Ghent
2013 Paul
Bartel
2012 Theo
Johnny
2011 Ronny
Razor
Tommy
2010 Ruben
Albert
Mani
Fabio
2008 Oskar
Julian
Franz Hilbig
Eric
Liocha
Jimmie Berger
2007 Silenzio
2006 Remo
2005 Self
2004 Mike
2001 himself
1996 Nils Bauer
1994 Matthis Block
1977 Leo Münster
1971 Dennis Kuscinsky
1970 Manu
Tim König
Nurali Balsiger
Werner Weißenbach
Mike Nickel
1951 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

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