# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-sammel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:36:29.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-sammel"
name: "Richard Sammel"
slug: "richard-sammel"
description: "Richard Sammel is a German actor. He is best known to United States audiences for his roles as Sergeant Werner Rachtman in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and as Thomas Eichhorst in The Strain (2014–2017). He has appeared in more than 100 films and television series since 1991."
tagline: "German actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Sammel_SDCC_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.06
  momentum:             1.870083294770939
  historical:           16.67208933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0759898"
sources:
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    title: "Richard Sammel"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Sammel"
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    title: "リチャード・サメル"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Sammel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Sammel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Richard Sammel"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump