Uwe Boll
- Directing
- June 22, 1965 · Wermelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Biography
Uwe Boll (born June 22, 1965) is a German filmmaker and restaurateur. He finances his own films through his production companies Boll KG and Event Film Productions. Many of his films are produced on low budgets and Boll himself has backed his projects financially or made use of crowdfunding platforms. His career is generally divided into two distinct phases: the first of big-budget fare, many adapted from video games, with a usually renowned cast, most of which gained him a reputation as a 'schlock maestro', while receiving primarily negative critical reviews, with Alone in the Dark (2005) considered one of the worst films ever made. His second phase is marked by films of smaller or independent backing, relatively unknown actors and different approaches to filmmaking; Boll's Rampage film series, Tunnel Rats, Stoic, Amoklauf, Heart of America, Assault on Wall Street and Darfur were better received. Boll decided to branch out from filmmaking in 2016 to work in the restaurant industry. He opened his Bauhaus Restaurant in Vancouver, which had earned positive reviews among food critics. In 2022, he returned to making films after selling the restaurant.
Known for
Filmography
- Citizen Vigilante · Broadcast director (uncredited), Director
- Run · Producer, Director
- ApoKalypse · Office Boll (Voice)
- Going Postal: The Legacy Foretold · Self
- First Shift · Producer, Writer
- Bandidos and I · Director, Producer
- Thanatomania
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World · Uwe Boll
- Luna Project · Executive producer
- Hanau: Germany in Winter · Producer, Director
- Demnächst auf VHS · Self
- Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business · Self
- Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story · Self
- House of Evil · Producer
- Rampage: President Down · Rampage Killer #2 (uncredited), Screenplay
- Cinema Perverso · Self
- ABCs of Superheroes · President
- Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead · Producer
- Anger of the Dead · Producer
- Mission NinetyTwo: Part II - Energy · Boat owner
- La Petite Mort 2: Nasty Tapes · Self
- Rampage: Capital Punishment · Andy the Producer, Director
- Kino Plus · Self
- In the Name of the King III · Executive producer, Director
- Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge · Thanks, Producer
- Prisoners of the Sun · Co-producer
- Suddenly · Director
- Legend of the Red Reaper · Executive producer
- Assault on Wall Street · Writer, Executive producer
- Pantoffelkino · Self
- Zombie Massacre · Président des États-Unis, Producer
- The Profane Exhibit · Executive producer, Director
- The Real Uwe Boll · Er selbst
- Tim Sander goes to Hollywood · Self
- Roche & Böhmermann · Self
- In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds · Director, Executive producer
- 50/50 · Thanks
- Blubberella · Adolf Hitler, Writer
- Schlaraffenhaus · Presenter
- Auschwitz · Nazi Officer, Producer
- Raging Boll · Self
- Max Schmeling · Referee #2, Director
- BloodRayne: The Third Reich · Director, Producer
- The Final Storm · Director, Producer
- Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz · Self
- Attack on Darfur · Director, Writer
- Rampage · Director, Writer
- Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com · Self
- Stoic · Producer, Writer
- Kopf oder Zahl · Thanks
- Far Cry · Director, Producer
- Alone in the Dark 2 · Producer
- Tunnel Rats · Director, Writer
- Visiting Uwe · Self
- In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale · Director, Producer
- Heckler · Self
- Bloodsucking Cinema · Self
- Postal · Uwe Boll, Director
- BloodRayne II: Deliverance · Director, Executive producer
- They Wait · Executive producer
- Seed · Director, Screenplay
- BloodRayne · Director, Producer
- Alone in the Dark · Director, Executive producer
- Nightwish: Wish I Had An Angel · Director
- Zombiegeddon · Self
- House of the Dead · Director, Producer
- Heart of America · Story, Director
- Angels Don't Sleep Here · Executive producer
- Blackwoods · Director, Executive producer
- Sanctimony · Director, Writer
- Fiasco · Producer
- Fake - Die Fälschung · Producer
- The First Semester · Screenplay, Executive producer
- Amoklauf · Director, Writer
- Boxen · Director, Writer
- Barschel: Murder in Geneva · Producer, Writer
- German Fried Movie · Tipgeber, Writer
- Ness · Director
- Rampage IV: The New Blood · Screenplay, Executive producer
- First Shift: Vengeance · Director, Writer