On October 10th 1980 I was born in Munich and grew up there too. As a child Boris Becker, the infamous Wimbledon champion, had been my Idol. I always wanted to be as cool and successful as him. That time I did a pictorial for children’s fashion. Then I went to school and that dream had to give way to another career of being a good student.
When, from all different kinds of schools, which gave me a greater perspective about cultures of the world, I went to high school, a theater course had been offered there. I chose to join because of, let me be honest, the easy to get A+ to lift up my average grade. So I expected to get the good grades, which I did, but then something was there which I did not expect. After two years of school plays I got hooked to acting. Thus, after graduating in y2k I immediately took up acting classes in a variety of schools.
In Munich I went to “Artemis” an acting school managed by former actress Marlene Beck. Parallel to it I joined Lee Strasberg seminars under Wolfgang Schatz. During that time I made my first TV-camera experience, in the TV series “Alexander Hold”, which was a learning playground for me.
Then came a public play in the “Interim Theater” in Munich, at which I got my first professional stage experience.
At the same time, as my acting education went on, I had the chance to appear in a special episode in the show of one of Philippines greatest showmasters “Herman Moreno”. After my performance there, several managers approached me and offered me to work with them. With their help I started doing commercials there, and even, not typical in the Philippines, for several high class products at the same time. So I played the lead roles in commercials for “Rexona”, “Bank of Philippine Islands” and for two of their highest quality and most wanted products, “Close Up” and “Nescafé”. The Nescafé spot was awarded the most beautiful commercial in Asia, referring to my manager. I don’t know where to check that. Then I also did print ads for “Ford”, “Trix” and Nescafé again. After this, people started recognizing me on the street, which let me have some hilarious situations. Although Close Up and Nescafé are known as “star makers” in the Philippines, I decided to give my priority to my acting school for now. Thus, I flew back to Germany and continued my studies. After all I want to be a good actor, not only another face on the market.
After passing the test at my acting school, I went to Berlin to learn more, different things from different teachers. There I met “Wolfgang Stegemann” a stunt coordinator and performer, who performed in international and U.S. films like “Aeon Flux” and “V for Vendetta”. With him was “Alister Mazotti” who also played a role in “V for Vendetta” and who was the stunt and special effects coordinator for “The Pianist”.
They taught me the art of swordplay and martial arts in front of the camera. Now I know how to move. A little demonstration of my skills can be seen in a video clip on my “Video” page.
After another one and a half years of acting school, a role in the TV series “Streit um Drei”, some dubbing for “Arena Synchron” and “Deutsche Synchron”, a moderation of a fashion show in Potsdam, being in charge of a children’s acting course, and passing of my exams at that school, I went back to Munich.
Still, after three years of acting and acting school, giving me very useful experiences I felt something missing in my way of acting. Only that I didn’t know what it was.
Another role came in the Philippine independent film “iSnats”(Director: Mike Dagnalan) on big screen, which also can be found at IMDB... although they spelled my name the wrong way. grrrr. Typos! Then came a role in the German independent film “Archangel”.
But even after that, I was not happy with my way of acting and tried to figure out the problems. The solution however came with “The Studio” former “Hollywood Acting Workshop” in L.A. managed by Petra Gallasch. The teachers there, Bjorn Johnson, Fred Johntz, Cherolyn Franklin, Sam Christensen, Jim Gleason, just to name some, you know who I’m talking about anyway, made a big change in my acting style.
True acting I found only in Hollywood. There must be a reason for Hollywood to be the greatest film metropolis in the world, huh! I am so grateful for having learned from the greatest.
When I came back to Germany I felt more ready to act than ever before and many times I got proof that I had improved worlds from where I was standing before.
Then I attended two courses at the “HFF” in Munich, held by Mark Travis.
After all this, I concentrated on my “normal” job since I needed to survive, my private life, and work as cutter at our biggest pay TV station “Premiere”. So except for roles in the series “Spass Rot Gold”, “Galileo”, a commercial for “C&A”, one for “Whisper” in the Philippines, a commercial film for “Siemens”, and a role in a project film of the “HFF” Munich, I didn’t do that much.
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Then came the big bang! End of September 2007 having a good time in the Philippines, in darkness and rain (slippery when wet, I’ll never forget that.), I fell down from a party-balcony... at the seventh floor. The only parked car on that side of the house saved my life.
So now I needed some time to recover, but in that time I could work on my inner life, find balance and reset my priorities. At long last I know there is only one thing that can give my heart what it needs... and that is ACTING! I am here to pursue my dream. So let’s get ready for some action!

With love,
PhilippHarth

FILM
iSnats - Contract killer - Mike Dagnalan, Dir. - Natural Light Productions
Everbeing - Pilot Vooch - Florian Eder Dir. - Federelis - 50 Jahre der
Ewigkeit - Archangel - Vampire - Robert Amper Dir. - Movie-Factory

TELEVISION
Brain - American banker - ARD
Galileo - Bomb builder - Pro 7
Spass Rot Gold - Archaic - Premiere
Streit um Drei - Witness - ZDF
Richter Alexander Hold - Defendant - Sat.1
Walang Tulugan - Lead dance Performer - GMA - Channel 7

THEATER
Romolus der Große - Aemilian, Odoaker, The Butler - Marlene Beck - Interim Theater
Leonce & Lena - Valerio - Reinhold Schira - Theater Keller
Der Weltuntergang - Professor Guck - Reinhold Schira - Theater Keller

COMMERCIAL
Nescafé - TV - Lead
Bank of Philippine Islands - TV - Lead
Close Up - TV - Second Lead
Rexona - TV - Lead
Whisper - TV - Second lead
C & A - TV - Second lead
Siemens - TV - Lead
Nescafé - Print - Lead
Ford - Print - Lead
Trix - Print - Lead
Siemens - Print - Lead

VOICE OVER
Various movies and TV-series - Deutsche Synchron - Arena Synchron

OTHER
Company teaser video - Detictive Yu - San Mateo County Community College
Fashion Show - Host - Satori

TRAINING
Film Acting Special - Petra Gallasch, Bjorn Johnson, Cecilia De Rico - Los Angeles
The Studio - Bjorn Johnson, Jim Gleason, Fred Johntz, Cherie Franklin, Sam Christensen, Steven Memel - Los Angeles
HFF - Mark Travis - Munich Germany
Artemis Acting School - Marlene Beck, Jakob Fuhrmann - Munich Germany
Strassberg Seminar - Wolfgang Schatz - Munich Germany
Camera Fights - Alister Mazotti, Wolfgang Stegemann - Berlin Germany
Voice - Angelika Mann - Berlin Germany

SPECIAL SKILLS
Languages: German/English(fluent, no European accent), French(basics)
Snow-skiing
Camera and Stage fighting

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