Manuel Santos Gelke
Biography
Manuel Santos (born February 10, 2005, in Berlin; born as Manuel Philipp Santos Gelke) is a German actor. Santos began acting at a young age. At the age of eleven, he signed with an acting agency and, following an audition, landed the lead role of Otto in the feature film *Benjamin Blümchen*. Filming took place in 2017. In 2018, he took on the lead role of Karl Vierstein in the film *TKKG*. This was followed by further appearances in television productions, including the hospital series *Nachtschwestern* and, in 2024, the first season of *Das Küstenrevier*. Alongside his acting career, Santos has also achieved success in science competitions. In 2018, he won first prize in the Technology category at *Jugend forscht* (Youth Researches) for a plant fertilizer dosing system for aquariums. Furthermore, he has excelled in mathematics competitions such as the Mathematics Olympiad, the *Känguru der Mathematik* (Kangaroo Math Competition), and the Pangea Mathematics Competition.
Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Benni Stein
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Jakob
Each 30 minute episode is dedicated to a separate issue or theme and consists mainly of related short featurettes, which explain, explore and educate how things of everyday life and even complex systems work. It spans a wide variety of topics from technology and industry to something as mundane as how the postal service works.
Drama Series - 2008, 16 episodes • as Matteo Kleist
A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as David Schröter
Morden im Norden is a German Police that has been broadcast by Das Erste. The show is set in Lübeck, Germany Morden im Norden is part of a series of commonly branded shows with similar themes called "Heiter bis tödlich".
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Karl Dombrowski
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Julian Jahnke
Luna Kunath (Caroline Erikson) and Tamara Meurer (Anjua Pahl) work together in the Potsdam murder commission. Luna is single, strong, assertive, funny, empathic, sporty and fast in the head. It is an excellent policewoman whose carefree always accompanies with a little naivety and brings you again and again in brenzy situations. Tamara, however, has more mature, adult. The two of the boss Bernhard Henschel (Michael Lott) and the colleagues David Grünbaum (Omar El-Saeidi), Christoph Westermann (Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen), lail-sure Thomas Brandner (Yung No) and legal physician Werner Vense (Bernd Stegemann). Potsdam, Berlin's pretty little sister, confronts the commissars again and again with a wide variety of life effects. However, the team not only determines in Potsdam, but must always be out of the surrounding area. Because the crime does not stop at the city limit.
Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Dillon
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Nerd
Shortly after taking on his new job as a teacher, Stimpel realizes this career is not as easy as he thought it would be. After having a bad start off with his students, Stimpels love life also changes.
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Emil Lanz
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Milo Zübert
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Otto
Benjamin and his best friend Otto have to deal with the shrewd Zora Zack and to reach deep into their bag of tricks to save the Newtown Zoo.
Movie - 2019, 2h 15m • as Karl
When Willi's father is abducted and is only released for a valuable statue from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi that the police are on the wrong track. Together with the smart policeman's daughter Gaby and the highly intelligent outsider Karl, they start to investigate on their own. Against all odds the four discover a conspiracy. In the course of their first big detective adventure they grow together into a committed community, and so Tim, Klöschen, Karl and Gaby become the band TKKG.