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Uwe Boll was born on 22 June 1965, in Wermelskirchen, North Rine-Westphalia, ( then)West Germany. He is a screenwriter, producer, and director, best known to have worked various film adaptations of video games; he has also worked on “Rampage”, “Tunnel Rats”, “Postal”, and “Darfur”. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.

How rich is Uwe Boll? As of mid-2016, sources inform us of a net worth that is at $10 million, mostly earned through a successful career in films. He has also written a few books and owns a restaurant. He’s had a career dating back to the early ’90s, and as he continues his work, his wealth is expected to increase.

Uwe Boll Net Worth $10 million

Uwe studied at the University of Cologne and then the University of Siegen. He earned a doctorate in literature but even prior to his studies, was focused on starting a career on making movies. A few of his first major releases include “Heart of America” and “Blackwoods” which he co-wrote and directed. He then started to earn a reputation for making video games into films, working on projects such as “Far Cry”, “House of the Dead”, “BloodRayne” and Postal”. Other films he’s worked on include “Seed” which included footage of animals being tortured from PETA,and “Auschwitz” which depicted brutal scenes of the concentration camp. He also worked on a short horror film entitled “The Profane Exhibit”, which is about a daughter getting locked in a room with her parents. Regardless, his net worth rose steadily.

It is also known that Boll is working on “Eaters” which is based on the video game “Zombie Masssacre”. He also did a Kickstarter for a sequel to “Postal”, but it was cancelled prematurely. Uwe has also written two books entitled “How One Must Make a Movie in Germany” and “Genus Series and its Genres”.

With most of his films getting poor reception at the box office, a lot of people wondered where the director was getting money to produce his films. In the commentary of “Alone in the Dark”, he explains that he finances his films using a tax shelter fund that essentially earns him back half of the money he used to make films. Because of this, a lot of people have seen him in a negative light – a few of his films would be listed as the worst films ever made. He even made a bid to direct the “Warcraft” film, one that Blizzard turned away from since they knew about his reputation on video games. Despite that, he has still had a bit of successes with his other films, such as “Darfur” and the films prior to “House of the Dead”.

For his personal life, it is known that Boll married Natalia Boll in 2014, and they have a child. Uwe is well known for confronting critics and even making derogatory comments against them; he’s published a lot of negative comments against critics, video game companies, and other personalities. He has even taunted big names such as Eli Roth, Michael Bay, and George Clooney, to which Michael Bay responded that he didn’t even know the guy until he ranted on YouTube.



Full Name Uwe Boll
Net Worth $10 million
Date Of Birth June 22, 1965
Place Of Birth Wermelskirchen, Germany
Height 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Profession Film director
Education University of Cologne
Nationality American
Spouse Natalia Tudge
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/
Movies Postal, Alone in the Dark, In the Name of the King, House of the Dead, Rampage: You End Now, Rampage: President Down, Rampage, BloodRayne, Assault on Wall Street, BloodRayne: The Third Reich, Darfur, Tunnel Rats, Blubberella, In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds, Heart of America, In the Name of th…
Trademark
1 Recurring flashback scenes
2 His films often feature a scene involving the death of a child
3 Frequently shoots his films in Vancouver, British Columbia
4 Frequently casts Michael Paré and Will Sanderson
5 Frequently directs movie versions of video games
Quote
1 I do not play video games at all.
2 [on Hollywood] That is the most bullsh*t business with bullsh*t idiots, one after the other lined up behind each other. You know, they are all fu*king each other in the asses and nobody makes any decisions. All the actors I ever worked with, Ben Kingsley, whatever, are fu*king pussies, nothing else! They are in the as*holes of their managers, agents and publicists and attorneys…[June 2015]
3 Maybe you know it, but it’s not so easy to finance movies in total. The reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically 50% back from the government.
4 The German press is not friendly to me. I can compare it to the US press. I had 25% really bad reviews, like, “Oh, a Boll movie. Typical trash.” But some said it was “by far Boll’s best movie.” They compared it to, not The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), but something weaker like Eragon (2006).
5 I want to make good movies. Of course, I want to make entertaining movies for the younger audience, and this is a lot of times not working with film critics who are more into drama or art-house movies. But on the other hand, I always try to make solid movies.
6 [asked about how game developers are involved in the making of Postal (2007)] Yeah, they were very involved, this time too much involved, I wrote the script, it’s their baby. They liked the treatment, but they didn’t like the approach of some stuff, they thought it was too funny, but I said the only way to tell a story like “Postal” is to do it funny, let people laugh. I don’t want a movie like Taxi Driver (1976) where a guy is killing everybody, too many movies like that. “Postal” is a movie where everybody is running amok, everyone has good reasons to run amok from the welfare office guy to the police officer. Coming up in two to three weeks, they will be really happy, like our cast . . . I think it will be hilarious.
7 [on fighting–and winning–against all of his critics in a boxing ring] You see what happens when people get hit in the head? They like my movies!
8 [about what he learned from his disastrous experience with Alone in the Dark (2005)] That a script matters.
9 [about his favorite book, Gustavus Myers’ “The History of American Fortunes”] If you follow the money, like the writer did – the history of the Rockefellers and so on – you find out about real history. In that book you learn that the Civil War was not about freeing the slaves, it was all about the money, etc.
Fact
1 Worked together with Academy Award winners Ben Kingsley and J.K. Simmons, Academy Award nominees Burt Reynolds and Eric Roberts, and Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss.
2 An admirer of Michael Haneke’s films and the early work of Oliver Stone.
3 Is a fan of District 9 (2009).
4 [2010] Empire Magazine’s ‘The 50 Worst Movies Ever’ includes 2 films by Uwe Boll: House of the Dead (2003) (Nr.35) and Alone in the Dark (2005) (Nr. 21). Boll is the only director with 2 films on the list.
5 Considered fighting comedian Ron Sparks when he challenged critics to a boxing match during the filming of Postal (2007) but ultimately declined because of Sparks’ age, height and weight advantage – and due to the fact he’d be fighting several challengers back-to-back. Boll ultimately defeated every opponent in the Vancouver matches, which can be seen in the Raging Boll (2010) documentary.
6 Lists The Searchers (1956), Taxi Driver (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Citizen Kane (1941), A Clockwork Orange (1971), and Breaking the Waves (1996) as some of his favorite films.
7 Cites the Trevor Howard / Marlon Brando version of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) as the film that made him want to be a movie director.
8 Despite several Razzie Award nominations, including one “win” for Worst Director, not one of the films he has directed has been awarded the Razzie for Worst Picture.
9 Planned on making a film based on long running Sega franchise Wonder Boy, with a script by Robin Morningstar. Intentions moved so far along that Caitlin Stasey from Aussie soap Neighbours was attached to a part. When Sega decided to leave the character for all intents and purposes dead, the project collapsed, and was featured as the main news story in issue 51 of Retro Gamer Magazine.
10 Has worked with Robin Morningstar on a proposed film of Konami property Contra, which either has resulted in the mock Uwe Boll’s Contra trailer by fans on the internet, or the fanbase was unknowingly ironic in its timing.
11 Cites Apocalypse Now (1979) as his favorite movie.
12 Was a film critic for a local radio station in the late 1980s.
13 Challenged his critics in June 2006 to a “put up or shut up” boxing match. His production company issued a press release stating that Boll would challenge his 5 harshest critics each to a 10-round boxing match. To be eligible, the critic must have written two extremely negative reviews of Boll, in print or on the Web, in 2005. The fights are documented in the film Raging Boll (2010). Boll knocked out all opponents.
14 He is good friends with Clint Howard and cast him in Blackwoods (2001), Heart of America (2002), and House of the Dead (2003). He is also good friends with Dominic Purcell and Michael Paré. Paré is in over 15 Boll films.
15 His favorite film of 2005 was Sin City (2005). His favorite film of 2012 was Django Unchained (2012). His favorite film of 2013 was The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

Producer

Title Year Status Character
12 Hours producer announced
Luna Project executive producer filming
Rampage: President Down 2016 executive producer
House of Evil 2016 producer
Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead 2015 producer
Anger of the Dead 2015 producer
Morning Star 2014/I producer
Rampage: Capital Punishment 2014 executive producer / producer
In the Name of the King: The Last Mission 2014 executive producer
Seed 2 2014 executive producer / producer
Viy 2014 co-executive producer
Prisoners of the Sun 2013 co-producer
Dragon Dog 2013 Short executive producer
The Profane Exhibit 2013 executive producer – segment “Basement”
Legend of the Red Reaper 2013 executive producer
Suddenly 2013 executive producer
Assault on Wall Street 2013 executive producer
Zombie Massacre 2013 producer
Revisiting ‘Suddenly’ 2013 Video documentary short executive producer
Behind the Scenes of ‘In the Name of the King: Two Worlds’ 2011 Video documentary short producer
From Page to Screen: Writing ‘In the Name of the King: Two Worlds’ 2011 Video documentary short producer
In the Name of the King: Two Worlds 2011 executive producer
Blubberella 2011 producer
BloodRayne: The Third Reich 2011 producer
Auschwitz 2011 producer
Max Schmeling 2010 executive producer
The Final Storm 2010 producer
Attack on Darfur 2009 producer
Rampage 2009 producer
Stoic 2009 producer
1968: Tunnel Rats – Behind the Scenes 2009 Video short executive producer
Far Cry 2008 producer
Alone in the Dark II 2008 Video producer
1968 Tunnel Rats 2008 producer
BloodRayne II: Deliverance 2007 Video executive producer
They Wait 2007 executive producer
Postal 2007 producer
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale 2007 producer
Seed 2006 producer
BloodRayne 2005 producer
Alone in the Dark 2005 executive producer
House of the Dead 2003 producer
Heart of America 2002 executive producer
Angels Don’t Sleep Here 2002 executive producer
Blackwoods 2001 executive producer
Sanctimony 2000 producer
Love, Money, Love 2000 co-producer
Fíaskó 2000 co-producer
Fake – Die Fälschung 1999 Video executive producer
Das erste Semester 1997 executive producer
Amoklauf 1994 producer
Barschel – Mord in Genf 1993 producer
German Fried Movie 1992 producer

Director

Title Year Status Character
12 Hours announced
Rampage: President Down 2016
Rampage: Capital Punishment 2014
In the Name of the King: The Last Mission 2014
The Profane Exhibit 2013 segment “Basement”
Suddenly 2013
Assault on Wall Street 2013
Behind the Scenes of ‘In the Name of the King: Two Worlds’ 2011 Video documentary short
In the Name of the King: Two Worlds 2011
Blubberella 2011
BloodRayne: The Third Reich 2011
Auschwitz 2011
Max Schmeling 2010
The Final Storm 2010
Attack on Darfur 2009
Rampage 2009
Stoic 2009
Far Cry 2008
1968 Tunnel Rats 2008
BloodRayne II: Deliverance 2007 Video
Postal 2007
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale 2007
Seed 2006
BloodRayne 2005
Alone in the Dark 2005
House of the Dead 2003
Heart of America 2002
Blackwoods 2001
Sanctimony 2000
Das erste Semester 1997
Amoklauf 1994
Barschel – Mord in Genf 1993
German Fried Movie 1992

Writer

Title Year Status Character
12 Hours story announced
Rampage: President Down 2016 written by
Rampage: Capital Punishment 2014 screenplay / written by
Seed 2 2014 based on characters created by
Assault on Wall Street 2013 written by
Blubberella 2011 written by
Auschwitz 2011 written by
Attack on Darfur 2009 written by
Rampage 2009 written by
Stoic 2009 written by
1968 Tunnel Rats 2008 written by
Postal 2007 written by
Seed 2006 written by
Heart of America 2002 story
Blackwoods 2001 written by
Sanctimony 2000 written by
Das erste Semester 1997
Amoklauf 1994
Barschel – Mord in Genf 1993 writer
German Fried Movie 1992

Actor

Title Year Status Character
Rampage: President Down 2016 Rampage Killer #2 (uncredited)
ABCs of Superheroes 2015 President
Rampage: Capital Punishment 2014 Andy the Producer (uncredited)
NinetyTwo 2014 Boat Owner Henning
Zombie Massacre 2013 President of the US
Blubberella 2011 Hitler
Auschwitz 2011 SS Guard
Max Schmeling 2010 Referee #2
Postal 2007 Uwe Boll
German Fried Movie 1992 Danger Seeker 2 / Tipgeber

Cinematographer

Title Year Status Character
Behind the Scenes of ‘In the Name of the King: Two Worlds’ 2011 Video documentary short
From Page to Screen: Writing ‘In the Name of the King: Two Worlds’ 2011 Video documentary short

Soundtrack

Title Year Status Character
Fright Night 2011 performer: “Dark Destiny” / writer: “Dark Destiny”

Camera Department

Title Year Status Character
German Fried Movie 1992 camera: Danger-Seeker-Camera

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
Reyes 2017 special thanks pre-production
Forest of Fear 2017 special thanks pre-production
ABCs of Superheroes 2015 René thanks
Morning Star 2014/I very special thanks
Seed 2 2014 special thanks
Downtown Crackdown 3-D 2012 Short special thanks
Renegade Royalty 2012 Video documentary short special thanks
Red Scorpion: All Out of Bullets 2012 Video documentary short thanks
50/50 2011 special thanks
Eaters 2011 very special thanks
Goy 2011 thanks
Jessicka Rabid 2010 special thanks
Underbelly 2010 TV Series special thanks
Kopf oder Zahl 2009 thanks
Haunted Traxx 2009 special thanks
Infekt 2008 Video special thanks – as Dr. Uwe Boll
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 2008 TV Series documentary special thanks – 1 episode

Self

Title Year Status Character
Foundumentary 2017 Documentary pre-production Himself
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business 2017 Documentary filming Himself
Cinema Perverso – Die wunderbare und kaputte Welt des Bahnhofskinos 2015 Documentary Himself
La Petite Mort II 2014 Himself – Special Appearance
Restaurants Around the World with Uwe Boll 2013 TV Movie documentary Himself
Dragon Dog 2013 Short Himself
Moviecops 2013 TV Series Himself
Revisiting ‘Suddenly’ 2013 Video documentary short Himself – Director
Hello! Hollywood 2013 TV Series Himself
The Making of ‘Bailout: The Age of Greed’ 2013 Short Himself
Herr Eppert sucht 2012 TV Series documentary Himself
Roche & Böhmermann 2012 TV Series Himself
Tim Sander Goes to Hollywood 2012 Documentary Himself
Midnight Movie Review 2011-2012 TV Series documentary Himself
Filmemacher 2012 Documentary Himself – Interviewee
Behind the Scenes of ‘In the Name of the King: Two Worlds’ 2011 Video documentary short Himself
Unterwegs mit Dr. Uwe Boll 2011 Documentary Himself
Uwe Boll Talks About Auschwitz 2010 Video documentary short Himself
Raging Boll 2010 Documentary Himself
Am Set von ‘Max Schmeling’ 2009 Video documentary short Himself
Into the Pit: The Shocking Story of Deadpit.com 2009 Documentary Himself
1968: Tunnel Rats – Behind the Scenes 2009 Video short Himself
Escalator 2008 Video documentary Himself
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 2008 TV Series documentary Himself
Heckler 2007 Documentary Himself (as Dr. Uwe Boll)
Bloodsucking Cinema 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself
Space Top 10 Countdown 2006 TV Series Himself
HypaSpace 2006 TV Series documentary Himself
The King of Trash 2006 TV Short documentary Himself
Tagesthemen 2004 TV Series documentary Himself
The Making of: House of the Dead 2004 Video Himself
Behind the House: Anatomy of the Zombie Movement 2004 Video documentary short Himself
Zombiegeddon 2003 Video Himself
In Action 2000 Documentary Himself

Won Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2009 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Director Tunnel Rats (2008)
2009 Worst Career Achievement Award Razzie Awards Germany’s answer to Ed Wood.
2007 Best Special Effects New York City Horror Film Festival Seed (2006)
2006 Stinker Award The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Worst Sense of Direction (Stop them before they direct again!) BloodRayne (2005)
2005 Stinker Award The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards Worst Sense of Direction (Stop them before they direct again!) Alone in the Dark (2005)

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
2009 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Supporting Actor Postal (2007)
2009 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Screen Couple Uwe Boll and ANY actor, camera or screenplay.
2008 Leo Leo Awards Best Feature Length Drama They Wait (2007)
2007 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Director BloodRayne (2005)
2006 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Director Alone in the Dark (2005)
1994 Max Ophüls Award Max Ophüls Festival Amoklauf (1994)

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