Ulrich Muehe, star of Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, dies aged 54

Muehe, who played the secret police officer Gerd Wiesler in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's feature about 1980s East Germany, had been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year.

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