Daniel Gedeon Burkhard (born 3 July 1969) is a German film and television actor.

[2] Gedeon was educated at a boarding school in England and began his acting career in 1979 in the German TV film Tante Maria.

Burkhard was working in Cologne on the TV series Alarm für Cobra 11 as the detective Chris Ritter until November 2007.

In 2016, Burkhard played Gustav Froehlich, a German actor and UFA star, in the international movie The Devil's Mistress by Czech director Filip Renč.

The biographical film is about the life of actress Lída Baarová and her relationship with Joseph Goebbels.