Philipp Kadelbach (born 9 September 1974, Frankfurt am Main) is a German film and television director.
[1] Philipp Kadelbach attended the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media and at the same time worked for the German local television channel WQED.
He has directed over 300 national and international adverts for BMW, VW, Mercedes, Hornbach, Burger King, Chevrolet, SEAT, Siemens, T-Mobile - when he and his cameraman Thomas Dirnhofer make advertising films, they use the joint pseudonym Begbie.
His first TV film was the ZDF two-parter Das Geheimnis der Wale with Christopher Lambert, Mario Adorf and Veronica Ferres.
In the second half of 2009 he filmed Hindenburg: The Last Flight for teamWorx and RTL, covering the Hindenburg disaster and starring Max Simonischek, Lauren Lee Smith, Heiner Lauterbach, Greta Scacchi, Stacy Keach, Ulrich Noethen, Christiane Paul, Hannes Jaenicke and Wotan Wilke Möhring.