Cast
Wolfgang Preiss
Acting
Cast
Wolfgang Preiss
Known for
Acting
Born
1910-02-27
From
Nuremberg, Germany
Died
2002-11-27
Also known as Wolfgang Price, ĐĐŸĐ»ŃŃĐłĐ°ĐœĐł ĐŃĐ°ĐčŃŃ
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 at Nuremberg - 27 November 2002 at Baden-Baden) was a German theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932. He went to appear in various theatre productions in Heidelberg, Königsberg, Bonn, Bremen, Stuttgart and Berlin. In 1942 he made his film début - he was exempted from military service specifically - in the UFA production Die grosse Liebe with Zarah Leander. After the end of the Second World War Preiss returned to the theatre, and from 1949 worked extensively dubbing films into German. In 1954 he returned to film acting, appearing in Alfred Weidenmann's Canaris. The following year Preiss played the lead role of Claus von Stauffenberg in Falk Harnack's film Der 20. Juli, which dramatised the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. This role brought Preiss to popular attention and also the 1956 Federal Film Award. From now on Preiss was largely typecast in the role of the upright and obligation-conscious German officer to the other A-list actor playing the Fanatic (I.E. Paul Scofeld in The Train) a part he played in many films, later reprising it in numerous international productions, predominantly in Italy and the USA, while occasionally playing a more typically cynical or brutal Nazi officer. Preiss appeared in such productions as The Longest Day (1962), Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963), and with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Is Paris Burning? (1966). He starred alongside Burt Lancaster in John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964), Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express (1965), Robert Mitchum in Anzio (1968), with Richard Burton, in the title role of Erwin Rommel in Raid on Rommel (1971), and The Boys From Brazil (1978) with Gregory Peck. He also appeared in several Italian language films, credited as "Luppo Prezzo", and played Field Marshal Von Rundstedt in Richard Attenborough's all-star war epic A Bridge Too Far (1977). In addition, for the cinema-going public of West Germany he became the epitome of the evil genius in his role as Doctor Mabuse, a role he first played in 1960 (following Rudolf Klein-Rogge) in Fritz Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. He went on to play the role four more times. In the 1980s Preiss turned to television, notably playing General Walther von Brauchitsch in the American TV mini-series Winds of War and War and Remembrance, based on the books of Herman Wouk. In 1987 received a second Federal Film Award for his outstanding work in film. In film dubbing Preiss provided the voice for such actors as Lex Barker, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Richard Widmark, as well as that of Conrad Veidt as "Major Strasser" in the remastered version of Casablanca. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wolfgang Preiss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Longest Day
as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
A Bridge Too Far
as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
The Train
as Maj. Herren
Is Paris Burning?
as Capitaine Ebernach
The Boys from Brazil
as Lofquist
Anzio
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Raid on Rommel
as Gen. Erwin Rommel
The Cardinal
Hannibal Brooks
as Col. von Haller
Lafayette
as Baron Kalb
Von Ryan's Express
as Major Von Klemment
Dr. M
as Kessler
Riviera-Story
as Arthur Dahlberg
Ike
as FM Alfred Jodl
Tamara
as Father Bricks
The Counterfeit Traitor
as Colonel Nordoff
Bloodline
as Julius Prager
Stresemann
as Heinz Becker
The Bloodstained Butterfly
as The Prosecutor
Der Cornet
as Freiherr von Pirovano
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Mabuse
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Mabuse
Mill of the Stone Women
as Doctor Loren Bolem
The Second Victory
as Father Albertus
Roses for the Prosecutor
as Generalstaatsanwalt
The Salzburg Connection
as Felix Zauner
Diamantenparty
as Konsul Eduard van DĂŒren
The Formula
as Franz Tauber
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
as Earl of Wereford
100 Horsemen
as Sheik Abengalbon
Ghost of Love
as Zighi
The Fifth Cord
as Police inspector
To Skin a Spy
as Chalieff
Battle of the Commandos
as Colonel Ackerman
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
as Prof. Jordan / Peter Cornelius / Dr. Mabuse
The Spy Who Went Into Hell
as Captain Parker
Jack of Diamonds
as Wilhelm Von Schenk
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
as Dr. Beck
Prisoner of the Volga
as General Gorew
The Big Delirium
as Artmann
Von der Liebe besiegt
as Mario Clar
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Mabuse
Konto ausgeglichen
as Robert Jacobi
The Master Touch
as Miller
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Open Air
Playgirl 70
Cave of the Living Dead
as Prof. von Adelsberg
The Standard
as Oberst
Backfire
as Grenner
Canaris
as Oberst Holl
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
as Major Linkmann
Death on a Rainy Day
as Dr. Angus Cromwell
Like Once Lili Marleen
as Alfred Linder
Sharks and Little Fish
as U-Bootkommandant LĂŒttke
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
as Geist von Dr. Mabuse
Forget Mozart
as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
The Black Cobra
as Stanislas Raskin
FrĂŒhstĂŒck mit dem Tod
as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
as Ein Journalist
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
as Sebastian (BND chief)
Die Insel der Krebse
as General
Mistress of the World - Part II
as Brandes
The Italians They Are Crazy
as Hans
Land der VÀter, Land der Söhne
as Bernauer
Mrs. Harris fÀhrt nach Monte Carlo
as Earl of Wereford
Das MĂ€dchen und der Staatsanwalt
as Staatsanwalt Soldan
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
as Berthold Kampe
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
as Oberstabsarzt Munkler
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
as General
Before Sundown
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
as Carlo Gormann
The Mad Executioners
as Morel Smith
Das tödliche Patent
as Charles Reese
Dead Run
as Noland
The Great Love
as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
Eurydice
as Dulac
Mrs. Harris fÀhrt nach Moskau
as Earl of Wereford
PeenemĂŒnde
as Oberst Dornberger
HĂŒrdenlauf
as Exzellenz LohmĂŒller
Der Minister und die Ente
as Minister
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
as Earl of Wereford
Gorilla's Waltz
as Otto Lohn
Mistress of the World - Part I
as Dr. Henrik Brandes
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
as GĂŒnther Brandt
Lang soll er leben
Doctor Without Scruples
as Dr. Westorp
X-Ray of a Killer
The Crew of the Dora
as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
Schinderhannes
as Gendarm Adam
Ich war ihm hörig
as Dr. Leipold
General Oster â VerrĂ€ter oder Patriot?
as Generalmajor Oster
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
as Leiter der Mordkommission
Grabenplatz 17
as Kriminalkommissar Dr. JĂ€ger
Leb wohl, mein Traum
as James Merrill
Die erste Legion
as Dr. Peter Morell
Die Anstalt
as Dr. Reinecke
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
as Earl of Wereford
Die sexuellen WĂŒnsche der Deutschen
Flachsmann als Erzieher
as Flachsmann
Ein Mann namens Parvus
as Brockdorff-Rantzau
Das Leben in meiner Hand
as Minister
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
as Anthony Wilcox
Oberarzt Dr. Solm
as Dr. Hartung
Johannisnacht
as Mac Fadden
StraĂe der Gerechten
as Joseph Blake
Der Banditendoktor
as Amerikaner
Sir Henri Deterding
as Sir Henri Deterding
Der Fall KapitÀn Behrens. FremdenlegionÀre an Bord
as KapitÀn Behrens
Eine ungeliebte Frau
Frischer Wind in alten Gassen
Die Kriegsbraut
as von Bogendorf
Das Haus Lunjowo
as Generalmajor Lattmann
Samba
as Parisius
FalschmĂŒnzer am Werk
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
Der Fall Petkov
as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Wo liegt Jena?
as Robert