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Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss

Actor · Born 1910-02-27 · Nuremberg, Germany

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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 a…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Longest Day (1962) — Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
  2. A Bridge Too Far (1977) — Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
  3. The Boys from Brazil (1978) — Lofquist
  4. The Train (1964) — Maj. Herren
  5. Von Ryan's Express (1965) — Major Von Klemment
  6. Is Paris Burning? (1966) — Capitaine Ebernach
  7. Scene of the Crime (1970) — Friedrich von Ribnitz
  8. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) — Prof. Jordan / Peter Cornelius / Dr. Mabuse
  9. Mill of the Stone Women (1960) — Doctor Loren Bolem
  10. Anzio (1968) — Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
  11. The Fifth Cord (1971) — Police inspector
  12. The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971) — The Prosecutor
  13. The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) — Colonel Nordoff
  14. Raid on Rommel (1971) — Gen. Erwin Rommel
  15. Bloodline (1979) — Julius Prager
  16. The Formula (1980) — Franz Tauber
  17. The Cardinal (1963)
  18. The Winds of War (1983) — Walther von Brauchitsch
  19. Ghost of Love (1981) — Zighi
  20. Hannibal Brooks (1969) — Col. von Haller
  21. War and Remembrance (1988) — Walter von Brauchitsch
  22. Backfire (1964) — Grenner
  23. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1962) — Dr. Mabuse
  24. Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959) — Major Linkmann
  25. The Mad Executioners (1963) — Morel Smith
  26. Roses for the Prosecutor (1959) — Generalstaatsanwalt
  27. The Rat Patrol (1966) — General Von Helmreich
  28. The Master Touch (1972) — Miller
  29. The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) — Dr. Mabuse
  30. To Skin a Spy (1966) — Chalieff
  31. A Case For Two (1981) — Alfred Rohloff
  32. The Great Love (1942) — Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
  33. The Salzburg Connection (1972) — Felix Zauner
  34. Cave of the Living Dead (1964) — Prof. von Adelsberg
  35. The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962) — Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
  36. Canaris (1954) — Oberst Holl
  37. Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963) — Geist von Dr. Mabuse
  38. The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964) — Dr. Mabuse
  39. Dr. M (1990) — Kessler
  40. Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1960) — Dr. Beck