Wolfgang Preiss
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Longest Day (1962)
as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as Capitaine Ebernach
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
as Lofquist
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
as Major Von Klemment
The Train (1964)
as Maj. Herren
The Cardinal (1963)
Actor
Ike (1979)
as FM Alfred Jodl
The Formula (1980)
as Franz Tauber
Lafayette (1962)
as Baron Kalb
Anzio (1968)
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Dr. M (1990)
as Kessler
Bloodline (1979)
as Julius Prager
Raid on Rommel (1971)
as Gen. Erwin Rommel
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)
as Major Linkmann
Ghost of Love (1981)
as Zighi
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
as Col. von Haller
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
as Prof. Jordan / Peter Cornelius / Dr. Mabuse
The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
as The Prosecutor
Backfire (1964)
as Grenner
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
as Colonel Nordoff
Mill of the Stone Women (1960)
as Doctor Loren Bolem
Canaris (1954)
as Oberst Holl
The Fifth Cord (1971)
as Police inspector
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1962)
as Dr. Mabuse
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (1958)
as Oberstabsarzt Munkler
Open Air (1996)
Actor
The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)
as Dr. Mabuse
Peenemünde (1970)
as Oberst Dornberger
The Salzburg Connection (1972)
as Felix Zauner
The Second Victory (1987)
as Father Albertus
Battle of the Commandos (1969)
as Colonel Ackerman
Forget Mozart (1985)
as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Playgirl 70 (1969)
Actor
The Standard (1977)
as Oberst
The Mad Executioners (1963)
as Morel Smith
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (1967)
as Sebastian (BND chief)
Eurydice (1957)
as Dulac
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter (1956)
as Ein Journalist
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963)
as Geist von Dr. Mabuse
The Italians They Are Crazy (1958)
as Hans
Grabenplatz 17 (1958)
as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1960)
as Dr. Beck
Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)
as Generalstaatsanwalt
The Master Touch (1972)
as Miller
The Spy Who Went Into Hell (1965)
as Captain Parker
Jack of Diamonds (1967)
as Wilhelm Von Schenk
The Big Delirium (1975)
as Artmann
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)
as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
100 Horsemen (1964)
as Sheik Abengalbon
Dead Run (1967)
as Noland
Frühstück mit dem Tod (1964)
as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Falschmünzer am Werk (1951)
Actor
Mistress of the World - Part II (1960)
as Brandes
Mistress of the World - Part I (1960)
as Dr. Henrik Brandes
Der Minister und die Ente (1970)
as Minister
Eine ungeliebte Frau (1974)
Actor
Der Cornet (1955)
as Freiherr von Pirovano
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
as Dr. Mabuse
To Skin a Spy (1966)
as Chalieff
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old (1961)
as Günther Brandt
Der Banditendoktor (1957)
as Amerikaner
Death on a Rainy Day (1967)
as Dr. Angus Cromwell
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior (1982)
as Earl of Wereford
Sharks and Little Fish (1957)
as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse (2018)
as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Gorilla's Waltz (1959)
as Otto Lohn
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen (1972)
Actor
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce (1984)
as Earl of Wereford
Like Once Lili Marleen (1956)
as Alfred Linder
Liebe, Love, l'Amour (1969)
Actor
Leb wohl, mein Traum (1963)
as James Merrill
Prisoner of the Volga (1959)
as General Gorew
The Girl with the Cat Eyes (1958)
as Carlo Gormann
Diamantenparty (1973)
as Konsul Eduard van Düren
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)
as Staatsanwalt Soldan
Schinderhannes (1957)
as Gendarm Adam
Doctor Without Scruples (1959)
as Dr. Westorp
The Crew of the Dora (1943)
as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
The Black Cobra (1963)
as Stanislas Raskin
Cave of the Living Dead (1964)
as Prof. von Adelsberg
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne (1989)
as Bernauer
Die Kriegsbraut (1974)
as von Bogendorf
Ein Mann namens Parvus (1984)
as Brockdorff-Rantzau
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry (1987)
as Earl of Wereford
Die Anstalt (1978)
as Dr. Reinecke
Meinungsverschiedenheiten (1968)
as Anthony Wilcox
Ich war ihm hörig (1958)
as Dr. Leipold
Before Sundown (1956)
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Von der Liebe besiegt (1956)
as Mario Clar
Johannisnacht (1956)
as Mac Fadden
Tamara (1968)
as Father Bricks
Straße der Gerechten (1959)
as Joseph Blake
Das tödliche Patent (1963)
as Charles Reese
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau (1987)
as Earl of Wereford
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand (1967)
as Leiter der Mordkommission
Stresemann (1957)
as Heinz Becker
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris (1973)
as General
The Great Love (1942)
as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
Lang soll er leben (1987)
Actor
Das Haus Lunjowo (1970)
as Generalmajor Lattmann
Oberarzt Dr. Solm (1955)
as Dr. Hartung
Konto ausgeglichen (1959)
as Robert Jacobi
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo (1989)
as Earl of Wereford
Wo liegt Jena? (1967)
as Robert
Riviera-Story (1961)
as Arthur Dahlberg
Der Fall Petkov (1968)
as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Die Insel der Krebse (1975)
as General
Sir Henri Deterding (1970)
as Sir Henri Deterding
Hürdenlauf (1969)
as Exzellenz Lohmüller
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? (1970)
as Generalmajor Oster
Flachsmann als Erzieher (1968)
as Flachsmann
X-Ray of a Killer (1965)
Actor
Die erste Legion (1964)
as Dr. Peter Morell
Das Leben in meiner Hand (1966)
as Minister
Die Dame und die Unterwelt (1984)
as Berthold Kampe
Frischer Wind in alten Gassen (1951)
Actor
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord (1966)
as Kapitän Behrens
Samba (1966)
as Parisius