Werner Dissel
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Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra. After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions. He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986. Source: Article "Werner Dissel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Credits
Les Misérables (1958)
as Brevet (uncredited)
Anatomy (2000)
as Paulas Großvater
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge (1970)
as Alfred Jodl
Little Red Riding Hood (1962)
as Wolf
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin (1971)
Actor
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough (1970)
Actor
Coming Out (1989)
as Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow (1971)
as Alfred Jodl
Ernst Thälmann (1986)
as Emil Kirdorf
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen... (1987)
as Invalide
The Architects (1990)
as Alter
Naked Among Wolves (1963)
as Otto Lange
Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
as Scholastischer Professor
Ärzte (1962)
Actor
Johannes Kepler (1974)
as Richter
Beethoven - Days in a Life (1976)
as Grisslinger
Heroin (1968)
as Zollrat Donkenberg
Stories of That Night (1967)
as Kilian (segment "Materna")
As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965)
as Bethmann-Hollweg
Love's Confusion (1959)
as Taxifahrer
Everything's a Lie (1992)
as Notary
Pension Boulanka (1964)
as Dr. Vollmer
Man against Man (1975)
as Angler
Picknick im Schnee (1999)
as Mann mit Decke
Der Prozeß wird vertagt (1958)
Actor
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot (1961)
as Meteorologe
Der Traum vom Elch (1986)
as Paulchen
Ulzana (1974)
as Mexikanischer Arzt
Entdeckung des Julian Böll (1962)
Actor
Just Don't Think I'll Cry (1965)
as Mantek
Pułapka (1971)
as Runge
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell (1979)
as Schiffsarzt
Fallada: The Last Chapter (1988)
as Doktor
Am Ende der Welt (1975)
as Amtsdiener Göpel
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (1974)
as Butcher
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes (1963)
as Herr Merker
Zeitzünder (1984)
as Dr. Engelberger
Childhood (1987)
as Lehrer
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter (1978)
Actor
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ (1958)
as Rohn
Before lightning strikes (1959)
as Silvio O. Schmitt
The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
as Volksschullehrer
The Captain from Cologne (1956)
Actor
Optimistische Tragödie (1971)
Actor
Black Panthers (1966)
as Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Späte Ankunft (1989)
as Kutscher Pankoke
Andy (1992)
as Grandfather
The Opportunists (1960)
as Fario
Das wirkliche Blau (1986)
Actor
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag (1976)
as Otto Haubold
Der Magdalenenbaum (1989)
as Opa Panse
Unser Haus (1991)
as Dr.Olbert
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth (1981)
as Gundelsheimer
Die Tage der Commune (1966)
as Delegierter
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers (1992)
Actor
Der Fremde (1961)
Actor
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild (1978)
as Älterer Herr mit Hund
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse (1991)
as Hinkelmann
Ware für Katalonien (1959)
as Portier
Zejście do piekła (1966)
as Rudolf Knoll
Lebende Ware (1966)
as Erno Brody
Die Schöne und das Tier (1984)
as Alter
Verlorene Landschaft (1992)
Actor
Scheusal (1992)
as Alfons Pfeiffer
Die Rosenholzmöbel (1969)
as Duponchel
Nachts schlafen die Ratten (1988)
Actor