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Born · February 27, 1910
Died · November 27, 2002 (92 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Germany
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.
Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
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Max Friedmann · (10 episodes)
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(6 episodes)
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Kessler
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1990
Bernauer
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1989
Earl of Wereford
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1989
Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch · (12 episodes)
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1988
Bodo von Heysen · (1 episode)
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Earl of Wereford
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Father Albertus
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1987
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Earl of Wereford
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1987
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Baron Gottfried van Swieten
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Prof. Alf Dobner · (1 episode)
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Earl of Wereford
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Brockdorff-Rantzau
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1984
Berthold Kampe
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1984
Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch · (7 episodes)
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1983
Earl of Wereford
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1982
Jean Schraier · (14 episodes)
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1982
(1 episode)
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1982
Alfred Rohloff · (1 episode)
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1981
Zighi
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1981
General Prettwitz · (1 episode)
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1980
Franz Tauber
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1980
Louis Tonard · (1 episode)
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1979
Julius Prager
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1979
FM Alfred Jodl
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Thurn · (4 episodes)
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1978
Dr. Reinecke
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1978
Lofquist
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1978
Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg · (1 episode)
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1978
Oberst
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1977
Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
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1977
(1 episode)
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Richter · (1 episode)
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1976
General
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Frank Allen · (1 episode)
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Artmann
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Georges-Marie Haardt · (7 episodes)
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von Bogendorf
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Self · (1 episode)
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Forestié · (1 episode)
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Konsul Eduard van Düren
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General
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Miller
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Felix Zauner
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1972
The Prosecutor
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Police inspector
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1971
Self · (1 episode)
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Gen. Erwin Rommel
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1971
Minister
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1970
Friedrich von Ribnitz · (1 episode)
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Cantz sr. · (1 episode)
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Stockinger · (1 episode)
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Sir Henri Deterding
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Generalmajor Oster
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Oberst Dornberger
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1970
Generalmajor Lattmann
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Robert Mack · (6 episodes)
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Colonel Ackerman
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1969
Staatsanwalt · (1 episode)
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1969
Exzellenz Lohmüller
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1969
Col. von Haller
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1969
Direktor Abel · (1 episode)
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Jan van Dongen · (13 episodes)
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1968
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
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1968
Anthony Wilcox
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1968
Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
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1968
Father Bricks
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George Conway · (3 episodes)
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Flachsmann
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1968
Wilhelm Von Schenk
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Dr. Angus Cromwell
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1967
Sebastian (BND chief)
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Noland
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Robert
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Leiter der Mordkommission
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Capitaine Ebernach
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General Von Helmreich · (1 episode)
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Chalieff
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Minister
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Parisius
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Kapitän Behrens
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1966
Captain Parker
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1965
Major Von Klemment
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Sheik Abengalbon
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1964
Maj. Herren
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Dr. Mabuse
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1964
Grenner
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1964
Dr. Peter Morell
0.0
1964
Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
6.0
1964
Prof. von Adelsberg
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1964
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
1964
6.5
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Self · (1 episode)
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1963
Morel Smith
6.2
1963
Geist von Dr. Mabuse
6.4
1963
Charles Reese
4.0
1963
Hauptmann Seewald · (1 episode)
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1963
Stanislas Raskin
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1963
James Merrill
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1963
Konrad Pachmayr · (1 episode)
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1963
Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
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Dr. Mabuse
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1962
Colonel Nordoff
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1962
Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
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Staatsanwalt Soldan
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Baron Kalb
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Arthur Dahlberg
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1961
Günther Brandt
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1961
Dr. Mabuse
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Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse
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Doctor Loren Bolem
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Brandes
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Dr. Henrik Brandes
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Dr. Beck
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1960
Otto Lohn
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Generalstaatsanwalt
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Robert Jacobi
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Major Linkmann
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General Gorew
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Joseph Blake
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Carlo Gormann
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Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
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Oberstabsarzt Munkler
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Hans
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Dr. Leipold
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Dulac
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Amerikaner
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U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
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Gendarm Adam
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Heinz Becker
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Mario Clar
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1956
Mac Fadden
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1956
Ein Journalist
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Alfred Linder
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1956
Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
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Freiherr von Pirovano
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Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
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Dr. Hartung
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Oberst Holl
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1954
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Self · (2 episodes)
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1951
Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
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Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
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