Wolfgang Preiss
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 27, 1910
- Died
- November 27, 2002 (aged 92)
- Birthplace
- Nuremberg, Germany
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.
Known For
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Filmography
A Little Chat with Dr. Mabuse -- An Interview with Wolfgang Preiss
Movie · as Himself
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Open Air
Movie
Florian III
TV · as Max Friedmann · 10 eps
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
TV · 6 eps
Dr. M
Movie · as Kessler
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
Movie · as Earl of Wereford
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
Movie · as Bernauer
Die Männer vom K3
TV · as Bodo von Heysen · 1 ep
War and Remembrance
TV · as Walter von Brauchitsch · 1 ep
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
Movie · as Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
Movie · as Earl of Wereford
Lang soll er leben
Movie
The Second Victory
Movie · as Father Albertus
Ein heikler Fall
TV · 1 ep
Forget Mozart
Movie · as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Ein Heim für Tiere
TV · as Prof. Alf Dobner · 1 ep
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
Movie · as Berthold Kampe
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
Movie · as Earl of Wereford
Ein Mann namens Parvus
Movie · as Brockdorff-Rantzau
The Winds of War
TV · as Walther von Brauchitsch · 7 eps
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
Movie · as Earl of Wereford
Unheimliche Geschichten
TV · 1 ep
Die Schraiers
TV · as Jean Schraier · 14 eps
Ghost of Love
Movie · as Zighi
A Case For Two
TV · as Alfred Rohloff · 1 ep
The Formula
Movie · as Franz Tauber
Ringstraßenpalais
TV · as General Prettwitz · 1 ep
Ike
Movie · as FM Alfred Jodl
Bloodline
Movie · as Julius Prager
Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse
TV · as Louis Tonard · 1 ep
Ike
TV · as Gen. Alfred Jodl · 1 ep
The Boys from Brazil
Movie · as Lofquist
Die Anstalt
Movie · as Dr. Reinecke
SOKO München
TV · as Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg · 1 ep
Wallenstein
TV · as Thurn · 4 eps
The Standard
Movie · as Oberst
A Bridge Too Far
Movie · as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
Hungária kávéház
TV · 1 ep
Der Anwalt
TV · as Richter · 1 ep
Die Insel der Krebse
Movie · as General
The Big Delirium
Movie · as Artmann
Eurogang
TV · as Frank Allen · 1 ep
Die Kriegsbraut
Movie · as von Bogendorf
Eine ungeliebte Frau
Movie
Die Montagsmaler
TV · as Self · 1 ep
La Cloche tibétaine
TV · as Georges-Marie Haardt · 7 eps
Diamantenparty
Movie · as Konsul Eduard van Düren
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
Movie · as General
Okay S.I.R.
TV · as Forestié · 1 ep
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
Movie
The Master Touch
Movie · as Miller
The Salzburg Connection
Movie · as Felix Zauner
The Fifth Cord
Movie · as Police inspector
Raid on Rommel
Movie · as Gen. Erwin Rommel
The Bloodstained Butterfly
Movie · as The Prosecutor
Dalli Dalli
TV · as Self · 1 ep
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
Movie · as Generalmajor Oster
Sir Henri Deterding
Movie · as Sir Henri Deterding
Der Minister und die Ente
Movie · as Minister
Peenemünde
Movie · as Oberst Dornberger
Das Haus Lunjowo
Movie · as Generalmajor Lattmann
Scene of the Crime
TV · as Friedrich von Ribnitz, Cantz sr., Stockinger · 1 ep
Hannibal Brooks
Movie · as Col. von Haller
Battle of the Commandos
Movie · as Colonel Ackerman
Playgirl 70
Movie
Hürdenlauf
Movie · as Exzellenz Lohmüller
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
Movie
Gestern gelesen
TV · as Staatsanwalt · 1 ep
Familie Mack verändert sich
TV · as Robert Mack · 6 eps
The Commissioner
TV · as Direktor Abel · 1 ep
Anzio
Movie · as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Flachsmann als Erzieher
Movie · as Flachsmann
Tamara
Movie · as Father Bricks
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
Movie · as Anthony Wilcox
Der Fall Petkov
Movie · as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Ein Mann namens Harry Brent
TV · as George Conway · 3 eps
Schatzsucher unserer Tage
TV · as Jan van Dongen · 13 eps
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Movie · as Sebastian (BND chief)
Jack of Diamonds
Movie · as Wilhelm Von Schenk
Dead Run
Movie · as Noland
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
Movie · as Leiter der Mordkommission
Wo liegt Jena?
Movie · as Robert
Death on a Rainy Day
Movie · as Dr. Angus Cromwell
Is Paris Burning?
Movie · as Capitaine Ebernach
To Skin a Spy
Movie · as Chalieff
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
Movie · as Kapitän Behrens
Das Leben in meiner Hand
Movie · as Minister
Samba
Movie · as Parisius
The Rat Patrol
TV · as General Von Helmreich · 1 ep
Von Ryan's Express
Movie · as Maj. Von Klemment
The Spy Who Went Into Hell
Movie · as Captain Parker
X-Ray of a Killer
Movie
The Train
Movie · as Maj. Herren
Cave of the Living Dead
Movie · as Prof. von Adelsberg
Frühstück mit dem Tod
Movie · as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Die erste Legion
Movie · as Dr. Peter Morell
100 Horsemen
Movie · as Sheik Abengalbon
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Dr. Mabuse
Backfire
Movie · as Grenner
Einer wird gewinnen
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Mad Executioners
Movie · as Morel Smith
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Geist von Dr. Mabuse
The Black Cobra
Movie · as Stanislas Raskin
Leb wohl, mein Traum
Movie · as James Merrill
Das tödliche Patent
Movie · as Charles Reese
The Cardinal
Movie
Das Kriminalmuseum
TV · as Konrad Pachmayr · 1 ep
Die fünfte Kolonne
TV · as Hauptmann Seewald · 1 ep
Zwischenmahlzeit
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Dr. Mabuse
The Counterfeit Traitor
Movie · as Colonel Nordoff
Lafayette
Movie · as Baron Kalb
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
The Longest Day
Movie · as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
Movie · as Staatsanwalt Soldan
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Dr. Mabuse
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
Movie · as Günther Brandt
Riviera-Story
Movie · as Arthur Dahlberg
Mill of the Stone Women
Movie · as Doctor Loren Bolem
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Movie · as Dr. Beck
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Movie · as Prof. Jordan / Peter Cornelius / Dr. Mabuse
Mistress of the World - Part I
Movie · as Dr. Henrik Brandes
Mistress of the World - Part II
Movie · as Brandes
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Movie · as Major Linkmann
Roses for the Prosecutor
Movie · as Generalstaatsanwalt
Doctor Without Scruples
Movie · as Dr. Westorp
Prisoner of the Volga
Movie · as General Gorew
Straße der Gerechten
Movie · as Joseph Blake
Gorilla's Waltz
Movie · as Otto Lohn
Konto ausgeglichen
Movie · as Robert Jacobi
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
Movie · as Oberstabsarzt Munkler
Grabenplatz 17
Movie · as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
Movie · as Carlo Gormann
Ich war ihm hörig
Movie · as Dr. Leipold
The Italians They Are Crazy
Movie · as Hans
Sharks and Little Fish
Movie · as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Stresemann
Movie · as Heinz Becker
Schinderhannes
Movie · as Gendarm Adam
Der Banditendoktor
Movie · as Amerikaner
Eurydice
Movie · as Dulac
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Movie · as Ein Journalist
Von der Liebe besiegt
Movie · as Mario Clar
Johannisnacht
Movie · as Mac Fadden
Before Sundown
Movie · as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Like Once Lili Marleen
Movie · as Alfred Linder
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Movie · as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Oberarzt Dr. Solm
Movie · as Dr. Hartung
Der Cornet
Movie · as Freiherr von Pirovano
Canaris
Movie · as Oberst Holl
Falschmünzer am Werk
Movie
Frischer Wind in alten Gassen
Movie
German Film Award
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Crew of the Dora
Movie · as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
The Great Love
Movie · as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf