Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss

  • Birthday: 1910-02-27
  • Deathday: 2002-11-27
  • Place of birth: Nuremberg, Germany
  • Also know as: Wolfgang Price

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.

Filmography

Von der Liebe besiegt

1956

As Mario Clar

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

1955

As Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

Flachsmann als Erzieher

1968

As Flachsmann

Leb wohl, mein Traum

1963

As James Merrill

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

1962

As Staatsanwalt Soldan

Sir Henri Deterding

1970

As Sir Henri Deterding

Meinungsverschiedenheiten

1968

As Anthony Wilcox

Der Minister und die Ente

1970

As Minister

Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old

1961

As Günther Brandt

Das tödliche Patent

1963

As Charles Reese

Der Cornet

1955

As Freiherr von Pirovano

Konto ausgeglichen

1959

As Robert Jacobi

Die Dame und die Unterwelt

1984

As Berthold Kampe

Battle of the Commandos

1969

As Colonel Ackerman

Grabenplatz 17

1958

As Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger

Doctor Without Scruples

1959

As Dr. Westorp

Frühstück mit dem Tod

1964

As Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot

Peenemünde

1970

As Oberst Dornberger

Riviera-Story

1961

As Arthur Dahlberg

Eurydice

1957

As Dulac

Der Fall Petkov

1968

As Dr. Georgi Dimitrov

Hannibal Brooks

1969

As Col. von Haller

Cave of the Living Dead

1964

As Prof. von Adelsberg

The Fifth Cord

1971

As Police inspector

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960

As Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse

Raid on Rommel

1971

As Gen. Erwin Rommel

Sharks and Little Fish

1957

As U-Bootkommandant Lüttke

Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior

1982

As Earl of Wereford

Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry

1987

As Earl of Wereford

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau

1987

As Earl of Wereford

Forget Mozart

1985

As Baron Gottfried van Swieten

The Black Cobra

1963

As Stanislas Raskin

Schinderhannes

1957

As Gendarm Adam

Die Insel der Krebse

1975

As General

Ich war ihm hörig

1958

As Dr. Leipold

The Girl with the Cat Eyes

1958

As Carlo Gormann

Diamantenparty

1973

As Konsul Eduard van Düren

Wo liegt Jena?

1967

As Robert

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse

1962

As Dr. Mabuse

Playgirl 70

1969

As

The Master Touch

1972

As Miller

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

1967

As Sebastian (BND chief)

Ghost of Love

1981

As Zighi

Canaris

1954

As Oberst Holl

Die Kriegsbraut

1974

As von Bogendorf

The Mad Executioners

1963

As Morel Smith

Mistress of the World - Part I

1960

As Dr. Henrik Brandes

Stresemann

1957

As Heinz Becker

Oberarzt Dr. Solm

1955

As Dr. Hartung

100 Horsemen

1964

As Sheik Abengalbon

Ein Mann namens Parvus

1984

As Brockdorff-Rantzau

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand

1967

As Leiter der Mordkommission

Straße der Gerechten

1959

As Joseph Blake

Das Haus Lunjowo

1970

As Generalmajor Lattmann

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse

2018

As Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)

The Great Love

1942

As Oberleutnant von Etzdorf

Mill of the Stone Women

1960

As Doctor Loren Bolem

Lafayette

1962

As Baron Kalb

Jack of Diamonds

1967

As Wilhelm Von Schenk

Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce

1984

As Earl of Wereford

Hürdenlauf

1969

As Exzellenz Lohmüller

Prisoner of the Volga

1959

As General Gorew

Gorilla's Waltz

1959

As Otto Lohn

Samba

1966

As Parisius

The Train

1964

As Maj. Herren

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

1962

As Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo

1989

As Earl of Wereford

Johannisnacht

1956

As Mac Fadden

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard

1963

As Geist von Dr. Mabuse

Dead Run

1967

As Noland

The Salzburg Connection

1972

As Felix Zauner

The Big Delirium

1975

As Artmann

Backfire

1964

As Grenner

To Skin a Spy

1966

As Chalieff

Roses for the Prosecutor

1959

As Generalstaatsanwalt

The Second Victory

1987

As Father Albertus

Die erste Legion

1964

As Dr. Peter Morell

Like Once Lili Marleen

1956

As Alfred Linder

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

1964

As Dr. Mabuse

Das Leben in meiner Hand

1966

As Minister

The Crew of the Dora

1943

As Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner

The Bloodstained Butterfly

1971

As The Prosecutor

Die Anstalt

1978

As Dr. Reinecke

Von Ryan's Express

1965

As Major Von Klemment

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino

1958

As Oberstabsarzt Munkler

The Standard

1977

As Oberst

The Spy Who Went Into Hell

1965

As Captain Parker

Tamara

1968

As Father Bricks

Der Banditendoktor

1957

As Amerikaner

Wallenstein

1978

As Thurn

The Counterfeit Traitor

1962

As Colonel Nordoff

Before Sundown

1956

As Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke

Death on a Rainy Day

1967

As Dr. Angus Cromwell

Dr. M

1990

As Kessler

Ike

1979

As FM Alfred Jodl

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

1961

As Dr. Mabuse

Bloodline

1979

As Julius Prager

The Formula

1980

As Franz Tauber

The Boys from Brazil

1978

As Lofquist

Anzio

1968

As Field Marshal Albert Kesselring

A Bridge Too Far

1977

As Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt

Is Paris Burning?

1966

As Capitaine Ebernach

The Cardinal

1963

As

The Longest Day

1962

As Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel

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