John Wengraf

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1897-04-22 (77 years old)

Deathday

1974-05-04

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary, now Austria

John Wengraf

Biography

Emigrating to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power, Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films there, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented but his career began to languish. In late 1941, however, he had the good fortune of appearing on Broadway with Helen Hayes in "Candle in the Wind" and decided to stay. The following year he headed west and settled permanently in the Los Angeles area. A dark, cold-eyed, thin-lipped player with a precise, meticulous air about him, he found himself invariably playing the very characters he detested. Some of his more nefarious nasties surfaced in such f...

Acting

1961

1963

The Prize

as Hans Eckhart

1965

1960

12 to the Moon

as Dr. Erich Heinrich

1954

Gog

as Dr. Zeitman

1960

Portrait in Black

as Dr. Kessler

1954

The French Line

as Commodore Renard

1958

The Return of Dracula

as John Merriman

1949

1957

Valerie

as Mr. Louis Horvat

1946

The Razor's Edge

as Joseph - Gray & Isabel's Butler

1943

1952

5 Fingers

as Count Franz Von Papen

1962

Hitler

as Dr. Morell

1957

Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

as Dr. Krauss

1954

1942

Lucky Jordan

as Herr Kesselman

1953

Tropic Zone

as Lukats

1957

The Disembodied

as Dr. Carl Metz

1956

Never Say Goodbye

as Prof. Zimmelman

1953

The Desert Rats

as German Doctor (uncredited)

1946

Tomorrow Is Forever

as Dr. Ludwig

1940

Convoy

as Commander Deutschland

1944

U-Boat Prisoner

as Gunther Rudehoff, Gestapo Agent

1943

Sahara

as Maj. von Falken

1944

Strange Affair

as Rudolph Kruger

1948

Wake of the Red Witch

as Prosecuting Attorney

1954

The Gambler from Natchez

as Nicholas Cadiz

1947

T-Men

as 'Shiv' Triano

1948

Sofia

as Peter Goltzen

1955

The Racers

as Dr. Tabor

1948

Sealed Verdict

as German Doctor

1943

Mission to Moscow

as Polish Ambassador Grzybowski (uncredited)

1940

Sailors Three

as German Captain

1940

Dangerous Comment

as German Radio Operator

1940

All Hands

as German

1940

Night Train to Munich

as KL Physician (uncredited)

1944

1954

Hell and High Water

as Col. Schuman (uncredited)

1944

Till We Meet Again

as Gestapo Chief

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