Wolfgang Preiss

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1910-02-27 (92 years old)

Deathday

2002-11-27

Place of Birth

Nuremberg, Germany

Wolfgang Preiss

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 Wa...

Acting

1942

The Great Love

as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf

1964

The Train

as Maj. Herren

1966

Is Paris Burning?

as Capitaine Ebernach

1965

Von Ryan's Express

as Major Von Klemment

1980

The Formula

as Franz Tauber

1969

Hannibal Brooks

as Col. von Haller

1964

Cave of the Living Dead

as Prof. von Adelsberg

1990

Dr. M

as Kessler

1971

The Fifth Cord

as Police inspector

1962

The Counterfeit Traitor

as Colonel Nordoff

1960

Mill of the Stone Women

as Doctor Loren Bolem

1972

1962

Lafayette

as Baron Kalb

1960

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

as Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse

1961

1962

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse

1966

To Skin a Spy

as Chalieff

1971

Raid on Rommel

as Gen. Erwin Rommel

1957

Sharks and Little Fish

as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke

1959

Roses for the Prosecutor

as Generalstaatsanwalt

1967

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

as Sebastian (BND chief)

1967

Jack of Diamonds

as Wilhelm Von Schenk

1981

1984

1954

Canaris

as Oberst Holl

1974

Die Kriegsbraut

as von Bogendorf

1956

1955

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg

1956

Johannisnacht

as Mac Fadden

1982

1987

1958

Grabenplatz 17

as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger

1958

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino

as Oberstabsarzt Munkler

1963

The Mad Executioners

as Morel Smith

1960

Mistress of the World - Part I

as Dr. Henrik Brandes

1963

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard

as Geist von Dr. Mabuse

1977

The Standard

as Oberst

1957

Stresemann

as Heinz Becker

1985

Forget Mozart

as Baron Gottfried van Swieten

1967

Dead Run

as Noland

1968

Anzio

as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring

1969

Battle of the Commandos

as Colonel Ackerman

1956

Before Sundown

as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke

1962

The Longest Day

as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel

1959

1963

The Black Cobra

as Stanislas Raskin

1964

Frühstück mit dem Tod

as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot

1968

1975

1965

1957

Schinderhannes

as Gendarm Adam

1963

Leb wohl, mein Traum

as James Merrill

1969

Hürdenlauf

as Exzellenz Lohmüller

1962

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

as Staatsanwalt Soldan

1964

Die erste Legion

as Dr. Peter Morell

1955

Oberarzt Dr. Solm

as Dr. Hartung

1956

Like Once Lili Marleen

as Alfred Linder

1959

Prisoner of the Volga

as General Gorew

1958

1958

Ich war ihm hörig

as Dr. Leipold

1970

Sir Henri Deterding

as Sir Henri Deterding

1968

Tamara

as Father Bricks

1964

100 Horsemen

as Sheik Abengalbon

1968

Meinungsverschiedenheiten

as Anthony Wilcox

1973

Diamantenparty

as Konsul Eduard van Düren

1984

Ein Mann namens Parvus

as Brockdorff-Rantzau

1957

Der Banditendoktor

as Amerikaner

1979

Ike

as FM Alfred Jodl

1987

The Second Victory

as Father Albertus

1961

1970

Peenemünde

as Oberst Dornberger

1943

The Crew of the Dora

as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner

1955

Der Cornet

as Freiherr von Pirovano

1961

Riviera-Story

as Arthur Dahlberg

1967

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand

as Leiter der Mordkommission

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt

1971

1978

1957

Eurydice

as Dulac

1979

Bloodline

as Julius Prager

1972

1963

Das tödliche Patent

as Charles Reese

1959

Straße der Gerechten

as Joseph Blake

1975

1968

Der Fall Petkov

as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov

1970

Das Haus Lunjowo

as Generalmajor Lattmann

1959

Gorilla's Waltz

as Otto Lohn

1966

Samba

as Parisius

1978

Die Anstalt

as Dr. Reinecke

1964

Backfire

as Grenner

1967

1967

Death on a Rainy Day

as Dr. Angus Cromwell

2018

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse

as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)

1959

Konto ausgeglichen

as Robert Jacobi

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