Wolfgang Preiss
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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.
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Acted in
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
2018
as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Open Air
1996
Florian III
1994
as Max Friedmann
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
1991
Dr. M
1990
as Kessler
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
1989
as Bernauer
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
1989
as Earl of Wereford
War and Remembrance
1988
as Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch
Die Männer vom K3
1988
as Bodo von Heysen
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
1987
as Earl of Wereford
The Second Victory
1987
as Father Albertus
Lang soll er leben
1987
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
1987
as Earl of Wereford
Ein heikler Fall
1986
Forget Mozart
1985
as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Ein Heim für Tiere
1985
as Prof. Alf Dobner
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
1984
as Earl of Wereford
Ein Mann namens Parvus
1984
as Brockdorff-Rantzau
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
1984
as Berthold Kampe
The Winds of War
1983
as Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
1982
as Earl of Wereford
Die Schraiers
1982
as Jean Schraier
Unheimliche Geschichten
1982
A Case For Two
1981
as Alfred Rohloff
Ghost of Love
1981
as Zighi
Ringstraßenpalais
1980
as General Prettwitz
The Formula
1980
as Franz Tauber
Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse
1979
as Louis Tonard
Bloodline
1979
as Julius Prager
Ike
1979
as FM Alfred Jodl
Wallenstein
1978
as Thurn
Wallenstein
1978
as Thurn
Die Anstalt
1978
as Dr. Reinecke
The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Lofquist
SOKO 5113
1978
as Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg
The Standard
1977
as Oberst
A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
Hungária kávéház
1976
Der Anwalt
1976
as Richter
Die Insel der Krebse
1975
as General
Eurogang
1975
as Frank Allen
The Big Delirium
1975
as Artmann
La Cloche tibétaine
1974
as Georges-Marie Haardt
Die Kriegsbraut
1974
as von Bogendorf
Die Montagsmaler
1974
as Self
Eine ungeliebte Frau
1974
Okay S.I.R.
1973
as Forestié
Diamantenparty
1973
as Konsul Eduard van Düren
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
1973
as General
The Master Touch
1972
as Miller
The Salzburg Connection
1972
as Felix Zauner
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
1972
The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971
as The Prosecutor
The Fifth Cord
1971
as Police inspector
Dalli Dalli
1971
as Self
Raid on Rommel
1971
as Gen. Erwin Rommel
Der Minister und die Ente
1970
as Minister
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Friedrich von Ribnitz
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Cantz sr.
Scene of the Crime
1970
as Stockinger
Sir Henri Deterding
1970
as Sir Henri Deterding
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
1970
as Generalmajor Oster
Peenemünde
1970
as Oberst Dornberger
Das Haus Lunjowo
1970
as Generalmajor Lattmann
Playgirl 70
1969
Familie Mack verändert sich
1969
as Robert Mack
Battle of the Commandos
1969
as Colonel Ackerman
Gestern gelesen
1969
as Staatsanwalt
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
1969
Hürdenlauf
1969
as Exzellenz Lohmüller
Hannibal Brooks
1969
as Col. von Haller
Der Kommissar
1969
as Direktor Abel
Schatzsucher unserer Tage
1968
as Jan van Dongen
Anzio
1968
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
1968
as Anthony Wilcox
Der Fall Petkov
1968
as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Tamara
1968
as Father Bricks
Ein Mann namens Harry Brent
1968
as George Conway
Flachsmann als Erzieher
1968
as Flachsmann
Jack of Diamonds
1967
as Wilhelm Von Schenk
Death on a Rainy Day
1967
as Dr. Angus Cromwell
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
1967
as Sebastian (BND chief)
Dead Run
1967
as Noland
Wo liegt Jena?
1967
as Robert
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
1967
as Leiter der Mordkommission
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Capitaine Ebernach
The Rat Patrol
1966
as General Von Helmreich
To Skin a Spy
1966
as Chalieff
Das Leben in meiner Hand
1966
as Minister
Samba
1966
as Parisius
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
1966
as Kapitän Behrens
The Spy Who Went Into Hell
1965
as Captain Parker
Von Ryan's Express
1965
as Major Von Klemment
X-Ray of a Killer
1965
100 Horsemen
1964
as Sheik Abengalbon
The Train
1964
as Maj. Herren
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964
as Dr. Mabuse
Backfire
1964
as Grenner
Die erste Legion
1964
as Dr. Peter Morell
Frühstück mit dem Tod
1964
as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Cave of the Living Dead
1964
as Prof. von Adelsberg
The Cardinal
1963
Zwischenmahlzeit
1963
as Self
The Mad Executioners
1963
as Morel Smith
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
1963
as Geist von Dr. Mabuse
Das tödliche Patent
1963
as Charles Reese
Die fünfte Kolonne
1963
as Hauptmann Seewald
The Black Cobra
1963
as Stanislas Raskin
Leb wohl, mein Traum
1963
as James Merrill
Das Kriminalmuseum
1963
as Konrad Pachmayr
The Longest Day
1962
as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
1962
as Dr. Mabuse
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Colonel Nordoff
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
1962
as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
1962
as Staatsanwalt Soldan
Lafayette
1962
as Baron Kalb
Riviera-Story
1961
as Arthur Dahlberg
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
1961
as Günther Brandt
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
1961
as Dr. Mabuse
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse
Mill of the Stone Women
1960
as Doctor Loren Bolem
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
as Brandes
Mistress of the World - Part I
1960
as Dr. Henrik Brandes
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
1960
as Dr. Beck
Gorilla's Waltz
1959
as Otto Lohn
Roses for the Prosecutor
1959
as Generalstaatsanwalt
Doctor Without Scruples
1959
as Dr. Westorp
Konto ausgeglichen
1959
as Robert Jacobi
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
1959
as Major Linkmann
Prisoner of the Volga
1959
as General Gorew
Straße der Gerechten
1959
as Joseph Blake
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
1958
as Carlo Gormann
Grabenplatz 17
1958
as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
1958
as Oberstabsarzt Munkler
The Italians They Are Crazy
1958
as Hans
Ich war ihm hörig
1958
as Dr. Leipold
Eurydice
1957
as Dulac
Der Banditendoktor
1957
as Amerikaner
Sharks and Little Fish
1957
as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Schinderhannes
1957
as Gendarm Adam
Stresemann
1957
as Heinz Becker
Von der Liebe besiegt
1956
as Mario Clar
Johannisnacht
1956
as Mac Fadden
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1956
as Ein Journalist
Like Once Lili Marleen
1956
as Alfred Linder
Before Sundown
1956
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Der Cornet
1955
as Freiherr von Pirovano
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Oberarzt Dr. Solm
1955
as Dr. Hartung
Canaris
1954
as Oberst Holl
Falschmünzer am Werk
1951
Deutscher Filmpreis
1951
as Self
The Crew of the Dora
1943
as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
The Great Love
1942
as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf