9.0
9.0
Der Cornet
1955
as Freiherr von Pirovano
Wolfgang Preiss
Acting
Born:February 27, 1910
Died:November 27, 2002(aged 92)
Birthplace:Nuremberg, Germany
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CommunityBiography
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 (117 movies)
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8.0
Grabenplatz 17
1958
as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
8.0
8.0
Die Insel der Krebse
1975
as General
8.0
8.0
The Black Cobra
1963
as Stanislas Raskin
7.5
7.5
The Train
1964
as Maj. Herren
7.2
7.2
A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
7.2
7.2
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Capitaine Ebernach
7.1
7.1
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
1959
as Major Linkmann
7.1
7.1
Von Ryan's Express
1965
as Major Von Klemment
7.0
7.0
Ghost of Love
1981
as Zighi
6.9
6.9
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
2018
as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
6.9
6.9
Roses for the Prosecutor
1959
as Generalstaatsanwalt
6.8
6.8
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as Prof. Jordan / Peter Cornelius / Dr. Mabuse
6.7
6.7
The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Lofquist
6.6
6.6
100 Horsemen
1964
as Sheik Abengalbon
6.6
6.6
The Great Love
1942
as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
6.5
6.5
The Fifth Cord
1971
as Police inspector
6.5
6.5
Like Once Lili Marleen
1956
as Alfred Linder
6.5
6.5
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
1962
as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
6.5
6.5
Canaris
1954
as Oberst Holl
6.4
6.4
The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Colonel Nordoff
6.3
6.3
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
1967
as Sebastian (BND chief)
6.3
6.3
Backfire
1964
as Grenner
6.3
6.3
Hannibal Brooks
1969
as Col. von Haller
6.3
6.3
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
1963
as Geist von Dr. Mabuse
6.3
6.3
The Second Victory
1987
as Father Albertus
6.3
6.3
Before Sundown
1956
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
6.3
6.3
The Crew of the Dora
1943
as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
6.2
6.2
Mistress of the World - Part I
1960
as Dr. Henrik Brandes
6.2
6.2
Ike
1979
as FM Alfred Jodl
6.2
6.2
The Mad Executioners
1963
as Morel Smith
6.1
6.1
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
1961
as Dr. Mabuse
6.1
6.1
The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971
as The Prosecutor
6.0
6.0
Mill of the Stone Women
1960
as Doctor Loren Bolem
6.0
6.0
Ein Mann namens Parvus
1984
as Brockdorff-Rantzau
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6.0
Frühstück mit dem Tod
1964
as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
6.0
6.0
Falschmünzer am Werk
1951
6.0
6.0
Open Air
1996
5.8
5.8
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964
as Dr. Mabuse
5.8
5.8
Raid on Rommel
1971
as Gen. Erwin Rommel
5.8
5.8
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
5.7
5.7
The Master Touch
1972
as Miller
5.7
5.7
The Salzburg Connection
1972
as Felix Zauner
5.7
5.7
To Skin a Spy
1966
as Chalieff
5.6
5.6
Anzio
1968
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
5.5
5.5
The Formula
1980
as Franz Tauber
5.5
5.5
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
1960
as Dr. Beck
5.5
5.5
Battle of the Commandos
1969
as Colonel Ackerman
5.5
5.5
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1962
as Dr. Mabuse
5.3
5.3
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1956
as Ein Journalist
5.2
5.2
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
1958
as Oberstabsarzt Munkler
5.2
5.2
Lafayette
1962
as Baron Kalb
5.0
5.0
Konto ausgeglichen
1959
as Robert Jacobi
5.0
5.0
Death on a Rainy Day
1967
as Dr. Angus Cromwell
5.0
5.0
Sharks and Little Fish
1957
as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
5.0
5.0
Eine ungeliebte Frau
1974
5.0
5.0
Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
as Brandes
4.9
4.9
Cave of the Living Dead
1964
as Prof. von Adelsberg
4.9
4.9
Bloodline
1979
as Julius Prager
4.8
4.8
Forget Mozart
1985
as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
4.8
4.8
The Spy Who Went Into Hell
1965
as Captain Parker
4.5
4.5
Dead Run
1967
as Noland
4.5
4.5
Oberarzt Dr. Solm
1955
as Dr. Hartung
4.4
4.4
Dr. M
1990
as Kessler
4.3
4.3
Prisoner of the Volga
1959
as General Gorew
4.2
4.2
Jack of Diamonds
1967
as Wilhelm Von Schenk
4.0
4.0
Der Banditendoktor
1957
as Amerikaner
4.0
4.0
Das tödliche Patent
1963
as Charles Reese
4.0
4.0
Johannisnacht
1956
as Mac Fadden
4.0
4.0
Von der Liebe besiegt
1956
as Mario Clar
4.0
4.0
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
1962
as Staatsanwalt Soldan
2.5
2.5
Riviera-Story
1961
as Arthur Dahlberg
2.5
2.5
Gorilla's Waltz
1959
as Otto Lohn
2.0
2.0
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
1972
2.0
2.0
The Big Delirium
1975
as Artmann
1.0
1.0
Playgirl 70
1969
0.5
0.5
The Standard
1977
as Oberst
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
1984
as Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
1987
as Earl of Wereford
Die erste Legion
1964
as Dr. Peter Morell
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
1987
as Earl of Wereford
Ich war ihm hörig
1958
as Dr. Leipold
Tamara
1968
as Father Bricks
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
1982
as Earl of Wereford
Sir Henri Deterding
1970
as Sir Henri Deterding
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
1968
as Anthony Wilcox
Diamantenparty
1973
as Konsul Eduard van Düren
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
1958
as Carlo Gormann
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
1973
as General
Der Minister und die Ente
1970
as Minister
The Italians They Are Crazy
1958
as Hans
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
1966
as Kapitän Behrens
Die Kriegsbraut
1974
as von Bogendorf
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
1961
as Günther Brandt
Das Leben in meiner Hand
1966
as Minister
Peenemünde
1970
as Oberst Dornberger
Lang soll er leben
1987
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
1989
as Bernauer
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
1967
as Leiter der Mordkommission
Eurydice
1957
as Dulac
Der Fall Petkov
1968
as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Das Haus Lunjowo
1970
as Generalmajor Lattmann
Samba
1966
as Parisius
Die Anstalt
1978
as Dr. Reinecke
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
1969
X-Ray of a Killer
1965
Straße der Gerechten
1959
as Joseph Blake
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
1989
as Earl of Wereford
Wo liegt Jena?
1967
as Robert
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
1984
as Berthold Kampe
Flachsmann als Erzieher
1968
as Flachsmann
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
1970
as Generalmajor Oster
Schinderhannes
1957
as Gendarm Adam
Doctor Without Scruples
1959
as Dr. Westorp
Stresemann
1957
as Heinz Becker
Leb wohl, mein Traum
1963
as James Merrill
Hürdenlauf
1969
as Exzellenz Lohmüller
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