Günter Meisner
Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German TV and film character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Mr. Slugworth in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films.
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his...
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The Bridge at Remagen
as SS OfficerIn March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and...
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Faraway, So Close!
as ForgerDamiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The...
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The Odessa File
as General GreiferFollowing the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out...
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Is Paris Burning?
as SS Commander in PantinNear the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if...
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The Boys from Brazil
as FarnbachNazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Voyage of the Damned
as Robert HoffmanA luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Breakthrough
as SS OfficerStarting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky...
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Flesh of the Orchid
as AdvokatA disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper,...
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Funeral in Berlin
as KreutzmanColonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears...
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Ace of Aces
as Adolf Hitler / Angela HitlerIn this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the...
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Borsalino and Co.
as DoctorMarseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no...
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The Quiller Memorandum
as HasslerAfter two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic...
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Under the Volcano
as Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are...
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The Counterfeit Traitor
as PriestBlacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of...
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Avalanche Express
as Rudi MuehlerCIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is...
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The Serpent's Egg
as ConvictBerlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg...
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In a Glass Cage
as KlausA mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives...
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The Battle of Sutjeska
as German GeneralThe headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The...
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
as Bobby SteinbeckThe filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role...
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Night Crossing
as Major KoernerTwo men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they...
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Moon Child
as Abuelo militarAdopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common,...
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Babette Goes to War
as First Gestapo officerComedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into...
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Ruby Cairo
as Herr BruchnerBaseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around...
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The College Girl Murders
as GreavesPolice try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of...
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
as Henry - Kurzschluß (uncredited)Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring...
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Inside Out
as SchmidtAn American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former...
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Roselyne and the Lions
as KlintThierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne,...
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Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
as History teacher BorwaldThe Prinz-Eugen-Gymnasium is in a crisis, which is not least due to the insolent students who...
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Ship of the Dead
as PaulAfter a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke",...
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Magdalene
as PriorFather Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the...
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Operation Caviar
as RednerBank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French...
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Ticket of No Return
as Direktor WilliA sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest...
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The Black Chapel
as 1. Killer1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that...
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Hauser's Memory
as KoroweiwA scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying...
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The Black Cobra
as Wunderlich ('Mr. Green')After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out...
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The American Success Company
as Maitre 'dA husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a...
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Bride of the Orient
as Priest BarmettlerAfter the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a...
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The Miracle of Father Malachia
as Prediger"Wunderbar" takes on a new meaning in this routine satire by Bernhard Wicki about a bar that is...
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Between Wars
as Karl SchneiderThis film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected...
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Heinrich
as uncreditedThe life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
as BorsigBorn into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after...
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Werwölfe
as uncreditedFilm about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2.
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Question 7
as SchmidtSuspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness...
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The Man on the Wall
as Dr. SteinerAn East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he...
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The Foggy Night Murderer
as Kriminalassistent BehrendThe Foggy Night Murderer
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The Saint: The Big Bang
as KuhlerSimon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover.
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The Brothers
as PfarrerSex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.
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Scene of the Crime
as Bulldozer-FahrerTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Scene of the Crime
as ViebichTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Großstadtrevier
as uncreditedFollow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
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Das Kriminalmuseum
as TankwartDas Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one...
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The Winds of War
as Adolf HitlerSet against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in...
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Praxis Bülowbogen
as BertiPraxis Bülowbogen is a German television series.
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Liebling Kreuzberg
as StaatsanwaltLiebling Kreuzberg was a television series on ARD, which was sent in five seasons with a total...
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Hals über Kopf
as Sir Reginald MackintoshHals über Kopf is a German television series.
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Silas
as Fabian FedderSilas was a 1981 ZDF Adventure TV mini-series based on the Danish children's book „Silas og den...
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