Wolfgang Preiss
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.
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII...
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The Train
as Maj. HerrenAs the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to...
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and...
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Von Ryan's Express
as Major Von KlemmentVon Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII...
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Is Paris Burning?
as Capitaine EbernachNear 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 LofquistNazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Mill of the Stone Women
as Doctor Loren BolemHans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old...
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Anzio
as Field Marshal Albert KesselringAmerican troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on...
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Raid on Rommel
as Gen. Erwin RommelCaptain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup...
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The Master Touch
as MillerA master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a...
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The Counterfeit Traitor
as Colonel NordoffBlacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of...
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The Cardinal
as uncreditedA young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as...
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Bloodline
as Julius PragerA pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious...
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
as Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. MabuseA reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who...
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The Bloodstained Butterfly
as The ProsecutorWhen a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit...
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Hannibal Brooks
as Col. von HallerA POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo...
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The Formula
as Franz TauberWhile investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney...
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Ghost of Love
as ZighiOver two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his...
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Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
as Major LinkmannIn the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who...
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Krone / Dr. MabuseStrange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible...
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The Spy Who Went Into Hell
as Captain ParkerCIA agent Jeff Larson is sent to investigate suspicious activities at a U.S. base located in...
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The Fifth Cord
as Police inspectorA journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him,...
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
as Dr. MabuseDr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring...
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The Mad Executioners
as Morel SmithA group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
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The Salzburg Connection
as Felix ZaunerAn American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian...
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Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
as Geist von Dr. MabuseThe spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr....
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Roses for the Prosecutor
as GeneralstaatsanwaltApril 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by...
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Battle of the Commandos
as Colonel AckermanA British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the...
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Jack of Diamonds
as Wilhelm Von SchenkThe protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in...
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Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
as Dr. BeckThe film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part...
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Lafayette
as Baron KalbThe story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the...
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. MabuseThe supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe...
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The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
as Oberstabsarzt MunklerGerman Paratroopers are ordered to hold the line at Monte Cassino in Italy, and halt the allied...
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Backfire
as GrennerA greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout...
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The Italians They Are Crazy
as HansIn a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to...
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The Great Love
as Oberleutnant von EtzdorfThe attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot....
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Mistress of the World - Part II
as BrandesKarin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the...
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von StauffenbergA disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators...
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Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
as Sebastian (BND chief)Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails...
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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. MabuseThe evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
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Dr. M
as KesslerIn the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a...
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Ike
as FM Alfred JodlEisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other...
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Sharks and Little Fish
as U-Bootkommandant LüttkeFour young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
as Ein JournalistIn 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide...
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The Big Delirium
as ArtmannA young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie,...
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To Skin a Spy
as ChalieffA French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak...
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Death on a Rainy Day
as Dr. Angus CromwellTwo French agents fight a Chinese sect that aims to control the American Secretary of Defence...
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Riviera-Story
as Arthur DahlbergRelations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at...
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Forget Mozart
as Baron Gottfried van SwietenIn the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to...
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Canaris
as Oberst HollAdmiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite...
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The Black Cobra
as Stanislas RaskinAfter a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out...
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100 Horsemen
as Sheik AbengalbonDon Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
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Prisoner of the Volga
as General GorewA vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the...
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The Second Victory
as Father AlbertusAfter the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues...
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Dead Run
as NolandA thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister...
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Gorilla's Waltz
as Otto LohnThis is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The...
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Before Sundown
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-WerkeBased on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance...
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The Standard
as OberstDuring the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the...
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Frühstück mit dem Tod
as Staatsanwalt Ted TalbotTed Talbot is a prosecutor in Newtonville. In the course of his work, he accuses Jim Conley of...
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Cave of the Living Dead
as Prof. von AdelsbergThe German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local...
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Mistress of the World - Part I
as Dr. Henrik BrandesProfessor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge...
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Grabenplatz 17
as Kriminalkommissar Dr. JägerMurder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his...
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Doctor Without Scruples
as Dr. WestorpA renowned physician falls under scrutiny when it's discovered his assistant is a former Nazi.
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Das tödliche Patent
as Charles ReeseCharles, a talented but poor chemist, has become a wealthy man overnight. The industry is all...
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The Girl with the Cat Eyes
as Carlo GormannA police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an...
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Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
as uncreditedEducational film about variants of sexuality.
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Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
as Earl of WerefordA comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb.
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as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Open Air
as uncreditedIn the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland...
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Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
as BernauerA young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions...
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The Crew of the Dora
as Staffelarzt Dr. WagnerGerman film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being...
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X-Ray of a Killer
as uncreditedThe murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.
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Tamara
as Father BricksA journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany.
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Ich war ihm hörig
as Dr. LeipoldAnette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant...
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Der Cornet
as Freiherr von PirovanoAdventure film based on a Rilke poem.
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Scene of the Crime
as Friedrich von RibnitzTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Scene of the Crime
as Cantz sr.Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Scene of the Crime
as StockingerTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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SOKO München
as Direktor Xaver KreuzbergSOKO 5113 is a long-running German police procedural television series. It was first aired in...
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A Case For Two
as Alfred RohloffEin Fall für zwei is a German television series, which premiered on September 11, 1981 on ZDF....
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Der Kommissar
as Direktor AbelDer Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide...
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Das Kriminalmuseum
as Konrad PachmayrDas Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one...
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The Rat Patrol
as General Von HelmreichThe exploits of four Allied soldiers — three Americans and one Englishman — who are part of a...
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War and Remembrance
as Field Marshal Walter von BrauchitschWar and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman...
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The Winds of War
as Field Marshal Walther von BrauchitschSet against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in...
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Ein Heim für Tiere
as Prof. Alf DobnerEin Heim für Tiere is a German television series.
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Die Männer vom K3
as Bodo von HeysenDie Männer vom K3 is a German television series.
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Die fünfte Kolonne
as Hauptmann SeewaldDie fünfte Kolonne is a German television series.
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La Cloche tibétaine
as Georges-Marie HaardtMiniseries about the Citroen expeditions in 1931/1932 across Asia.
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Ringstraßenpalais
as General PrettwitzRingstraßenpalais is an Austrian television series.
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