Person Details

Birthday: 1910-02-27 05:58:07

Death: 2002-11-27 05:58:07

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Nuremberg, Germany

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Movie Involvements: 96

TV Involvements: 29


Most Famous Work

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 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.

Most Famous Work

Scene of the Crime
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6

Scene of the Crime

(1970) Stockinger
SOKO 5113
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6

SOKO 5113

(1978) Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg
A Case For Two
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6

A Case For Two

(1981) Alfred Rohloff
A Bridge Too Far
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7

A Bridge Too Far

(1977) Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
The Longest Day
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8

The Longest Day

(1962) Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Is Paris Burning?
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7

Is Paris Burning?

(1966) Capitaine Ebernach
Die Montagsmaler
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0

Die Montagsmaler

(1974) Self
The Train
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8

The Train

(1964) Maj. Herren

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2018 Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
1994 Max Friedmann
1991 N/A
1990 Kessler
1989 Bernauer
Earl of Wereford
1988 Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch
Bodo von Heysen
1987 Earl of Wereford
Father Albertus
N/A
Earl of Wereford
1986 N/A
1985 Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Prof. Alf Dobner
1984 Earl of Wereford
Brockdorff-Rantzau
Berthold Kampe
1983 Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch
1982 Earl of Wereford
Jean Schraier
N/A
1981 Alfred Rohloff
Zighi
1980 General Prettwitz
Franz Tauber
1979 Louis Tonard
Julius Prager
FM Alfred Jodl
1978 Thurn
Thurn
Dr. Reinecke
Lofquist
Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg
1977 Oberst
Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
1976 N/A
Richter
1975 General
Frank Allen
Artmann
1974 Georges-Marie Haardt
von Bogendorf
Self
N/A
1973 Forestié
Konsul Eduard van Düren
General
1972 Miller
Felix Zauner
N/A
1971 The Prosecutor
Police inspector
Self
Gen. Erwin Rommel
1970 Minister
Stockinger
Cantz sr.
Friedrich von Ribnitz
Sir Henri Deterding
Generalmajor Oster
Oberst Dornberger
Generalmajor Lattmann
1969 N/A
Robert Mack
Colonel Ackerman
Staatsanwalt
N/A
Exzellenz Lohmüller
Col. von Haller
Direktor Abel
1968 Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Anthony Wilcox
Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Father Bricks
George Conway
Flachsmann
1967 Wilhelm Von Schenk
Dr. Angus Cromwell
Sebastian (BND chief)
Noland
Robert
Leiter der Mordkommission
1966 Capitaine Ebernach
General Von Helmreich
Chalieff
Minister
Parisius
Kapitän Behrens
1965 Captain Parker
Major Von Klemment
1964 Sheik Abengalbon
Maj. Herren
Dr. Mabuse
Grenner
Dr. Peter Morell
Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Prof. von Adelsberg
Self
1963 N/A
Self
Morel Smith
Geist von Dr. Mabuse
Charles Reese
Hauptmann Seewald
Stanislas Raskin
James Merrill
Konrad Pachmayr
1962 Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Dr. Mabuse
Colonel Nordoff
Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
Staatsanwalt Soldan
Baron Kalb
1961 Arthur Dahlberg
Günther Brandt
Dr. Mabuse
1960 Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse
Doctor Loren Bolem
Brandes
Dr. Henrik Brandes
Dr. Beck
1959 Otto Lohn
Generalstaatsanwalt
Dr. Westorp
Robert Jacobi
Major Linkmann
General Gorew
Joseph Blake
1958 Carlo Gormann
Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
Oberstabsarzt Munkler
Hans
Dr. Leipold
1957 Dulac
Amerikaner
U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Gendarm Adam
Heinz Becker
1956 Mario Clar
Mac Fadden
Ein Journalist
Alfred Linder
Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
1955 Freiherr von Pirovano
Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Dr. Hartung
1954 Oberst Holl
1951 N/A
Self
1943 Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
1942 Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
Year Character Movie/Tv

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