Wolfgang Preiss
Age: N/A | From: Nuremberg, Germany
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Wolfgang Price , Вольфганг Прайсс
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Nuremberg, Germany
Homepage:
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
(1970) Stockinger
SOKO 5113
(1978) Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg
A Case For Two
(1981) Alfred Rohloff
A Bridge Too Far
(1977) Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
The Longest Day
(1962) Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Is Paris Burning?
(1966) Capitaine Ebernach
Die Montagsmaler
(1974) Self
The Train
(1964) Maj. HerrenActing
| 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 | |
| Friedrich von Ribnitz | ||
| Cantz sr. | ||
| Stockinger | ||
| 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 |
