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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 d̩but Рhe was exempted from military service specifically Рin 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.
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Wolfgang Preiss Biography / Wiki
| Name | Wolfgang Preiss |
| Also Know | Wolfgang Price |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Nuremberg, Germany |
| Date of Birth | 1910-02-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 92 |
| Deathday | 2002-11-27 |
Wolfgang Preiss Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Von der Liebe besiegt | Mario Clar | 1956-12-20 | … |
| The Plot to Assassinate Hitler | Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | 1955-06-21 | A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944…. |
| General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? | Generalmajor Oster | 1970-08-27 | … |
| Flachsmann als Erzieher | Flachsmann | 1968-01-14 | … |
| Leb wohl, mein Traum | James Merrill | 1963-04-05 | … |
| Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt | Staatsanwalt Soldan | 1962-03-08 | … |
| Sir Henri Deterding | Sir Henri Deterding | 1970-09-03 | … |
| Meinungsverschiedenheiten | Anthony Wilcox | 1968-04-23 | … |
| Der Minister und die Ente | Minister | 1970-12-31 | … |
| Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord | Kapitän Behrens | 1966-02-04 | … |
| Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old | Günther Brandt | 1961-01-27 | … |
| Das tödliche Patent | Charles Reese | 1963-07-16 | … |
| Der Cornet | Freiherr von Pirovano | 1955-12-16 | Adventure film based on a Rilke poem…. |
| Land der Väter, Land der Söhne | Bernauer | 1989-04-27 | A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth…. |
| Konto ausgeglichen | Robert Jacobi | 1959-07-25 | … |
| Legion of the Damned | Colonel Ackerman | 1969-08-12 | A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his n… |
| Grabenplatz 17 | Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger | 1958-07-16 | Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed…. |
| Doctor Without Scruples | Dr. Westorp | 1959-09-04 | … |
| Frühstück mit dem Tod | Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot | 1964-06-04 | … |
| Peenemünde | Oberst Dornberger | 1970-08-11 | … |
| Riviera-Story | Arthur Dahlberg | 1961-12-07 | … |
| Eurydice | Dulac | 1957-11-26 | … |
| Der Fall Petkov | Dr. Georgi Dimitrov | 1968-02-23 | … |
| Liebe, Love, l’Amour | 1969-03-11 | … | |
| Hannibal Brooks | Col. von Haller | 1969-01-18 | A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo … |
| The Curse of the Green Eyes | Prof. von Adelsberg | 1964-04-09 | The German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local villagers. They call in Inspector Doren of Interpol, and … |
| The Fifth Cord | Police inspector | 1971-08-17 | A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who’s been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their … |
| Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? | Major Linkmann | 1959-04-07 | In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggl… |
| The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse | 1960-09-13 | A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preve… |
| Raid on Rommel | Gen. Erwin Rommel | 1971-02-12 | Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscie… |
| Sharks and Little Fish | U-Bootkommandant Lüttke | 1957-09-26 | Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive…. |
| Mrs. Harris – Der geschmuggelte Henry | Earl of Wereford | 1987-02-02 | … |
| Mrs. Harris – Ein Kleid von Dior | Earl of Wereford | 1982-12-29 | … |
| Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau | Earl of Wereford | 1987-12-12 | … |
| Forget Mozart | Baron Gottfried van Swieten | 1985-09-12 | In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart’s death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart’s room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, w… |
| The Black Cobra | Stanislas Raskin | 1963-05-16 | … |
| Schinderhannes | Gendarm Adam | 1957-01-13 | … |
| Die Insel der Krebse | General | 1975-11-11 | … |
| Ich war ihm hörig | Dr. Leipold | 1958-04-01 | … |
| The Girl with the Cat Eyes | Carlo Gormann | 1958-11-28 | A police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector…. |
| Diamantenparty | Konsul Eduard van Düren | 1973-06-10 | … |
| Eine ungeliebte Frau | 1974-01-05 | … | |
| The Italians They Are Crazy | Hans | 1958-04-05 | In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours…. |
| Wo liegt Jena? | Robert | 1967-06-16 | … |
| The Terror of Doctor Mabuse | Dr. Mabuse | 1962-09-06 | Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit… |
| Playgirl 70 | 1969-11-27 | Italian comedy…. | |
| The Master Touch | Miller | 1972-12-08 | A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars…. |
| Spy Today, Die Tomorrow | Sebastian (BND chief) | 1967-08-11 | Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the USA Government for a huge amount of money. German… |
| Ghost of Love | Zighi | 1981-04-03 | Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover…. |
| Canaris | Oberst Holl | 1954-12-29 | Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants … |
| Die Kriegsbraut | von Bogendorf | 1974-11-02 | … |
| The Mad Executioners | Morel Smith | 1963-11-22 | A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard’s Black Museum…. |
| Mistress of the World | Dr. Henrik Brandes | 1960-04-14 | Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a co… |
| Stresemann | Heinz Becker | 1957-01-11 | … |
| Oberarzt Dr. Solm | Dr. Hartung | 1955-03-17 | … |
| 100 Horsemen | Sheik Abengalbon | 1964-12-30 | Don Fernando, the son of El Cid, rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain…. |
| Ein Mann namens Parvus | Brockdorff-Rantzau | 1984-04-10 | … |
| Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand | Leiter der Mordkommission | 1967-03-29 | … |
| Straße der Gerechten | Joseph Blake | 1959-03-19 | … |
| Das Haus Lunjowo | Generalmajor Lattmann | 1970-01-29 | … |
| Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse | (archive footage) | 2018-08-30 | … |
| The Great Love | Oberleutnant von Etzdorf | 1942-06-12 | The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day’s le… |
| Mill of the Stone Women | Doctor Loren Bolem | 1960-08-30 | Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other notorio… |
| Lafayette | Baron Kalb | 1962-02-14 | … |
| Jack of Diamonds | Wilhelm Von Schenk | 1967-11-10 | The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a see… |
| Mrs. Harris – Freund mit Rolls Royce | Earl of Wereford | 1984-12-25 | … |
| Falschmünzer am Werk | 1951-03-01 | … | |
| Hürdenlauf | Exzellenz Lohmüller | 1969-02-20 | … |
| Prisoner of the Volga | General Gorew | 1959-03-26 | Prisoner of the Volga… |
| Gorilla’s Waltz | Otto Lohn | 1959-10-07 | This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of “The Gorilla,” but unlike the earlier films, this time around Ro… |
| Samba | Parisius | 1966-05-09 | … |
| The Train | Maj. Herren | 1964-09-24 | As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France’s greatest paintings to Germany. He… |
| Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen | Dr. Beck | 1960-02-25 | The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in … |
| The Invisible Dr. Mabuse | Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse | 1962-03-30 | Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found … |
| Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo | Earl of Wereford | 1989-02-22 | A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb…. |
| Johannisnacht | Mac Fadden | 1956-10-29 | … |
| Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard | Geist von Dr. Mabuse | 1963-09-20 | The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the… |
| Dead Run | Noland | 1967-08-10 | A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation…. |
| The Salzburg Connection | Felix Zauner | 1972-08-30 | An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who’s taking pict… |
| The Big Delirium | Artmann | 1975-04-30 | A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love … |
| Backfire | Grenner | 1964-09-04 | A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler’s sexy girlfriend…. |
| To Skin a Spy | Chalieff | 1966-08-24 | A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire… |
| Roses for the Prosecutor | Generalstaatsanwalt | 1959-09-24 | April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to esc… |
| The Second Victory | Father Albertus | 1987-06-04 | … |
| Die erste Legion | Dr. Peter Morell | 1964-08-27 | … |
| Like Once Lili Marleen | Alfred Linder | 1956-09-20 | … |
| Lang soll er leben | 1987-02-08 | … | |
| The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse | Dr. Mabuse | 1964-09-17 | The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world…. |
| Das Leben in meiner Hand | Minister | 1966-06-13 | … |
| The Crew of the Dora | Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner | 1943-11-01 | German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together…. |
| The Bloodstained Butterfly | The Prosecutor | 1971-09-10 | When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, s… |
| Die Anstalt | Dr. Reinecke | 1978-10-27 | … |
| Von Ryan’s Express | Major Von Klemment | 1965-06-23 | Von Ryan’s Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov… |
| Anastasia: the Czar’s Last Daughter | 1956-09-26 | In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin’s Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any… | |
| The Green Devils of Monte Cassino | Oberstabsarzt Munkler | 1958-04-23 | German Paratroopers are ordered to hold the line at Monte Cassino in Italy, and halt the allied advance on Rome…. |
| The Standard | Oberst | 1977-11-25 | During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while … |
| Code Name: Jaguar | Captain Parker | 1965-08-13 | CIA agent Jeff Larson is sent to investigate suspicious activities at a U.S. base located in southern Spain. He discovers the base is being heavily mo… |
| Tamara | Father Bricks | 1968-01-25 | A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany…. |
| Der Banditendoktor | Amerikaner | 1957-11-19 | … |
| Du stirbst nicht allein – Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris | General | 1973-03-23 | … |
| Wallenstein | Thurn | 1978-11-19 | … |
| The Counterfeit Traitor | Colonel Nordoff | 1962-04-17 | Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany…. |
| Before Sundown | Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke | 1956-07-06 | Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautifu… |
| Death on a Rainy Day | Dr. Angus Cromwell | 1967-09-29 | Two French agents fight a Chinese sect that aims to control the American Secretary of Defence via high-tech medicine, so that he would start a world w… |
| Dr. M | Kessler | 1990-05-24 | In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman’s investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic w… |
| Die Herrin der Welt – Teil II | Brandes | 1960-04-26 | … |
| The Return of Dr. Mabuse | Dr. Mabuse | 1961-01-01 | The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and… |
| Bloodline | Julius Prager | 1979-06-29 | When her father is murdered, Elizabeth Roffe, a pharmaceutical company heiress, becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international je… |
| The Formula | Franz Tauber | 1980-12-19 | While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthe… |
| The Boys from Brazil | Lofquist | 1978-10-05 | Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich…. |
| Anzio | Field Marshal Albert Kesselring | 1968-07-24 | Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspo… |
| A Bridge Too Far | Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt | 1977-06-15 | Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of break… |
| Is Paris Burning? | Capitaine Ebernach | 1966-10-26 | Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if … |
| The Cardinal | 1963-12-12 | A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal…. | |
| The Longest Day | Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel | 1962-09-25 | The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d… |
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