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 Great Love
(Oberleutnant von Etzdorf)
The Train
(Maj. Herren)
The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
(Dr. Mabuse)
Is Paris Burning?
(Capitaine Ebernach)
Von Ryan's Express
(Major Von Klemment)
The Formula
(Franz Tauber)
Hannibal Brooks
(Col. von Haller)
Cave of the Living Dead
(Prof. von Adelsberg)
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
Dr. M
(Kessler)
The Fifth Cord
(Police inspector)
Mill of the Stone Women
(Doctor Loren Bolem)
The Counterfeit Traitor
(Colonel Nordoff)
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
(Dr. Beck)
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
(Major Linkmann)
The Master Touch
(Miller)
Lafayette
(Baron Kalb)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
(Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse)
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
(Dr. Mabuse)
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
(Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse)
To Skin a Spy
(Chalieff)
Raid on Rommel
(Gen. Erwin Rommel)
Sharks and Little Fish
(U-Bootkommandant Lüttke)
Roses for the Prosecutor
(Generalstaatsanwalt)
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
(Sebastian (BND chief))
Jack of Diamonds
(Wilhelm Von Schenk)
Ghost of Love
(Zighi)
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
(Berthold Kampe)
Canaris
(Oberst Holl)
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
(Earl of Wereford)
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
(Ein Journalist)
Die Kriegsbraut
(von Bogendorf)
Von der Liebe besiegt
(Mario Clar)
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
(Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg)
Johannisnacht
(Mac Fadden)
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
(Earl of Wereford)
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
(Earl of Wereford)
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
(Earl of Wereford)
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
(Earl of Wereford)
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
(Oberstabsarzt Munkler)
Grabenplatz 17
(Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger)
The Mad Executioners
(Morel Smith)
Mistress of the World - Part I
(Dr. Henrik Brandes)
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
(Geist von Dr. Mabuse)
The Standard
(Oberst)
Stresemann
(Heinz Becker)
Forget Mozart
(Baron Gottfried van Swieten)
Dead Run
(Noland)
Anzio
(Field Marshal Albert Kesselring)
Battle of the Commandos
(Colonel Ackerman)
Before Sundown
(Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke)
Playgirl 70
The Longest Day
(Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel)
Doctor Without Scruples
(Dr. Westorp)
Frühstück mit dem Tod
(Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot)
The Black Cobra
(Stanislas Raskin)
Flachsmann als Erzieher
(Flachsmann)
Die Insel der Krebse
(General)
Falschmünzer am Werk
The Spy Who Went Into Hell
(Captain Parker)
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
(Generalmajor Oster)
Schinderhannes
(Gendarm Adam)
Leb wohl, mein Traum
(James Merrill)
Hürdenlauf
(Exzellenz Lohmüller)
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
(Staatsanwalt Soldan)
Die erste Legion
(Dr. Peter Morell)
Oberarzt Dr. Solm
(Dr. Hartung)
Like Once Lili Marleen
(Alfred Linder)
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
(Carlo Gormann)
Prisoner of the Volga
(General Gorew)
Ich war ihm hörig
(Dr. Leipold)
Sir Henri Deterding
(Sir Henri Deterding)
Tamara
(Father Bricks)
100 Horsemen
(Sheik Abengalbon)
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
(Anthony Wilcox)
Diamantenparty
(Konsul Eduard van Düren)
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
(General)
Ein Mann namens Parvus
(Brockdorff-Rantzau)
Der Banditendoktor
(Amerikaner)
Eine ungeliebte Frau
Der Minister und die Ente
(Minister)
The Italians They Are Crazy
(Hans)
Ike
(FM Alfred Jodl)
Lang soll er leben
X-Ray of a Killer
The Second Victory
(Father Albertus)
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
(Dr. Mabuse)
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
(Kapitän Behrens)
Mistress of the World - Part II
(Brandes)
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
(Günther Brandt)
Das Leben in meiner Hand
(Minister)
Peenemünde
(Oberst Dornberger)
The Crew of the Dora
(Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner)
Der Cornet
(Freiherr von Pirovano)
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
(Bernauer)
Wallenstein
(Thurn)
Riviera-Story
(Arthur Dahlberg)
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
(Leiter der Mordkommission)
A Bridge Too Far
(Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt)
The Bloodstained Butterfly
(The Prosecutor)
The Boys from Brazil
(Lofquist)
Eurydice
(Dulac)
Bloodline
(Julius Prager)
The Salzburg Connection
(Felix Zauner)
Das tödliche Patent
(Charles Reese)
Straße der Gerechten
(Joseph Blake)
The Big Delirium
(Artmann)
Der Fall Petkov
(Dr. Georgi Dimitrov)
Das Haus Lunjowo
(Generalmajor Lattmann)
Gorilla's Waltz
(Otto Lohn)
Samba
(Parisius)
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
Die Anstalt
(Dr. Reinecke)
Backfire
(Grenner)
Wo liegt Jena?
(Robert)
Death on a Rainy Day
(Dr. Angus Cromwell)
The Cardinal
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
(Dieter Gekeler (archive footage))
Konto ausgeglichen
(Robert Jacobi)
Open Air
The Rat Patrol
(General Von Helmreich)
Unheimliche Geschichten
The Winds of War
(Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch)
Das Kriminalmuseum
(Konrad Pachmayr)
Scene of the Crime
(Friedrich von Ribnitz)
Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse
(Louis Tonard)
Die fünfte Kolonne
(Hauptmann Seewald)
Die Männer vom K3
(Bodo von Heysen)
Hungária kávéház
Ein Heim für Tiere
(Prof. Alf Dobner)
Ein heikler Fall
A Case For Two
(Alfred Rohloff)
Eurogang
(Frank Allen)
Ringstraßenpalais
(General Prettwitz)
Florian III
(Max Friedmann)
Der Anwalt
(Richter)
Gestern gelesen
(Staatsanwalt)
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
SOKO 5113
(Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg)
War and Remembrance
(Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch)
Wallenstein
(Thurn)
Scene of the Crime
(Cantz sr.)
Familie Mack verändert sich
(Robert Mack)
Die Montagsmaler
(Self)
Scene of the Crime
(Stockinger)
Okay S.I.R.
(Forestié)
La Cloche tibétaine
(Georges-Marie Haardt)
Der Kommissar
(Direktor Abel)
Ein Mann namens Harry Brent
(George Conway)
Dalli Dalli
(Self)
Einer wird gewinnen
(Self)
Die Schraiers
(Jean Schraier)
Deutscher Filmpreis
(Self)
Schatzsucher unserer Tage
(Jan van Dongen)
Zwischenmahlzeit
(Self)