Werner Dissel
Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra. After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions. He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986. Source: Article "Werner Dissel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Anatomy
(Paulas Großvater)
Little Red Riding Hood
(Wolf)
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
(Alfred Jodl)
The Architects
(Alter)
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
Coming Out
(Älterer Homosexueller Walter)
Optimistische Tragödie
Späte Ankunft
(Kutscher Pankoke)
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
(Hinkelmann)
Ernst Thälmann
(Emil Kirdorf)
The Captain from Cologne
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
Everything's a Lie
(Notary)
Before lightning strikes
(Silvio O. Schmitt)
Black Panthers
(Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann)
Zeitzünder
(Dr. Engelberger)
Les Misérables
(Brevet (uncredited))
Andy
(Grandfather)
Picknick im Schnee
(Mann mit Decke)
Unser Haus
(Dr.Olbert)
Verlorene Landschaft
Der Magdalenenbaum
(Opa Panse)
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
(Butcher)
Die Tage der Commune
(Delegierter)
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
Ärzte
Childhood
(Lehrer)
Naked Among Wolves
(Otto Lange)
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
(Gundelsheimer)
Albert Einstein
(Max Planck)
Das wirkliche Blau
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
(Mantek)
Till Eulenspiegel
(Scholastischer Professor)
Heroin
(Zollrat Donkenberg)
Pension Boulanka
(Dr. Vollmer)
Ulzana
(Mexikanischer Arzt)
Am Ende der Welt
(Amtsdiener Göpel)
Beethoven - Days in a Life
(Grisslinger)
As Long as There’s Life in Me
(Bethmann-Hollweg)
Zejście do piekła
(Rudolf Knoll)
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
(Alfred Jodl)
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
(Schiffsarzt)
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
(Herr Merker)
Johannes Kepler
(Richter)
Man against Man
(Angler)
Der Traum vom Elch
(Paulchen)
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
(Invalide)
Fallada: The Last Chapter
(Doktor)
Entdeckung des Julian Böll
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
Love's Confusion
(Taxifahrer)
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
(Meteorologe)
Der Fremde
Stories of That Night
(Kilian (segment "Materna"))
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
(Rohn)
The Opportunists
(Fario)
Lebende Ware
(Erno Brody)
Pułapka
(Runge)
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
(Otto Haubold)
The Gleiwitz Case
(Volksschullehrer)
Die Rosenholzmöbel
(Duponchel)
Ware für Katalonien
(Portier)
Scheusal
(Alfons Pfeiffer)
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
(Älterer Herr mit Hund)
Die Schöne und das Tier
(Alter)
In aller Freundschaft
(Herr Kagel)
Polizeiruf 110
(Herr Breit)
Polizeiruf 110
(Herr Wolf)
Polizeiruf 110
Der letzte Zeuge
(Karl Waller)
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
(Neighbor)
Die Lange Strasse
(ein Arzt)
The Green Monster
(Dr. Luis Guerra)
Auf eigene Gefahr
(Schreiner)
Polizeiruf 110
(Alfons Seebacher)
Motzki
(Birne)
Barfuß ins Bett
(Opa Jonny)
Immenhof
(Wilhelm)
Geheimkommando Ciupaga
(Hauptmann Garzel)
Polizeiruf 110
(Otto Masurke)
A Stortebeker Girl
(Opa Warning)
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
(Matthes Horka)
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
(Opa Schütz)
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
(Sanitätsrat)
The German Bronx
(Pfarrer Müller)