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