
Werner Dissel
Acting
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

Picknick im Schnee
Mann mit Decke
Andy
Grandfather

Verlorene Landschaft

Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
Scheusal
Alfons Pfeiffer

Everything's a Lie
Notary
Unser Haus
Dr.Olbert
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
Hinkelmann

Albert Einstein
Max Planck

The Architects
Alter

Der Magdalenenbaum
Opa Panse

Coming Out
Älterer Homosexueller Walter

Späte Ankunft
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Fallada: The Last Chapter
Doktor
Nachts schlafen die Ratten

Childhood
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Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Invalide

Der Traum vom Elch
Paulchen
Das wirkliche Blau

Ernst Thälmann
Emil Kirdorf

Die Schöne und das Tier
Alter
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Dr. Engelberger

Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth

Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
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Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
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Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
Älterer Herr mit Hund

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Beethoven - Days in a Life
Grisslinger

Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
Otto Haubold

Man against Man
Angler

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Scholastischer Professor

Am Ende der Welt
Amtsdiener Göpel

Johannes Kepler
Richter

Ulzana
Mexikanischer Arzt

Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Alfred Jodl

Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Alfred Jodl
Die Rosenholzmöbel
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Heroin
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Stories of That Night
Kilian (segment "Materna")

Zejście do piekła
Rudolf Knoll

Black Panthers
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Lebende Ware
Erno Brody
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Just Don't Think I'll Cry
Mantek

As Long as There’s Life in Me
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Dr. Vollmer

Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
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Naked Among Wolves
Otto Lange

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Little Red Riding Hood
Wolf

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The Gleiwitz Case
Volksschullehrer

Der Fremde

Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
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The Opportunists
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Love's Confusion
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Before lightning strikes
Silvio O. Schmitt

Ware für Katalonien
Portier

Der Prozeß wird vertagt

Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
Rohn

Les Misérables
Brevet (uncredited)

The Captain from Cologne







