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Wernher von Braun
Actor, Additional Credits
Born March 22, 1912Died June 16, 1977 (65 years)
Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United States via Operation Paperclip. Von Braun went to work for the US Army building early ballistic missiles, but was eventually absorbed into NACA, which became NASA, and became the first Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, whose primary task was development of the Saturn V heavy-lift rocket system which was used in the NASA manned moon landings in the late 60s-early 70s.
Filmography
| 2024 | Battle for Disclosure · as Self - Aerospace Engineer |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | First Signal · as Self |
| 2020 | History 101 (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Apollo: Missions to the Moon · as Self - Rocket Scientist, Nasa (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Unacknowledged · as Self - Scientist |
| 2014 | |
| 2014 | The Saturn V Story · as Self |
| 2013 | |
| 2011 | Perry Rhodan - Unser Mann im All · as Self |
| 2010 | Hitler's Miracle Weapons · as Self |
| 2008 | Moon Machines (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Sputnik Fever · as Self |
| 2005 | Conquering Space: The Moon and Beyond · as Self - Rocket Designer |
| 2002 | Dark Side of the Moon · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2001 | |
| 2000 | What Happened on the Moon? - An Investigation Into Apollo · as Self - Nazi Rocket Engineer |
| 1998 | The Third Reich, in Color · as Self |
| 1995 | Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1995 | Blood & Iron: The Story of the German War Machine (TV Series) · as Self (arm In Cast) |
| 1995 | The Last Days of World War II · as Self |
| 1994 | Moon Shot · as Self |
| 1985 | Spaceflight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1974 | NOVA (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1973 | Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1964 | Horizon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Dr. Von Braun |
| 1959 | CBS Reports (TV Series) · as Self - Dr. Wernher Von Braun |
| 1957 | Disneyland: Mars and Beyond · as Himself |
| 1957 | The Twentieth Century (1957) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Self |