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Wolfgang Preiss
Actor
Died November 27, 2002 (92 years)
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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.
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Filmography
| 2018 | Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse · as (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Dr. M · as Kessler |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance (TV Series) · as Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch |
| 1988 | The men from K3 (TV Series) · as Bodo von Heysen |
| 1987 | The Second Victory · as Father Albertus |
| 1986 | The Summer of the Samurai · as actor |
| 1985 | Vergeßt Mozart · as Baron Gottfried van Swieten |
| 1985 | Ein Heim für Tiere (TV Series) · as Prof. Alf Dobner |
| 1983 | The Winds of War (TV Series) · as Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch |
| 1981 | Fantasma d'amore · as Zighi |
| 1981 | A Case for Two (TV Series) · as Alfred Rohloff |
| 1980 | The Formula · as Franz Tauber |
| 1980 | Ringstraßenpalais (TV Series) · as General Prettwitz |
| 1979 | Bloodline · as Julius Prager |
| 1979 | Ike: The War Years (TV Series) · as General Alfred Jodl |
| 1979 | Orient-Express (TV Series) · as Le capitaine Kruger |
| 1978 | The Boys from Brazil · as Lofquist |
| 1978 | SOKO München (TV Series) · as Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg |
| 1978 | Wallenstein (TV Series) · as Thurn |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far · as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt |
| 1977 | The Standard · as Oberst |
| 1977 | Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse (TV Series) · as Louis Tonard |
| 1975 | Die Insel der Krebse · as General |
| 1975 | The Big Delirium · as Artmann |
| 1975 | Eurogang (TV Series) · as Frank Allen |
| 1974 | Die Kriegsbraut · as von Bogendorf |
| 1974 | Eine ungeliebte Frau · as Unknown |
| 1974 | The yellow caravan (TV Series) · as Georges-Marie Haardt |
| 1973 | Diamantenparty · as Konsul Eduard van Düren |
| 1972 | The Master Touch · as Miller |
| 1972 | The Salzburg Connection · as Felix Zauner |
| 1972 | Okay S.I.R. (TV Series) · as Forestié |
| 1971 | The Fifth Cord · as Police inspector |
| 1971 | Raid on Rommel · as Gen. Erwin Rommel |
| 1971 | The Bloodstained Butterfly · as The Prosecutor |
| 1970 | Tatort (TV Series) · as Friedrich von Ribnitz |
| 1969 | Hannibal Brooks · as Col. von Haller |
| 1969 | Battle of the Commandos · as Colonel Ackerman |
| 1969 | Paul Temple (TV Series) · as Dieter Goetz |
| 1969 | The Commissioner (TV Series) · as Direktor Abel |
| 1968 | Anzio · as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring |
| 1968 | A man named Harry Brent (TV Series) · as George Conway |
| 1968 | Treasure Hunters of Our Day (TV Series) · as Jan van Dongen |
| 1967 | Mister Dynamit - Morgen küßt euch der Tod · as Sebastian (BND chief) |
| 1967 | Dead Run · as Noland |
| 1967 | Death on a Rainy Day · as Dr. Angus Cromwell |
| 1966 | To Skin a Spy · as Chalieff |
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? · as Capitaine Ebernach |
| 1966 | The Rat Patrol (TV Series) · as General Von Helmreich |
| 1965 | Von Ryan's Express · as Major Von Klemment |
| 1965 | Code Name: Jaguar · as Captain Parker |
| 1964 | The Train · as Maj. Herren |
| 1964 | The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse · as Dr. Mabuse |
| 1964 | Night of the Vampires · as Prof. von Adelsberg |
| 1964 | Backfire · as Grenner |
| 1964 | I cento cavalieri · as Sheik Abengalbon |
| 1964 | Gewagtes Spiel (TV Series) · as Bernhard Asmus |
| 1963 | The Cardinal · as Unknown |
| 1963 | Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard · as Geist von Dr. Mabuse |
| 1963 | The Mad Executioners · as Morel Smith |
| 1963 | Das tödliche Patent · as Charles Reese |
| 1963 | The fifth column (TV Series) · as Hauptmann Seewald |
| 1963 | Das Kriminalmuseum (TV Series) · as Konrad Pachmayr |
| 1962 | The Longest Day · as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel |
| 1962 | The Terror of Doctor Mabuse · as Dr. Mabuse |
| 1962 | The Invisible Dr. Mabuse · as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse |
| 1962 | The Counterfeit Traitor · as Colonel Nordoff |
| 1962 | Lafayette · as Baron Kalb |
| 1962 | Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt · as Staatsanwalt Soldan |
| 1961 | The Return of Dr. Mabuse · as Dr. Mabuse |
| 1960 | Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen · as Dr. Beck |
| 1960 | Mistress of the World · as Dr. Henrik Brandes |
| 1960 | Die Herrin der Welt - Teil II · as Brandes |
| 1960 | Mill of the Stone Women · as Doctor Loren Bolem |
| 1960 | The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse · as Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse |
| 1959 | Roses for the Prosecutor · as Generalstaatsanwalt |
| 1959 | Doctor Without Scruples · as Dr. Westorp |
| 1959 | Prisoner of the Volga · as General Gorew |
| 1959 | Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? · as Major Linkmann |
| 1958 | Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino · as Oberstabsarzt Munkler |
| 1958 | Grabenplatz 17 · as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger |
| 1958 | I Was All His · as Dr. Leipold |
| 1957 | Sharks and Little Fish · as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke |
| 1957 | Der Banditendoktor · as Amerikaner |
| 1956 | Anastasia: The Czar's Last Daughter · as Unknown |
| 1956 | Johannisnacht · as Mac Fadden |
| 1956 | Von der Liebe besiegt · as Mario Clar |
| 1956 | Before Sundown · as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke |
| 1955 | The Plot to Assassinate Hitler · as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg |
| 1955 | The Cornet · as Freiherr von Pirovano |
| 1954 | Deadly Decision · as Oberst Holl |
| 1942 | Die große Liebe · as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf |