x

Login

Remember me
Forget password ?

Or via social

x

sign up

person_profile-Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss Died at age: 92

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Wolfgang Preiss

Date of Birth:

Feb 27, 1910

Country of birth:

Germany

Died:

Nov 27, 2002

Biography of

Wolfgang Preiss

    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.

Photos of

Wolfgang Preiss

Photos ( 1 Photos

Filmography of

Wolfgang Preiss

Found 75 Movies in total

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse

Dieter Gekeler (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

... 1996

Dr. M

Kessler ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1989

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo

Earl of Wereford ( Actor )

... 1989

The Second Victory

Father Albertus ( Actor )

... 1987

Forget Mozart

Baron Gottfried van Swieten ( Actor )

... 1985

Ghost of Love

Zighi ( Actor )

... 1981

The Formula

Franz Tauber ( Actor )

... 1980

Bloodline

Julius Prager ( Actor )

... 1979

Ike

FM Alfred Jodl ( Actor )

... 1979

The Boys from Brazil

Lofquist ( Actor )

... 1978

A Bridge Too Far

Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt ( Actor )

... 1977

The Big Delirium

Artmann ( Actor )

... 1975

The Master Touch

Miller ( Actor )

... 1972

The Salzburg Connection

Felix Zauner ( Actor )

... 1972

... 1972

The Bloodstained Butterfly

The Prosecutor ( Actor )

... 1971

The Fifth Cord

Police inspector ( Actor )

... 1971

Raid on Rommel

Gen. Erwin Rommel ( Actor )

... 1971

... 1969

Battle of the Commandos

Colonel Ackerman ( Actor )

... 1969

Hannibal Brooks

Col. von Haller ( Actor )

... 1969

Anzio

Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ( Actor )

... 1968

Tamara

Father Bricks ( Actor )

... 1968

Jack of Diamonds

Wilhelm Von Schenk ( Actor )

... 1967

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

Sebastian (BND chief) ( Actor )

... 1967

Dead Run

Noland ( Actor )

... 1967

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand

Leiter der Mordkommission ( Actor )

... 1967

Is Paris Burning?

Capitaine Ebernach ( Actor )

... 1966

To Skin a Spy

Chalieff ( Actor )

... 1966

The Spy Who Went Into Hell

Captain Parker ( Actor )

... 1965

Von Ryan's Express

Major Von Klemment ( Actor )

... 1965

... 1965

100 Horsemen

Sheik Abengalbon ( Actor )

... 1964

The Train

Maj. Herren ( Actor )

... 1964

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Mabuse ( Actor )

... 1964

Backfire

Grenner ( Actor )

... 1964

Frühstück mit dem Tod

Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot ( Actor )

... 1964

Cave of the Living Dead

Prof. von Adelsberg ( Actor )

... 1964

... 1963

The Mad Executioners

Morel Smith ( Actor )

... 1963

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard

Geist von Dr. Mabuse ( Actor )

... 1963

Das tödliche Patent

Charles Reese ( Actor )

... 1963

The Longest Day

Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel ( Actor )

... 1962

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse

Dr. Mabuse ( Actor )

... 1962

The Counterfeit Traitor

Colonel Nordoff ( Actor )

... 1962

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse ( Actor )

... 1962

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

Staatsanwalt Soldan ( Actor )

... 1962

Lafayette

Baron Kalb ( Actor )

... 1962

Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old

Günther Brandt ( Actor )

... 1961

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Mabuse ( Actor )

... 1961

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse ( Actor )

... 1960

Mill of the Stone Women

Doctor Loren Bolem ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

Mistress of the World - Part I

Dr. Henrik Brandes ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

Roses for the Prosecutor

Generalstaatsanwalt ( Actor )

... 1959

Gorilla's Waltz

Otto Lohn ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1959

Prisoner of the Volga

General Gorew ( Actor )

... 1959

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino

Oberstabsarzt Munkler ( Actor )

... 1958

... 1958

Sharks and Little Fish

U-Bootkommandant Lüttke ( Actor )

... 1957

Von der Liebe besiegt

Mario Clar ( Actor )

... 1956

Johannisnacht

Mac Fadden ( Actor )

... 1956

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter

Ein Journalist ( Actor )

... 1956

Like Once Lili Marleen

Alfred Linder ( Actor )

... 1956

Before Sundown

Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke ( Actor )

... 1956

Der Cornet

Freiherr von Pirovano ( Actor )

... 1955

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( Actor )

... 1955

Canaris

Oberst Holl ( Actor )

... 1954

... 1951

The Crew of the Dora

Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner ( Actor )

... 1943

The Great Love

Oberleutnant von Etzdorf ( Actor )

... 1942