Wolfgang Preiss
Acting • Born 1910-02-27 – Died 2002-11-27
Biography
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.
Filmography
156 credits
The Great Love
Movie • 1942
Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
The Train
Movie • 1964
Maj. Herren
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 1962
Dr. Mabuse
Is Paris Burning?
Movie • 1966
Capitaine Ebernach
Von Ryan's Express
Movie • 1965
Major Von Klemment
The Formula
Movie • 1980
Franz Tauber
Hannibal Brooks
Movie • 1969
Col. von Haller
Cave of the Living Dead
Movie • 1964
Prof. von Adelsberg
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
Movie • 1972
Dr. M
Movie • 1990
Kessler
The Fifth Cord
Movie • 1971
Police inspector
The Counterfeit Traitor
Movie • 1962
Colonel Nordoff
Mill of the Stone Women
Movie • 1960
Doctor Loren Bolem
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Movie • 1960
Dr. Beck
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Movie • 1959
Major Linkmann
The Master Touch
Movie • 1972
Miller
Lafayette
Movie • 1962
Baron Kalb
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 1960
Prof. Jordan / Peter Cornelius / Dr. Mabuse
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 1961
Dr. Mabuse
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 1962
Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
To Skin a Spy
Movie • 1966
Chalieff
Raid on Rommel
Movie • 1971
Gen. Erwin Rommel
Sharks and Little Fish
Movie • 1957
U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Roses for the Prosecutor
Movie • 1959
Generalstaatsanwalt
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
Movie • 1967
Sebastian (BND chief)
Jack of Diamonds
Movie • 1967
Wilhelm Von Schenk
Ghost of Love
Movie • 1981
Zighi
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
Movie • 1984
Berthold Kampe
Canaris
Movie • 1954
Oberst Holl
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
Movie • 1989
Earl of Wereford
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
Movie • 1956
Ein Journalist
Die Kriegsbraut
Movie • 1974
von Bogendorf
Von der Liebe besiegt
Movie • 1956
Mario Clar
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
Movie • 1955
Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Johannisnacht
Movie • 1956
Mac Fadden
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
Movie • 1982
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
Movie • 1987
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
Movie • 1987
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
Movie • 1984
Earl of Wereford
Grabenplatz 17
Movie • 1958
Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
Movie • 1958
Oberstabsarzt Munkler
The Mad Executioners
Movie • 1963
Morel Smith
Mistress of the World - Part I
Movie • 1960
Dr. Henrik Brandes
Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 1963
Geist von Dr. Mabuse
The Standard
Movie • 1977
Oberst
Stresemann
Movie • 1957
Heinz Becker
Forget Mozart
Movie • 1985
Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Dead Run
Movie • 1967
Noland
Anzio
Movie • 1968
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Battle of the Commandos
Movie • 1969
Colonel Ackerman
Before Sundown
Movie • 1956
Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Playgirl 70
Movie • 1969
The Longest Day
Movie • 1962
Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
Doctor Without Scruples
Movie • 1959
Dr. Westorp
The Black Cobra
Movie • 1963
Stanislas Raskin
Frühstück mit dem Tod
Movie • 1964
Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Flachsmann als Erzieher
Movie • 1968
Flachsmann
Die Insel der Krebse
Movie • 1975
General
Falschmünzer am Werk
Movie • 1951
The Spy Who Went Into Hell
Movie • 1965
Captain Parker
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
Movie • 1970
Generalmajor Oster
Schinderhannes
Movie • 1957
Gendarm Adam
Leb wohl, mein Traum
Movie • 1963
James Merrill
Hürdenlauf
Movie • 1969
Exzellenz Lohmüller
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
Movie • 1962
Staatsanwalt Soldan
Die erste Legion
Movie • 1964
Dr. Peter Morell
Oberarzt Dr. Solm
Movie • 1955
Dr. Hartung
Like Once Lili Marleen
Movie • 1956
Alfred Linder
Prisoner of the Volga
Movie • 1959
General Gorew
The Girl with the Cat Eyes
Movie • 1958
Carlo Gormann
Ich war ihm hörig
Movie • 1958
Dr. Leipold
Sir Henri Deterding
Movie • 1970
Sir Henri Deterding
Tamara
Movie • 1968
Father Bricks
100 Horsemen
Movie • 1964
Sheik Abengalbon
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
Movie • 1968
Anthony Wilcox
Diamantenparty
Movie • 1973
Konsul Eduard van Düren
Ein Mann namens Parvus
Movie • 1984
Brockdorff-Rantzau
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
Movie • 1973
General
Der Banditendoktor
Movie • 1957
Amerikaner
Eine ungeliebte Frau
Movie • 1974
Der Minister und die Ente
Movie • 1970
Minister
The Italians They Are Crazy
Movie • 1958
Hans
Ike
Movie • 1979
FM Alfred Jodl
Lang soll er leben
Movie • 1987
X-Ray of a Killer
Movie • 1965
The Second Victory
Movie • 1987
Father Albertus
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 1964
Dr. Mabuse
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
Movie • 1966
Kapitän Behrens
Mistress of the World - Part II
Movie • 1960
Brandes
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
Movie • 1961
Günther Brandt
Das Leben in meiner Hand
Movie • 1966
Minister
Peenemünde
Movie • 1970
Oberst Dornberger
The Crew of the Dora
Movie • 1943
Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
Der Cornet
Movie • 1955
Freiherr von Pirovano
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
Movie • 1989
Bernauer
Riviera-Story
Movie • 1961
Arthur Dahlberg
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
Movie • 1967
Leiter der Mordkommission
A Bridge Too Far
Movie • 1977
Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
The Bloodstained Butterfly
Movie • 1971
The Prosecutor
The Boys from Brazil
Movie • 1978
Lofquist
Eurydice
Movie • 1957
Dulac
Bloodline
Movie • 1979
Julius Prager
The Salzburg Connection
Movie • 1972
Felix Zauner
Das tödliche Patent
Movie • 1963
Charles Reese
Straße der Gerechten
Movie • 1959
Joseph Blake
The Big Delirium
Movie • 1975
Artmann
Der Fall Petkov
Movie • 1968
Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Das Haus Lunjowo
Movie • 1970
Generalmajor Lattmann
Gorilla's Waltz
Movie • 1959
Otto Lohn
Samba
Movie • 1966
Parisius
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
Movie • 1969
Die Anstalt
Movie • 1978
Dr. Reinecke
Backfire
Movie • 1964
Grenner
Wo liegt Jena?
Movie • 1967
Robert
Death on a Rainy Day
Movie • 1967
Dr. Angus Cromwell
The Cardinal
Movie • 1963
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Movie • 2018
Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Konto ausgeglichen
Movie • 1959
Robert Jacobi
Open Air
Movie • 1996
Frischer Wind in alten Gassen
Movie • 1951
The Rat Patrol
TV • 1966
General Von Helmreich
Unheimliche Geschichten
TV • 1982
The Winds of War
TV • 1983
Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch
Das Kriminalmuseum
TV • 1963
Konrad Pachmayr
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Friedrich von Ribnitz
Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse
TV • 1979
Louis Tonard
Die fünfte Kolonne
TV • 1963
Hauptmann Seewald
Die Männer vom K3
TV • 1988
Bodo von Heysen
Hungária kávéház
TV • 1976
Ein Heim für Tiere
TV • 1985
Prof. Alf Dobner
Ein heikler Fall
TV • 1986
A Case For Two
TV • 1981
Alfred Rohloff
Eurogang
TV • 1975
Frank Allen
Ringstraßenpalais
TV • 1980
General Prettwitz
Florian III
TV • 1994
Max Friedmann
Der Anwalt
TV • 1976
Richter
Gestern gelesen
TV • 1969
Staatsanwalt
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
TV • 1991
SOKO München
TV • 1978
Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg
War and Remembrance
TV • 1988
Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch
Wallenstein
TV • 1978
Thurn
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Cantz sr.
Familie Mack verändert sich
TV • 1969
Robert Mack
Die Montagsmaler
TV • 1974
Self
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Stockinger
Okay S.I.R.
TV • 1973
Forestié
La Cloche tibétaine
TV • 1974
Georges-Marie Haardt
Der Kommissar
TV • 1969
Direktor Abel
Ein Mann namens Harry Brent
TV • 1968
George Conway
Dalli Dalli
TV • 1971
Self
Einer wird gewinnen
TV • 1964
Self
Die Schraiers
TV • 1982
Jean Schraier
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Schatzsucher unserer Tage
TV • 1968
Jan van Dongen
Zwischenmahlzeit
TV • 1963
Self
Ike
TV • 1979
Gen. Alfred Jodl