Werner Dissel
Acting • Born 1912-08-26 – Died 2003-01-22
Biography
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.
Filmography
86 credits
Anatomy
Movie • 2000
Paulas Großvater
Little Red Riding Hood
Movie • 1962
Wolf
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
Movie • 1968
Alfred Jodl
The Architects
Movie • 1990
Alter
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
Movie • 1978
Coming Out
Movie • 1989
Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Optimistische Tragödie
Movie • 1971
Späte Ankunft
Movie • 1989
Kutscher Pankoke
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
Movie • 1991
Hinkelmann
Ernst Thälmann
Movie • 1986
Emil Kirdorf
The Captain from Cologne
Movie • 1956
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
Movie • 1958
Everything's a Lie
Movie • 1992
Notary
Before lightning strikes
Movie • 1959
Silvio O. Schmitt
Black Panthers
Movie • 1966
Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Zeitzünder
Movie • 1984
Dr. Engelberger
Les Misérables
Movie • 1958
Brevet (uncredited)
Andy
Movie • 1992
Grandfather
Picknick im Schnee
Movie • 1999
Mann mit Decke
Unser Haus
Movie • 1991
Dr.Olbert
Verlorene Landschaft
Movie • 1992
Der Magdalenenbaum
Movie • 1989
Opa Panse
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
Movie • 1974
Butcher
Die Tage der Commune
Movie • 1966
Delegierter
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
Movie • 1988
Ärzte
Movie • 1962
Childhood
Movie • 1987
Lehrer
Naked Among Wolves
Movie • 1963
Otto Lange
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
Movie • 1981
Gundelsheimer
Albert Einstein
Movie • 1990
Max Planck
Das wirkliche Blau
Movie • 1986
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
Movie • 1965
Mantek
Till Eulenspiegel
Movie • 1975
Scholastischer Professor
Heroin
Movie • 1968
Zollrat Donkenberg
Pension Boulanka
Movie • 1964
Dr. Vollmer
Ulzana
Movie • 1974
Mexikanischer Arzt
Am Ende der Welt
Movie • 1975
Amtsdiener Göpel
Beethoven - Days in a Life
Movie • 1976
Grisslinger
As Long as There’s Life in Me
Movie • 1965
Bethmann-Hollweg
Zejście do piekła
Movie • 1966
Rudolf Knoll
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
Movie • 1970
Alfred Jodl
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
Movie • 1981
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Movie • 1979
Schiffsarzt
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Movie • 1963
Herr Merker
Johannes Kepler
Movie • 1974
Richter
Man against Man
Movie • 1975
Angler
Der Traum vom Elch
Movie • 1986
Paulchen
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Movie • 1987
Invalide
Fallada: The Last Chapter
Movie • 1988
Doktor
Entdeckung des Julian Böll
Movie • 1962
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
Movie • 1992
Love's Confusion
Movie • 1959
Taxifahrer
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Movie • 1961
Meteorologe
Der Fremde
Movie • 1961
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
Movie • 1958
Rohn
Stories of That Night
Movie • 1967
Kilian (segment "Materna")
The Opportunists
Movie • 1960
Fario
Lebende Ware
Movie • 1966
Erno Brody
Pułapka
Movie • 1971
Runge
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
Movie • 1976
Otto Haubold
The Gleiwitz Case
Movie • 1961
Volksschullehrer
Die Rosenholzmöbel
Movie • 1969
Duponchel
Ware für Katalonien
Movie • 1959
Portier
Scheusal
Movie • 1992
Alfons Pfeiffer
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
Movie • 1978
Älterer Herr mit Hund
Die Schöne und das Tier
Movie • 1984
Alter
In aller Freundschaft
TV • 1998
Herr Kagel
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Herr Wolf
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Herr Breit
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Der letzte Zeuge
TV • 1998
Karl Waller
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
TV • 1996
Neighbor
Die Lange Strasse
TV • 1979
ein Arzt
The Green Monster
TV • 1962
Dr. Luis Guerra
Auf eigene Gefahr
TV • 1993
Schreiner
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Alfons Seebacher
Motzki
TV • 1993
Birne
Barfuß ins Bett
TV • 1988
Opa Jonny
Immenhof
TV • 1994
Wilhelm
Geheimkommando Ciupaga
TV • 1968
Hauptmann Garzel
Polizeiruf 110
TV • 1971
Otto Masurke
A Stortebeker Girl
TV • 1980
Opa Warning
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
TV • 1965
Matthes Horka
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
TV • 1965
Opa Schütz
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
TV • 1965
Sanitätsrat
The German Bronx
TV • 1997
Pfarrer Müller