
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