Norbert Weisser
Acting • Born 1946-07-09
Biography
Norbert Weisser (born July 9, 1946) is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun-directed movies (15 and counting). Weisser is a founding member of the Odyssey Theater and the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, where he developed the role of Trickster in Murray Mednick's epic seven-hour The Coyote Cycle. He has played roles in theaters throughout Europe and the US, including Broadway, where he played Rode opposite Ed Harris in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Most recently he played Oskar in John O'Keefe's Times Like These in San Francisco, Albany, New York and Los Angeles, where he received an Ovation Award, an LA Weekly Theater Award and an LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for his performance. Weisser has directed plays at the Magic Theater in San Francisco and at the Mark Taper Forum's New Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles. Recently he produced two Albert Pyun films, Infection and Cool Air. He is the father of fellow actor Morgan Weisser, who starred in both movies. Weisser's television credits include: Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight, Riders of the Purple Sage, My Antonia, From the Earth to the Moon, Alias, The Agency, NCIS, ER, and Ghost Whisperer.
Filmography
70 credits
Schindler's List
Movie • 1993
Albert Hujar
Hocus Pocus
Movie • 1993
Thackery's Father
¡Three Amigos!
Movie • 1986
German's Friend
Angels & Demons
Movie • 2009
CERN Scientist
Captain America
Movie • 1990
Alaskan Surveyor
Nemesis 4: Death Angel
Movie • 1996
Tokuda
Infection
Movie • 2005
Dr. Franks / Deputy Ben
Around the Bend
Movie • 2004
Walter
Chaplin
Movie • 1992
German Diplomat
Android
Movie • 1982
Keller
Radioactive Dreams
Movie • 1986
Sternwood
Omega Doom
Movie • 1996
The Head
Adrenalin: Fear the Rush
Movie • 1996
Cuzo
Down Twisted
Movie • 1987
Alsandro Deltoid
Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
Movie • 1996
Edson
Cool Air
Movie • 2006
Deltoid
Keefer
Movie • 1978
Vorst
Sweet Lies
Movie • 1987
Bill
Heatseeker
Movie • 1995
Tsui Tung
She's in Portland
Movie • 2020
Riders of the Purple Sage
Movie • 1996
Deacon Tull
Crazy Six
Movie • 1997
Jerzy
Seeds of Tragedy
Movie • 1991
Gunter
Keeping Secrets
Movie • 1991
Photographer
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Movie • 1983
Soldier No. 1
The Radicals
Movie • 1989
Michael Sattler
Sorcerers
Movie • 1998
Lord Manor
Deceit
Movie • 1992
Bailey / Farnsworth III
The Rocketeer
Movie • 1991
Zeppelin Pilot
The Secret of the Ice Cave
Movie • 1989
Dr. Victor Talbot
Blast
Movie • 1997
Commando Rescuer
Walker
Movie • 1987
Prange
Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies
Movie • 2023
Self
Stark
Movie • 1985
Powell
In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
Movie • 1992
John Singer
Bad Bizness
Movie • 2003
Stephens
Midnight Cabaret
Movie • 1990
Tony
Pollock
Movie • 2000
Hans Namuth
The Killers Within
Movie • 1995
Bernhard Hiller
The Incident
Movie • 1990
Riefenstahl
Beggarman, Thief
Movie • 1979
Egon Hubisch
Arcade
Movie • 1993
Albert
The Thing
Movie • 1982
Norwegian
The Road to Wellville
Movie • 1994
Dr. Spitzvogel
Midnight Express
Movie • 1978
Erich
My Antonia
Movie • 1995
Otto
From Hollywood to Deadwood
Movie • 1989
Peter Mueller
Ticker
Movie • 2001
Dugger
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Movie • 1994
KLM Mechanic
The Deadly Triangle
Movie • 1977
Ernst Haag
Road to Hell
Movie • 2008
Interrogator Farnsworth
Dark Secrets: Game of Death Chapter 2
Movie • 2025
Anthony Wagner
Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
Movie • 2024
Helicopter Pilot(voice)
Ghost Whisperer
TV • 2005
Patrick Roth
Brimstone
TV • 1998
Martin Benedict
Alias
TV • 2001
Jeroen Schiller
Knight Rider
TV • 1982
Fredo Lureni
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Tales of the Gold Monkey
TV • 1982
Mancuso, F.B.I.
TV • 1989
Hunter
TV • 1984
Craig Borson
ER
TV • 1994
Dr. Adler
Gemini Division
TV • 2008
Breaking Bad
TV • 2008
Peter Schuler
Masquerade
TV • 1983
Lohmann
From the Earth to the Moon
TV • 1998
Wernher Von Braun
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
TV • 1994
Farfegnuton (voice)
Better Call Saul
TV • 2015
Peter Schuler
Northern Exposure
TV • 1990
Reinhart
The Agency
TV • 2001
Konrad