Wolfgang Preiss
1910-02-27 ( 115 years old ) in Nuremberg, Germany

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.

Movies

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse 2018-08-30
Open Air 1996-01-01
Dr. M 1990-05-24
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne 1989-04-27
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo 1989-02-22
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau 1987-12-12
The Second Victory 1987-06-04
Lang soll er leben 1987-02-08
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry 1987-02-02
Forget Mozart 1985-09-12
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce 1984-12-25
Ein Mann namens Parvus 1984-04-10
Die Dame und die Unterwelt 1984-02-01
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior 1982-12-29
Ghost of Love 1981-04-03
The Formula 1980-12-19
Bloodline 1979-06-29
Ike 1979-05-03
Die Anstalt 1978-10-27
The Boys from Brazil 1978-10-05
The Standard 1977-11-25
A Bridge Too Far 1977-06-15
Die Insel der Krebse 1975-11-11
The Big Delirium 1975-04-30
Die Kriegsbraut 1974-11-02
Eine ungeliebte Frau 1974-01-05
Diamantenparty 1973-06-10
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris 1973-03-23
The Master Touch 1972-12-08
The Salzburg Connection 1972-08-30
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen 1972-08-11
The Bloodstained Butterfly 1971-09-10
The Fifth Cord 1971-08-17
Raid on Rommel 1971-02-12
Der Minister und die Ente 1970-12-31
Sir Henri Deterding 1970-09-03
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? 1970-08-27
Peenemünde 1970-08-11
Das Haus Lunjowo 1970-01-29
Playgirl 70 1969-11-27
Battle of the Commandos 1969-08-12
Liebe, Love, l'Amour 1969-03-11
Hürdenlauf 1969-02-20
Hannibal Brooks 1969-01-18
Anzio 1968-07-24
Meinungsverschiedenheiten 1968-04-23
Der Fall Petkov 1968-02-23
Tamara 1968-01-25
Flachsmann als Erzieher 1968-01-14
Jack of Diamonds 1967-11-10
Death on a Rainy Day 1967-09-29
Spy Today, Die Tomorrow 1967-08-11
Dead Run 1967-08-10
Wo liegt Jena? 1967-06-16
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand 1967-03-29
Is Paris Burning? 1966-10-26
To Skin a Spy 1966-08-24
Das Leben in meiner Hand 1966-06-13
Samba 1966-05-09
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord 1966-02-04
The Spy Who Went Into Hell 1965-08-13
Von Ryan's Express 1965-06-23
X-Ray of a Killer 1965-03-31
100 Horsemen 1964-12-30
The Train 1964-09-24
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse 1964-09-17
Backfire 1964-09-04
Die erste Legion 1964-08-27
Frühstück mit dem Tod 1964-06-05
Cave of the Living Dead 1964-04-09
The Cardinal 1963-12-12
The Mad Executioners 1963-11-22
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard 1963-09-20
Das tödliche Patent 1963-07-17
The Black Cobra 1963-05-16
Leb wohl, mein Traum 1963-04-05
The Longest Day 1962-09-25
The Terror of Doctor Mabuse 1962-09-06
The Counterfeit Traitor 1962-04-17
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse 1962-03-30
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt 1962-03-08
Lafayette 1962-02-16
Riviera-Story 1961-12-07
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old 1961-01-27
The Return of Dr. Mabuse 1961-01-01
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse 1960-09-13
Mill of the Stone Women 1960-08-30
Mistress of the World - Part II 1960-04-26
Mistress of the World - Part I 1960-04-14
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen 1960-02-25
Roses for the Prosecutor 1959-09-24
Doctor Without Scruples 1959-09-04
Konto ausgeglichen 1959-07-25
Gorilla's Waltz 1959-05-01
Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? 1959-04-07
Prisoner of the Volga 1959-03-26
Straße der Gerechten 1959-03-19
The Girl with the Cat Eyes 1958-11-28
Grabenplatz 17 1958-07-16
The Green Devils of Monte Cassino 1958-04-23
The Italians They Are Crazy 1958-04-05
Ich war ihm hörig 1958-04-01
Eurydice 1957-11-26
Der Banditendoktor 1957-11-19
Sharks and Little Fish 1957-09-26
Schinderhannes 1957-01-13
Stresemann 1957-01-11
Von der Liebe besiegt 1956-12-20
Johannisnacht 1956-10-29
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter 1956-09-26
Like Once Lili Marleen 1956-09-20
Before Sundown 1956-07-06
Der Cornet 1955-12-16
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler 1955-06-21
Oberarzt Dr. Solm 1955-03-17
Canaris 1954-12-29
Falschmünzer am Werk 1951-03-01
The Crew of the Dora 1943-11-01
The Great Love 1942-06-12

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