Wolfgang Preiss

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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.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1910-02-27
  • event Death Date 2002-11-27
  • school Known for: Acting
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  • info Birth Place Nuremberg, Germany
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Wolfgang Preiss

6.6

The Great Love

1942-06-12

7.5

The Train

1964-09-24

5.7

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse

1962-09-06

7.2

Is Paris Burning?

1966-10-26

7.1

Von Ryan's Express

1965-06-23

5.5

The Formula

1980-12-19

6.4

Hannibal Brooks

1969-01-18

4.9

Cave of the Living Dead

1964-04-09

2

Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen

1972-08-11

4.7

Dr. M

1990-05-24

6.6

The Fifth Cord

1971-08-17

6.5

The Counterfeit Traitor

1962-04-17

6

Mill of the Stone Women

1960-08-30

5.6

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen

1960-02-25

7.2

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

1959-04-07

5.6

The Master Touch

1972-12-08

5

Lafayette

1962-02-16

6.9

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960-09-13

6.3

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

1961-01-01

6.5

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

1962-03-30

5.7

To Skin a Spy

1966-08-24

5.7

Raid on Rommel

1971-02-12

5

Sharks and Little Fish

1957-09-26

6.9

Roses for the Prosecutor

1959-09-24

6.8

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

1967-08-11

4.2

Jack of Diamonds

1967-11-10

7.1

Ghost of Love

1981-04-03

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Die Dame und die Unterwelt

1984-02-01

6.2

Canaris

1954-12-29

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Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo

1989-02-22

5.3

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter

1956-09-26

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Die Kriegsbraut

1974-11-02

4

Von der Liebe besiegt

1956-12-20

5.8

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

1955-06-21

4

Johannisnacht

1956-10-29

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Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior

1982-12-29

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Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry

1987-02-02

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Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau

1987-12-12

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Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce

1984-12-25

8

Grabenplatz 17

1958-07-16

5.2

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino

1958-04-23

6

The Mad Executioners

1963-11-22

6.2

Mistress of the World - Part I

1960-04-14

6.4

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard

1963-09-20

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The Standard

1977-11-25

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Stresemann

1957-01-11

4.8

Forget Mozart

1985-09-12

5.2

Dead Run

1967-08-10

5.8

Anzio

1968-07-24

5.3

Battle of the Commandos

1969-08-12

6.3

Before Sundown

1956-07-06

1

Playgirl 70

1969-11-27

7.6

The Longest Day

1962-09-25

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Doctor Without Scruples

1959-09-04

8

The Black Cobra

1963-05-16

6

Frühstück mit dem Tod

1964-06-05

0

Flachsmann als Erzieher

1968-01-14

8

Die Insel der Krebse

1975-11-11

6

Falschmünzer am Werk

1951-03-01

6

The Spy Who Went Into Hell

1965-08-13

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General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?

1970-08-27

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Schinderhannes

1957-01-13

0

Leb wohl, mein Traum

1963-04-05

0

Hürdenlauf

1969-02-20

4

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

1962-03-08

0

Die erste Legion

1964-08-27

4.5

Oberarzt Dr. Solm

1955-03-17

5

Like Once Lili Marleen

1956-09-20

5.3

Prisoner of the Volga

1959-03-26

0

The Girl with the Cat Eyes

1958-11-28

0

Ich war ihm hörig

1958-04-01

0

Sir Henri Deterding

1970-09-03

0

Tamara

1968-01-25

6.6

100 Horsemen

1964-12-30

0

Meinungsverschiedenheiten

1968-04-23

0

Diamantenparty

1973-06-10

6

Ein Mann namens Parvus

1984-04-10

0

Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris

1973-03-23

4

Der Banditendoktor

1957-11-19

5

Eine ungeliebte Frau

1974-01-05

0

Der Minister und die Ente

1970-12-31

0

The Italians They Are Crazy

1958-04-05

6.2

Ike

1979-05-03

0

Lang soll er leben

1987-02-08

0

X-Ray of a Killer

1965-03-31

7

The Second Victory

1987-06-04

5.8

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

1964-09-17

0

Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord

1966-02-04

5

Mistress of the World - Part II

1960-04-26

0

Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old

1961-01-27

0

Das Leben in meiner Hand

1966-06-13

0

Peenemünde

1970-08-11

6.3

The Crew of the Dora

1943-11-01

9

Der Cornet

1955-12-16

0

Land der Väter, Land der Söhne

1989-04-27

0

Wallenstein

1978-11-19

2

Riviera-Story

1961-12-07

0

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand

1967-03-29

7.3

A Bridge Too Far

1977-06-15

6.1

The Bloodstained Butterfly

1971-09-10

6.7

The Boys from Brazil

1978-10-05

0

Eurydice

1957-11-26

4.8

Bloodline

1979-06-29

5.7

The Salzburg Connection

1972-08-30

4

Das tödliche Patent

1963-07-17

0

Straße der Gerechten

1959-03-19

2

The Big Delirium

1975-04-30

0

Der Fall Petkov

1968-02-23

0

Das Haus Lunjowo

1970-01-29

2.5

Gorilla's Waltz

1959-10-07

0

Samba

1966-05-09

0

Liebe, Love, l'Amour

1969-03-11

0

Die Anstalt

1978-10-27

5.9

Backfire

1964-09-04

0

Wo liegt Jena?

1967-06-16

5

Death on a Rainy Day

1967-09-29

6.5

The Cardinal

1963-12-12

6.9

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse

2018-08-30

5

Konto ausgeglichen

1959-07-25

6

Open Air

1996-01-01

7.2

The Rat Patrol

1966-09-12

0

Unheimliche Geschichten

1982-04-05

7.3

The Winds of War

1983-02-06

8.5

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963-04-04

6.2

Scene of the Crime

1970-11-29

0

Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse

1979-09-25

8

Die fünfte Kolonne

1963-06-06

0

Die Männer vom K3

1988-09-24

0

Hungária kávéház

1976-09-06

0

Ein Heim für Tiere

1985-01-23

0

Ein heikler Fall

1986-06-05

5.3

A Case For Two

1981-09-11

0

Eurogang

1975-09-24

10

Ringstraßenpalais

1980-12-25

0

Florian III

1994-01-01

0

Der Anwalt

1976-04-01

0

Gestern gelesen

1969-06-06

0

Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich

1991-02-17

5.8

SOKO 5113

1978-01-02

8

War and Remembrance

1988-11-13

7

Wallenstein

1978-11-19

6.2

Scene of the Crime

1970-11-29

0

Familie Mack verändert sich

1969-10-12

0

Die Montagsmaler

1974-01-14

6.2

Scene of the Crime

1970-11-29

0

Okay S.I.R.

1973-10-26

6.5

La Cloche tibétaine

1974-12-17

7.5

Der Kommissar

1969-01-03

7

Ein Mann namens Harry Brent

1968-01-15

8

Dalli Dalli

1971-05-13

7

Einer wird gewinnen

1964-01-25

0

Die Schraiers

1982-04-07

6

Deutscher Filmpreis

1951-01-01

0

Schatzsucher unserer Tage

1968-09-30

7

Zwischenmahlzeit

1963-11-27