Wolfgang Preiss
120 movies · 29 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 27, 1910
- Died
- Nov 27, 2002 (age 92)
- Place of birth
- Nuremberg, Germany
- Also known as
- Wolfgang Price · Вольфганг Прайсс
Biography
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Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 at Nuremberg - 27 November 2002 at Baden-Baden) was a German theatre, film and television actor.
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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.
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Wolfgang Preiss: movies and TV shows
Acting (149)
- 2018 Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
- 1996
- 1994
- 1991
- 1990 Dr. M
as Kessler
- 1989 Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
as Bernauer
- 1989 Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
as Earl of Wereford
- 1988
- 1988
- 1987 Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
as Earl of Wereford
- 1987 The Second Victory
as Father Albertus
- 1987
- 1987 Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
as Earl of Wereford
- 1986
- 1985 Forget Mozart
as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
- 1985
- 1984 Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
as Earl of Wereford
- 1984 Ein Mann namens Parvus
as Brockdorff-Rantzau
- 1984 Die Dame und die Unterwelt
as Berthold Kampe
- 1983
- 1982 Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
as Earl of Wereford
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981
- 1981 Ghost of Love
as Zighi
- 1980
- 1980 The Formula
as Franz Tauber
- 1979
- 1979 Bloodline
as Julius Prager
- 1979 Ike
as FM Alfred Jodl
- 1979
- 1978
- 1978 Die Anstalt
as Dr. Reinecke
- 1978 The Boys from Brazil
as Lofquist
- 1978
- 1977 The Standard
as Oberst
- 1977 A Bridge Too Far
as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
- 1976
- 1976
- 1975 Die Insel der Krebse
as General
- 1975
- 1975 The Big Delirium
as Artmann
- 1974
- 1974 Die Kriegsbraut
as von Bogendorf
- 1974
- 1973
- 1973 Diamantenparty
as Konsul Eduard van Düren
- 1973
- 1972 The Master Touch
as Miller
- 1972 The Salzburg Connection
as Felix Zauner
- 1972
- 1971 The Bloodstained Butterfly
as The Prosecutor
- 1971 The Fifth Cord
as Police inspector
- 1971 Raid on Rommel
as Gen. Erwin Rommel
- 1970 Der Minister und die Ente
as Minister
- 1970
- 1970 Sir Henri Deterding
as Sir Henri Deterding
- 1970 General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
as Generalmajor Oster
- 1970 Peenemünde
as Oberst Dornberger
- 1970 Das Haus Lunjowo
as Generalmajor Lattmann
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969 Battle of the Commandos
as Colonel Ackerman
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969 Hürdenlauf
as Exzellenz Lohmüller
- 1969 Hannibal Brooks
as Col. von Haller
- 1969
- 1968
- 1968 Anzio
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
- 1968 Meinungsverschiedenheiten
as Anthony Wilcox
- 1968 Der Fall Petkov
as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
- 1968 Tamara
as Father Bricks
- 1968
- 1968 Flachsmann als Erzieher
as Flachsmann
- 1967 Jack of Diamonds
as Wilhelm Von Schenk
- 1967 Death on a Rainy Day
as Dr. Angus Cromwell
- 1967 Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
as Sebastian (BND chief)
- 1967 Dead Run
as Noland
- 1967 Wo liegt Jena?
as Robert
- 1967 Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
as Leiter der Mordkommission
- 1966 Is Paris Burning?
as Capitaine Ebernach
- 1966
- 1966 To Skin a Spy
as Chalieff
- 1966 Das Leben in meiner Hand
as Minister
- 1966 Samba
as Parisius
- 1966 Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
as Kapitän Behrens
- 1965 The Spy Who Went Into Hell
as Captain Parker
- 1965 Von Ryan's Express
as Maj. Von Klemment
- 1965
- 1964 100 Horsemen
as Sheik Abengalbon
- 1964 The Train
as Maj. Herren
- 1964 The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Mabuse
- 1964 Backfire
as Grenner
- 1964 Die erste Legion
as Dr. Peter Morell
- 1964 Frühstück mit dem Tod
as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
- 1964 Cave of the Living Dead
as Prof. von Adelsberg
- 1963
- 1963 The Mad Executioners
as Morel Smith
- 1963 Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
as Geist von Dr. Mabuse
- 1963 Das tödliche Patent
as Charles Reese
- 1963
- 1963 The Black Cobra
as Stanislas Raskin
- 1963 Leb wohl, mein Traum
as James Merrill
- 1963
- 1962 The Longest Day
as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
- 1962 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Mabuse
- 1962 The Counterfeit Traitor
as Colonel Nordoff
- 1962 The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
- 1962 Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
as Staatsanwalt Soldan
- 1962 Lafayette
as Baron Kalb
- 1961 Riviera-Story
as Arthur Dahlberg
- 1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse
as Dr. Mabuse
- 1961 Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
as Günther Brandt
- 1960 The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
as Prof. Jordan / Peter Cornelius / Dr. Mabuse
- 1960 Mill of the Stone Women
as Doctor Loren Bolem
- 1960 Mistress of the World - Part II
as Brandes
- 1960 Mistress of the World - Part I
as Dr. Henrik Brandes
- 1960 Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
as Dr. Beck
- 1959 Roses for the Prosecutor
as Generalstaatsanwalt
- 1959 Doctor Without Scruples
as Dr. Westorp
- 1959 Konto ausgeglichen
as Robert Jacobi
- 1959 Gorilla's Waltz
as Otto Lohn
- 1959 Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
as Major Linkmann
- 1959 Prisoner of the Volga
as General Gorew
- 1959 Straße der Gerechten
as Joseph Blake
- 1958 The Girl with the Cat Eyes
as Carlo Gormann
- 1958 Grabenplatz 17
as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
- 1958 The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
as Oberstabsarzt Munkler
- 1958 The Italians They Are Crazy
as Hans
- 1958 Ich war ihm hörig
as Dr. Leipold
- 1957 Eurydice
as Dulac
- 1957 Der Banditendoktor
as Amerikaner
- 1957 Sharks and Little Fish
as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
- 1957 Schinderhannes
as Gendarm Adam
- 1957 Stresemann
as Heinz Becker
- 1956 Von der Liebe besiegt
as Mario Clar
- 1956 Johannisnacht
as Mac Fadden
- 1956 Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
as Ein Journalist
- 1956 Like Once Lili Marleen
as Alfred Linder
- 1956 Before Sundown
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
- 1955 Der Cornet
as Freiherr von Pirovano
- 1955 The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
- 1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm
as Dr. Hartung
- 1954 Canaris
as Oberst Holl
- 1951
- 1951
- 1943 The Crew of the Dora
as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
- 1942 The Great Love
as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
Behind the camera (1)
- 2025
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 1974 Die Montagsmaler
1 episode
- 1971 Dalli Dalli
1 episode
- 1964 Einer wird gewinnen
1 episode
- 1963 Zwischenmahlzeit
1 episode
- 1951 German Film Award
2 episodes