Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Nuremberg, Germany, 1910-02-27

Died: 2002-11-27

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1942	The Great Love	Oberleutnant von Etzdorf	66
2	1943	The Crew of the Dora	Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner	63
3	1951	Falschmünzer am Werk		60
4	1954	Canaris	Oberst Holl	65
5	1955	Oberarzt Dr. Solm	Dr. Hartung	45
6	1955	The Plot to Assassinate Hitler	Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg	58
7	1955	Der Cornet	Freiherr von Pirovano	90
8	1956	Before Sundown	Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke	63
9	1956	Like Once Lili Marleen	Alfred Linder	50
10	1956	Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter	Ein Journalist	53
11	1956	Johannisnacht	Mac Fadden	40
12	1956	Von der Liebe besiegt	Mario Clar	40
13	1957	Stresemann	Heinz Becker	0
14	1957	Schinderhannes	Gendarm Adam	0
15	1957	Sharks and Little Fish	U-Bootkommandant Lüttke	50
16	1957	Der Banditendoktor	Amerikaner	40
17	1957	Eurydice	Dulac	0
18	1958	Ich war ihm hörig	Dr. Leipold	0
19	1958	The Italians They Are Crazy	Hans	0
20	1958	The Green Devils of Monte Cassino	Oberstabsarzt Munkler	52
21	1958	Grabenplatz 17	Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger	80
22	1958	The Girl with the Cat Eyes	Carlo Gormann	0
23	1959	Straße der Gerechten	Joseph Blake	0
24	1959	Prisoner of the Volga	General Gorew	53
25	1959	Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?	Major Linkmann	71
26	1959	Gorilla's Waltz	Otto Lohn	25
27	1959	Konto ausgeglichen	Robert Jacobi	50
28	1959	Doctor Without Scruples	Dr. Westorp	0
29	1959	Roses for the Prosecutor	Generalstaatsanwalt	69
30	1960	Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen	Dr. Beck	55
31	1960	Mistress of the World - Part I	Dr. Henrik Brandes	62
32	1960	Mistress of the World - Part II	Brandes	50
33	1960	Mill of the Stone Women	Doctor Loren Bolem	61
34	1960	The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse	Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse	68
35	1961	The Return of Dr. Mabuse	Dr. Mabuse	61
36	1961	Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old	Günther Brandt	0
37	1961	Riviera-Story	Arthur Dahlberg	20
38	1962	Lafayette	Baron Kalb	52
39	1962	Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt	Staatsanwalt Soldan	40
40	1962	The Invisible Dr. Mabuse	Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse	65
41	1962	The Counterfeit Traitor	Colonel Nordoff	65
42	1962	The Terror of Doctor Mabuse	Dr. Mabuse	57
43	1962	The Longest Day	Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel	76
44	1963	Leb wohl, mein Traum	James Merrill	0
45	1963	The Black Cobra	Stanislas Raskin	80
46	1963	Das tödliche Patent	Charles Reese	40
47	1963	Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard	Geist von Dr. Mabuse	64
48	1963	The Mad Executioners	Morel Smith	62
49	1963	The Cardinal		65
50	1964	Cave of the Living Dead	Prof. von Adelsberg	49
51	1964	Frühstück mit dem Tod	Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot	60
52	1964	Die erste Legion	Dr. Peter Morell	0
53	1964	Backfire	Grenner	64
54	1964	The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse	Dr. Mabuse	58
55	1964	The Train	Maj. Herren	75
56	1964	100 Horsemen	Sheik Abengalbon	66
57	1965	X-Ray of a Killer		0
58	1965	Von Ryan's Express	Major Von Klemment	71
59	1965	The Spy Who Went Into Hell	Captain Parker	48
60	1966	Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord	Kapitän Behrens	0
61	1966	Samba	Parisius	0
62	1966	Das Leben in meiner Hand	Minister	0
63	1966	To Skin a Spy	Chalieff	57
64	1966	Is Paris Burning?	Capitaine Ebernach	72
65	1967	Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand	Leiter der Mordkommission	0
66	1967	Wo liegt Jena?	Robert	0
67	1967	Dead Run	Noland	52
68	1967	Spy Today, Die Tomorrow	Sebastian (BND chief)	68
69	1967	Death on a Rainy Day	Dr. Angus Cromwell	50
70	1967	Jack of Diamonds	Wilhelm Von Schenk	42
71	1968	Flachsmann als Erzieher	Flachsmann	0
72	1968	Tamara	Father Bricks	0
73	1968	Der Fall Petkov	Dr. Georgi Dimitrov	0
74	1968	Meinungsverschiedenheiten	Anthony Wilcox	0
75	1968	Anzio	Field Marshal Albert Kesselring	57
76	1969	Hannibal Brooks	Col. von Haller	64
77	1969	Hürdenlauf	Exzellenz Lohmüller	0
78	1969	Liebe, Love, l'Amour		0
79	1969	Battle of the Commandos	Colonel Ackerman	53
80	1969	Playgirl 70		10
81	1970	Das Haus Lunjowo	Generalmajor Lattmann	0
82	1970	Peenemünde	Oberst Dornberger	0
83	1970	General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?	Generalmajor Oster	0
84	1970	Sir Henri Deterding	Sir Henri Deterding	0
85	1970	Der Minister und die Ente	Minister	0
86	1971	Raid on Rommel	Gen. Erwin Rommel	58
87	1971	The Fifth Cord	Police inspector	66
88	1971	The Bloodstained Butterfly	The Prosecutor	62
89	1972	Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen		20
90	1972	The Salzburg Connection	Felix Zauner	57
91	1972	The Master Touch	Miller	57
92	1973	Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris	General	0
93	1973	Diamantenparty	Konsul Eduard van Düren	0
94	1974	Eine ungeliebte Frau		50
95	1974	Die Kriegsbraut	von Bogendorf	0
96	1975	The Big Delirium	Artmann	20
97	1975	Die Insel der Krebse	General	80
98	1977	A Bridge Too Far	Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt	72
99	1977	The Standard	Oberst	5
100	1978	The Boys from Brazil	Lofquist	67
101	1978	Die Anstalt	Dr. Reinecke	0
102	1979	Ike	FM Alfred Jodl	62
103	1979	Bloodline	Julius Prager	49
104	1980	The Formula	Franz Tauber	55
105	1981	Ghost of Love	Zighi	70
106	1982	Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior	Earl of Wereford	0
107	1984	Die Dame und die Unterwelt	Berthold Kampe	0
108	1984	Ein Mann namens Parvus	Brockdorff-Rantzau	60
109	1984	Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce	Earl of Wereford	0
110	1985	Forget Mozart	Baron Gottfried van Swieten	48
111	1987	Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry	Earl of Wereford	0
112	1987	Lang soll er leben		0
113	1987	The Second Victory	Father Albertus	63
114	1987	Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau	Earl of Wereford	0
115	1989	Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo	Earl of Wereford	0
116	1989	Land der Väter, Land der Söhne	Bernauer	0
117	1990	Dr. M	Kessler	47
118	1996	Open Air		60
119	2018	Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse	Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)	69

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
2	1963	Das Kriminalmuseum	Konrad Pachmayr	85
3	1963	Die fünfte Kolonne	Hauptmann Seewald	80
4	1963	Zwischenmahlzeit	Self	70
5	1964	Einer wird gewinnen	Self	70
6	1966	The Rat Patrol	General Von Helmreich	72
7	1968	Ein Mann namens Harry Brent	George Conway	70
8	1968	Schatzsucher unserer Tage	Jan van Dongen	0
9	1969	Der Kommissar	Direktor Abel	79
10	1969	Gestern gelesen	Staatsanwalt	0
11	1969	Familie Mack verändert sich	Robert Mack	0
12	1970	Scene of the Crime	Friedrich von Ribnitz	61
13	1970	Scene of the Crime	Cantz sr.	61
14	1970	Scene of the Crime	Stockinger	61
15	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self	80
16	1973	Okay S.I.R.	Forestié	0
17	1974	Die Montagsmaler	Self	0
18	1974	La Cloche tibétaine	Georges-Marie Haardt	65
19	1975	Eurogang	Frank Allen	0
20	1976	Der Anwalt	Richter	0
21	1976	Hungária kávéház		0
22	1978	SOKO München	Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg	55
23	1978	Wallenstein	Thurn	70
24	1979	Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse	Louis Tonard	0
25	1980	Ringstraßenpalais	General Prettwitz	100
26	1981	A Case For Two	Alfred Rohloff	52
27	1982	Unheimliche Geschichten		0
28	1982	Die Schraiers	Jean Schraier	0
29	1983	The Winds of War	Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch	73
30	1985	Ein Heim für Tiere	Prof. Alf Dobner	0
31	1986	Ein heikler Fall		0
32	1988	Die Männer vom K3	Bodo von Heysen	0
33	1988	War and Remembrance	Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch	79
34	1991	Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich		0
35	1994	Florian III	Max Friedmann	0

Wolfgang Preiss

Film

Television