Werner Dissel

Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra. After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions. He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986. Source: Article "Werner Dissel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For: Acting

Born: Köln, Germany, 1912-08-26

Died: 2003-01-22

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	The Captain from Cologne		68
2	1958	Les Misérables	Brevet (uncredited)	72
3	1958	Ein Mädchen von 16 ½	Rohn	0
4	1958	Der Prozeß wird vertagt		50
5	1959	Ware für Katalonien	Portier	50
6	1959	Before lightning strikes	Silvio O. Schmitt	0
7	1959	Verwirrung der Liebe	Taxifahrer	42
8	1960	The Opportunists	Fario	50
9	1961	Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot	Meteorologe	0
10	1961	Der Fremde		0
11	1961	The Gleiwitz Case	Volksschullehrer	66
12	1962	Ärzte		0
13	1962	Rotkäppchen	Wolf	48
14	1962	Entdeckung des Julian Böll		0
15	1963	Naked Among Wolves	Otto Lange	64
16	1963	Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes	Herr Merker	50
17	1964	Pension Boulanka	Dr. Vollmer	52
18	1965	As Long as There’s Life in Me	Bethmann-Hollweg	100
19	1965	Just Don't Think I'll Cry	Mantek	72
20	1966	Die Tage der Commune	Delegierter	0
21	1966	Lebende Ware	Erno Brody	70
22	1966	Black Panthers	Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann	0
23	1966	Zejście do piekła	Rudolf Knoll	0
24	1967	Geschichten jener Nacht	Kilian (segment "Materna")	50
25	1968	Heroin	Zollrat Donkenberg	57
26	1968	Liberation: The Fire Bulge	Alfred Jodl	74
27	1969	Die Rosenholzmöbel	Duponchel	0
28	1970	Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow	Alfred Jodl	60
29	1971	Pułapka	Runge	30
30	1971	Optimistische Tragödie		0
31	1974	Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui	Butcher	0
32	1974	Ulzana	Mexikanischer Arzt	48
33	1974	Johannes Kepler	Richter	0
34	1975	Am Ende der Welt	Amtsdiener Göpel	0
35	1975	Till Eulenspiegel	Scholastischer Professor	60
36	1975	Man against Man	Angler	70
37	1976	Jede Woche Hochzeitstag	Otto Haubold	0
38	1976	Beethoven – Tage aus einem Leben	Grisslinger	50
39	1978	Jörg Ratgeb, Painter		0
40	1978	Ein Sonntagskind, das manchmal spinnt	Älterer Herr mit Hund	35
41	1979	Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell	Schiffsarzt	0
42	1981	Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth	Gundelsheimer	0
43	1981	Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth		0
44	1984	Zeitzünder	Dr. Engelberger	0
45	1984	Die Schöne und das Tier	Alter	0
46	1986	Ernst Thälmann	Emil Kirdorf	0
47	1986	Das wirkliche Blau		0
48	1986	Der Traum vom Elch	Paulchen	20
49	1987	Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...	Invalide	57
50	1987	Kindheit	Lehrer	60
51	1988	Nachts schlafen die Ratten		60
52	1988	Fallada: The Last Chapter	Doktor	50
53	1989	Späte Ankunft	Kutscher Pankoke	0
54	1989	Coming Out	Älterer Homosexueller Walter	65
55	1989	Der Magdalenenbaum	Opa Panse	0
56	1990	The Architects	Alter	68
57	1990	Albert Einstein	Max Planck	0
58	1991	Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse	Hinkelmann	0
59	1991	Unser Haus	Dr.Olbert	0
60	1992	Everything's a Lie	Notary	43
61	1992	Scheusal	Alfons Pfeiffer	0
62	1992	Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers		30
63	1992	Verlorene Landschaft		60
64	1992	Andy	Grandfather	0
65	1999	Picknick im Schnee	Mann mit Decke	50
66	2000	Anatomy	Paulas Großvater	61

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1962	The Green Monster	Dr. Luis Guerra	0
2	1965	Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort	Matthes Horka	10
3	1965	Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort	Opa Schütz	10
4	1965	Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort	Sanitätsrat	10
5	1968	Geheimkommando Ciupaga	Hauptmann Garzel	0
6	1971	Polizeiruf 110	Herr Wolf	64
7	1971	Polizeiruf 110	Herr Breit	64
8	1971	Polizeiruf 110		64
9	1971	Polizeiruf 110	Alfons Seebacher	64
10	1971	Polizeiruf 110	Otto Masurke	64
11	1979	Die Lange Strasse	ein Arzt	0
12	1980	A Stortebeker Girl	Opa Warning	0
13	1988	Barfuß ins Bett	Opa Jonny	0
14	1993	Motzki	Birne	0
15	1993	Auf eigene Gefahr	Schreiner	30
16	1994	Immenhof	Wilhelm	70
17	1996	Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police	Neighbor	65
18	1997	The German Bronx	Pfarrer Müller	0
19	1998	Der letzte Zeuge	Karl Waller	52
20	1998	In aller Freundschaft	Herr Kagel	60

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