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
Birthday: 1910-02-27
Place of Birth: Nuremberg, Germany
Also Known As: Wolfgang Price, Вольфганг Прайсс

Movies List of Wolfgang Preiss

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The Great Love

1942 Movie
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The Train

1964 Movie
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Is Paris Burning?

1966 Movie
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Von Ryan's Express

1965 Movie
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The Formula

1980 Movie
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Hannibal Brooks

1969 Movie
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Dr. M

1990 Movie
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The Fifth Cord

1971 Movie
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The Master Touch

1972 Movie
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Lafayette

1962 Movie
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To Skin a Spy

1966 Movie
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Raid on Rommel

1971 Movie
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Jack of Diamonds

1967 Movie
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Ghost of Love

1981 Movie
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Canaris

1954 Movie
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Die Kriegsbraut

1974 Movie
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Von der Liebe besiegt

1956 Movie
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Johannisnacht

1956 Movie
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Grabenplatz 17

1958 Movie
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The Mad Executioners

1963 Movie
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The Standard

1977 Movie
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Stresemann

1957 Movie
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Forget Mozart

1985 Movie
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Dead Run

1967 Movie
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Anzio

1968 Movie
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Before Sundown

1956 Movie
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Playgirl 70

1969 Movie
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The Longest Day

1962 Movie
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The Black Cobra

1963 Movie
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Die Insel der Krebse

1975 Movie
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Falschmünzer am Werk

1951 Movie
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Schinderhannes

1957 Movie
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Leb wohl, mein Traum

1963 Movie
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Hürdenlauf

1969 Movie
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Die erste Legion

1964 Movie
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Oberarzt Dr. Solm

1955 Movie
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Prisoner of the Volga

1959 Movie
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Ich war ihm hörig

1958 Movie
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Sir Henri Deterding

1970 Movie
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Tamara

1968 Movie
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100 Horsemen

1964 Movie
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Diamantenparty

1973 Movie
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Der Banditendoktor

1957 Movie
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Eine ungeliebte Frau

1974 Movie
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Ike

1979 Movie
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Lang soll er leben

1987 Movie
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X-Ray of a Killer

1965 Movie
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The Second Victory

1987 Movie
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Peenemünde

1970 Movie
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The Crew of the Dora

1943 Movie
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Der Cornet

1955 Movie
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Wallenstein

1978 Movie
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Riviera-Story

1961 Movie
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A Bridge Too Far

1977 Movie
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The Boys from Brazil

1978 Movie
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Eurydice

1957 Movie
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Bloodline

1979 Movie
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Das tödliche Patent

1963 Movie
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Straße der Gerechten

1959 Movie
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The Big Delirium

1975 Movie
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Der Fall Petkov

1968 Movie
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Das Haus Lunjowo

1970 Movie
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Gorilla's Waltz

1959 Movie
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Samba

1966 Movie
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Liebe, Love, l'Amour

1969 Movie
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Die Anstalt

1978 Movie
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Backfire

1964 Movie
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Wo liegt Jena?

1967 Movie
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Death on a Rainy Day

1967 Movie
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The Cardinal

1963 Movie
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Konto ausgeglichen

1959 Movie
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Open Air

1996 Movie