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.
Movie | Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse | Dieter Gekeler (archive footage) | 2018-08-30 |
Series | Florian III | Max Friedmann | 1994-01-01 |
Series | Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich | 1991-02-17 | |
Movie | Dr. M | Kessler | 1990-05-24 |
Movie | Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo | Earl of Wereford | 1989-02-22 |
Movie | Land der Väter, Land der Söhne | Bernauer | 1989-04-27 |
Series | War and Remembrance | Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch | 1988-11-13 |
Series | Die Männer vom K3 | Bodo von Heysen | 1988-09-24 |
Movie | Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry | Earl of Wereford | 1987-02-02 |
Movie | Lang soll er leben | 1987-02-08 | |
Movie | Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau | Earl of Wereford | 1987-12-12 |
Movie | The Second Victory | Father Albertus | 1987-06-04 |
Series | Ein heikler Fall | Unknown | 1986-06-05 |
Series | Ein Heim für Tiere | Prof. Alf Dobner | 1985-01-23 |
Movie | Forget Mozart | Baron Gottfried van Swieten | 1985-09-12 |
Movie | Die Dame und die Unterwelt | Berthold Kampe | 1984-02-01 |
Movie | Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce | Earl of Wereford | 1984-12-25 |
Movie | Ein Mann namens Parvus | Brockdorff-Rantzau | 1984-04-10 |
Series | The Winds of War | Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch | 1983-02-06 |
Series | Die Schraiers | Jean Schraier | 1982-04-07 |
Movie | Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior | Earl of Wereford | 1982-12-29 |
Movie | Ghost of Love | Zighi | 1981-04-03 |
Series | A Case For Two | Alfred Rohloff | 1981-09-11 |
Movie | The Formula | Franz Tauber | 1980-12-19 |
Series | Ringstraßenpalais | General Prettwitz | 1980-12-25 |
Movie | Bloodline | Julius Prager | 1979-06-29 |
Movie | Ike | FM Alfred Jodl | 1979-05-03 |
Series | Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse | Louis Tonard | 1979-09-25 |
Movie | The Boys from Brazil | Lofquist | 1978-10-05 |
Series | SOKO 5113 | Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg | 1978-01-02 |
Movie | Wallenstein | Thurn | 1978-11-19 |
Movie | Die Anstalt | Dr. Reinecke | 1978-10-27 |
Movie | A Bridge Too Far | Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt | 1977-06-15 |
Movie | The Standard | Oberst | 1977-11-25 |
Series | Der Anwalt | Richter | 1976-04-01 |
Series | Hungária kávéház | Unknown | 1976-09-06 |
Movie | The Big Delirium | Artmann | 1975-04-30 |
Series | Eurogang | Frank Allen | 1975-09-24 |
Movie | Die Insel der Krebse | General | 1975-11-11 |
Movie | Eine ungeliebte Frau | 1974-01-05 | |
Series | Die Montagsmaler | Self | 1974-01-14 |
Movie | Die Kriegsbraut | von Bogendorf | 1974-11-02 |
Series | La Cloche tibétaine | Georges-Marie Haardt | 1974-12-17 |
Movie | Diamantenparty | Konsul Eduard van Düren | 1973-06-10 |
Movie | Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris | General | 1973-03-23 |
Series | Okay S.I.R. | Forestié | 1973-10-26 |
Movie | The Salzburg Connection | Felix Zauner | 1972-08-30 |
Movie | The Master Touch | Miller | 1972-12-08 |
Movie | Raid on Rommel | Gen. Erwin Rommel | 1971-02-12 |
Series | Dalli Dalli | Self | 1971-05-13 |
Movie | The Fifth Cord | Police inspector | 1971-08-17 |
Movie | The Bloodstained Butterfly | The Prosecutor | 1971-09-10 |
Movie | Das Haus Lunjowo | Generalmajor Lattmann | 1970-01-29 |
Movie | General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot? | Generalmajor Oster | 1970-08-27 |
Movie | Peenemünde | Oberst Dornberger | 1970-08-11 |
Movie | Sir Henri Deterding | Sir Henri Deterding | 1970-09-03 |
Series | Scene of the Crime | Stockinger | 1970-11-29 |
Movie | Der Minister und die Ente | Minister | 1970-12-31 |
Movie | Hürdenlauf | Exzellenz Lohmüller | 1969-02-20 |
Series | Der Kommissar | Direktor Abel | 1969-01-03 |
Movie | Liebe, Love, l'Amour | 1969-03-11 | |
Movie | Hannibal Brooks | Col. von Haller | 1969-01-18 |
Series | Gestern gelesen | Staatsanwalt | 1969-06-06 |
Series | Familie Mack verändert sich | Robert Mack | 1969-10-12 |
Movie | Playgirl 70 | 1969-11-27 | |
Movie | Battle of the Commandos | Colonel Ackerman | 1969-08-12 |
Series | Ein Mann namens Harry Brent | George Conway | 1968-01-15 |
Movie | Flachsmann als Erzieher | Flachsmann | 1968-01-14 |
Movie | Tamara | Father Bricks | 1968-01-25 |
Movie | Der Fall Petkov | Dr. Georgi Dimitrov | 1968-02-23 |
Movie | Meinungsverschiedenheiten | Anthony Wilcox | 1968-04-23 |
Movie | Anzio | Field Marshal Albert Kesselring | 1968-07-24 |
Movie | Wo liegt Jena? | Robert | 1967-06-16 |
Movie | Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand | Leiter der Mordkommission | 1967-03-29 |
Movie | Dead Run | Noland | 1967-08-10 |
Movie | Death on a Rainy Day | Dr. Angus Cromwell | 1967-09-29 |
Movie | Spy Today, Die Tomorrow | Sebastian (BND chief) | 1967-08-11 |
Movie | Jack of Diamonds | Wilhelm Von Schenk | 1967-11-10 |
Movie | Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord | Kapitän Behrens | 1966-02-04 |
Movie | Das Leben in meiner Hand | Minister | 1966-06-13 |
Movie | Samba | Parisius | 1966-05-09 |
Movie | To Skin a Spy | Chalieff | 1966-08-24 |
Series | The Rat Patrol | General Von Helmreich | 1966-09-12 |
Movie | Is Paris Burning? | Capitaine Ebernach | 1966-10-26 |
Movie | Von Ryan's Express | Major Von Klemment | 1965-06-23 |
Movie | The Spy Who Went Into Hell | Captain Parker | 1965-08-13 |
Movie | Frühstück mit dem Tod | Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot | 1964-06-04 |
Series | Einer wird gewinnen | Self | 1964-01-25 |
Movie | Die erste Legion | Dr. Peter Morell | 1964-08-27 |
Movie | Cave of the Living Dead | Prof. von Adelsberg | 1964-04-09 |
Movie | Backfire | Grenner | 1964-09-04 |
Movie | 100 Horsemen | Sheik Abengalbon | 1964-12-30 |
Movie | The Train | Maj. Herren | 1964-09-24 |
Movie | The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse | Dr. Mabuse | 1964-09-17 |
Movie | The Black Cobra | Stanislas Raskin | 1963-05-16 |
Movie | Leb wohl, mein Traum | James Merrill | 1963-04-05 |
Series | Das Kriminalmuseum | Konrad Pachmayr | 1963-04-04 |
Movie | Das tödliche Patent | Charles Reese | 1963-07-16 |
Series | Die fünfte Kolonne | Hauptmann Seewald | 1963-06-06 |
Movie | Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard | Geist von Dr. Mabuse | 1963-09-20 |
Series | Zwischenmahlzeit | himself | 1963-11-27 |
Movie | The Cardinal | 1963-12-12 | |
Movie | The Mad Executioners | Morel Smith | 1963-11-22 |
Movie | Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt | Staatsanwalt Soldan | 1962-03-08 |
Movie | Lafayette | Baron Kalb | 1962-02-16 |
Movie | The Invisible Dr. Mabuse | Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse | 1962-03-30 |
Movie | The Terror of Doctor Mabuse | Dr. Mabuse | 1962-09-06 |
Movie | The Counterfeit Traitor | Colonel Nordoff | 1962-04-17 |
Movie | The Longest Day | Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel | 1962-09-25 |
Movie | Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old | Günther Brandt | 1961-01-27 |
Movie | The Return of Dr. Mabuse | Dr. Mabuse | 1961-01-01 |
Movie | Riviera-Story | Arthur Dahlberg | 1961-12-07 |
Movie | Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen | Dr. Beck | 1960-02-25 |
Movie | Mistress of the World - Part II | Brandes | 1960-04-26 |
Movie | Mistress of the World - Part I | Dr. Henrik Brandes | 1960-04-14 |
Movie | Mill of the Stone Women | Doctor Loren Bolem | 1960-08-30 |
Movie | The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse | 1960-09-13 |
Movie | Prisoner of the Volga | General Gorew | 1959-03-26 |
Movie | Straße der Gerechten | Joseph Blake | 1959-03-19 |
Movie | Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? | Major Linkmann | 1959-04-07 |
Movie | Roses for the Prosecutor | Generalstaatsanwalt | 1959-09-24 |
Movie | Gorilla's Waltz | Otto Lohn | 1959-10-07 |
Movie | Konto ausgeglichen | Robert Jacobi | 1959-07-25 |
Movie | Doctor Without Scruples | Dr. Westorp | 1959-09-04 |
Movie | The Italians They Are Crazy | Hans | 1958-04-05 |
Movie | The Green Devils of Monte Cassino | Oberstabsarzt Munkler | 1958-04-23 |
Movie | Ich war ihm hörig | Dr. Leipold | 1958-04-01 |
Movie | Grabenplatz 17 | Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger | 1958-07-16 |
Movie | The Girl with the Cat Eyes | Carlo Gormann | 1958-11-28 |
Movie | Schinderhannes | Gendarm Adam | 1957-01-13 |
Movie | Stresemann | Heinz Becker | 1957-01-11 |
Movie | Sharks and Little Fish | U-Bootkommandant Lüttke | 1957-09-26 |
Movie | Der Banditendoktor | Amerikaner | 1957-11-19 |
Movie | Eurydice | Dulac | 1957-11-26 |
Movie | Like Once Lili Marleen | Alfred Linder | 1956-09-20 |
Movie | Before Sundown | Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke | 1956-07-06 |
Movie | Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter | Ein Journalist | 1956-09-26 |
Movie | Johannisnacht | Mac Fadden | 1956-10-29 |
Movie | Von der Liebe besiegt | Mario Clar | 1956-12-20 |
Movie | The Plot to Assassinate Hitler | Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg | 1955-06-21 |
Movie | Oberarzt Dr. Solm | Dr. Hartung | 1955-03-17 |
Movie | Der Cornet | Freiherr von Pirovano | 1955-12-16 |
Movie | Canaris | Oberst Holl | 1954-12-29 |
Series | Deutscher Filmpreis | Self | 1951-01-01 |
Movie | Falschmünzer am Werk | 1951-03-01 | |
Movie | The Crew of the Dora | Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner | 1943-11-01 |
Movie | The Great Love | Oberleutnant von Etzdorf | 1942-06-12 |