Wolfgang Preiss

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

116

Movies

120

Born: February 27, 1910 – November 27, 2002
From: Nuremberg, Germany

Biography

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.

Works

120 films

The Longest Day

19627.6

A Bridge Too Far

19777.2

Is Paris Burning?

19667.2

The Boys from Brazil

19786.7

Ike

19796.8

The Train

19647.6

Von Ryan's Express

19657.1

Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old

19617.0

Falschmünzer am Werk

19518.0

Eurydice

1957

Lafayette

19625.9

Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord

196610.0

Open Air

19968.0

Straße der Gerechten

1959

Ghost of Love

19817.0

The Cardinal

19636.5

The Formula

19805.6

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

19597.2

The Counterfeit Traitor

19626.5

Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen

19724.3

Bloodline

19794.9

Der Banditendoktor

19574.0

Dr. M

19904.8

Mill of the Stone Women

19606.1

The Fifth Cord

19716.6

The Big Delirium

19754.7

Peenemünde

1970

Anzio

19685.7

Raid on Rommel

19715.9

Tamara

19688.0

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

19606.8

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

19676.4

Backfire

19646.3

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

19646.2

Dead Run

19675.1

Canaris

19546.7

The Spy Who Went Into Hell

19655.6

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

19616.1

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

19627.0

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter

19566.5

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse

19636.4

The Crew of the Dora

19436.8

Das Leben in meiner Hand

19667.0

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

19625.5

The Salzburg Connection

19725.8

The Bloodstained Butterfly

19716.1

Playgirl 70

19693.7

Die Kriegsbraut

19749.0

Hannibal Brooks

19696.4

Eine ungeliebte Frau

19746.0

Meinungsverschiedenheiten

19688.0

The Master Touch

19725.9

Prisoner of the Volga

19595.2

Before Sundown

19567.8

Liebe, Love, l'Amour

1969

The Standard

19774.2

Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior

198210.0

The Girl with the Cat Eyes

19589.5

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

19626.8

100 Horsemen

19646.8

Battle of the Commandos

19695.9

Flachsmann als Erzieher

196810.0

Death on a Rainy Day

19676.5

Frischer Wind in alten Gassen

1951

The Italians They Are Crazy

19587.0

Leb wohl, mein Traum

1963

Doctor Without Scruples

19599.0

Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce

19847.0

Jack of Diamonds

19675.0

The Mad Executioners

19636.3

Forget Mozart

19855.4

The Black Cobra

19637.5

Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris

19738.0

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino

19585.6

The Great Love

19426.8

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo

19899.0

Roses for the Prosecutor

19597.2

Cave of the Living Dead

19645.2

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse

20186.9

Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry

198710.0

To Skin a Spy

19665.8

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

19556.1

Ein Mann namens Parvus

19846.0

Sharks and Little Fish

19575.8

The Second Victory

19876.5

Wo liegt Jena?

1967

Mistress of the World - Part II

19605.0

General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?

1970

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen

19605.7

Der Fall Petkov

19688.0

Mistress of the World - Part I

19606.8

Riviera-Story

19614.1

Gorilla's Waltz

19594.3

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau

19878.0

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand

19677.0

Grabenplatz 17

19589.0

Oberarzt Dr. Solm

19555.7

Das Haus Lunjowo

1970

Like Once Lili Marleen

19566.7

Samba

19667.0

Die Dame und die Unterwelt

1984

Land der Väter, Land der Söhne

19899.0

Diamantenparty

19738.0

X-Ray of a Killer

196510.0

Der Cornet

19559.0

Die erste Legion

1964

Die Anstalt

197810.0

Schinderhannes

195710.0

Konto ausgeglichen

19595.0

Die Insel der Krebse

19758.0

Frühstück mit dem Tod

19646.5

Ich war ihm hörig

195810.0

Der Minister und die Ente

19709.0

Das tödliche Patent

19635.5

Johannisnacht

19566.0

Hürdenlauf

1969

Lang soll er leben

19879.0

Stresemann

195710.0

Von der Liebe besiegt

19565.5

Sir Henri Deterding

1970