Wolfgang Preiss
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.
Known For
Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
Die große Liebe
Maj. Herren
The Train
Dr. Mabuse
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Capitaine Ebernach
Paris brûle-t-il?
Major Von Klemment
Von Ryan's Express
Franz Tauber
The Formula
Col. von Haller
Hannibal Brooks
Prof. von Adelsberg
Der Fluch der grünen Augen
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
Kessler
Dr. M
Police inspector
Giornata nera per l'ariete
Doctor Loren Bolem
Il mulino delle donne di pietra
Colonel Nordoff
The Counterfeit Traitor
Dr. Beck
Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen
Major Linkmann
Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben
Miller
Un uomo da rispettare
Baron Kalb
La Fayette
Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse
Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
Die unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse
Chalieff
Avec la peau des autres
Gen. Erwin Rommel
Raid on Rommel
U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Haie und kleine Fische
Generalstaatsanwalt
Rosen für den Staatsanwalt
Sebastian (BND chief)
Mister Dynamit - Morgen küßt Euch der Tod
Wilhelm Von Schenk
Jack of Diamonds
Zighi
Fantasma d'amore
Berthold Kampe
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
Oberst Holl
Canaris
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
Ein Journalist
Anastasia - Die letzte Zarentochter
von Bogendorf
Die Kriegsbraut
Mario Clar
Von der Liebe besiegt
Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Der 20. Juli
Mac Fadden
Johannisnacht
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
Earl of Wereford
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
Oberstabsarzt Munkler
Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino
Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
Grabenplatz 17
Morel Smith
Der Henker von London
Dr. Henrik Brandes
Herrin der Welt - Teil I
Geist von Dr. Mabuse
Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse
Oberst
Die Standarte
Heinz Becker
Stresemann
Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Vergeßt Mozart
Noland
Deux billets pour Mexico
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
Lo sbarco di Anzio
Colonel Ackerman
La legione dei dannati
Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Vor Sonnenuntergang
Playgirl 70
Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
The Longest Day
Dr. Westorp
Arzt ohne Gewissen
Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Frühstück mit dem Tod
Stanislas Raskin
Die schwarze Kobra
Flachsmann
Flachsmann als Erzieher
General
Die Insel der Krebse
Falschmünzer am Werk
Captain Parker
Der Spion, der in die Hölle ging
Generalmajor Oster
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
Gendarm Adam
Schinderhannes
James Merrill
Leb wohl, mein Traum
Exzellenz Lohmüller
Hürdenlauf
Staatsanwalt Soldan
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
Dr. Peter Morell
Die erste Legion
Dr. Hartung
Oberarzt Dr. Solm
Alfred Linder
..wie einst Lili Marleen
Carlo Gormann
Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen
General Gorew
I battellieri del Volga
Dr. Leipold
Ich war ihm hörig
Sir Henri Deterding
Sir Henri Deterding
Father Bricks
Tamara
Sheik Abengalbon
I cento cavalieri
Anthony Wilcox
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
Konsul Eduard van Düren
Diamantenparty
General
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
Brockdorff-Rantzau
Ein Mann namens Parvus
Amerikaner
Der Banditendoktor
Eine ungeliebte Frau
Minister
Der Minister und die Ente
Hans
Gli italiani sono matti
FM Alfred Jodl
Ike
Lang soll er leben
Sursis pour un espion
Father Albertus
The Second Victory
Dr. Mabuse
Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse
Kapitän Behrens
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
Brandes
Herrin der Welt - Teil II
Günther Brandt
Geständnis einer Sechzehnjährigen
Minister
Das Leben in meiner Hand
Oberst Dornberger
Peenemünde
Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
Besatzung Dora
Freiherr von Pirovano
Der Cornet
Bernauer
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
Arthur Dahlberg
Riviera-Story
Leiter der Mordkommission
Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
A Bridge Too Far
The Prosecutor
Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate
Lofquist
The Boys from Brazil
Dulac
Eurydice
Julius Prager
Bloodline
Felix Zauner
The Salzburg Connection
Charles Reese
Das tödliche Patent
Joseph Blake
Straße der Gerechten
Artmann
Le grand délire
Dr. Georgi Dimitrov
Der Fall Petkov
Generalmajor Lattmann
Das Haus Lunjowo
Otto Lohn
La Valse du Gorille
Parisius
Samba
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
Dr. Reinecke
Die Anstalt
Grenner
Échappement libre
Robert
Wo liegt Jena?
Dr. Angus Cromwell
Chinos y minifaldas
The Cardinal
Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Robert Jacobi
Konto ausgeglichen
Aire libre
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
119
Gender
Male
Birthday
1910-02-27
Place of Birth
Nuremberg, Germany
Also Known As
Wolfgang Price