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
Most Rating	1.1584
Birthday	1910-02-27
Place of Birth	Nuremberg, Germany
Also Known As	Wolfgang Price, Вольфганг Прайсс,

The Great Love

The Train

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Is Paris Burning?

Von Ryan's Express

The Formula

Hannibal Brooks

Cave of the Living Dead

Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen

Dr. M

The Fifth Cord

The Counterfeit Traitor

Mill of the Stone Women

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

The Master Touch

Lafayette

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

To Skin a Spy

Raid on Rommel

Sharks and Little Fish

Roses for the Prosecutor

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

Jack of Diamonds

Ghost of Love

Die Dame und die Unterwelt

Canaris

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter

Die Kriegsbraut

Von der Liebe besiegt

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler

Johannisnacht

Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior

Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau

Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce

Grabenplatz 17

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino

The Mad Executioners

Mistress of the World - Part I

Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse

The Standard

Stresemann

Forget Mozart

Dead Run

Anzio

Battle of the Commandos

Before Sundown

Playgirl 70

The Longest Day

Doctor Without Scruples

The Black Cobra

Frühstück mit dem Tod

Flachsmann als Erzieher

Die Insel der Krebse

Falschmünzer am Werk

The Spy Who Went Into Hell

General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?

Schinderhannes

Leb wohl, mein Traum

Hürdenlauf

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

Die erste Legion

Oberarzt Dr. Solm

Like Once Lili Marleen

Prisoner of the Volga

The Girl with the Cat Eyes

Ich war ihm hörig

Sir Henri Deterding

Tamara

100 Horsemen

Meinungsverschiedenheiten

Diamantenparty

Ein Mann namens Parvus

Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris

Der Banditendoktor

Eine ungeliebte Frau