Günter Meisner
Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German TV and film character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Mr. Slugworth in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7891 |
| Birthday | 1926-04-18 |
| Place of Birth | Bremen, Germany |
| Also Known As | Guenter Meisner, |
1971
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
7.482/3931
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bu...
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
1985
Drei gegen drei
5.625/4
The plan is simple: the three generals Weingarten, Ludovico and Klotz from San Chaco set a hitman on their doubles Stephan, Kralle and Peter, who live...
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Drei gegen drei
1980
The American Success Company
5.192/12
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and frie...
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The American Success Company
1966
Funeral in Berlin
6.389/162
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory....
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Funeral in Berlin
1974
Borsalino and Co.
6.411/112
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
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Borsalino and Co.
1986
In a Glass Cage
6.759/114
A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung.
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In a Glass Cage
1971
Ludwig L
0/0
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Ludwig L
1982
Ace of Aces
7.061/351
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rose...
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Ace of Aces
1990
The Saint: The Big Bang
5.5/2
Simon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover.
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The Saint: The Big Bang
1975
Inside Out
6.75/12
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a N...
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Inside Out
1979
Ticket of No Return
6.3/15
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
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Ticket of No Return
1989
Moon Child
5.395/19
Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journ...
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Moon Child
1961
Operation Caviar
5.313/8
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
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Operation Caviar
1992
Ruby Cairo
5.013/40
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
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Ruby Cairo
1974
Between Wars
8/1
This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up residen...
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Between Wars
1988
Magdalene
3.857/7
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to chang...
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Magdalene
1984
Under the Volcano
6.559/101
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a...
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Under the Volcano
1993
Faraway, So Close!
6.932/177
A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption, an...
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Faraway, So Close!
1991
Te Rua
6.5/2
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient griev...
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Te Rua
1973
Werwölfe
8/1
Film about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2.
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Werwölfe
1979
Breakthrough
5.857/35
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to...
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Breakthrough
1982
The Man on the Wall
9.333/3
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not...
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The Man on the Wall
1966
Is Paris Burning?
7.2/226
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if...
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Is Paris Burning?
1974
The Odessa File
6.616/198
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration cam...
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The Odessa File
1970
Hauser's Memory
6.8/5
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. H...
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Hauser's Memory
1978
The Boys from Brazil
6.723/439
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
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The Boys from Brazil
1979
Avalanche Express
4.76/48
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to...
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Avalanche Express
1982
Night Crossing
6.15/40
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story...
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Night Crossing
1966
The Quiller Memorandum
5.901/86
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller i...
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The Quiller Memorandum
1969
The Bridge at Remagen
6.761/180
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead acros...
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The Bridge at Remagen
1973
The Battle of Sutjeska
6.5/25
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the e...
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The Battle of Sutjeska
1976
Voyage of the Damned
6.027/73
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Voyage of the Damned
1977
The Serpent's Egg
6.23/126
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and...
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The Serpent's Egg
1959
Babette Goes to War
5.6/37
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important Ger...
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Babette Goes to War
1962
The Counterfeit Traitor
6.463/54
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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The Counterfeit Traitor
1986
Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle
7/1
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Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle
1982
Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
7/1
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Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
1983
Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
6.667/3
The Prinz-Eugen-Gymnasium is in a crisis, which is not least due to the insolent students who lack any respect for the staff and the chaotic principal...
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Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
1980
Gibbi West Germany
7.667/3
Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bare chest—who roams the Hamburg neighborhood St. Pau...
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Gibbi West Germany
1975
Depressionen
9/1
Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined.
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Depressionen
1988
The Case of Mr. Spalt
9/4
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
1986
Gestatten, Bestatter
9/1
Two shady businessmen set out to shake up the West Berlin funeral industry - with unconventional ideas and questionable methods. To this end, they tak...
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Gestatten, Bestatter
1978
Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
0/0
Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of the...
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Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
1994
Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
10/1
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Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
1980
Meister Timpe
9/1
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Meister Timpe
1977
The Brothers
3/3
Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.
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The Brothers
1975
Flesh of the Orchid
5.4/35
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In h...
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Flesh of the Orchid
1991
Leporella
9/1
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Leporella
1989
Bride of the Orient
9.5/24
After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride fro...
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Bride of the Orient
1980
Die Paulskirche
8/1
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Die Paulskirche
1990
The Man Inside
6/2
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He...
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The Man Inside
1975
A Happy Family Life
7/1
Manfred, a lathe operator, and Manuela, a seamstress, marry and try to find happiness together. They have two children in quick succession and realize...
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A Happy Family Life
1990
The Little People
8.5/2
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The Little People
1981
Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne
0/0
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Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne
1970
Schlagzeilen über einen Mord
9/1
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Schlagzeilen über einen Mord
1979
Wie Rauch und Staub
7/1
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Wie Rauch und Staub
1984
Der Mord mit der Schere
9/1
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Der Mord mit der Schere
1978
Ein Mord am Lietzensee
0/0
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Ein Mord am Lietzensee
1974
The Brutalization of Franz Blum
5.321/14
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. Fo...
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
1965
One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939
6.5/4
Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling...
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One Day: A Report from a German Concentration Camp 1939
1959
Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
7/1
After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The men become abusive. Erika rushes out of the car and...
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Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
1966
Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
10/1
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Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
1961
Question 7
5.857/7
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.
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Question 7
1960
Abendstunde im Spätherbst
9/1
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Abendstunde im Spätherbst
1967
Lobby Doll und die Sitzstangenaffäre
0/0
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Lobby Doll und die Sitzstangenaffäre
1963
Die Wölfe
0/0
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Die Wölfe
1961
The Miracle of Father Malachia
5.4/10
The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, however, is not understood by the people but only exp...
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The Miracle of Father Malachia
1962
Der Kronanwalt
0/0
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Der Kronanwalt
1964
The Foggy Night Murderer
7/3
A killer terrorizes the small German town of Hainsburg. The police moves in to investigate the crimes and finds a suspect among a small group of teena...
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The Foggy Night Murderer
1959
The Black Chapel
7.333/3
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-...
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The Black Chapel
1961
Ein wahrer Held
10/1
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Ein wahrer Held
1964
Schaufensterpuppen
0/0
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Schaufensterpuppen
1959
Der König ist tot
0/0
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Der König ist tot
1959
Ship of the Dead
6.641/32
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still...
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Ship of the Dead
1957
Kopf oder Zahl
10/1
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Kopf oder Zahl
1967
The College Girl Murders
6.75/32
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.
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The College Girl Murders
1963
The Black Cobra
7.5/2
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.
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The Black Cobra
1990
Central Station
7/1
Alex, a sought-after professional photographer, is involved in a mysterious series of murders that are always carried out in the same circumstances.
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Central Station
1968
Das Haus mit den sieben Stockwerken
0/0
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Das Haus mit den sieben Stockwerken
1962
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
5.538/26
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit...
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1988
Roselyne and the Lions
5.55/20
Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he l...
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Roselyne and the Lions
1977
Heinrich
5.333/6
The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
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Heinrich
1964
Das Martyrium des Peter OHey
8/1
Poetic fable about the sophisticated rape of civil rights by a totalitarian power. The orderly existence of Peter O'Hey and his family is shaken one d...
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Das Martyrium des Peter OHey
1987
Close Up
0/0
Secret agents from the East and the West scheme to obtain an ingenious invention.
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Close Up
1979
The Tin Drum
6.96/531
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II b...
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