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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.
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)
Open Air
Florian III
as Max Friedmann
Tassilo - Ein Fall für sich
Dr. M
as Kessler
Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
as Bernauer
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
as Earl of Wereford
War and Remembrance
as Walter von Brauchitsch
Die Männer vom K3
as Bodo von Heysen
Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
as Earl of Wereford
The Second Victory
as Father Albertus
Lang soll er leben
Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
as Earl of Wereford
Ein heikler Fall
Forget Mozart
as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Ein Heim für Tiere
as Prof. Alf Dobner
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
as Earl of Wereford
Ein Mann namens Parvus
as Brockdorff-Rantzau
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
as Berthold Kampe
The Winds of War
as Walther von Brauchitsch
Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
as Earl of Wereford
Die Schraiers
as Jean Schraier
Unheimliche Geschichten
A Case For Two
as Alfred Rohloff
Ghost of Love
as Zighi
Ringstraßenpalais
as General Prettwitz
The Formula
as Franz Tauber
Sonne, Wein und harte Nüsse
as Louis Tonard
Bloodline
as Julius Prager
Ike
as FM Alfred Jodl
Ike
as Gen. Alfred Jodl
Wallenstein
as Thurn
Die Anstalt
as Dr. Reinecke
The Boys from Brazil
as Lofquist
SOKO München
as Direktor Xaver Kreuzberg
The Standard
as Oberst
A Bridge Too Far
as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
Hungária kávéház
Der Anwalt
as Richter
Die Insel der Krebse
as General
Eurogang
as Frank Allen
The Big Delirium
as Artmann
La Cloche tibétaine
as Georges-Marie Haardt
Die Kriegsbraut
as von Bogendorf
Die Montagsmaler
as Self
Eine ungeliebte Frau
Okay S.I.R.
as Forestié
Diamantenparty
as Konsul Eduard van Düren
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
as General
The Master Touch
as Miller
The Salzburg Connection
as Felix Zauner
Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
The Bloodstained Butterfly
as The Prosecutor
The Fifth Cord
as Police inspector
Dalli Dalli
as Self
Raid on Rommel
as Gen. Erwin Rommel
Der Minister und die Ente
as Minister
Scene of the Crime
as Friedrich von Ribnitz
Sir Henri Deterding
as Sir Henri Deterding
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
as Generalmajor Oster
