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Wolfgang Preiss

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92 Years Old

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.

Born

Nuremberg, Germany on 27th February 1910

Died

27th November 2002

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SOKO München
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A Case For Two
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Scene of the Crime
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Scene of the Crime
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Scene of the Crime
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Die Montagsmaler
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The Winds of War
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The Rat Patrol
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Die fünfte Kolonne
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Ein Mann namens Harry Brent
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A Bridge Too Far
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The Longest Day
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War and Remembrance
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Is Paris Burning?
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The Boys from Brazil
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The Counterfeit Traitor
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Anzio
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Unheimliche Geschichten
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The Cardinal
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Bloodline
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
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Hannibal Brooks
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The Formula
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Raid on Rommel
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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
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Ghost of Love
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Mistress of the World - Part II
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
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The Mad Executioners
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Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
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Canaris
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Mistress of the World - Part I
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Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
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The Fifth Cord
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Lafayette
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To Skin a Spy
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The Second Victory
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The Return of Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse
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Riviera-Story
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Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
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Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
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Prisoner of the Volga
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The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
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Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
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Doctor Without Scruples
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Like Once Lili Marleen
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The Italians They Are Crazy
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The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
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Sharks and Little Fish
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Das tödliche Patent
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Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
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X-Ray of a Killer
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Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
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Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
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Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
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Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
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The Girl with the Cat Eyes
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Before Sundown
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Ich war ihm hörig
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Die Dame und die Unterwelt
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Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
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Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
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