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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
2018
as Dieter Gekeler (archive footage)

Open Air
1996
In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, in...

Dr. M
1990
as Kessler
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic w...

Land der Väter, Land der Söhne
1989
as Bernauer
A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth.

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo
1989
as Earl of Wereford
Because her mother has to go to New York on business, little Helen is once again left in the care of Ada Harris. Helen's father, the industrialist Cos...

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Moskau
1987
as Earl of Wereford

The Second Victory
1987
as Father Albertus
After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, promptin...
Lang soll er leben
1987

Mrs. Harris - Der geschmuggelte Henry
1987
as Earl of Wereford

Forget Mozart
1985
as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, w...

Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
1984
as Earl of Wereford
Ein Mann namens Parvus
1984
as Brockdorff-Rantzau

Die Dame und die Unterwelt
1984
as Berthold Kampe

Mrs. Harris - Ein Kleid von Dior
1982
as Earl of Wereford

Ghost of Love
1981
as Zighi
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

The Formula
1980
as Franz Tauber
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthe...

Bloodline
1979
as Julius Prager
A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless bo...

Ike
1979
as FM Alfred Jodl
Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal rel...
Die Anstalt
1978
as Dr. Reinecke

The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Lofquist
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

The Standard
1977
as Oberst
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while ...

A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Field Marshal Karl R.G. Von Rundstedt
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...
Die Insel der Krebse
1975
as General
Dr. Andre Tourenne is a biologist by training, but has conducted a great deal of research in the field of cybernetics in recent years.

The Big Delirium
1975
as Artmann
A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love ...

Die Kriegsbraut
1974
as von Bogendorf

Eine ungeliebte Frau
1974
After the death of her parents, Ria Rottmann is taken in by her friends, the Matern family. Patriarch Rolf Matern had once taken advantage of Ria's fa...

Diamantenparty
1973
as Konsul Eduard van Düren
Every year, rich people and celebrities gather for the race week in Baden-Baden - and with them the most valuable jewelry and the finest diamonds. Thi...
Du stirbst nicht allein - Ein deutscher Kriegspfarrer in Paris
1973
as General

The Master Touch
1972
as Miller
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.

The Salzburg Connection
1972
as Felix Zauner
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pict...

Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen
1972
Educational film about variants of sexuality.

The Bloodstained Butterfly
1971
as The Prosecutor
When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, s...

The Fifth Cord
1971
as Police inspector
A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their ...

Raid on Rommel
1971
as Gen. Erwin Rommel
Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscie...
Der Minister und die Ente
1970
as Minister
Sir Henri Deterding
1970
as Sir Henri Deterding
General Oster – Verräter oder Patriot?
1970
as Generalmajor Oster
Peenemünde
1970
as Oberst Dornberger
Das Haus Lunjowo
1970
as Generalmajor Lattmann

Playgirl 70
1969
Italian comedy.

Battle of the Commandos
1969
as Colonel Ackerman
A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his n...
Liebe, Love, l'Amour
1969
Hürdenlauf
1969
as Exzellenz Lohmüller
Film about a working-class boy who fails at secondary school.

Hannibal Brooks
1969
as Col. von Haller
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo ...

Anzio
1968
as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back feroc...
Meinungsverschiedenheiten
1968
as Anthony Wilcox
Der Fall Petkov
1968
as Dr. Georgi Dimitrov

Tamara
1968
as Father Bricks
A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany.
Flachsmann als Erzieher
1968
as Flachsmann

Jack of Diamonds
1967
as Wilhelm Von Schenk
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemi...

Death on a Rainy Day
1967
as Dr. Angus Cromwell
Two French agents fight a Chinese sect that aims to control the American Secretary of Defence via high-tech medicine, so that he would start a world w...

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow
1967
as Sebastian (BND chief)
Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. G...

Dead Run
1967
as Noland
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.
Wo liegt Jena?
1967
as Robert

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand
1967
as Leiter der Mordkommission
Two young Italian guest workers in Germany find a beautiful dead woman one morning on the way to their job. The Kripo quickly determines that the dark...

Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Capitaine Ebernach
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 ...

To Skin a Spy
1966
as Chalieff
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire...
Das Leben in meiner Hand
1966
as Minister
Samba
1966
as Parisius
Der Fall Kapitän Behrens. Fremdenlegionäre an Bord
1966
as Kapitän Behrens

The Spy Who Went Into Hell
1965
as Captain Parker
CIA agent Jeff Larson is sent to investigate suspicious activities at a U.S. base located in southern Spain. He discovers the base is being heavily mo...

Von Ryan's Express
1965
as Major Von Klemment
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov...

X-Ray of a Killer
1965
The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.

100 Horsemen
1964
as Sheik Abengalbon
Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.

The Train
1964
as Maj. Herren
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He...

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964
as Dr. Mabuse
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

Backfire
1964
as Grenner
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
Die erste Legion
1964
as Dr. Peter Morell

Frühstück mit dem Tod
1964
as Staatsanwalt Ted Talbot
Ted Talbot is a prosecutor in Newtonville. In the course of his work, he accuses Jim Conley of robbing a bank and killing the cashier. Ted's wife Jane...

Cave of the Living Dead
1964
as Prof. von Adelsberg
The German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local villagers. They call in Inspector Doren of Interpol, and ...

The Cardinal
1963
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.

The Mad Executioners
1963
as Morel Smith
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
1963
as Geist von Dr. Mabuse
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the...

Das tödliche Patent
1963
as Charles Reese
Charles, a talented but poor chemist, has become a wealthy man overnight. The industry is all about his new invention. But the next day, his wife sudd...

The Black Cobra
1963
as Stanislas Raskin
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.
Leb wohl, mein Traum
1963
as James Merrill

The Longest Day
1962
as Maj. Gen. Max Pemsel
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
1962
as Dr. Mabuse
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...

The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Colonel Nordoff
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
1962
as Dr. Krone / Dr. Mabuse
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found ...

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
1962
as Staatsanwalt Soldan

Lafayette
1962
as Baron Kalb
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.

Riviera-Story
1961
as Arthur Dahlberg
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg...

Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
1961
as Günther Brandt

The Return of Dr. Mabuse
1961
as Dr. Mabuse
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and...

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as Prof. Jordan/Peter Cornelius/Dr. Mabuse
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preve...

Mill of the Stone Women
1960
as Doctor Loren Bolem
Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other notorio...

Mistress of the World - Part II
1960
as Brandes
Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambod...

Mistress of the World - Part I
1960
as Dr. Henrik Brandes
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a co...

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
1960
as Dr. Beck
The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in ...

Roses for the Prosecutor
1959
as Generalstaatsanwalt
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to esc...

Doctor Without Scruples
1959
as Dr. Westorp
A renowned physician falls under scrutiny when it's discovered his assistant is a former Nazi.

Konto ausgeglichen
1959
as Robert Jacobi

Gorilla's Waltz
1959
as Otto Lohn
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Ro...

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
1959
as Major Linkmann
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggl...

Prisoner of the Volga
1959
as General Gorew
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
Straße der Gerechten
1959
as Joseph Blake

The Girl with the Cat Eyes
1958
as Carlo Gormann
A police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector.

Grabenplatz 17
1958
as Kriminalkommissar Dr. Jäger
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino
1958
as Oberstabsarzt Munkler
German Paratroopers are ordered to hold the line at Monte Cassino in Italy, and halt the allied advance on Rome.

The Italians They Are Crazy
1958
as Hans
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.

Ich war ihm hörig
1958
as Dr. Leipold
Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows h...
Eurydice
1957
as Dulac
Der Banditendoktor
1957
as Amerikaner

Sharks and Little Fish
1957
as U-Bootkommandant Lüttke
Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive.
Schinderhannes
1957
as Gendarm Adam
1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as "Schinderhannes", who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners explo...
Stresemann
1957
as Heinz Becker

Von der Liebe besiegt
1956
as Mario Clar

Johannisnacht
1956
as Mac Fadden

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1956
as Ein Journalist
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any...

Like Once Lili Marleen
1956
as Alfred Linder

Before Sundown
1956
as Dr. Hahnefeld, Syndikus der Clausen-Werke
Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautifu...

Der Cornet
1955
as Freiherr von Pirovano
Adventure film based on a Rilke poem.

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
as Oberst Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.

Oberarzt Dr. Solm
1955
as Dr. Hartung

Canaris
1954
as Oberst Holl
Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants ...

Falschmünzer am Werk
1951

The Crew of the Dora
1943
as Staffelarzt Dr. Wagner
German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together.

The Great Love
1942
as Oberleutnant von Etzdorf
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's le...