Biography
Hannes Messemer (17 May 1924 – 2 November 1991) was a German actor from Dillingen an der Donau, Bavaria.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Abandoned by his father, he was a reform school kid with nothing going for him and a giant chip on his shoulder. He joined the Marines but never staye...
Langusten
1989
as Ernst
Paulchen
1985
as Patient
Das zerbrochene Haus
1985
Die Dame und die Unterwelt
1984
as Pfarrer
August der Starke
1984
The Oppermanns
1983
as Gutwetter
Frau Jenny Treibel
1982
as Leutnant a.D. Vogelsang
Jenny Bürstenbinder has climbed the social ladder by marrying Kommerzienrat Treibel. The professor's daughter Corinna Schmidt plans to do the same and...
Der kleine Bruder
1982
as Reini
Fleeting Acquaintances
1982
as Paul
Collin
1981
as Havelke
Die Hinrichtung
1981
Kennwort Schmetterling
1981
as Bouwmeester
Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen
1980
as Herr Schirmer
Four contemplative stories about problems with love: "Profitability" is about money, "The Smile" is about coping with a difficult situation, an "Exper...
Die Ursache
1980
Die Paulskirche
1980
Union der festen Hand
1979
as von Zander
Ein Hut von ganz spezieller Art
1978
as Herr Wühlisch
Onkel Silas
1977
as Onkel Silas
Generale - Anatomie der Marneschlacht
1977
as Divisionsgeneral Galliéni
The movie depicts the events from July until September of 1914 which led to the defeat of the German troops at the Marne. While Sebastian Haffner expl...
Die Fastnachtsbeichte
1976
as Panezza
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
1976
as René Cardillac
Oblomows Liebe
1976
as Erzähler
Der tödliche Schlag
1975
as Odysseus
The Odessa File
1974
as General Glücks
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration cam...
Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen
1974
as Jean-Pierre Pinaud
The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspecto...
Ein Fall für Goron
1973
as Goron
Paris, 1888. With the help of forensic medicine, a sensational criminal case is uncovered. The chief of the Paris Sûreté, Inspector Goron, with the he...
Alle lieben Célimare
1973
as Vernouillet
Der 21. Juli
1972
as Goerdeler
Aus Mangel an Beweisen
1971
as Roberto Galimberti
Mit sich allein
1970
as Keith Bailey
Die Verschwörung
1969
as Cäsar
Bericht einer Offensive
1969
as Colonel Henriot
Das Trauerspiel von Julius Caesar
1969
as Brutus
König Richard II
1968
as König Richard II.
Das Attentat - L.D. Trotzki
1967
as Salazar
Bericht eines Feiglings
1967
as Pavel Karpisiak
Pavel is sent to Germany to spy.
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as General Jodl
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 ...
Flieger Ross
1966
as Allenby
The Defector
1966
as Dr. Saltzer
An American scientist is sent by the CIA to East Germany to retrieve a secret microfilm from a Soviet scientist interested in defecting to the West bu...
Once a Greek
1966
as Fahrcks
An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.
Alle mal herhören, auch die, die schwerhören..!
1966
as Premierminister
Congress of Love
1966
as Fürst Metternich
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves ...
Die Räuber
1966
as Franz
Through an intrigue, Franz Moor manages to have Karl, his brother, disinherited and disowned. He then founds a band of robbers and becomes their capta...
Plädoyer für einen Rebellen
1965
as Keller
Ninotschka
1965
as Krasnow
Der arme Mann Luther
1965
as Mönch
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
1964
as Fiesko - Graf von Lavagna
Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt
1964
as Ulysses
Bericht von den Inseln
1964
as José
Mission to Venice
1964
as Carl Natzka
An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
The Great Escape
1963
as Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-secu...
Reporter
1963
as Hildy Johnson
Amphitryon 38
1963
as Amphitryon
Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker
1963
as Andreas Kartak
Liebe im September
1962
as Graham Colby
Er ging an meiner Seite
1961
as Coney
Der Transport
1961
as Leutnant Bleck
March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where ...
Auf Engel schießt man nicht
1960
as Suarez
Die rote Hand
1960
as Mahora Khan
Die Brücke des Schicksals
1960
as Klaus Urban
Escape by Night
1960
as Baron Von Kliest
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergea...
Schatten der Helden
1960
as János Kádár
The High Life
1960
as Ernst Moos
Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, con...
Ein Tag, der nie zu Ende geht
1959
as Bill Robson
General Della Rovere
1959
as S.S. Colonel Mueller
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Babette Goes to War
1959
as General von Arenberg
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...
People in the Net
1959
as Braun
Espionage thriller about a married couple caught in the middle of dueling spy organisations.
Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959
as Serge
Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take...
Taiga
1958
as Roeder
The Doctor of Stalingrad
1958
as Oberleutnant Pjotr Markow
Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fel...
Escape from Sahara
1958
as Robert Altmann
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their ...
The Glass Tower
1957
as Dr. Krell
Katja Fleming has given up her job as an actress and married the business man Robert Fleming. But the cold that surrounds her in her modern, luxuriou...
The Devil Strikes at Night
1957
as SS-Gruppenführer Rossdorf
Hamburg, Germany, 1944, during World War II. A serial killer terrorizes the city. When it seems clear that the local police are unable to catch him, f...
Die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit
1957
as Leutnant
Rose Bernd
1957
as August Keil
A servant girl on a remote farm is sexually assaulted by both her employer and a coworker, Rose later bears a child, who die soon afterward. After nea...
Herzlich willkommen?
1956