Known For
Complete Filmography
Das Babylon Komplott
1993
Neptun und Isolde
1992
as Armin von Tretzlow
Rochade
1992
as Melkovic
At the centre of Peter Patzak's existentialist film noir stands the hopeless struggle against the arms mafia in Czechoslovakia and its connections wit...
A Song for Europe
1985
as Direktor
Steven Dyer, an executive working for a giant multinational drugs company, decides to report his employer for breaches of Common Market trading regula...
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
1984
as Sir Wilmot
Er-Götz-liches
1984
as Martin Sack
Episodic film based on four plays (‘Der Hund im Hirn’, ‘Lohengrin’, ‘Der Mörder’, and ‘Minna Magdalena’) by Curt Goetz, each with Carl-Heinz Schroth i...
Die Rede des Odysseus
1984
as Narrator (voice)
Experimental short film
Ihr 106. Geburtstag
1979
as Antoine
Die Eingeschlossenen
1978
as Der Vater
Kleine Geschichten mit großen Tieren
1978
as Chef IV
The Odessa File
1974
as Werner Deilmann
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration cam...
Silverson
1974
as Silverson
Der zerbrochene Krug
1974
as Gerichtsrat Walter
Yvonne, Prinzessin von Burgund
1971
Director
Jedermann
1970
as Jedermann
Waterloo
1969
as Napoleon
Demetrius
1969
as Sapieha
Die Flucht nach Holland
1967
as Erich Ludendorff
Die echten Sedemunds
1965
as Der alte Sedemund
Heidi
1965
as Konsul Alfred Sesemann
After her mother's death, the five year old orphan Heidi is brought by her aunt to her grumpy grandfather Alp, who leads a hermit life in the beautifu...
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
1965
as Le capitaine du Châtelet
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affair...
Angelique
1964
as Le capitaine du Châtelet
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls i...
Andorra
1964
as Lehrer
In Andorra on St. George’s Eve, Jewish foster‐son Andri loves Barblin, unaware she’s his half‐sister. Amid rising anti‐Semitism and family secrets, he...
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
1964
as Chefarzt
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
The Visit
1964
as Mayor
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning,...
Nylon Noose
1963
as Mr. Harrison
A company's stockholders hold their meeting at a lonely mansion. A mad doctor conducting experiments in the mansion starts to strangle them one at a t...
The Longest Day
1962
as Gen. Hans von Salmuth (uncredited)
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 Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Baron Gerhard von Oldenburg
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Der rote Hahn
1962
as Amtsvorsteher von Wehrhahn
Der Biberpelz
1962
as Amtsvorsteher von Wehrhahn
Leben des Galilei
1962
as Galileo Galilei
Biographie und Liebe
1961
as Kennicott
1913
1961
as Freiherr Christian Maske von Buchow
Abendstunde im Spätherbst
1960
as Maximilian Friedrich Korbes
Mein Schulfreund
1960
as Hauptmann Kühn
The High Life
1960
as Herr Alexander
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...
Punishment Battalion
1960
as Dr. Kukill
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of...
Marili
1959
as Waldemar Heller
The Black Chapel
1959
as Julian Hoffmann
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-...
The Man Who Sold Himself
1959
as Münchmann
Meant to be a diatribe against yellow journalism and current social ills, this weakly limned drama by Josef von Baky features a reporter who works for...
As Long as the Heart Still Beats
1958
as Franke
Der Eiserne Gustav
1958
as Friedrich Karl Möbius
Stresemann
1957
as Gustav Stresemann
Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1956
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...
Kitty and the Great Big World
1956
as Crawford, Sekretär der britischen Delegation
The young Kitty is drawn into the world of international politics by chance.
Ohne Dich wird es Nacht
1956
as Arthur Wehrmann
Dr. Kessler, a lawyer in poor health, actually just wanted to take a dose of morphine to get fit for his court appearance. But the necessity turns int...
Nacht der Entscheidung
1956
as Jacques Ardent
Du mein stilles Tal
1955
as Dr. Zöller
Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with...
Der Hauptmann und sein Held
1955
as Hauptmann Eisenhecker
The Plot to Assassinate Hitler
1955
as SS-Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner
A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944.
Liebe ohne Illusion
1955
as Jellinek
Ihre große Prüfung
1954
as Dr. Rottach
Cavalry Captain Wronski
1954
as Stepan
A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland.
Das ideale Brautpaar
1954
as Dr. Martini
The Man Between
1953
as Olaf Kastner
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
Tagebuch einer Verliebten
1953
as Dr. Hugendübel
In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of al...
Die große Versuchung
1952
as Staatsanwalt
A young man practices medicine without a licence.
Under the Thousand Lanterns
1952
This German drama tells the story of a musician who is killed and leaves his work unfinished. His apprentice is cleared of the murder and turns out to...
Gift im Zoo
1952
as Oskar Beck
Animals start to mysteriously die in a zoo in Hamburg. Is somebody poisoning the animals and with what purpose?
Sündige Grenze
1951
as Hugo Mielke
Film about young smugglers.
The Last Illusion
1949
as Walter
Professor Mauthner, after many years of exile (having emigrated in 1933 to the USA), returns to Germany in 1948. He can in fact return to his teaching...
Die Degenhardts
1944
A stuffy old civil servant is forced to retire during World War II, but when his son, a Navy submariner, is lost at sea and his city is heavily bombed...
Der große Schatten
1942
as Dr. Martin Scholz
Uncle Krüger
1941
as Adrian Krüger
An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the Br...
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius
1940
as Eleve Zumsteg
The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). S...
Fahrt ins Leben
1940
as Seekadett Christian Wagner