Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Werner Peters (7 July 1918 – 30 March 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1947 and 1971. Peters was born in Werlitzsch, Kreis Delitzsch, Prussian Saxony, and died of a heart attack on a promotion tour for his latest film in Wiesbaden, Germany. His film career started with the lead in Wolfgang Staudte's Der Untertan, produced in the young German Democratic Republic. Peters then worked in West-Germany, appearing mostly in suppor...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
2018
as Hans-Martin Lamparter (archive footage)

Hard Women
1975
as Heinz-Fritz Bottke
Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage p...

Angels of Terror
1971
as William Baxter
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack...

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970
as Antique Dealer
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investi...

Unter den Dächern von St. Pauli
1970
as Hausach
Rival gangs are fighting for control of Hamburg's notorious harbor district, spreading fear and terror in the process. In the streets, houses and club...

Death Knocks Twice
1969
as Charly Hollmann
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...

Zehn kleine Negerlein
1969
as William Blore

Istanbul Express
1969
as Dr. Lenz
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbu...
Fragestunde
1969
as Runge

The Killer Likes Candy
1968
as Guardino
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he ...

The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968
as Maj. von Steignitz
When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orde...

Assignment K
1968
as Kramer
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap...

Dead Run
1967
as Bardieff
A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation.

Witness Out of Hell
1967
as Von Walden
Leah Weiss, a Polish Jew, was first forced into prostitution at Auschwitz. Afterwards, she was victimized in medical experiments. Now, twenty years la...

Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
1967
as Charlie Lee

The Corrupt Ones
1967
as Pinto
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure...

I Deal In Danger
1966
as Elm
During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting pr...

A Fine Madness
1966
as Dr. Freddie Vorbeck
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.

Battle of the Bulge
1965
as Gen. Kohler
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive ...

The Wild Men of Kurdistan
1965
as Mütesselin
After dealing with the Shut in the Balkans, Kara Ben-Nemsi ('Karl the German') receives a firman (precious passport) from the padishah (Ottoman sultan...

Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
1965
as Commander Stevens

Black Eagle of Santa Fe
1965
as Morton
When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the u...

36 Hours
1964
as Otto Schack
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe o...

The Racetrack Murders
1964
as Mysteriöser Partygast
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.

Three for a Robbery
1964
as Peter Weimer
Gerhard is a young technical in Düsseldorf who works in a factory of security devices for banks. In agreement with Nicola, Mario and Hans, they prepar...

Dog Eat Dog!
1964
as Jannis, Xenia's Butler
Three thieves rip off a shipment of used money being sent back to the US. As they are escaping the robbery (after having taken a hostage), they wind u...

The Curse of the Hidden Vault
1964
as Spedding
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.

The Phantom of Soho
1964
as Dr. Dalmar
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.

The Secret of the Black Widow
1963
as William Osbourne
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer ...

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
1963
as Inspektor Vulpius
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...

The Black Abbot
1963
as Fabian Gilder
Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hoode...

The Endless Night
1963
as Herbert
Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of Ber...

The White Spider
1963
as Sergeant Meals
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman...

Das Feuerschiff
1963
as Trittel

The Curse of the Yellow Snake
1963
as Stephan Narth
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.

Hypnosis
1962
Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night.

The Carpet of Horror
1962
as Crayton
Shortly after his return from India, a special agent of the British secret service falls victim to an insidious poisoning in London. Scotland Yard get...
Jeder stirbt für sich allein
1962
as Kriminalkommissar Escherich

The Door with Seven Locks
1962
as Bertram Cody
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.

The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Bruno Ulrich
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 Martin Droste, aka Bobo the Clown
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 ...

Auf Wiedersehen
1961
as Paul Blümel

Operation Caviar
1961
as Zumbusch
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.

Blind Justice
1961
as François Lacroix
A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says...

Denn das Weib ist schwach
1961
as Vigulla
The respected lawyer Jolly Gebhardt is in debt because of his lavish lifestyle and is therefore blackmailed by dubious criminals for embezzlement.

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

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
1960
as Obermüller

Hauptmann - deine Sterne
1960
as Willi Sommer, Autogroßhändler
Scammers in Bundeswehr uniforms fool a future garrison town.

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig
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...

Ein Herz braucht Liebe
1960

Punishment Battalion
1960
as Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
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...

Endstation Rote Laterne
1960
as Van laan
Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkma...

The Cat Shows Her Claws
1960
as German general
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by ...
Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee
1959
as Alfred Kopetzsky
Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English money in Lake Toplitz with his comrade Kopetzky. Th...

The Black Chapel
1959
as Heinrich Himmler
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-...

Roses for the Prosecutor
1959
as Otto Kugler
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...

Bobby Dodd intervenes
1959
as Sydows Prokurist

Court Martial
1959
as Brenner, Kriegsgerichtsrat
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but the...
Jons und Erdme
1959
as Paul Schmidt
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunia...

The Scarlet Baroness
1959
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear ...

Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes
1958
as Reeder Papas Leonidas
Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a gr...

13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
1958
as Oberlehrer Karsten
Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen in recent years, instead traveling the world and e...

The Restless Night
1958
1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on hi...
Der Tod auf dem Rummelplatz
1958
as Kommissar Bergmann

Blitzmädels an die Front
1958
as Stabsarzt im Wehrkreiskommando
During WWII The German 'Wehrmacht' is heavily under fire after the invasion of Normandy. There are also a lot of women participating in the war, worki...

Liebe kann wie Gift sein
1958
as Kunsthändler Bogolla
After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an e...

Grabenplatz 17
1958
as Eugen Machon, Buchmacher
Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed.
Schmutziger Engel
1958
as Kalweit
A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.

Rosemary
1958
as Nakonski
West Germany in '50s is becoming an economic superpower. In such climate, Rosemarie is just one of many enterpreneurs who wants her piece of new fortu...

The Copper
1958
as Mücke
Otto Friedrich Dennert is a celebrated veteran of the Essen police force. While investigating a series of killings of women he reaches retirement age....

Lilli, a Girl from the Big City
1958
as Pastor Klinker
The frenzied reporter Lilli is just great: she shoots with both hands and lays her opponents with Jiu-Jitsu while the guys fall to the ground with jus...

Besuch aus der Zone
1958
as Kleinschmidt
Germany, end of the 1950s. After his business partner Kleinschmidt fled to the West, Mr. Reichert managed the company they had once founded together i...

Escape from Sahara
1958
as Brouillard
Three Foreign Legionnaires - Luigi, Pat and Kurt - desert during the Algerian war because they have had enough of the inhumane war machine. But their ...

Das Herz von St. Pauli
1957
as Tanne
Due to a lack of money, Hamburg pub owner Jonny Jensen brings two partners on board. As soon as the contract is finalized, the ex-sea bear is almost s...

The Devil Strikes at Night
1957
as Willi Keun
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...

Spy for Germany
1956
as Gefängiswärter Jonny
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the atomic bomb.

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1956
as Amerikanischer Anwalt
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...

Die Stimme der Sehnsucht
1956
as Manager Pannecke

Das Sonntagskind
1956
as Mölfes

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1955
as Quadde
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918:...

Vor Gott und den Menschen
1955
as Anton Mechala

Star mit fremden Federn
1955
as Franz Blume / Günther Kolmin
A striking resemblance between the hairdresser Franz Blume and the famous actor Günther Kolmin leads to a curious mix-up during a vacation in Feuerste...

Hotel Adlon
1955
as Kulikowski

Ein Polterabend
1955
as Adolf Glasbrenner
Berlin 1849: The democrat Adolf Glasbrenner, known as Brennglas, publishes the political satire magazine "Phosphor" on a shoestring budget. He plans t...

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

Sommerliebe
1955
Young, pretty Milli is passionate about winter sports, and of all things, she wins a vacation trip to the Baltic Sea at her company - in summer, of co...

Der Teufel vom Mühlenberg
1955
as Schulze Bangebös
This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, s...

Vom Alex zum Eismeer
1954
as Narrator (voice)
Five cameramen of the DEFA travel with the trawler ROS 206 to its fishing grounds in the Arctic Ocean. The journey to the grounds takes 5,5 days. Day ...

Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
1954
as Hauptmann Quadde
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early Novem...

The Story of Little Mook
1953
as Ramudschin
An old man living in an oriental city tells the story of his life to a group of kids: He too was once a young boy by the name of Little Muck - much li...

Die Unbesiegbaren
1953
as Köppke
The film "Die Unbesiegbaren" covers an episode in German history, in which the Bismarck government tried to mitigate the rise of the social-democrat m...

Anna Susanna
1953
as Kuddel

Karriere in Paris
1952
as Der junge Taillefer
France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, ...

The Kaiser's Lackey
1951
as Diederich Heßling
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-b...

Modell Bianka
1951
as Hans Obermann
The friends Jochen and Gerd both work at the fashion boutique "Saxonia", which has only recently designed a new collection. Therefore, Jochen and Gerd...

Der Kahn der fröhlichen Leute
1950
as Hugo
The girl Marianne inherited a motorboat called “Eintracht” from her parents and struggled to get her to drive it with her uncle. There is a row with t...

The Beaver Coat
1949
as Eberhard Schulz
Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All ...

Rotation
1949
as Udo Schulze
The mechanic Behnke wants to join the Nazi party to secure a good living. However, after his Jewish neighbors have been taken away, he changes his vie...

Girls in Gingham
1949
as Oberleutnant von der Lohe
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through...

The Blum Affair
1948
as Egon Konrad
Dr. Blum, a Jewish manufacturer, is falsely accused of a murder. Even when the real killer’s identity becomes evident, the state prosecutor refuses to...

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1947
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to c...