Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wolf Kahler (3 April 1940) is a German actor born in Kiel. Since 1975, he has appeared in many English language US and UK television and film productions. An early role for him was Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film The Riddle of the Sands. One of his most well-known roles was that of Dietrich in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Kahler's voice also appears in video games including as Kaiser Vlad in Battalion Wars. Kahler played the Prince of Tübi...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Whispers of Freedom
2024
as Bruno Kabát
When Chris Gueffroy becomes increasingly disillusioned with his life in 1980s East Germany, he hatches a plan with his friend, Christian Gaudian, to e...
The Great Escaper
2023
as Heinrich
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Norman...
Cognition
2020
as Doctor Zoger
Journeying through the symbolic landscape of the subconscious mind, the story follows an unbreakable bond between father and son. A bond that transcen...
Damascus Cover
2017
as Colonel Ludwig Streicher
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
Wonder Woman
2017
as German Commander
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
as Nazi Officer
A group of Cockneys arm themselves to rescue their elderly relative and his retirement home friends who are trapped and fighting off a zombie attack d...
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011
as Doctor Hoffmanstahl
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of ...
Shanghai
2010
as German Consul
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he un...
Haber
2008
as Ludendorff
At the brink of World War I, Fritz Shimon Haber was Germany's greatest chemist. Haber's Nobel prize-winning synthetic fertilizers saved world's popula...
The Somme: From Defeat to Victory
2006
as General von Plessen
Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme from the perspective of British and German soldie...
Einstein's Big Idea
2005
as Horlein
Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusio...
The Girl in the Café
2005
as Herr Gerhardt
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bon...
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
as Commentator
Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time...
The Lost Battalion
2001
as Major General (Generalmajor) Freidrich Wilhelm Von Sybel
Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France du...
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
as German 2nd
Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and narrowly outwits inept German spies. Dashing off to P...
Britannic
2000
as Submarine Captain
It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epi...
Doomwatch: Winter Angel
1999
as Director of Ortogene
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear faci...
Firelight
1998
as Sussman
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, ...
Loch Ness
1996
as Dr Muller
Dr. Dempsey, an American scientist, is sent to Scotland to disprove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. He is shocked when Laura, an inn-keeper, i...
Backbeat
1994
as Bert Kaempfert
Chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, an...
The Remains of the Day
1993
as German ambassador
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with...
The Countess Alice
1993
as Werner
A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed Gr...
Shining Through
1992
as Border Commandant
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War...
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
as Kropp
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Rit...
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
1987
as Col. Krieger
Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied...
Make and Break
1987
as Doctor
Lots of pent up business people struggle to balance business with pleasure.
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
as Felipe Arc-en-Ciel
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
1985
as Gen. Sepp Dietrich
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their ...
Unfair Exchanges
1985
as German Interviewer
Julie Walters stars as a single mother seemingly haunted by a sinister telephone system that seems to have become an evil intelligence in its own righ...
The Keep
1983
as S.S. Adjutant
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i...
The Secret Adversary
1983
as The German
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue ...
Ascendancy
1983
as Muller
Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I....
Remembrance
1982
as Dutch Matelot
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, h...
Firefox
1982
as KGB Chairman Andropov
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are ...
Priest of Love
1981
as German Officer
Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When...
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
as Colonel Dietrich
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legen...
The Sea Wolves
1980
as Trompeta
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to un...
Rough Cut
1980
as De Gooyer
Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels.
At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength)
1980
as Wolfgang Leonhard
A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends ar...
The Riddle of the Sands
1979
as Kaiser Wilhelm II
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coa...
The House on Garibaldi Street
1979
as Real Estate Agent
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
The Lady Vanishes
1979
as Helmut
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, ...
The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Schwimmer
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Hess
1978
Dramatic account of the deputy fuhrer's infamous flight to Scotland during World War II.
Force 10 from Navarone
1978
as German Soldier
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
March or Die
1977
as First German
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost...
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Hauptsturmführer Fleischer (uncredited)
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious sc...
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape
1976
as Ss Sergeant Major
Graeme Warrack was Divisional Chief Doctor of the 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. With other doctors, medical personn...
Barry Lyndon
1975
as Prince of Tübingen
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Ba...