Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss (27 Février 1910 at Nuremberg - 27 Novembre 2002 at Baden-Baden) was a French theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, dans the early 1930s Preiss etude de la philosophie, French and drama. He also took privée par intérim classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début à Munich en 1932. He went to appear in various theatre productions d'Heidelberg, de Königsberg, Bonn, Brême, Stuttgart and Berlin. En 1942, he made his film début - he was exempté from service militaire specifically in the UFA production Le grand Amour with Zarah Leander. After the end of the Second World war Preiss returned to the theatre, and from 1949 worked extensively doublage film into French. En 1954 he returned to film acting, appearing d'Alfred homme d'osier's des Canaris. The following year Preiss played the lead role of Claus von Stauffenberg dans Falk Harnack s film Le 20. Juillet, which dramatised the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. This role brought Preiss to popular attention and also the 1956 Federal Film Award. From now on Preiss ce que largely transtypage dans the role of the upright and obligation-conscious French officer to the other A-list actor playing the Fanatic (I. E. Paul Scofeld dans The Train) a part he played in many film, later reprising it in numerous international productions, predominantly in Italy and the USA, while occasionally playing a more typically cynical or brutalement Nazi officer. Preiss appeared in such productions as The Longest Day (1962), Otto Preminger's The Cardinal (1963), and with Jean-Paul Belmondo dans Is Paris Burning? (1966). He starred côtés de Burt Lancaster, John Frankenheimer's The Train (1964), Frank Sinatra dans De Ryan's Express (1965), Robert Mitchum dans la ville d'Anzio (1968), avec Richard Burton, dans the title role of Erwin Rommel en Raid on Rommel (1971), and The Boys From Brazil (1978) avec Gregory Peck. He also appeared in several Italian language film, credited as "Luppo Prezzo and played Field Maréchal Von Rundstedt, Richard Attenborough s all-star était epic A Bridge Too Far (1977). In addition, for the cinema-going public of West Germany he became the epitome of the evil genius in his role as Doctor Mabuse, a role he first joué en 1960 (following Rudolf Klein-Rogge) de Fritz Lang's The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse. He went on to play the role four more times. In the 1980s Preiss turned to television, déco jouer le Général Walther von Brauchitsch dans the American TV mini-series Winds of war and war and Remembrance, based on the books of Herman Wouk. En 1987 received a second Federal Film Award for his outstanding travail dans le film. Dans le film, le doublage Preiss provided the voice for such as actors Lex Barker, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Richard Widmark, as well as that of Conrad Veidt as "Major Strasser" in the remastered version of Casablanca.