MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss

Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 at Nuremberg - 27 November 2002 at Baden-Baden) was a German theatre, film and television actor.

The son of a teacher, in the early 1930s Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama. He also took private acting classes with Hans Schlenck, making his stage début in Munich in 1932. He went to appear in various theatre productions in Heidelberg, Königsberg, Bonn, Bremen, Stuttgart and Berlin.

In 1942 he made his film début - he was exempted from military service specifically - in the UFA production die grosse Liebe with Zarah Leander. After the end of the Second World war Preiss returned to the theatre, and from 1949 worked extensively dubbing films into German.

In 1954 he returned to film acting, appearing in Alfred Weidenmann's Canaris. The following year Preiss played the lead role of Claus von Stauffenberg in Falk Harnack's film der 20. July, which dramatised the 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler. This role brought Preiss to popular attention and also the 1956 Federal Film Award.

Sign up to watch Free Wolfgang Preiss Movies

Movies Starring Wolfgang Preiss (120)

Open Air (1996)

In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, including the Orinoco River, from Venezuela to the border of Portuguese Brazil. ...

Watch Now

Dr. M (1990)

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis. ...

Watch Now

Land der Väter, Land der Söhne (1989)

A young journalist researches the life of his father which leads him to path of contradictions until he uncovers a gruelling truth. ...

Watch Now

Mrs. Harris fährt nach Monte Carlo (1989)

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. ...

Watch Now

The Second Victory (1987)

After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him. ...

Watch Now

Forget Mozart (1985)

In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, who considered Mozart a potential revolutionary. Over the corpse, he interrogates them, trying to discover ...

Watch Now

Ghost of Love (1981)

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover. ...

Watch Now

The Formula (1980)

While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established ...

Watch Now

Bloodline (1979)

A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will seemingly stop at nothing to profit. ...

Watch Now

Ike (1979)

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby. ...

Watch Now

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. ...

Watch Now

The Standard (1977)

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, ...

Watch Now

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the pr ...

Watch Now

The Big Delirium (1975)

A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love with Emily, John's mistress. After the death of the father of his hosts, he has the idea of ​​transfor ...

Watch Now

The Master Touch (1972)

A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars. ...

Watch Now

The Salzburg Connection (1972)

An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the ...

Watch Now

Die sexuellen Wünsche der Deutschen (1972)

Educational film about variants of sexuality. ...

Watch Now

The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but i ...

Watch Now

The Fifth Cord (1971)

A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation. ...

Watch Now

Raid on Rommel (1971)

Captain Foster plans on raiding German-occupied Tobruk with hand- picked commandos, but a mixup leaves him with a medical unit led by a Quaker conscientious objector. ...

Watch Now

Playgirl 70 (1969)

Italian comedy. ...

Watch Now

Battle of the Commandos (1969)

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Da ...

Watch Now

Hannibal Brooks (1969)

A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy ...

Watch Now

Anzio (1968)

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously. ...

Watch Now

Tamara (1968)

A journalist gets involved in a murder case in northern Germany. ...

Watch Now

Jack of Diamonds (1967)

The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault. ...

Watch Now

Death on a Rainy Day (1967)

Two French agents fight a Chinese sect that aims to control the American Secretary of Defence via high-tech medicine, so that he would start a world war. ...

Watch Now

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (1967)

Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more to try to stop them. ...

Watch Now

Dead Run (1967)

A thief gets hold of some top secret papers and is chased around Europe by the sinister Organisation. ...

Watch Now

Jungfrau aus zweiter Hand (1967)

Two young Italian guest workers in Germany find a beautiful dead woman one morning on the way to their job. The Kripo quickly determines that the dark-haired, young woman is the well-known sexworker Elena Rossano. The short, brutal and intense life of the ...

Watch Now

Is Paris Burning? (1966)

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 he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, en ...

Watch Now

To Skin a Spy (1966)

A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French. ...

Watch Now

The Spy Who Went Into Hell (1965)

CIA agent Jeff Larson is sent to investigate suspicious activities at a U.S. base located in southern Spain. He discovers the base is being heavily monitored by the KGB via hidden cameras and moles within the base, and he must find a way to ferret the trai ...

Watch Now

Von Ryan's Express (1965)

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding. ...

Watch Now

X-Ray of a Killer (1965)

The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy. ...

Watch Now

100 Horsemen (1964)

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain. ...

Watch Now

The Train (1964)

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon ...

Watch Now

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world. ...

Watch Now

Backfire (1964)

A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend. ...

Watch Now

Frühstück mit dem Tod (1964)

Ted Talbot is a prosecutor in Newtonville. In the course of his work, he accuses Jim Conley of robbing a bank and killing the cashier. Ted's wife Jane takes over Conley's defense. When the court sentences the defendant to death, she files for divorce. Beth ...

Watch Now

Cave of the Living Dead (1964)

The German police cannot solve the mystery of the seven murders which have alarmed the local villagers. They call in Inspector Doren of Interpol, and the only clue the Chief Constable can give the detective is the fact that, each time a murder was committe ...

Watch Now

The Cardinal (1963)

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. ...

Watch Now

The Mad Executioners (1963)

A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum. ...

Watch Now

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (1963)

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 city. ...

Watch Now

Das tödliche Patent (1963)

Charles, a talented but poor chemist, has become a wealthy man overnight. The industry is all about his new invention. But the next day, his wife suddenly dies. Nobody suspects anything bad at first, but then Detective Inspector Morland shows up and begins ...

Watch Now

The Black Cobra (1963)

After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence. ...

Watch Now

The Longest Day (1962)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied ...

Watch Now

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse (1962)

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies. ...

Watch Now

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany. ...

Watch Now

The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)

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 in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an omi ...

Watch Now

Lafayette (1962)

The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence. ...

Watch Now

Riviera-Story (1961)

Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg home and go on vacation to the Côte d'Azur to revitalize their relationship. But Arthur Dahlberg, even o ...

Watch Now

The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961)

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murd ...

Watch Now

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)

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 preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime... ...

Watch Now

Mill of the Stone Women (1960)

Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other notorious women from history. Professor Gregorius Wahl, owner of the windmill, warns Hans to stay away from his m ...

Watch Now

Mistress of the World - Part II (1960)

Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals ...

Watch Now

Mistress of the World - Part I (1960)

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped ...

Watch Now

Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen (1960)

The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacu ...

Watch Now

Roses for the Prosecutor (1959)

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 escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living ...

Watch Now

Doctor Without Scruples (1959)

A renowned physician falls under scrutiny when it's discovered his assistant is a former Nazi. ...

Watch Now

Gorilla's Waltz (1959)

This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover ...

Watch Now

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? (1959)

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war. ...

Watch Now

Prisoner of the Volga (1959)

A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890. ...

Watch Now

The Girl with the Cat Eyes (1958)

A police commissioner investigates an auto theft ring in Hamburg following the murder of an inspector. ...

Watch Now

Grabenplatz 17 (1958)

Murder mystery about the disappearance of a boy who has leukaemia following the murder of his mother, which he witnessed. ...

Watch Now

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino (1958)

German Paratroopers are ordered to hold the line at Monte Cassino in Italy, and halt the allied advance on Rome. ...

Watch Now

The Italians They Are Crazy (1958)

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours. ...

Watch Now

Ich war ihm hörig (1958)

Anette Klinger, a widowed and lonely factory owner, one day meets the gas station attendant Nikolei Stein. She falls in love with him, Nikolei knows how to cuddle up to her. But in reality the man is an unscrupulous fraudster who is after Anette's money. ...

Watch Now

Sharks and Little Fish (1957)

Four young German naval cadets begin their military service in 1940; only one of them will survive. ...

Watch Now

Johannisnacht (1956)

The rich landowner, Christian falls in love with the much younger Irene and engaged with her. At a party, learns Christian's son Lorenz, the fiancée of his father to know. The two young people feel strongly attracted to each other. ...

Watch Now

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 questions, they soon assign them to the insane asylum Dallendorf. A co-patient believes she recognizes th ...

Watch Now

Before Sundown (1956)

Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautiful Inken Peters (Annemarie Dueringer). ...

Watch Now

Der Cornet (1955)

Adventure film based on a Rilke poem. ...

Watch Now

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1955)

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944. ...

Watch Now

Canaris (1954)

Admiral Canaris is chief of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. His department is quite successful and Hitler grants him all the money he wants for new developments. Still he's a thorn in the side of the Nazi chiefs, since he's not as unscrupulous as ...

Watch Now

The Crew of the Dora (1943)

German film about Luftwaffe pilots. It depicts a love triangle involving two of them being overcome by their participation in battle together. ...

Watch Now

The Great Love (1942)

The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Pau ...

Watch Now