Werner Dissel
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Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a German actor, director, and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum Reich. Dissel was caught and imprisoned from 1937 to 1939. During his time in prison, the Gestapo arranged for Boysen to visit him, in the hope that something incriminating would be said while the two would be left alone in a tapped room; Boysen passed a cigarette pack to Dissel, on which he wrote that the police had no concrete evidence against him. After his release, Boysen convinced him to volunteer into the Wehrmacht, so he could "destroy Hitler's army from within". Dissel joined the armed forces shortly before the German Invasion of Poland, and served in a military meteorology unit. At 1942, he barely avoided an arrest during the Gestapo's crackdown on the Red Orchestra. After the war, he openly joined the KPD and decided to pursue his old dream to become an actor. Dissel joined a cabaret in Wiesbaden, and in 1950 emigrated to East Germany. There he appeared in numerous plays, TV shows and movies. He worked with the Berliner Ensemble, DEFA and DFF. He continued his acting career after the reunification. In total, he appeared in more than a hundred film and television productions. He received the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic at a collective awarding in October 1986. Source: Article "Werner Dissel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known for
Credits
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin (1971)
Actor
Les Misérables (1958)
as Brevet (uncredited)
Anatomy (2000)
as Paulas Großvater
Naked Among Wolves (1963)
as Otto Lange
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge (1970)
as Alfred Jodl
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough (1970)
Actor
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen... (1987)
as Invalide
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow (1971)
as Alfred Jodl
Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
as Scholastischer Professor
Ware für Katalonien (1959)
as Portier
Coming Out (1989)
as Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Picknick im Schnee (1999)
as Mann mit Decke
Little Red Riding Hood (1962)
as Wolf
The Architects (1990)
as Alter
Everything's a Lie (1992)
as Notary
The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
as Volksschullehrer
Fallada: The Last Chapter (1988)
as Doktor
Ernst Thälmann (1986)
as Emil Kirdorf
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ (1958)
as Rohn
As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965)
as Bethmann-Hollweg
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers (1992)
Actor
Der Prozeß wird vertagt (1958)
Actor
Optimistische Tragödie (1971)
Actor
Ulzana (1974)
as Mexikanischer Arzt
Ärzte (1962)
Actor
Zejście do piekła (1966)
as Rudolf Knoll
The Captain from Cologne (1956)
Actor
Before lightning strikes (1959)
as Silvio O. Schmitt
Beethoven - Days in a Life (1976)
as Grisslinger
Johannes Kepler (1974)
as Richter
Späte Ankunft (1989)
as Kutscher Pankoke
Stories of That Night (1967)
as Kilian (segment "Materna")
Love's Confusion (1959)
as Taxifahrer
Just Don't Think I'll Cry (1965)
as Mantek
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse (1991)
as Hinkelmann
Das wirkliche Blau (1986)
Actor
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes (1963)
as Herr Merker
Childhood (1987)
as Lehrer
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild (1978)
as Älterer Herr mit Hund
Die Schöne und das Tier (1984)
as Alter
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter (1978)
Actor
Black Panthers (1966)
as Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth (1981)
as Gundelsheimer
Unser Haus (1991)
as Dr.Olbert
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell (1979)
as Schiffsarzt
Verlorene Landschaft (1992)
Actor
Scheusal (1992)
as Alfons Pfeiffer
Der Traum vom Elch (1986)
as Paulchen
Pension Boulanka (1964)
as Dr. Vollmer
Nachts schlafen die Ratten (1988)
Actor
The Opportunists (1960)
as Fario
Lebende Ware (1966)
as Erno Brody
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (1974)
as Butcher
Der Magdalenenbaum (1989)
as Opa Panse
Zeitzünder (1984)
as Dr. Engelberger
Entdeckung des Julian Böll (1962)
Actor
Der Fremde (1961)
Actor
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag (1976)
as Otto Haubold
Andy (1992)
as Grandfather
Pułapka (1971)
as Runge
Am Ende der Welt (1975)
as Amtsdiener Göpel
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot (1961)
as Meteorologe
Man against Man (1975)
as Angler
Die Tage der Commune (1966)
as Delegierter
Heroin (1968)
as Zollrat Donkenberg
Die Rosenholzmöbel (1969)
as Duponchel