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
Anatomy (2000)
as Paulas Großvater
Les Misérables (1958)
as Brevet (uncredited)
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge (1970)
as Alfred Jodl
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow (1971)
as Alfred Jodl
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin (1971)
Actor
Naked Among Wolves (1963)
as Otto Lange
Just Don't Think I'll Cry (1965)
as Mantek
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough (1970)
Actor
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes (1963)
as Herr Merker
Beethoven - Days in a Life (1976)
as Grisslinger
Before lightning strikes (1959)
as Silvio O. Schmitt
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot (1961)
as Meteorologe
As Long as There’s Life in Me (1965)
as Bethmann-Hollweg
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild (1978)
as Älterer Herr mit Hund
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (1974)
as Butcher
The Captain from Cologne (1956)
Actor
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell (1979)
as Schiffsarzt
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth (1981)
as Gundelsheimer
Der Prozeß wird vertagt (1958)
Actor
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers (1992)
Actor
Die Tage der Commune (1966)
as Delegierter
Childhood (1987)
as Lehrer
Die Schöne und das Tier (1984)
as Alter
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen... (1987)
as Invalide
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse (1991)
as Hinkelmann
Ulzana (1974)
as Mexikanischer Arzt
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ (1958)
as Rohn
Entdeckung des Julian Böll (1962)
Actor
Little Red Riding Hood (1962)
as Wolf
Love's Confusion (1959)
as Taxifahrer
Picknick im Schnee (1999)
as Mann mit Decke
Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
as Scholastischer Professor
Späte Ankunft (1989)
as Kutscher Pankoke
Coming Out (1989)
as Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Am Ende der Welt (1975)
as Amtsdiener Göpel
Der Traum vom Elch (1986)
as Paulchen
Das wirkliche Blau (1986)
Actor
Fallada: The Last Chapter (1988)
as Doktor
Ware für Katalonien (1959)
as Portier
Everything's a Lie (1992)
as Notary
Pension Boulanka (1964)
as Dr. Vollmer
Black Panthers (1966)
as Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Nachts schlafen die Ratten (1988)
Actor
Johannes Kepler (1974)
as Richter
Stories of That Night (1967)
as Kilian (segment "Materna")
The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
as Volksschullehrer
Verlorene Landschaft (1992)
Actor
The Architects (1990)
as Alter
The Opportunists (1960)
as Fario
Ernst Thälmann (1986)
as Emil Kirdorf
Lebende Ware (1966)
as Erno Brody
Der Magdalenenbaum (1989)
as Opa Panse
Ärzte (1962)
Actor
Heroin (1968)
as Zollrat Donkenberg
Unser Haus (1991)
as Dr.Olbert
Optimistische Tragödie (1971)
Actor
Man against Man (1975)
as Angler
Zejście do piekła (1966)
as Rudolf Knoll
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter (1978)
Actor
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag (1976)
as Otto Haubold
Der Fremde (1961)
Actor
Pułapka (1971)
as Runge
Zeitzünder (1984)
as Dr. Engelberger
Andy (1992)
as Grandfather
Scheusal (1992)
as Alfons Pfeiffer
Die Rosenholzmöbel (1969)
as Duponchel