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Wolfgang Preiss (27 February 1910 – 27 November 2002) was a German theatre, film and television actor. The son of a teacher, Preiss studied philosophy, German and drama in the early 1930s. 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 specifically exempted from military service - 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. Juli'', 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 was largely typecast in the role of the upright and obligation-conscious German officer to the other A-list actor playing the fanatic (i.e. Paul Scofield in ''The Train''), a part he played in many films, later reprising it in numerous international productions, predominantly in Italy and the USA, while occasionally playing a more typically cynical or brutal Nazi officer. Preiss appeared in such productions as ''The Longest Day'' (1962), Otto Preminger's ''The Cardinal'' (1963), and with Jean-Paul Belmondo in ''Is Paris Burning?'' (1966). He starred alongside Burt Lancaster in John Frankenheimer's ''The Train'' (1964), Frank Sinatra in ''Von Ryan's Express'' (1965), Robert Mitchum in ''Anzio'' (1968), with Richard Burton, in the title role of Erwin Rommel in ''Raid on Rommel'' (1971), and ''The Boys From Brazil'' (1978) with Gregory Peck. He also appeared in several Italian language films, credited as "Luppo Prezzo", and played Field Marshal Von Rundstedt in Richard Attenborough's all-star war 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 played in 1960 (following Rudolf Klein-Rogge) in 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, notably playing General Walther von Brauchitsch in the American TV mini-series ''Winds of War'' and ''War and Remembrance'', based on the books of Herman Wouk. In 1987 Preiss received a second Federal Film Award for his outstanding work in film. In film dubbing, Preiss provided the voice for such actors as 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''. ==Selected filmography== * ''The Crew of the Dora'' (1943) * ''Canaris'' (1954) * ''Der 20. Juli'' (1955) as von Stauffenberg * ''Der Cornet - Die Weise von Liebe und Tod'' (1956) * ''Before Sundown'' (1956) * ' (1957) * ' (1958) * ''The Green Devils of Monte Cassino'' (1958) * ''Prisoner of the Volga'' (1959) * ''Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?'' (1959) * ''Mistress of the World'' (1960) * ''Mill of the Stone Women'' (1960) * ''The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse'' (1960) * ''The Return of Doctor Mabuse'' (1961) * ''Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt'' (1962) * ' (1962) * ''The Counterfeit Traitor'' (1962) * ' (1962) * ''The Longest Day'' (1962) * ''The Black Cobra'' (1963) * ''Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse'' (1963) * ''The Cardinal'' (1963) * ' (1964) * ''The Secret of Dr. Mabuse'' (1964) * ''Backfire'' (1964) * ''The Train'' (1964) * ''100 Horsemen'' (1964) * ''Von Ryan's Express'' (1965) * ' (1965) * ' (1966) * ''Is Paris Burning?'' (1966) * ''Spy Today, Die Tomorrow'' (1967) * ' (1967) * ''Jack of Diamonds'' (1967) * ''Anzio'' (1968) as Kesselring * ''Hannibal Brooks'' (1969) * ''Battle of the Commandos'' (1969) * ''Raid on Rommel'' (1971) as Rommel * ''The Fifth Cord'' (1971) * ''Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate'' (1971) * ''The Salzburg Connection'' (1972) * ''The Master Touch'' (1972) * ''The Big Delirium'' (1975) * ''A Bridge Too Far'' (1977) as von Rundstedt * ' (1977) * ''The Boys from Brazil'' (1978) * ''Bloodline'' (1979) * ''The Formula'' (1980) * ''Fantasma d'amore'' (1981) * ''The Second Victory'' (1986) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wolfgang Preiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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