
About
Werner Dissel
Overview
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.
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Known for
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2000 | Anatomy | Actor | Paulas Großvater | 59 Average |
1999 | Picknick im Schnee | Actor | Mann mit Decke | 59 Average |
1994 | Immenhof | Actor | Wilhelm | 70 Good |
1992 | Andy | Actor | Grandfather | N/A N/A |
1992 | Verlorene Landschaft | Actor | 59 Average |
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1992 | Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers | Actor | 58 Average |
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1992 | Scheusal | Actor | Alfons Pfeiffer | N/A N/A |
1992 | Everything's a Lie | Actor | Notary | 58 Average |
1991 | Unser Haus | Actor | Dr.Olbert | N/A N/A |
1991 | Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse | Actor | Hinkelmann | N/A N/A |
1990 | Albert Einstein | Actor | Max Planck | N/A N/A |
1990 | The Architects | Actor | Alter | 59 Average |
1989 | Der Magdalenenbaum | Actor | Opa Panse | N/A N/A |
1989 | Coming Out | Actor | Älterer Homosexueller Walter | 59 Average |
1989 | Späte Ankunft | Actor | Kutscher Pankoke | N/A N/A |
1988 | Barfuß ins Bett | Actor | Opa Jonny | N/A N/A |
1988 | Fallada: The Last Chapter | Actor | Doktor | 58 Average |
1988 | Nachts schlafen die Ratten | Actor | 58 Average |
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1987 | Childhood | Actor | Lehrer | 58 Average |
1987 | Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen... | Actor | Invalide | 58 Average |
1986 | Der Traum vom Elch | Actor | Paulchen | 58 Average |
1986 | Das wirkliche Blau | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1986 | Ernst Thälmann | Actor | Emil Kirdorf | N/A N/A |
1984 | Die Schöne und das Tier | Actor | Alter | N/A N/A |
1984 | Zeitzünder | Actor | Dr. Engelberger | N/A N/A |
1981 | Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1981 | Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth | Actor | Gundelsheimer | N/A N/A |
1980 | A Stortebeker Girl | Actor | Opa Warning | N/A N/A |
1979 | Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell | Actor | Schiffsarzt | N/A N/A |
1978 | Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild | Actor | Älterer Herr mit Hund | 58 Average |
1978 | Jörg Ratgeb, Painter | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1976 | Beethoven - Days in a Life | Actor | Grisslinger | 58 Average |
1976 | Jede Woche Hochzeitstag | Actor | Otto Haubold | N/A N/A |
1975 | Man against Man | Actor | Angler | 58 Average |
1975 | Till Eulenspiegel | Actor | Scholastischer Professor | 58 Average |
1975 | Am Ende der Welt | Actor | Amtsdiener Göpel | N/A N/A |
1974 | Johannes Kepler | Actor | Richter | N/A N/A |
1974 | Ulzana | Actor | Mexikanischer Arzt | 58 Average |
1974 | Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui | Actor | Butcher | N/A N/A |
1971 | Optimistische Tragödie | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1971 | Pułapka | Actor | Runge | 58 Average |
1970 | Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow | Actor | Alfred Jodl | 58 Average |
1969 | Die Rosenholzmöbel | Actor | Duponchel | N/A N/A |
1968 | Liberation: The Fire Bulge | Actor | Alfred Jodl | 59 Average |
1968 | Geheimkommando Ciupaga | Actor | Hauptmann Garzel | N/A N/A |
1968 | Heroin | Actor | Zollrat Donkenberg | 58 Average |
1967 | Stories of That Night | Actor | Kilian (segment "Materna") | 58 Average |
1966 | Zejście do piekła | Actor | Rudolf Knoll | N/A N/A |
1966 | Black Panthers | Actor | Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann | N/A N/A |
1966 | Lebende Ware | Actor | Erno Brody | 59 Average |
1966 | Die Tage der Commune | Actor | Delegierter | N/A N/A |
1965 | Just Don't Think I'll Cry | Actor | Mantek | 58 Average |
1965 | As Long as There’s Life in Me | Actor | Bethmann-Hollweg | 58 Average |
1964 | Pension Boulanka | Actor | Dr. Vollmer | 58 Average |
1963 | Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes | Actor | Herr Merker | 58 Average |
1963 | Naked Among Wolves | Actor | Otto Lange | 58 Average |
1962 | The Green Monster | Actor | Dr. Luis Guerra | N/A N/A |
1962 | Entdeckung des Julian Böll | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1962 | Little Red Riding Hood | Actor | Wolf | 58 Average |
1962 | Ärzte | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1961 | The Gleiwitz Case | Actor | Volksschullehrer | 58 Average |
1961 | Der Fremde | Actor | N/A N/A |
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1961 | Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot | Actor | Meteorologe | N/A N/A |
1960 | The Opportunists | Actor | Fario | 59 Average |
1959 | Love's Confusion | Actor | Taxifahrer | 58 Average |
1959 | Before lightning strikes | Actor | Silvio O. Schmitt | N/A N/A |
1959 | Ware für Katalonien | Actor | Portier | 58 Average |
1958 | Der Prozeß wird vertagt | Actor | 58 Average |
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1958 | Ein Mädchen von 16 ½ | Actor | Rohn | N/A N/A |
1958 | Les Misérables | Actor | Brevet (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
1956 | The Captain from Cologne | Actor | 58 Average |