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Werner Dissel
Köln, Germany
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 pho…
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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.
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2000
Anatomy
Movie Paulas Großvater
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1999
Picknick im Schnee
Movie Mann mit Decke
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1998
In aller Freundschaft
TV show Herr Kagel
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1998
Der letzte Zeuge
TV show Karl Waller
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1997
The German Bronx
TV show Pfarrer Müller
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1996
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
TV show Neighbor
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1994
Immenhof
TV show Wilhelm
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1993
Auf eigene Gefahr
TV show Schreiner
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1993
Motzki
TV show Birne
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1992
Andy
Movie Grandfather
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1992
Verlorene Landschaft
Movie
- 1992
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1992
Scheusal
Movie Alfons Pfeiffer
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1992
Everything's a Lie
Movie Notary
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1991
Unser Haus
Movie Dr.Olbert
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1991
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
Movie Hinkelmann
More credits
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1990
Albert Einstein
TV show Max Planck
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1990
The Architects
Movie Alter
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1989
Der Magdalenenbaum
Movie Opa Panse
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1989
Coming Out
Movie Älterer Homosexueller Walter
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1989
Späte Ankunft
Movie Kutscher Pankoke
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1988
Barfuß ins Bett
TV show Opa Jonny
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1988
Fallada: The Last Chapter
Movie Doktor
- 1988
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1987
Childhood
Movie Lehrer
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1987
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Movie Invalide
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1986
Der Traum vom Elch
Movie Paulchen
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1986
Das wirkliche Blau
Movie
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1986
Ernst Thälmann
Movie Emil Kirdorf
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1984
Die Schöne und das Tier
Movie Alter
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1984
Zeitzünder
Movie Dr. Engelberger
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1981
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
Movie Gundelsheimer
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1980
A Stortebeker Girl
TV show Opa Warning
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1979
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Movie Schiffsarzt
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1979
Die Lange Strasse
TV show ein Arzt
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1978
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
Movie Älterer Herr mit Hund
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1978
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
Movie
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1976
Beethoven - Days in a Life
Movie Grisslinger
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1976
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
Movie Otto Haubold
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1975
Man against Man
Movie Angler
