Werner Dissel
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 26, 1912
- Died
- Jan 22, 2003 (aged 90)
- Place of birth
- Köln, Germany
- Credits
- 81
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
Anatomy
2000Movie
Paulas Großvater
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996TV
Neighbor
Les Misérables
1958Movie
Brevet (uncredited)
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
1971Movie
Alfred Jodl
Coming Out
1989Movie
Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970Movie
Alfred Jodl
Filmography
Anatomy
2000Movie
Paulas Großvater
Picknick im Schnee
1999Movie
Mann mit Decke
In All Friendship
1998TV
Herr Kagel
Der letzte Zeuge
1998TV
Karl Waller
The German Bronx
1997TV
Pfarrer Müller
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996TV
Neighbor
Immenhof
1994TV
Wilhelm
Auf eigene Gefahr
1993TV
Schreiner
Motzki
1993TV
Birne
Andy
1992Movie
Grandfather
Verlorene Landschaft
1992Movie
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
1992Movie
Scheusal
1992Movie
Alfons Pfeiffer
Everything's a Lie
1992Movie
Notary
Unser Haus
1991Movie
Dr.Olbert
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
1991Movie
Hinkelmann
Albert Einstein
1990TV
Max Planck
The Architects
1990Movie
Alter
Der Magdalenenbaum
1989Movie
Opa Panse
Coming Out
1989Movie
Älterer Homosexueller Walter
Späte Ankunft
1989Movie
Kutscher Pankoke
Barfuß ins Bett
1988TV
Opa Jonny
Fallada: The Last Chapter
1988Movie
Doktor
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
1988Movie
Childhood
1987Movie
Lehrer
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
1987Movie
Invalide
Der Traum vom Elch
1986Movie
Paulchen
Das wirkliche Blau
1986Movie
Ernst Thälmann
1986Movie
Emil Kirdorf
Die Schöne und das Tier
1984Movie
Alter
Zeitzünder
1984Movie
Dr. Engelberger
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
1981Movie
Gundelsheimer
A Stortebeker Girl
1980TV
Opa Warning
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
1979Movie
Schiffsarzt
Die Lange Strasse
1979TV
ein Arzt
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
1978Movie
Älterer Herr mit Hund
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
1978Movie
Beethoven - Days in a Life
1976Movie
Grisslinger
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
1976Movie
Otto Haubold
Man against Man
1975Movie
Angler
Till Eulenspiegel
1975Movie
Scholastischer Professor
Am Ende der Welt
1975Movie
Amtsdiener Göpel
Johannes Kepler
1974Movie
Richter
Ulzana
1974Movie
Mexikanischer Arzt
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
1974Movie
Butcher
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
1971Movie
Polizeiruf 110
1971TV
Herr Wolf, Herr Breit, Alfons Seebacher, Otto Masurke
Optimistische Tragödie
1971Movie
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
1971Movie
Alfred Jodl
Pułapka
1971Movie
Runge
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
1970Movie
Alfred Jodl
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970Movie
Die Rosenholzmöbel
1969Movie
Duponchel
Geheimkommando Ciupaga
1968TV
Hauptmann Garzel
Heroin
1968Movie
Zollrat Donkenberg
Stories of That Night
1967Movie
Kilian (segment "Materna")
Zejście do piekła
1966Movie
Rudolf Knoll
Black Panthers
1966Movie
Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Lebende Ware
1966Movie
Erno Brody
Die Tage der Commune
1966Movie
Delegierter
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
1965Movie
Mantek
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
1965TV
Matthes Horka, Opa Schütz, Sanitätsrat
As Long as There’s Life in Me
1965Movie
Bethmann-Hollweg
Pension Boulanka
1964Movie
Dr. Vollmer
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
1963Movie
Herr Merker
Naked Among Wolves
1963Movie
Otto Lange
The Green Monster
1962TV
Dr. Luis Guerra
Entdeckung des Julian Böll
1962Movie
Little Red Riding Hood
1962Movie
Wolf
Ärzte
1962Movie
The Gleiwitz Case
1961Movie
Volksschullehrer
Der Fremde
1961Movie
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
1961Movie
Meteorologe
The Opportunists
1960Movie
Fario
Love's Confusion
1959Movie
Taxifahrer
Before lightning strikes
1959Movie
Silvio O. Schmitt
Ware für Katalonien
1959Movie
Portier
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
1958Movie
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
1958Movie
Rohn
Les Misérables
1958Movie
Brevet (uncredited)
The Captain from Cologne
1956Movie