Günter Meisner

Günter Meisner

Born: April 18, 1926
Died: December 5, 1994
in Bremen, Germany
Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German TV and film character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Mr. Slugworth in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films.

Movies for Günter Meisner...

Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
Title: Eine Mutter kämpft um ihren Sohn
Character: Wegener
Released: December 16, 1994
Type: Movie
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Title: Zwei alte Hasen
Character: Nachtwächter
Released: November 19, 1994
Type: TV
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Faraway, So Close!
Title: Faraway, So Close!
Character: Forger
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.
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Ruby Cairo
Title: Ruby Cairo
Character: Herr Bruchner
Released: December 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
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Moon Child
Title: Moon Child
Character: Abuelo militar
Released: April 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as Child of the Moon.
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Te Rua
Title: Te Rua
Character: Professor Biederstedt
Released: July 20, 1991
Type: Movie
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.
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Leporella
Title: Leporella
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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The Man Inside
Title: The Man Inside
Character: Richter
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. Once there, he sees how they don't just report the news, but manufacture it to suit the personal political agenda of the paper's leaders.
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The Saint: The Big Bang
Title: The Saint: The Big Bang
Character: Kuhler
Released: July 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Simon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover.
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Estación Central
Title: Estación Central
Character: El Amigo de Alex
Released: February 12, 1990
Type: Movie
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The Little People
Title: The Little People
Character: Schneider
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Roselyne and the Lions
Title: Roselyne and the Lions
Character: Klint
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his job, the young lovers journey across France finding odd jobs at several circuses. In Germany, they fall under the tutelage of ageing big cat trainer, Klint, and while they are closer to realising their dreams, they find that their success drivers them part.
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Bride of the Orient
Title: Bride of the Orient
Character: Priest Barmettler
Released: March 2, 1989
Type: Movie
After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
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Magdalene
Title: Magdalene
Character: Prior
Released: November 25, 1988
Type: Movie
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to change her situation and make a new life for her, and while doing so, they fall in love. Mohr struggles with his feelings for her, versus his commitment to God. Meanwhile, the Prior, Mohr's superior, whose corrupt dealings with the Baron von Seidl are threatened by Mohr's integrity and honesty, works (unsuccessfully) to falsely accuse Mohr of sexual misconduct with Magdalene, and thereby remove him from office. Meanwhile, Mohr and local schoolteacher Franz Gruber compose the hymn "Silent Night".
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
Title: The Case of Mr. Spalt
Character: Bobby Steinbeck
Released: March 25, 1988
Type: Movie
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film.
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Title: Hals über Kopf
Character: Sir Reginald Mackintosh
Released: December 27, 1987
Type: TV
Hals über Kopf is a German television series.
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Title: Praxis Bülowbogen
Character: Berti
Released: October 6, 1987
Type: TV
Praxis Bülowbogen is a German television series.
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In a Glass Cage
Title: In a Glass Cage
Character: Klaus
Released: December 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Klaus, a Nazi doctor who used his position as a means to molest young boys, escapes to Spain after the war and returns to his depraved ways. Driven mad by his inability to control his pedophilic urges, Klaus tries to kill himself, but fails and ends up completely incapacitated in an iron lung. When a mysterious teenager named Angelo arrives at his home claiming to be a nurse, Klaus happily hires the boy as his new attendant – a decision he soon regrets.
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Title: Großstadtrevier
Released: December 16, 1986
Type: TV
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg.
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Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle
Title: Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle
Character: Sir Ralph Whitecombe
Released: May 18, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Liebling Kreuzberg
Character: Staatsanwalt
Released: February 17, 1986
Type: TV
Liebling Kreuzberg was a television series on ARD, which was sent in five seasons with a total of 58 episodes the first time from 1986 to 1998. The scripts of seasons one through three and five were from Jurek, of his friend Manfred Krug wrote the role of idiosyncratic Berlin attorney Robert favorite on the body, the fourth season was written by Ulrich Plenzdorf. Director Heinz Schirk, Werner Masten led and Vera Loebner. Producing Series transmitters were the SFB, the NDR and WDR. The music of the first season was. Hans-Martin Majewski, in the later seasons of Klaus Doldinger.
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Gestatten, Bestatter
Title: Gestatten, Bestatter
Character: Herr Abendroth
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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Drei gegen drei
Title: Drei gegen drei
Character: Professor Holl
Released: November 28, 1985
Type: Movie
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Der Mord mit der Schere
Title: Der Mord mit der Schere
Released: July 25, 1984
Type: Movie
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Under the Volcano
Title: Under the Volcano
Character: Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
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Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
Title: Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
Character: History teacher Borwald
Released: August 26, 1983
Type: Movie
The Prinz-Eugen-Gymnasium is in a crisis, which is not least due to the insolent students who lack any respect for the staff and the chaotic principal. Three new teachers are supposed to bring discipline and order, but due to a mix-up they are exchanged for three escaped lunatics from a nearby asylum who take on these jobs. One of the three is constantly triggered by the duck dance to freak out, a second is a bosom grabber and the third thinks he is an alien who would like to go home. At the same time, a new student joins the group, the smart checker Jürgen, who immediately falls in love with Karin, the kitchen assistant at the local snack bar. Chaos soon breaks out...
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Title: The Winds of War
Character: Adolf Hitler
Released: February 6, 1983
Type: TV
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
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Ace of Aces
Title: Ace of Aces
Character: Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler
Released: October 27, 1982
Type: Movie
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
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The Man on the Wall
Title: The Man on the Wall
Character: Dr. Steiner
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
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Night Crossing
Title: Night Crossing
Character: Major Koerner
Released: February 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
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Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
Title: Zwei Tote im Sender und Don Carlos im PoGl
Character: Maskenbildner
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Silas
Character: Fabian Fedder
Released: December 25, 1981
Type: TV
Silas was a 1981 ZDF Adventure TV mini-series based on the Danish children's book „Silas og den sorte hoppe“ by Cecil Bødker who kept on writing instalments until 2001. The series was Patrick Bach's debut and because the series did so well he also starred the very next year in another adventure series about a young orphan: Jack Holborn Silas was a German production and filmed solely in German. Still it received attention beyond German-speaking countries and consequently the successor Jack Holborn involved international producers and was filmed in English.
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Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne
Title: Das waren noch Zeiten - Kleine Geschichten von Kalke & Söhne
Character: Herr Klein
Released: January 4, 1981
Type: Movie
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Gibbi - Westgermany
Title: Gibbi - Westgermany
Character: Patient
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: I.O.B. Spezialauftrag
Character: Hanno Griesser
Released: March 10, 1980
Type: TV
I.O.B. Spezialauftrag' was a German crime television series after Percy Stuart and Sergeant Berry that featured an American hero.
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The American Success Company
Title: The American Success Company
Character: Maitre 'd
Released: March 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A husband is humiliated at home and at work. He decides he has had enough of it and hires a prostitute to help him get back at his boss, wife and friends and get a lot richer in the process.
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Meister Timpe
Title: Meister Timpe
Character: Herr Rahm
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Die Paulskirche
Title: Die Paulskirche
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Ticket of No Return
Title: Ticket of No Return
Character: Direktor Willi
Released: October 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
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Avalanche Express
Title: Avalanche Express
Character: Muehler
Released: September 27, 1979
Type: Movie
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
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Breakthrough
Title: Breakthrough
Character: SS Officer
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut Griem) orders Sergeant Steiner (Richard Burton) to blow up a railway tunnel to prevent Russian forces from using it. Steiner's platoon fails in its mission by coming up against a Russian tank. Steiner then takes a furlough to Paris just as the Allies launch their invasion of Normandy.
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Wie Rauch und Staub
Title: Wie Rauch und Staub
Released: January 4, 1979
Type: Movie
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Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
Title: Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl
Character: Berg
Released: December 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of their belongings. Even young Anna's pink toy rabbit has been confiscated along with the family's other possessions. Initially the family lives in Switzerland, but even here they come to feel the antisemitism. And when money becomes scarce, and Anna's father can't find work as a journalist and Jew, they move on to France, where they are no long submitted to racial discrimination, but struggle financially. Eventually the entire family manages to go to England.
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The Boys from Brazil
Title: The Boys from Brazil
Character: Farnbach
Released: October 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Ein Mord am Lietzensee
Title: Ein Mord am Lietzensee
Character: Mölling
Released: August 11, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Serpent's Egg
Title: The Serpent's Egg
Character: Convict
Released: October 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
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Heinrich
Title: Heinrich
Released: October 13, 1977
Type: Movie
The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.
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Title: Ein Mann kam im August
Character: Oberinspektor Krieg
Released: March 20, 1977
Type: TV
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The Brothers
Title: The Brothers
Character: Pfarrer
Released: January 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Robert Hoffman
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Title: Direktion City
Character: Herr Zilkowski
Released: September 13, 1976
Type: TV
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Inside Out
Title: Inside Out
Character: Schmidt
Released: October 19, 1975
Type: Movie
An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidden.
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Depressionen
Title: Depressionen
Character: Dr. Müller
Released: July 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Diary of a Disease - prophesied that all psychiatric experience speaks against the described spontaneous healing. The next depression is determined.
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A Happy Family Life
Title: A Happy Family Life
Character: Hektiker
Released: June 30, 1975
Type: Movie
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Flesh of the Orchid
Title: Flesh of the Orchid
Character: Advokat
Released: January 29, 1975
Type: Movie
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
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Title: Jo Gaillard
Character: Hessling
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
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Between Wars
Title: Between Wars
Character: Karl Schneider
Released: November 15, 1974
Type: Movie
This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up residence at Callan Park Asylum. The film touches on issues of psychoanalysis and physical treatments, such as fever treatment.
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Borsalino and Co.
Title: Borsalino and Co.
Character: Doctor
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
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The Odessa File
Title: The Odessa File
Character: General Greifer
Released: October 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Title: The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Character: Borsig
Released: March 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...
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Werwölfe
Title: Werwölfe
Released: November 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Film about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2.
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The Battle of Sutjeska
Title: The Battle of Sutjeska
Character: German General
Released: July 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
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Title: Lokaltermin
Character: Schauspieler Lorbeer
Released: April 17, 1973
Type: TV
Lokaltermin is a German television series.
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Title: Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen
Character: Jackson
Released: January 20, 1972
Type: TV
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Ludwig L
Title: Ludwig L
Character: Der Betrunkene
Released: November 11, 1971
Type: Movie
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Title: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Character: Mr. Slugworth
Released: June 29, 1971
Type: Movie
When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Viebich
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Bulldozer-Fahrer
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Hauser's Memory
Title: Hauser's Memory
Character: Koroweiw
Released: November 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
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Schlagzeilen über einen Mord
Title: Schlagzeilen über einen Mord
Character: Taxifahrer #3
Released: February 11, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Bridge at Remagen
Title: The Bridge at Remagen
Character: SS Officer
Released: June 25, 1969
Type: Movie
In March of 1945, as the War in Europe is coming to a close, fighting erupts between German and American troops at the last remaining bridgehead across the Rhine.
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Das Haus mit den sieben Stockwerken
Title: Das Haus mit den sieben Stockwerken
Character: Krankenpfleger
Released: October 18, 1968
Type: Movie
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The College Girl Murders
Title: The College Girl Murders
Character: Greaves
Released: August 11, 1967
Type: Movie
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
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Lobby Doll und die Sitzstangenaffäre
Title: Lobby Doll und die Sitzstangenaffäre
Released: June 20, 1967
Type: Movie
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Funeral in Berlin
Title: Funeral in Berlin
Character: Kreutzman
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
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The Quiller Memorandum
Title: The Quiller Memorandum
Character: Hassler
Released: November 10, 1966
Type: Movie
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: SS Commandant Pantin
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
Title: Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
Character: Fotograf
Released: January 29, 1966
Type: Movie
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Ein Tag - Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939
Title: Ein Tag - Bericht aus einem deutschen Konzentrationslager 1939
Released: May 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Germany, January 1939: a day in a concentration camp. Subjected to harsh military discipline the hungry prisoners are digging a huge hole and filling it up again. Several are tortured, die of exhaustion, in the electric fence, or are shot.
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Schaufensterpuppen
Title: Schaufensterpuppen
Character: Herr Schneider
Released: July 4, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Foggy Night Murderer
Title: The Foggy Night Murderer
Character: Kriminalassistent Behrend
Released: May 22, 1964
Type: Movie
The Foggy Night Murderer
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Die Wölfe
Title: Die Wölfe
Character: Buquet
Released: June 11, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Black Cobra
Title: The Black Cobra
Character: Wunderlich ('Mr. Green')
Released: May 16, 1963
Type: Movie
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence.
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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Tankwart
Released: April 4, 1963
Type: TV
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Title: The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Character: Henry - Kurzschluß (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and no one knows the culprit. A detective goes to visit the Doctor to find some sort of clues to the robberies.
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Der Kronanwalt
Title: Der Kronanwalt
Character: Mr. White
Released: June 20, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Counterfeit Traitor
Title: The Counterfeit Traitor
Character: Priest
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
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Operation Caviar
Title: Operation Caviar
Character: Redner
Released: October 18, 1961
Type: Movie
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.
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Question 7
Title: Question 7
Character: Schmidt
Released: September 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes.
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The Miracle of Father Malachia
Title: The Miracle of Father Malachia
Character: Prediger
Released: July 3, 1961
Type: Movie
"Wunderbar" takes on a new meaning in this routine satire by Bernhard Wicki about a bar that is miraculously transported by God Himself to a nearby, new location on an island. The nature of the miracle is a bit strange, but it comes in answer to Pater Malachias' prayers to get the sin-ridden place out of the center of the city. The good and naive Malachias is subtly played by Horst Bollimann. Once this miracle of relocation has occurred, the sharks and entrepreneurs, who would bilk both the faithful and the curiosity-seekers alike, crop up like an unwanted epidemic. The mercenary and the sacred clash, as many try to find deeper meaning in what has happened, and Pater Malachias starts to doubt the wisdom of his original prayer.
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Title: Das Fernsehgericht tagt
Character: Berthold Zeller
Released: March 26, 1961
Type: TV
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Ein wahrer Held
Title: Ein wahrer Held
Character: Shawn Keogh
Released: February 9, 1961
Type: Movie
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Abendstunde im Spätherbst
Title: Abendstunde im Spätherbst
Character: Sekretär
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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Der König ist tot
Title: Der König ist tot
Character: Dick Henderson
Released: December 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Black Chapel
Title: The Black Chapel
Character: 1. Killer
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: Movie
1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
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Ship of the Dead
Title: Ship of the Dead
Character: Paul
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
After a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke", a tramp cargo, by Lawski, a stoker from Poland. Still, the two become friends within the motley crew of losers from all nations. Gale and his new companion soon are more than disillusioned: the "Yorikke" is far from seaworthy and more of a coffin than a ship, work is close to slavery, and treatment by the officers and their subalterns is harsh and cynical. One day they make an alarming discovery in a tin of plum butter they have procured from the ship's cargo... Written by Anonymous
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Babette Goes to War
Title: Babette Goes to War
Character: First Gestapo officer
Released: September 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
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Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
Title: Notes from a Gynecologist's Diary
Character: Dr. Rott - Oberarzt
Released: March 24, 1959
Type: Movie
After a carnival celebration, young Erika Hansen is offered a lift by two young men in a car. The men become abusive. Erika rushes out of the car and is seriously injured. She is brought to a gynecoligal clinic for an acute operation.
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Kopf oder Zahl
Title: Kopf oder Zahl
Character: Kid
Released: August 19, 1957
Type: Movie