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Aliases: Вернер Диссель

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Köln, Germany

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Movie Involvements: 23

TV Involvements: 17


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Police Call 110
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6

Police Call 110

(1971) Herr Breit
Der letzte Zeuge
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5

Der letzte Zeuge

(1998) Karl Waller
In aller Freundschaft
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7

In aller Freundschaft

(1998) Herr Kagel
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
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1

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

(1965) Sanitätsrat
Auf eigene Gefahr
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3

Auf eigene Gefahr

(1993) Schreiner
The German Bronx
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The German Bronx

(1997) Pfarrer Müller
Immenhof
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7

Immenhof

(1994) Wilhelm
Die Lange Strasse
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Die Lange Strasse

(1979) ein Arzt

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2000 Paulas Großvater
1999 Mann mit Decke
1998 Herr Kagel
Karl Waller
1997 Pfarrer Müller
1996 N/A
1994 Wilhelm
1993 Schreiner
Birne
1992 Grandfather
N/A
N/A
N/A
Notary
1991 Dr.Olbert
N/A
1990 Max Planck
Alter
1989 Opa Panse
Älterer Homosexueller Walter
N/A
1988 Opa Jonny
N/A
N/A
1987 N/A
N/A
1986 N/A
N/A
N/A
1984 Dr. Engelberger
1981 Gundelsheimer
N/A
1980 Opa Warning
1979 N/A
ein Arzt
1978 N/A
1976 N/A
N/A
1975 N/A
N/A
Amtsdiener Göpel
1974 N/A
Mexikanischer Arzt
1971 Alfons Seebacher
Otto Masurke
Herr Wolf
Herr Breit
N/A
N/A
Runge
1970 Alfred Jodl
N/A
1969 Duponchel
1968 Hauptmann Garzel
Zollrat Donkenberg
1967 N/A
1966 N/A
Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
Erno Brody
1965 Matthes Horka
Opa Schütz
Sanitätsrat
N/A
N/A
1964 N/A
1963 Herr Merker
N/A
1962 Dr. Luis Guerra
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Wolf
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1961 N/A
N/A
N/A
1960 Fario
1959 Taxifahrer
Silvio O. Schmitt
Portier
1958 N/A
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Brevet
1956 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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