Heinz Weiss
Birthday: Born in 1921-06-12 in Stuttgart; Germany
Deathday: 2010-11-20
Heinz Weiss (12 June 1921 – 20 November 2010) was a German film actor. Weiss is best known for playing the role of Phil Decker in the Jerry Cotton series of films and the role of Captain Heinz Hansen in Das Traumschiff. He also played the character "Kramer" in the iconic World War II film The Great Escape (1963). He himself had served in German military, the Wehrmacht, during World War II. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TV Credits
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Polizeiinspektor Grabert
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 G...
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Kommissar Widmann
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 G...
Tatort
Character: Georg Kastrup
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....
Tatort
Character: Dr. Münzer
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....
Das Traumschiff
Character: Mr. Hansen
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world....
Die fünfte Kolonne
Character: Lehmann
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series....
Die fünfte Kolonne
Character: Dr. Bucher
Die fünfte Kolonne is a German television series....
Graf Luckner
Character: Kapitän Luckner
Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman....
Immenhof
Character: Peter 'PS' Stahl
Immenhof is a German television series....
Peter the Great
Character: Austrian Doctor
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries....
Die Protokolle des Herrn M
Character: Schröder
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Immenhof
Character: Peter Stahl
Immenhof is a German television series....
So weit die Füße tragen
Character: Clemens Forell
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Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck
Character: Herzog von Württemberg
Die merkwürdige Lebensgeschichte des Friedrich Freiherrn von der Trenck is a German television series....
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Character: Zullewitz
The boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is abruptly destroyed by the Thirty Years' War. Simplizissimus is sent to the besieged fortress of Hanau. When the lansquenets there play crude jokes on him, he flees with his friend Herzbruder to the Croats. But even here he does not fare much better....
Die Schwarzwaldklinik
Character: Baden-Württembergs Ministerpräsident
The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel. The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital. Shortly after b...
Cristoforo Colombo
Character: Noscomb
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition....
Der Staudamm
Character: Inspektor
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Das Traumschiff
Character: Heinz Hansen
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world....
Die unfreiwilligen Reisen des Moritz August Benjowski
Character: Crustiew
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Movie Credits
Jerry Cotton: The Trap Snaps Shut at Midnight
Character: Phil Decker
Third Jerry Cotton Adaption. A big shipment of Nitroglycerine, enough to make a shambles of New York, mysteriously vanishes! It's a race between agent Jerry Cotton and the underworld to see who can find the deadly explosive first. To complicate things further, the nitro must be found before a torrid heat wave causes it to blow much of the city sky high....
The Violin Case Murders
Character: Phil Decker
The first film adaptation of Jerry Cotton. FBI agents Jerry Cotton and Phil Decker are tracing a group of six murderers. Disguised as a vagabond Jerry Cotton infiltrates the gang. Kitty, the leader's girlfriend, soon becomes Jerry's most important helper. With her help, he's able to prevent a bomb's explosion in a school. The deadly attack on a rich collector he can not prevent. The gangsters flee with the loot and a hunt to the death begins ......
Manhattan Night of Murder
Character: Phil Decker
Second Jerry Cotton movie. A ring of gangsters has been terrorizing New York City. Special agent Jerry Cotton is summoned by the FBI to help crack down on the Criminals and put them out of business. He doesnt pull any punches either....
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
Character: Phil Decker
An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Jerry Cotton, who is considered accountable for this major failure, loses his badge over this. Being the man he is, Cotton doesn't let the evil-doers forget that he has unfinished business with them....
Murderers Club of Brooklyn
Character: Phil Decker
Fifth Jerry Cotton Movie. A rich capitalist is blackmailed and threatened with the murder of his daughter....
Deadly Shots on Broadway
Character: Phil Decker
An FBI agent is killed by the mob after making off with five million in gold bars in a robbery gone bad. Agent Jerry Cotton is called in to bring the gang to justice and find out where his dead pal hid the missing gold....
Jerry Cotton: Death and Diamonds
Character: Phil Decker
Sixth part of Jerry Cotton movies. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist....
Jerry Cotton: Death in the Red Jaguar
Character: Phil Decker
Part Seven in Jerry Cotton Series. The FBI agent tackles an organisation of assassins who kill to order....
The Green Archer
Character: John Bellamy
The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?...
The Great Escape
Character: Kramer
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story....
Punishment Battalion
Character: Oberleutnant Barth
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line....
The Roaring Forties
Character: Joss
Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his original good intentions by a low-life press agent who convinces him it would be well worth his while to win the race by illegal maneuvering. As he sets off, flashbacks tell how he came to be on the sailboat; later he has long monologues -- several of them, and in-between he occasionally battles to stay afloat on an uncooperative sea....
Im Vorhof der Wahrheit
Character: Vater
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Flight in Danger
Character: Pilot
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Nur der Wind
Character: Jack Johnston
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So weit die Füße tragen
Character: Clemens Forell
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Wenn die Conny mit dem Peter
Character: Turnlehrer Schmidt
Musical comedy set in a high school....
Der Vorgang
Character:
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Blind Justice
Character: Staatsanwalt
A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free and is found dead shortly thereafter. The prosecutor decides to pursue the case and comes upon a band of criminals, who sell German state secrets. Shortly before the investigation comes to a close, a w...
Doctor Faustus
Character: Jonathan Leverkühn
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan...
Die Brücke von Zupanja
Character: Major
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Auf Wiedersehen
Character: Steve O'Hara
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Confused Feelings
Character: M. Keller
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young men. She loves him nevertheless. The whole story revolves around a book the professor will write, dictating to his young pupil... he will only declare his love at the end of the writing ...and, it is too late....
Wie eine Träne im Ozean
Character: Karel
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Rosamunde Pilcher: Rückkehr ins Paradies
Character: Ned Goldman
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Wallenstein
Character: Kommandant Gordon
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Berlin Tunnel 21
Character: Herr Heptner
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend....
Brandenburg Division
Character: Dörner
The famous-notorious Division Brandenburg was (in wartime) under command of Admiral Canaris. But, the death brave division, joined by men, who where not really quite volunteering, received a command: Sulina, a harbour at black sea, where urgently needed oil is turner over, should be prevented from an attack. The plan is worked out and some more men need to volunteer, to let it become real....
Das große Wunschkonzert
Character: Stefan
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Der tödliche Schlag
Character: Timon
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The Little Drummer Girl
Character: Red Cross
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by pretending to be the girlfriend of his dead brother....
Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte
Character: Major Howard
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