Günter Meisner
Birthday: Born in 1926-04-18 in Bremen, Germany
Deathday: 1994-12-05
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.
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The Winds of War
Character: Adolf Hitler
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....
Hals über Kopf
Character: Sir Reginald Mackintosh
Hals über Kopf is a German television series....
Liebling Kreuzberg
Character: Staatsanwalt
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 ...
Zwei alte Hasen
Character: Nachtwächter
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Tatort
Character: Bulldozer-Fahrer
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....
Praxis Bülowbogen
Character: Berti
Praxis Bülowbogen is a German television series....
Tatort
Character: Viebich
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....
Silas
Character: Fabian Fedder
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 Holb...
Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Tankwart
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...
Großstadtrevier
Character:
Follow the everyday work of a fictional police station on the Kiez of Hamburg....
Direktion City
Character: Herr Zilkowski
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Jo Gaillard
Character: Hessling
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Character: Mr. Slugworth
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....
Drei gegen drei
Character: Professor Holl
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The American Success Company
Character: Maitre 'd
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....
Funeral in Berlin
Character: Kreutzman
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....
Borsalino and Co.
Character: Doctor
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."...
In a Glass Cage
Character: Klaus
A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung....
Ace of Aces
Character: Adolf Hitler / Angela Hitler
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 impos...
The Saint: The Big Bang
Character: Kuhler
Simon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover....
Inside Out
Character: Schmidt
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....
Ticket of No Return
Character: Direktor Willi
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard....
Moon Child
Character: Abuelo militar
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....
Operation Caviar
Character: Redner
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis....
Ruby Cairo
Character: Herr Bruchner
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world....
Between Wars
Character: Karl Schneider
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....
Magdalene
Character: Prior
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 mis...
Under the Volcano
Character: Herr Krausberg (German Attaché) (uncredited)
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 an...
Faraway, So Close!
Character: Forger
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” wh...
Werwölfe
Character:
Film about a group of young nazi terrorists commiting crimes after the end of World War 2....
Breakthrough
Character: SS Officer
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....
The Man on the Wall
Character: Dr. Steiner
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....
Is Paris Burning?
Character: SS Commander in Pantin
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....
The Odessa File
Character: General Greifer
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....
Hauser's Memory
Character: Koroweiw
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....
The Boys from Brazil
Character: Farnbach
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich....
Avalanche Express
Character: Rudi Muehler
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....
Night Crossing
Character: Major Koerner
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....
The Quiller Memorandum
Character: Hassler
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....
The Bridge at Remagen
Character: SS Officer
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....
The Battle of Sutjeska
Character: German General
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....
Voyage of the Damned
Character: Robert Hoffman
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival....
The Serpent's Egg
Character: Convict
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....
Babette Goes to War
Character: First Gestapo officer
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....
The Counterfeit Traitor
Character: Priest
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany....
Das Geheimnis von Lismore Castle
Character: Sir Ralph Whitecombe
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Plem, Plem – Die Schule brennt
Character: History teacher Borwald
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 sam...
Gibbi - Westgermany
Character: Patient
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The Case of Mr. Spalt
Character: Bobby Steinbeck
The filmmaker René Perraudin made five comedic short films with Otto Sander in the leading role and knits them into a feature film....
The Brothers
Character: Pfarrer
Sex, violence, and family secrets in the German countryside....
Flesh of the Orchid
Character: Advokat
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....
Bride of the Orient
Character: Priest Barmettler
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....
A Happy Family Life
Character: Hektiker
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The Little People
Character: Schneider
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The Brutalization of Franz Blum
Character: Borsig
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......
Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
Character: Fotograf
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Question 7
Character: Schmidt
Suspenseful story of a boy and his father, each forced to decide his future on his willingness to stand up for what he believes....
The Miracle of Father Malachia
Character: Prediger
"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 fait...
The Foggy Night Murderer
Character: Kriminalassistent Behrend
The Foggy Night Murderer...
The Black Chapel
Character: 1. Killer
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....
Ship of the Dead
Character: Paul
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...
The College Girl Murders
Character: Greaves
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas...
The Black Cobra
Character: Wunderlich ('Mr. Green')
After a truck carrying a cargo of narcotics is held up by rival smugglers, the driver sets out to prove his innocence....
Estación Central
Character: El Amigo de Alex
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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
Character: Henry - Kurzschluß (uncredited)
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....
Roselyne and the Lions
Character: Klint
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....
Heinrich
Character:
The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist....