Werner Finck
Birthday: Born in 1902-05-02 in Görlitz, Germany
Deathday: 1978-07-31
Werner Finck (2 May 1902 – 31 July 1978) was a German Kabarett comedian, actor and author.
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Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
Character: Gregor
Commissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director Rainer Werner Fassbinder took the assignment and ran, dodging expectations by depicting social realities in West Germany from a critical—yet far from cynical—perspective. Over the course of five episodes, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric family, and his fe...
Die Witzakademie
Character: Gast-Dozent
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Hurra, die Schule brennt
Character: Ministerialdirektor von Schnorr
A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the Mommsen Gymnasium, bringing along his nephew Jan. Bach's lackadaisical methods raise the suspicions of the other teachers....
The White Horse Inn
Character: Prof. Hinzelmann
Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention....
Viktor und Viktoria
Character: Hinz
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks, that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome, when she falls in love with Robert....
Liebelei
Character: Binder, Cellist
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune......
The Happiest Married Couple in Vienna
Character:
The happiest one should be selected from 500 married couples to move a marriage-hostile American millionnaire's daughter to the marriage. - Shallow and turbulent love banter with some tumultuous and funny climaxes....
Unentschuldigte Stunde
Character: Dr. Rudolf Henning - Rechtsanwalt
When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the incident from her parents, she positions herself ill. Promptly she falls in love with the treating doctor who cures her sudden illness not only, but marries his patient also immediately. But Kate soon bores the life of a doctor's wife. So she decides to secretly catch her high school....
Roses for the Prosecutor
Character: Haase
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arre...
The Zurich Engagement
Character: Dr. Julius Weyer
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very co...
Operation Caviar
Character: Schweizer Chemiker
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis....
Der Partyphotograph
Character: Jacoby
A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls who are addicted to fame. A simple-minded story of mistaken identity as a hook for striptease acts and cheap jokes....
The Anthem of Leuthen
Character: Christian Kandidat der Theologie
The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe....
Spanking at School
Character: Direktor Dr. Zibelius
Katja, a young journalist, tries to do her A-levels instead of her friend. But the class teacher falls in love with the supposed student. But before the happy ending, the class goes on strike and the chemistry lab is almost blown up....
April, April!
Character: Reinhold Leisegang
Businessman and shameless social climber, Julius Lampe, is subjected to a cruel April Fools’ Day prank when he is led to believe a noble prince intends to personally inspect his pasta factory....
Film Without Title
Character: Hubert
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer....
The Women of Mr. S.
Character: Kretischer General
The action is relocated to occupied Athens after the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), where Mr. S. (= Socrates, played by Paul Hörbiger) proposes double marriage for men to the Athenian parliament and the four occupying powers for hidden personal reasons. Outwardly, he is concerned with providing for the many war widows. His deeper intention is to free the beautiful slave Euritrite as a concubine alongside the quarrelsome Xanthippe. The four occupying powers of the Macedonians (= US Americans), Pers...
The Last Pedestrian
Character: Redakteur Hiss
Heinz Erhardt wanders through the Black Forest as a photographer for a magazine. On the train he meets a young girl who from now on does not leave his side....
Lola Montès
Character: Maler Wisböck
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men....
La Habanera
Character: Herr Söderblom
While vacationing in Puerto Rico, a young Swedish woman falls in love with and marries a powerful local landowner. Ten years later, their marriage has turned sour; meanwhile, two Swedish doctors have arrived on the island to investigate a mysterious fever....
Heute heiratet mein Mann
Character: Dr. Agartz, Zahnarzt
The talkative dentist Dr. Agartz lets the drill whir and tries to entertain his patient Thesi Petersen with the latest society gossip: the famous Hamburg architect Robert Petersen is about to remarry. The new girl's name is Karin Nielsen and she comes "from the best family"....
Ich und meine Schwiegersöhne
Character: Dr. Koch
Agathe Zausel doesn't have it easy. Not only could her doll factory be running better, but her sons-in-law Fred and Otto also seem to have nothing but fantasies on their minds instead of devoting their full attention to the family business. Fred has taken it into his head to secretly compose pop songs, while Otto is secretly designing a rocket plane. As they both try to keep their pastimes a secret from Agathe, she can only fear the worst....
Der müde Theodor
Character: Dr. Karl Findeisen
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Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Character: Journalist
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself....
Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal
Character: Herr Kleemann
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And That on Monday Morning
Character: Prof. Gross
Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays home and rebels by playing with toys and joining in on a radio concert with his own instruments. His erratic behavior does not go unnoticed and soon a winsome psychiatrist whom he knows and secretly admires, is right there trying to help him. The...
Was macht Papa denn in Italien?
Character: Direktor Schlosser
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Das Tankmädel
Character: Theo Oppekonn
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Ferien vom Ich
Character: Ottokar Geldern
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Die Freundin eines großen Mannes
Character: Banz
A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy....
Quartett im Bett
Character: Verleger
West Berlin, summer 1968: the attitude to life at the time through the eyes of (at least) three different quartets: the anarchic bards of "Insterburg & Co." wander through the backyards of Kreuzberg, passing the time with silly poems, homemade instruments and their playmates. The lively Jacob Sisters and their four poodles make guest appearances as international show stars in the luxury hotels. And postcard Berlin is presented by four oil sheikhs who are on a state visit....
Der Vetter aus Dingsda
Character: Der Diener Franz
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Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
Character: Press Agent Kalmann
Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl....
Labyrinth
Character: Präsident
Georgia Gale was a great poet, but then she stopped writing and started drinking heavily. Now, as a desperate last resort, she has traveled to Switzerland, where she hopes to find a cure....
Sherlock Holmes: The Grey Lady
Character: John, Diener bei Ward
Jimmy Ward infiltrates a criminal gang, only to reveal at the last moment that he is, in fact, none other than an undercover Sherlock Holmes....
Zwei Bayern in Bonn
Character: Atomminister
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Hanussen
Character: Der Sachverständige
In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis....
Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht
Character: Bärtiger Arzt
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Mein Schatz, komm mit ans blaue Meer
Character: erster Autofahrer
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Wenn am Sonntagabend die Dorfmusik spielt
Character: Franz
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Mal drunter – mal drüber
Character: Fliegerarzt
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Don't Be Afraid of Love
Character: Ein Ansager
The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need for an additional secretary at the moment, but Käte is very attractive....
Jungfrau gegen Mönch
Character: Ein Gast
Mutz Hagedorn has just graduated from grammar school, much to the delight of her aunt Jenny, who cares for her like a mother. Then she learns from notary Strohbein that she has inherited the hotel “Zur Jungfrau” from her uncle, it is located on Lake Constance in Üttlisborn. On the way there, she meets the winsome Konrad on the train. Both have the same destination, only at the train station, their paths split. When she then stands before “her” hotel, she’s appalled. The “Jungfrau” is an old, dil...
Frischer Wind aus Kanada
Character: Bauer, Photograph
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Tempest in a Water Glass
Character: Tierarzt
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Once a Great Lady
Character:
A young woman working as a secretary for a Berlin car business tries to impress a rich Australian visitor by pretending she is a foreign countess....
The Company's in Love
Character: Franz Klingemüller - Postvorstand
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her....
Doddy und die Musketiere
Character: Chef
A modern fairy tale: Young beauty meets the three musketeers and experiences her own "adventures"....
Tobias Knopp, Adventure of a Bachelor
Character: Piepo (voice)
The wealthy man Tobias Knopp becomes ever more lonely and quirky over the years. He had let himself go, his girth increased significantly, and his hair fell out. Over that, he waited too long for the right woman and stayed a bachelor involuntarily. But now, he wants to try again one more time and wants to get married after all. But first of all, the right woman for this has to be found, and thus Knopp embarks on a journey to look for a wife all through the German lands. During that, he visits hi...
Autobus S
Character: Der 'schöne Willy'
Bus driver Jonny wants to marry Grete, but she is jealous, and when he wrecks his bus, gets robbed by burglars and is implicated in an insurance fraud he decides to leave town and sign up on a ship as a sailor....
Es begann um Mitternacht
Character:
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A Trip to the Country
Character: Dr. Prüll
A banker goes bankrupt and flees to the countryside where a family of peasants cheers him up....
Lumpazivagabundus
Character: Stellaris
The fairy Fortuna and the ghost Lumpazivagabundus argue about whether money determines whether people act for good or for evil. So they make a bet – and shortly thereafter, the three less-than-virtuous journeymen Knieriem, Zwirn, and Leim are able to celebrate a large lottery win....
The water devils of Hieflau
Character:
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My Niece Suzanne
Character: Dubouton
A Parisian cocotte at the turn of the century plans to capture a very rich Peruvian for marriage and hires her servant as an uncle who is supposedly supposed to watch over her virtue....
A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
Character: Autor
Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commercial strategy Peter gets engaged to her counter partner Asta, to his assistant Münzer's approval. Then he meets Wally Sommer, singing saleswoman at one of his shops, and all his plans are turned upside down while they both fall in love in this light musical comedy filled with Robert Stolz music....
Dreht euch nicht um – der Golem geht rum
Character:
In the 23rd century, it is no longer necessary to work thanks to the latest technology. Convicts do the work that still needs to be done. The World Leisure Center uses a computer system to decide how people spend their free time. World citizen number DARK 7035 7201 is called Prun. Although an examination shows that his IQ is too low for him to have a child of his own, he becomes the father of Botho. Because it is a "black birth", he has to keep Botho hidden from now on. Prun comes into contact w...
Love at Twenty
Character:
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson....
Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder
Character: Herr Zellhorn
Friedrich Schiller, a respected baker in Einbeck, enjoys a seemingly idyllic life with his wife and nine children. As he approaches his silver wedding anniversary, he nearly succumbs to a fleeting liaison with a spirited woman named Lollo. Though the episode ends harmlessly, it awakens a crisis of conscience in Friedrich, threatening the harmony of his devoted family....
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
Character: Mankiewicz
Dutch police inspector Piet Van der Valk finds himself repeatedly crossing paths wiht the beautiful yet troubled Lucienne Englebert, the daughter of a famous conductor recently killed in a car accident. Whern the maverick inspector investigates the seemingly senseless killing of a man in Amsertdam, will Lucienne turn up again?...