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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 26, 1912
Died
January 22, 2003
Place of Birth
Köln, Germany
Also Known As
- Вернер Диссель
Werner Dissel
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.1
Paulas Großvater
Anatomy
2000
4.0
Mann mit Decke
Picknick im Schnee
1999
6.0
Herr Kagel
In aller Freundschaft
1998
4.5
Karl Waller
Der letzte Zeuge
1998
🎬
0.0
Pfarrer Müller
The German Bronx
1997
6.6
Neighbor
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
7.0
Wilhelm
Immenhof
1994
3.0
Schreiner
Auf eigene Gefahr
1993
0.0
Birne
Motzki
1993
🎬
0.0
Grandfather
Andy
1992
Credits
Anatomy
as Paulas Großvater
2000
6.1
Picknick im Schnee
as Mann mit Decke
1999
4.0
In aller Freundschaft
as Herr Kagel
1998
6.0
Der letzte Zeuge
as Karl Waller
1998
4.5
🎬
The German Bronx
as Pfarrer Müller
1997
0.0
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
as Neighbor
1996
6.6
Immenhof
as Wilhelm
1994
7.0
Auf eigene Gefahr
as Schreiner
1993
3.0
Motzki
as Birne
1993
0.0
🎬
Andy
as Grandfather
1992
0.0
Verlorene Landschaft
1992
6.0
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
1992
2.7
🎬
Scheusal
as Alfons Pfeiffer
1992
0.0
Everything's a Lie
as Notary
1992
4.3
🎬
Unser Haus
as Dr.Olbert
1991
0.0
🎬
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
as Hinkelmann
1991
0.0
Albert Einstein
as Max Planck
1990
0.0
The Architects
as Alter
1990
6.8
Der Magdalenenbaum
as Opa Panse
1989
0.0
Coming Out
as Älterer Homosexueller Walter
1989
6.5
Späte Ankunft
as Kutscher Pankoke
1989
0.0
Barfuß ins Bett
as Opa Jonny
1988
0.0
Fallada: The Last Chapter
as Doktor
1988
5.0
🎬
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
1988
6.0
Childhood
as Lehrer
1987
6.0
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
as Invalide
1987
5.3
Der Traum vom Elch
as Paulchen
1986
2.0
🎬
Das wirkliche Blau
1986
0.0
Ernst Thälmann
as Emil Kirdorf
1986
0.0
Die Schöne und das Tier
as Alter
1984
0.0
🎬
Zeitzünder
as Dr. Engelberger
1984
0.0
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
as Gundelsheimer
1981
0.0
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
1981
0.0
A Stortebeker Girl
as Opa Warning
1980
0.0
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
as Schiffsarzt
1979
0.0
Die Lange Strasse
as ein Arzt
1979
0.0
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
as Älterer Herr mit Hund
1978
3.5
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
1978
0.0
Beethoven - Days in a Life
as Grisslinger
1976
5.2
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
as Otto Haubold
1976
0.0
Man against Man
as Angler
1975
7.0
Till Eulenspiegel
as Scholastischer Professor
1975
5.4
Am Ende der Welt
as Amtsdiener Göpel
1975
0.0
Johannes Kepler
as Richter
1974
0.0
Ulzana
as Mexikanischer Arzt
1974
4.8
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
as Butcher
1974
0.0
Polizeiruf 110
as Herr Wolf
1971
6.2
Polizeiruf 110
as Herr Breit
1971
6.2
Polizeiruf 110
1971
6.2
Polizeiruf 110
as Alfons Seebacher
1971
6.2
Polizeiruf 110
as Otto Masurke
1971
6.2
Optimistische Tragödie
1971
0.0
Pułapka
as Runge
1971
3.0
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
as Alfred Jodl
1970
6.0
🎬
Die Rosenholzmöbel
as Duponchel
1969
0.0
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
as Alfred Jodl
1968
7.2
🎬
Geheimkommando Ciupaga
as Hauptmann Garzel
1968
0.0
Heroin
as Zollrat Donkenberg
1968
5.7
Stories of That Night
as Kilian (segment "Materna")
1967
5.0
Zejście do piekła
as Rudolf Knoll
1966
0.0
Black Panthers
as Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
1966
0.0
Lebende Ware
as Erno Brody
1966
7.0
🎬
Die Tage der Commune
as Delegierter
1966
0.0
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
as Mantek
1965
7.2
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
as Matthes Horka
1965
1.0
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
as Opa Schütz
1965
1.0
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
as Sanitätsrat
1965
1.0
As Long as There’s Life in Me
as Bethmann-Hollweg
1965
10.0
Pension Boulanka
as Dr. Vollmer
1964
5.2
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
as Herr Merker
1963
5.0
Naked Among Wolves
as Otto Lange
1963
6.2
The Green Monster
as Dr. Luis Guerra
1962
0.0
Entdeckung des Julian Böll
1962
0.0
Little Red Riding Hood
as Wolf
1962
4.9
Ärzte
1962
0.0
The Gleiwitz Case
as Volksschullehrer
1961
6.6
Der Fremde
1961
0.0
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
as Meteorologe
1961
0.0
The Opportunists
as Fario
1960
5.0
Love's Confusion
as Taxifahrer
1959
3.8
Before lightning strikes
as Silvio O. Schmitt
1959
0.0
Ware für Katalonien
as Portier
1959
5.0
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
1958
5.0
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
as Rohn
1958
0.0
Les Misérables
as Brevet (uncredited)
1958
7.2
The Captain from Cologne
1956
6.8