Werner Dissel
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
Neighbor
1996
Series
Polizeiruf 110
Herr Wolf
1971
Series
Polizeiruf 110
Herr Breit
1971
Series
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Series
Polizeiruf 110
Alfons Seebacher
1971
Series
Polizeiruf 110
Otto Masurke
1971
Series
In aller Freundschaft
Herr Kagel
1998
Series
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Matthes Horka
1965
Series
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Opa Schütz
1965
Series
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
Sanitätsrat
1965
Series
Der letzte Zeuge
Karl Waller
1998
Series
Auf eigene Gefahr
Schreiner
1993
Film
Les Misérables
Brevet (uncredited)
1958
Film
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
1971
The German Bronx
Pfarrer Müller
1997
Series
Immenhof
Wilhelm
1994
Film
Anatomy
Paulas Großvater
2000
Series
Barfuß ins Bett
Opa Jonny
1988
Film
Naked Among Wolves
Otto Lange
1963
Film
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
Alfred Jodl
1970
Series
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
1990
Film
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
Invalide
1987
Film
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
1970
Series
Die Lange Strasse
ein Arzt
1979
Film
Ware für Katalonien
Portier
1959
Film
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Alfred Jodl
1971
Series
The Green Monster
Dr. Luis Guerra
1962
Film
Picknick im Schnee
Mann mit Decke
1999
Geheimkommando Ciupaga
Hauptmann Garzel
1968
Film
Coming Out
Älterer Homosexueller Walter
1989
Series
A Stortebeker Girl
Opa Warning
1980
Film
Ernst Thälmann
Emil Kirdorf
1986
Film
Till Eulenspiegel
Scholastischer Professor
1975
Series
Motzki
Birne
1993
Film
Pension Boulanka
Dr. Vollmer
1964
Film
Optimistische Tragödie
1971
Film
Everything's a Lie
Notary
1992
Film
Beethoven - Days in a Life
Grisslinger
1976
Film
Little Red Riding Hood
Wolf
1962
Film
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
1992
Film
The Gleiwitz Case
Volksschullehrer
1961
Film
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
Älterer Herr mit Hund
1978
Film
The Captain from Cologne
1956
Film
Ulzana
Mexikanischer Arzt
1974
Film
Späte Ankunft
Kutscher Pankoke
1989
Film
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Schiffsarzt
1979
Film
Love's Confusion
Taxifahrer
1959
Das wirkliche Blau
1986
Film
Johannes Kepler
Richter
1974
Film
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
1958
Film
The Architects
Alter
1990
Film
As Long as There’s Life in Me
Bethmann-Hollweg
1965
Film
Stories of That Night
Kilian (segment "Materna")
1967
Film
Before lightning strikes
Silvio O. Schmitt
1959
Film
Heroin
Zollrat Donkenberg
1968
Film
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
Mantek
1965
Film
The Opportunists
Fario
1960
Film
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
Otto Haubold
1976
Film
Childhood
Lehrer
1987
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
Hinkelmann
1991
Film
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
Butcher
1974
Film
Entdeckung des Julian Böll
1962
Film
Fallada: The Last Chapter
Doktor
1988
Film
Zejście do piekła
Rudolf Knoll
1966
Film
Lebende Ware
Erno Brody
1966
Die Tage der Commune
Delegierter
1966
Film
Pułapka
Runge
1971
Film
Der Traum vom Elch
Paulchen
1986
Film
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
Meteorologe
1961
Film
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
Gundelsheimer
1981
Film
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
1981
Film
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
Rohn
1958
Film
Verlorene Landschaft
1992
Film
Der Fremde
1961
Andy
Grandfather
1992
Film
Ärzte
1962
Film
Der Magdalenenbaum
Opa Panse
1989
Film
Man against Man
Angler
1975
Film
Am Ende der Welt
Amtsdiener Göpel
1975
Film
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
Herr Merker
1963
Film
Die Schöne und das Tier
Alter
1984
Unser Haus
Dr.Olbert
1991
Scheusal
Alfons Pfeiffer
1992
Film
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
1978
Zeitzünder
Dr. Engelberger
1984
Film
Black Panthers
Dressurreiter Alois Feldmann
1966
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
1988
Die Rosenholzmöbel
Duponchel
1969