Werner Dissel
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.
81 acting credits
Acting · 81
Polizeiruf 110
1971
Alarm for Cobra 11: The Motorway Police
1996
In aller Freundschaft
1998
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
1965
Der letzte Zeuge
1998
Auf eigene Gefahr
1993
The German Bronx
1997
Immenhof
1994
Les Misérables
1958
Anatomy
2000
Die Lange Strasse
1979
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
1971
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
1970
Barfuß ins Bett
1988
Liberation: Breakthrough
1970
The Green Monster
1962
Motzki
1993
Liberation: The Battle of Berlin
1971
Geheimkommando Ciupaga
1968
Beethoven - Days in a Life
1976
A Stortebeker Girl
1980
Everything's a Lie
1992
Little Red Riding Hood
1962
Coming Out
1989
Naked Among Wolves
1963
Till Eulenspiegel
1975
Ernst Thälmann
1986
Andy
1992
Sunday's Child Sometimes Runs Wild
1978
Die Spur des Bernsteinzimmers
1992
Heroin
1968
Childhood
1987
Lebende Ware
1966
Albert Einstein
1990
The Architects
1990
Ulzana
1974
Farssmann oder Zu Fuß in die Sackgasse
1991
Before lightning strikes
1959
Der Fremde
1961
Späte Ankunft
1989
Love's Confusion
1959
Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
1963
Scheusal
1992
Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen...
1987
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
1979
Just Don't Think I'll Cry
1965
Fallada: The Last Chapter
1988
Pension Boulanka
1964
Johannes Kepler
1974
Unser Haus
1991
As Long as There’s Life in Me
1965
Optimistische Tragödie
1971
Verlorene Landschaft
1992
Stories of That Night
1967
Der Prozeß wird vertagt
1958
Entdeckung des Julian Böll
1962
Man against Man
1975
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
1974
The Gleiwitz Case
1961
Der Traum vom Elch
1986
Das wirkliche Blau
1986
Die Tage der Commune
1966
Der Magdalenenbaum
1989
Chirurgus Johann Paul Schroth
1981
Black Panthers
1966
Pułapka
1971
The Captain from Cologne
1956
Jörg Ratgeb, Painter
1978
Die Liebe und der Co-Pilot
1961
Jede Woche Hochzeitstag
1976
Am Ende der Welt
1975
Zejście do piekła
1966
Picknick im Schnee
1999
Die Schöne und das Tier
1984
Nachts schlafen die Ratten
1988
Zeitzünder
1984
Ärzte
1962
Die Rosenholzmöbel
1969
Ware für Katalonien
1959
Ein Mädchen von 16 ½
1958
The Opportunists
1960